My 20 YO co-worker didn't understand why I called Mark Wahlberg Marky Mark, so I sent him this.

It is quite the story arc, isn't it, to see how far he's come and successful he became after that. Even after making mistakes like that, one can come back from it if they repent and change themselves and change their ways.

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Rurumo666@reddit

This video mas made 3 years after he beat a random Vietnamese man on the street until he went blind. He should have gotten 20 years for his EXTENSIVE list of hate crimes, instead he became a millionaire a few years later.

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ThirstyWolfSpider@reddit

"making mistakes" is a rather charitable choice of words.

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ChoadMcGillicuddy@reddit

Yeah..."whoopsie!...I blinded a guy."

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armaedes@reddit

I still blame him for not being on that plane to stop 9/11.

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UberBricky80@reddit

Good Vibrations was the first CD I ever bought

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Darkbird79@reddit

Mine was Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl. This was when it came out and before I had any real taste in music. Thank god for Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine. etc. I dodged a bullet in 91.

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ether_reddit@reddit

That was the first tape I ever bought!!!

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UberBricky80@reddit

Yeah, I quickly pivoted in grunge after that too

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larz0@reddit

This was fun to dance to

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pogulup@reddit

I don't get how the kids today have the world at the fucking fingertips are so so clueless about anything that took place before the day they were born. You can learn about anything instantly but I knew more at their age from broadcast TV, newspapers, and the library.

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CowboyNinjaD@reddit

Having access to all that is precisely why they don't know anything outside of their own extremely focused interests. They have their own phones or tablets and just tune everything else out.

When we were kids, we got exposed to older music and movies and TV shows because we just had to listen to or watch whatever our parents or other adults were listening to or watching.

Mom liked the oldies station, so we got to listen to the Turtles and the Kingsmen and the Beach Boys when we rode around with mom.

Dad liked to watch sports and sitcoms, so we go to watch football and baseball and Cheers and MASH unless we wanted to go hang out in our room or go to bed early.

And I honestly can't blame kids. If I had been able to put in some headphones and stream He-Man and Transformers on my own personal computer as a child instead of listening to my parents' old music, I definitely would have done that.

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anniemdi@reddit

I don't get how the kids today have the world at the fucking fingertips are so so clueless about anything that took place before the day they were born.

So many are not learning in school. They are spoon fed just enough information to get them past the test and maybe into the next grade. They aren't absorbing anything of importance at any point. It's a stream of garbage going in from their phones and screens. I know 20+ year olds that can't use a calendar, they can't read past a 3rd grade level, and they can't have a job interview without their parent. And they aren't people with disabilities.

They just we're taught by anyone at any point. And this is not to speak ill of teachers y'all are facing an insurmountable task trying to deal with parents that take zero responsibility for their child's education and behavior.

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Dez-Smores@reddit

I learned all about 50s and 60s music from late night ads for Time Life records. Quick video clips with artists' names, all the genres eventually!

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EttaJamesKitty@reddit

Totally agree. I was born in the 70s, but I learned about music, tv shows, movies, books, fashion, etc from the decades before my existence. Maybe we absorbed more of the world around us b/c we weren't fixated on devices that control our every thought.

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OldGamerX@reddit

He look definitely inspired his fellow Bostonian, 'The Doctor of Thuganomics' John Cena

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Jimmy_LoMein@reddit

Yeah, I still call him Marky Mark. I still say John Cougar too.

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A_friend_called_Five@reddit

The real old schoolers call him "Johnny Cougar".

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PaperbackBuddha@reddit

There was an old MTV parody that had him as John Cougar Mellencamp Schlossberg or something like that.

Might be the same one where Daisy Fuentes kicked Axl Rose’s ass.

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ThirstyWolfSpider@reddit

I mostly remember him being called "John Mellen Cougarcamp".

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ryancementhead@reddit

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banksy_h8r@reddit

It didn't occur to me until seeing this how much Marky Mark was the prototype for the jock-hiphop-bros we've had for the last 35 years.

It's almost impressive as a watershed cultural moment, if hadn't unleashed so much stupidity.

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JustSomeGuy422@reddit

I can feel the cringe. But good on him for pivoting from one-hit wonder to career actor.

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TheOsirisOfThisShit_@reddit

The fact that Donny and Mark Wahlberg are still famous is pretty amazing.

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Jonathan_Pine@reddit

He's said many times, his goal was to become an "actor" and he used the music and the modeling to break into the movie industry. He had no desire to extend his "music" career beyond where it went.

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Kimber80@reddit

He had two hits, lol

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HotLava00@reddit

lol but does it count if we don’t really remember the second one?

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phun-key@reddit

Career movie star. Actor? Mmmmm…. 🫤

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Far_Dragonfly_3748@reddit

I still refer him Marky mark and the funky bunch, entire title

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Woodzilla7@reddit

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dirtygreysocks@reddit

I just call him "that asshole who didn't get time for his hate crime"

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ZebraBorgata@reddit

While I’m aware he’s been called Marky Mark I never had any idea why.

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NightingaleNine@reddit

Literally the only way I refer to him, lol.

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Exciting_Pass_6344@reddit

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Bumberti@reddit

Damn 35 years ago!

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LDawnBurges@reddit

I saw him in concert… lol

And, I will STILL jam that song loud af on my car radio, idc.

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Dry_Ad7529@reddit

Feel it feel it

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Application-Bulky@reddit

Those Vietnamese immigrants certainly did

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Dry_Ad7529@reddit

Deep cut !!

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klippDagga@reddit

C’maun c’maun

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gapere01@reddit

Look at all that cultural appropriation!!

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GenX-ModTeam@reddit

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monkeyrancher@reddit

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BMisterGenX@reddit

I think its funny that back when he was Marky Mark , if an interviewer called him Mark Wahlberg he would respond all angrily in a Boston accent "Yo! I'm Marky Mark" Then when he became an actor if interviewers called him Marky Mark he would say calmly in a normal voice "I'm Mark Wahlberg I'm a serious actor"

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OGCelaris@reddit

Ya, I wouldn't really use the term "serious" to describe his acting career.

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Imaginary_Office1749@reddit

For a little while I thought he was alright. Now I just think he’s a chode.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

He grew older.

I was going to say up but.....

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yayayagilliganhell@reddit

Funky bunch

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notworkingghost@reddit

Never forget the Funky Bunch. He stood on those guys to become the fairly average actor he is today.

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HiddenUser1248@reddit

Can you feel it, baby?

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Princessferfs@reddit

I’m so glad I never recorded the silly things I did in my youth.

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-CgiBinLaden-@reddit

Yo, don't call him Marky Mark anymore. He don't like it. It hits different now, like a blind Asian man.

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hankenator1@reddit

Hits different like hitting an Asian man with a 5 foot stick knocking him out and yelling racial slurs. Or like chasing black 4th graders yelling racial slurs and throwing rocks at them.

Gen X Bostonians remember the real marky mark. The one charged with attempted murder but plead guilty to felony assault, the one who was sentenced to 2 years in prison but only served 45 days.

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