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Dutch artist, Ard Gelinck has been dishing up nostalgic magic for years. His series of celebrities hanging out with their younger selves seamlessly blends the past with the present. He has over 293 thousand followers on Instagram, and his page is a gorgeous gallery of famous faces traveling through time. In a world where photoshop fails are flooding the internet, Gelinck’s work puts the wow factor back into digital manipulation.

Bored Panda has shared his pics on several occasions. Because we love them so much, we’ve decided to honor him, and spoil you, with a compilation of his best ever photos. Keep scrolling for a trip down the Hollywood walk of memory lane. And don’t forget to upvote your favorites.

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Keanu Reeves

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    Robin Williams

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    Betty White

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    Gelinck is a self-taught “photoshoppper”. He spends between one and three hours on each image. "Sometimes, I react to a news item, a birthday, or day of death and then post an edit of that celeb as an honor or celebration," he previously told Bored Panda. Gelinck has become somewhat of a celebrity in his own right. And many of the famous faces he's featured love his work. Madonna, Sylvester Stallone, Ricky Gervais, and Snoop Dogg are among some of those who have shared his photos.

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    Harrison Ford

    Harrison Ford

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    April 21 In Loving Memory Of Her Majesty The Queen. A Heavenly Birthday

    April 21 In Loving Memory Of Her Majesty The Queen. A Heavenly Birthday

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    Freddie Mercury

    Freddie Mercury

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    Gelinck uses editing software called Adobe Photoshop. He has this advice for anyone wanting to try their hand at some digital photo manipulation: "You have to buy that software and just begin and try and practice a lot until, in my case, you have the luck that a lot of people like it." But as we’ll explain a bit later, sometimes you’ll need a lot more than luck to ensure success. And to avoid your photos being shared for all the wrong reasons.

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    Pink

    Pink

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    Morgan Freeman

    Morgan Freeman

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    Anthony Hopkins

    Anthony Hopkins

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    Gelinck made headlines again this year when he took his "Then And Now" series a step further. He photoshopped some images and then enlisted the help of a “friend” to finish the work. The photos were turned into a video that showed celebrities hugging their younger selves.

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    “MINDBLOWING!!” he posted on Instagram in July. “Of the 20 images in this video, I created 17 and someone(Ai) finished it.” Followed by a bunch of emojis. Gelinck then went on to say that it was unbelievable, and "Ai is fun but also really, really crazy and scary and also moving. Ai don’t know where this ends."

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    Tom Hanks

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    Drew Barrymore

    Drew Barrymore

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    Barack Obama

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    Gelinck’s post managed to clock up over 20 thousand likes on Instagram. But it was met with mixed reactions. Some were wowed. While others were clearly freaked out. X user @jrawson shared the video and joked that they “might have found the most cursed thing on the internet”.

    @aerocles reposted the video with the caption, “Hey AI what would it look like if a bunch of celebrities were in love with their younger selves? Make it really awkward and creepy.”

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    “Even with recent years' leaps and bounds in sophistication, these sorts of outputs are still so uncanny that they even seem to freak out the people creating them — a certain indictment of the reality of generative AI as it stands today,” wrote The_Byte.

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    Bruce Willis

    Bruce Willis

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    Meryl Streep

    Meryl Streep

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    Michelle Obama

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    It’s intentionally obvious that Gelinck's his images are photoshopped. But there are times some other people have posted overpolished pictures that they want us to believe are perfectly pure. Some photoshop fails that were definitely not the flex they set out to be.

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    Pierce Brosnan

    Pierce Brosnan

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    Jeff Bridges

    Jeff Bridges

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    Michael J. Fox

    Michael J. Fox

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    The royal family rocked the boat big time this year, when Kate Middleton released a Mother’s Day photo. It featured the princess sitting on a chair, flanked by her three children. The pic was uploaded to Instagram, and landed in the inboxes of news editors around the world. To the untrained eye, it seemed like nothing out of the ordinary.

    But within a few hours, the photo was pulled from some of the biggest news agencies on the planet. Associated Press, AFP, and Reuters, all refused to publish the photo, saying it had been altered in violation of their photography standards.

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    Matt LeBlanc

    Matt LeBlanc

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    David Bowie

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    Daniel Radcliffe

    Daniel Radcliffe

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    Middleton admitted she’d manipulated the image and had to say something to settle the storm. "Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing," she wrote in a statement posted to the Prince and Princess of Wales's social media accounts. "I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused."

    Social media users didn’t skip a beat. They made the most of the situation, and there were memes for days. The amateur photoshoppers had been let loose, and they were running wild with perfectly imperfect posts.

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    Carrie Fisher

    Carrie Fisher

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    Johnny Depp

    Johnny Depp

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    Mark Hamill

    Mark Hamill

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    The Kardashians are also constantly criticized for their photoshop faux pas. Khloe has come under fire for her unusually elongated fingers. She’s even been accused of editing out her leg once. Kylie has deleted pics after fans noticed photoshop fails. Kris Jenner once posted the exact same photo as Gordon Ramsay - except it wasn’t exactly the same. And Kim, well… she’s been accused of editing everything from her waist to her face.

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    Macaulay Culkin

    Macaulay Culkin

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    George Clooney

    George Clooney

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    Kate Winslet

    Kate Winslet

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    Cate Blanchett

    Cate Blanchett

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    Robert De Niro

    Robert De Niro

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    Robert Downey

    Robert Downey

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    Jason Momoa

    Jason Momoa

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    Christina Applegate

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    Winona Ryder

    Winona Ryder

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    Haley Joel Osment

    Haley Joel Osment

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    Pedro Pascal

    Pedro Pascal

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    Reese Witherspoon

    Reese Witherspoon

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    Ryan Reynolds

    Ryan Reynolds

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    Jennifer Aniston

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    Denzel Washington

    Denzel Washington

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    Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe

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    Keanu Reeves And Carrie-Anne Moss

    Keanu Reeves And Carrie-Anne Moss

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    Lady Gaga

    Lady Gaga

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    Neil Patrick Harris

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    Emma Watson

    Emma Watson

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    Tom Hardy

    Tom Hardy

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    Elton John

    Elton John

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    Brad Pitt

    Brad Pitt

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    Brigitte Bardot

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    Ricky Gervais

    Ricky Gervais

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    Boy George

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    Bill Murray

    Bill Murray

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    Paul Rudd

    Paul Rudd

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    Rob Lowe

    Rob Lowe

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    Jennifer Coolidge

    Jennifer Coolidge

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    Queen Elizabeth

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    Julia Roberts

    Julia Roberts

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    Halle Berry

    Halle Berry

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    Angelina Jolie

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    Michael Jackson

    Michael Jackson

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    Tom Selleck

    Tom Selleck

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    Dwayne Johnson

    Dwayne Johnson

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    Richard Gere

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    Margot Robbie

    Margot Robbie

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    Amy Winehouse

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    George Clooney

    George Clooney

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    Ricky Gervais

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    Clint Eastwood

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    Matthew Perry

    Matthew Perry

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    Sean Connery

    Sean Connery

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    Selena Gomez

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    Bruno Mars

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    Jennifer Aniston

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    Dwayne Johnson

    Dwayne Johnson

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    Usher

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    Julia Roberts

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    Will Smith

    Will Smith

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    Leonardo Dicaprio

    Leonardo Dicaprio

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    Jimmy Fallon

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    Mick Jagger

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    Madonna

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