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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

Robin Williams

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Betty White

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

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Morgan Freeman

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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

Tom Hanks

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Drew Barrymore

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Barack Obama

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

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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

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David Bowie

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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

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Johnny Depp

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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

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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

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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

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Marilyn Monroe

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Keanu Reeves And Carrie-Anne Moss

Keanu Reeves And Carrie-Anne Moss

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Lady Gaga

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Neil Patrick Harris

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Emma Watson

Emma Watson

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Tom Hardy

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Elton John

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Brad Pitt

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Brigitte Bardot

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Ricky Gervais

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Boy George

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Bill Murray

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Paul Rudd

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Rob Lowe

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Jennifer Coolidge

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Queen Elizabeth

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Julia Roberts

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Halle Berry

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Angelina Jolie

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Michael Jackson

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Tom Selleck

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Dwayne Johnson

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Richard Gere

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Margot Robbie

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Amy Winehouse

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George Clooney

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Ricky Gervais

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Clint Eastwood

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Matthew Perry

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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

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Usher

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Julia Roberts

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Will Smith

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Leonardo Dicaprio

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Jimmy Fallon

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Mick Jagger

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Madonna

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