The Internet loves when someone meets their future self

A meme not unlike ‘Me IRL,’ but with more paradoxes.

Miles Klee

Updated on May 30 2021 2:40 am CDT

Every now and then you’ll run into someone whose appearance elicits a curious reaction. Just what is it about their face, their clothes, their demeanor? Then it hits you.

That’s me.

A future me, that is: a bit older and, ideally, a bit wiser. Take a look at these uncanny portraits and tell us how they could have happened without human cloning or time travel, because we’re in awe.

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Definitely have to rewatch Primer if we want to make sense of all this.

Photo by JD Hancock/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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Miles Klee

Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions, and the Village Voice. He’s the author of two odd books of fiction, ‘Ivyland’ and ‘True False.’