Time Waits For No One: 13 Pics Of Celebrities Hanging Out With Their Younger Selves

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.

Pictolic 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.

13 PHOTOS

#1 Keanu Reeves

#2 Robin Williams

#3 Betty White

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.

#4 Harrison Ford

#5 Pink

#6 Freddie Mercury

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.

#7 Morgan Freeman

#8 Anthony Hopkins

#9 Tom Hanks

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.

“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."

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

#11 Drew Barrymore

#12 Barack Obama

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 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 awkward and creepy.”

“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.

#13 Meryl Streep