A 4 year timelapse of balding:

[Norwood One]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szR3CfPkLOI

Man does it age people...

 

[buckthorn]

The comments, god the comments:







27 upvotes for this one:

oh c'mon.. the dude does not look 45-50. He looks 30 at worst, even with the balding.

 

[atthekeysbored]

Ignorant teenagers who have never worked a job and met someone who is 50 outside of teachers or parents and get their ideas of what people look like from cherry picked youtubers and celebrities. Plenty of balding men in their 20s in the real world away from hollywood finasteride abuse/ hair systems. If you look at movies from the 90s before fina balding guys made up half of the cast of a lot of these films, in standard roles, not just the villain and his team.

 

[hellouser]

Ignorant teenagers who have never worked a job and met someone who is 50 outside of teachers or parents and get their ideas of what people look like from cherry picked youtubers and celebrities. Plenty of balding men in their 20s in the real world away from hollywood finasteride abuse/ hair systems. If you look at movies from the 90s before fina balding guys made up half of the cast of a lot of these films, in standard roles, not just the villain and his team.

Great point.

 

[Rudiger]

Do you have a few examples of these films? Not doubting, just wondering.

 

[Roberto_72]

I liked this one comment:

Looking at these comments, it's obvious why going bald sucks... because it's probably the first thing people notice when they look at you. Out of all the things you could say about this video, all you can say is "Wow, he's going bald!"



In fact, I wonder if this video was about baldness at all, in the first place. Because, based on comments, it became ONLY about baldness. And it's lame because it was probably an artistic project!

 

[Rudiger]

It was completely just meant to be an artistic project, it was just supposed to be about graduating (thus the final shot smiling in the graduation hat) but it's become the posterchild of baldness for a lot of people, its been posted here many times and I'm sure on other forums, probably blogged about and tweeted/on social media, all relating to baldness.

Now he'd have to be completely deluded if he didn't think there would be comments about baldness, but I'm sure he didn't expect nearly every comment to assume the video was made BASED on baldness. In a cruel way it's almost a little funny, like he probably didn't see the reaction coming so heavily based on baldness, probably hoped for positive graduation talk, or the music in the background which I think he wrote- but ironically because it's rather melancholy I think people assume it's to coincide with the tragedy of going bald, when it isn't.

 

[atthekeysbored]

I was just watching die hard 2 the other night and bruce willis actually has more hair than half of the cast! and the villain is a fullhead! Actually naturally aging men with a variety of diverse hairlines.

1. Groundhog day with Bill Murray had a wide selection of hairlines and densities in the film
2. LA confidential, another example of hair diversity we would never see in a modern movie.

Some 90s stars with thinning hair:

1. Nic Cage was a big star despite his recession.
2. Kevin Coster was very thatchy in a lot of his 90s roles
3. Segal very balding in the 90s
4. Woody Harrelson
5. Ed Harris
6. Tom Hanks was thinning a lot in forrest gump.

These days hollywood makeup/wig game is light years ahead and EVERY actor is on fina, even bit part actors in their 50s. And the main actors are keeping their hair or illusion for their entire careers making balding seem less normal than it is. Now Professor X is a semi-fullhead for two and a half movies, and even lex luthor is a fullhead who shaves. I suppose we can take solace in the fact superman doesn't seem to be too proactive in stopping his balding, but he'll probably be needing a transplant or a wig soon.

 

[atthekeysbored]

Saw this comment on the IMDB forum about The Abyss with (bald) Ed Harris: People hate bald leads. People hate bald men. They're so blad, bad-looking and not charismatic, right? I hope the guy who made this comment goes bald.

well if they think Mastrantonio in her prime doesn't have looks then they are seriously messed up in the head anyway. They are meant to be ****ing scientists not models and both of them are significantly above average anyway. And Ed definitely is charismatic.

 

[hellouser]

Billy Zane:

Jude Law:

John Travolta:

NOPE! NO HOLLYWOOD AGENDA HERE!

 

[CopeForLife]

Holy f..

And his face is clearly above the average, now imagine average/below average face with this aggressive MBP.

And imagine how his look will be improved with solid hair (which is normal for 90% of 20th people).

 

[blackg]

It was completely just meant to be an artistic project, it was just supposed to be about graduating (thus the final shot smiling in the graduation hat) but it's become the posterchild of baldness for a lot of people, its been posted here many times and I'm sure on other forums, probably blogged about and tweeted/on social media, all relating to baldness.

Now he'd have to be completely deluded if he didn't think there would be comments about baldness, but I'm sure he didn't expect nearly every comment to assume the video was made BASED on baldness. In a cruel way it's almost a little funny, like he probably didn't see the reaction coming so heavily based on baldness, probably hoped for positive graduation talk, or the music in the background which I think he wrote- but ironically because it's rather melancholy I think people assume it's to coincide with the tragedy of going bald, when it isn't.

This is one of your better posts, h.l.

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well if they think Mastrantonio in her prime doesn't have looks then they are seriously messed up in the head anyway. They are meant to be ****ing scientists not models and both of them are significantly above average anyway. And Ed definitely is charismatic.

I actually thought Ed was very charismatic in Apollo 13.
Yes, I know, he was playing a real life character (Gene Kranz), but he played him well.