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Warning: This station contains notation of abuse, intersexual assault, cause use, violence, and suicide.
This is simply a harmless abstraction to admit that we've each done a just stock of Facebook and Instagram stalking, nary substance erstwhile we graduated. So we asked the brave members of the BuzzFeed Community to stock what happened to the "popular kid" from their precocious schoolhouse — and yeah…the answers are each implicit the place. From radical who ended up precisely however you'd expect to others who took immoderate earnestly unexpected turns, present are immoderate of the astir absorbing updates:
1. "He grew up rich, popular, and perpetually surrounded by friends due to the fact that his dada had wealth and wasn't acrophobic to walk it. A fewer years aft precocious school, it came retired that his dada had been embezzling millions from friends and family. His dada went to prison, their full manner collapsed, and helium ended up changing his sanction and becoming a wholly antithetic person."
2. "She was 1 of the astir fashionable girls successful school, but besides 1 of the cruelest radical I've ever met. She went retired of her mode to humiliate lone maine constantly, and it stuck with maine for years. When I aboriginal saw that she had passed away, I didn't consciousness immoderate benignant of sadness — conscionable a truly analyzable premix of emotions."
—Anonymous, 51, California
3. "One of them precocious reached retired to me, trying to merchantability immoderate MLM merchandise similar we were inactive close…and different became a existent property cause whose lone reviews are from the aforesaid 2 friends he's had since precocious school. Some things truly don’t change."
4. "One of the 'popular kids' present runs what's fundamentally a dropshipping pyramid strategy selling inexpensive polyester worldly online. They inactive station similar they're wildly successful, but everyone who knows them tin spot close done it."
5. "One of the astir fashionable guys ended up marrying the 'it girl' from our school, and from the outside, it looked similar everything worked retired perfectly. But implicit time, helium struggled with alcoholism and their narration fell apart. They yet divorced, and it was a overmuch messier ending than anyone expected."
—Anonymous, 50, California
6. "One of the erstwhile 'popular kids' wholly changed aft college. He gained weight, mislaid his starting spot, checked into rehab for alcoholism, and started reaching retired to radical helium had wounded to apologize. When I ran into him years later, helium was genuinely benignant and self-aware. It was honestly truly bully to see."
7. "Three fashionable kids went swimming successful a quarry 1 day, and lone 2 of them came out. The 1 who died was the benignant of idiosyncratic who was bully to virtually everyone, adjacent radical who weren't successful his circle. It made the full happening deed a batch harder than anyone expected."
8. "He was a prima shot subordinate and decidedly had that 'better than everyone else' cognition successful precocious school. After college, helium really seemed to beryllium doing well…until helium got federally charged for a kidnapping crippled and fraud. He didn't adjacent marque it to trial, and it wholly flipped however radical saw him."
—Anonymous, Michigan
9. "He ended up having an matter with his best friend’s ma aft the dada had passed away, and yet they got caught. She was arrested for statutory rape, and his person had to determination distant with his younger siblings. It wholly blew up aggregate families astatine once."
10. "One of the astir fashionable guys turned retired to person a truly acheronian location beingness that nary 1 knew about. At 1 point, his stepdad showed up to schoolhouse with a weapon, and the full spot went into lockdown earlier helium was arrested. After everything came retired astir the abuse, radical treated him wholly differently, but helium besides became mode much withdrawn."
11. "He went retired drinking 1 nighttime with a person and ended up driving home, crashing into a ceramic partition astatine afloat speed. His person hardly survived, but helium died connected impact. It was 1 of those things that shook the full schoolhouse due to the fact that it felt truthful preventable."
12. "He was the rich, fashionable kid, but besides 1 of the nicest radical you could meet. After precocious school, his parents divorced, and helium got heavy into cocaine, yet going to rehab and gaining a batch of weight. He's inactive connected my Facebook present and seems to beryllium doing okay, which honestly feels similar a bully result considering everything."
13. "He ended up becoming the caput of a section h2o territory and made a determination that wholly changed everything for the town. A clump of farmers mislaid their h2o entree and went retired of business…but it led to the restoration of wetlands, the instrumentality of an 'extinct' snail species, and present they virtually person to negociate the vertebrate colonisation due to the fact that of it. It's honestly 1 of the wildest ripple effects I’ve ever heard."
14. "My member was 1 of the fashionable kids, and for years, his beingness went downhill with pills, cocaine, and heroin, on with aggregate arrests and rehab stints. He spent a agelong clip stuck, but present he's yet a twelvemonth sober and starting to rebuild his life. It's been a immense turnaround."
15. "He was your stereotypical hockey jock who loved making amusive of people, particularly girls, and thought helium was untouchable. Years later, helium got caught acting wildly inappropriately astir underage girls, and 1 of their dads virtually bushed the s**t retired of him. He mislaid his occupation and fundamentally disappeared aft that. ... Karma is real."
—Anonymous, 31, Canada
16. "He was a fashionable jock who mostly stuck to his ain ellipse and ignored everyone else. Years later, idiosyncratic sent maine his mugshot on with details of his apprehension for countless charges of inappropriate behaviour involving minors, and it was honestly shocking to see. It wholly changed the mode I remembered him."
17. "One of the astir well-liked guys mislaid his ma successful a abrupt mishap erstwhile we were inactive successful school. After that, helium wholly unopen down — stopped talking to people, stopped showing up, and yet conscionable disappeared from everyone's lives. No 1 truly knows what happened to him aft that."
18. "There was a feline who seemed similar helium had everything — bully looks, friends, a blistery girlfriend, and nary evident problems. Years later, it came retired that helium had tried to instrumentality his ain beingness and survived, but with superior semipermanent damage. Seeing him present is simply a changeless reminder that you ne'er truly cognize what idiosyncratic is dealing with."
19. "One of the astir fashionable cheerleaders got into a four-wheeling mishap that near her successful an astir vegetative state. She's spent years dilatory rebuilding her independence, but her beingness is wholly antithetic now. It's honestly scary however rapidly thing similar that tin alteration everything."
20. "One of the biggest bullies from our schoolhouse someway became a clergyman aboriginal successful life. You'd deliberation that benignant of way would alteration someone, but from what I've heard…he's inactive conscionable arsenic overmuch of a jerk."
—Anonymous, 50, California
21. "The astir fashionable miss astatine our schoolhouse came from a ace affluent household and had everything going for her — immense house, cheer captain, horses, tanning beds, a f**king helicopter. During elder year, she got pregnant, her friends wholly abandoned her, and she ended up dropping out. Years later, I heard she had extended integrative country portion struggling with slump and present seldom leaves her house. It's a wholly antithetic beingness than what anyone expected."
22. "She utilized to bent retired with the 'rich kids,' and everyone assumed she'd extremity up with a stable, comfy beingness conscionable by being successful that crowd. But erstwhile I caught up with her years later, she was surviving successful a trailer and truly struggling. It conscionable goes to amusement that things don't ever crook retired the mode radical expect."
23. Lastly, "He was the skipper of the shot team, ace well-liked, and the benignant of idiosyncratic younger kids looked up to. After a surgery, helium got hooked connected painkillers, which yet turned into heroin. Years of arrests and struggling followed, and helium ended up dying from it. It was devastating watching idiosyncratic who seemed to person everything dilatory suffer it all."
Okay...I was not expecting these to get this dark. If you've ever looked up the "popular kid" astatine your schoolhouse and were amazed by what you found, I request to perceive it — driblet it successful the comments oregon taxable it below. Your communicative mightiness extremity up successful a aboriginal BuzzFeed Community post.
Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.
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