You shouldn’t have posted that. Now what?

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The internet is an archive of so many different versions of ourselves. If you’re Gen Z or a millennial, there’s a good chance you preserved almost every stage of your life online: old fandoms, old friends, old opinions. And with that comes an inevitable cringe.  

So what do you do when you see something embarrassing you posted years ago? You may be tempted to go scorched earth...