![]() Shortly thereafter, Random House reached out to Bender and Chernack about a book deal. "The following Monday we woke up and heard from the New York Times and Time Magazine and the "Today" show. "We had over a million impressions the first week," says Bender. Shortly after launch, the website went viral. So we launched a website to see if people would submit theirs." We thought if we had them, everyone must have them. He was like, Oh, my God, my house is full of those. Then inspiration struck: "I sat down with my writing partner at the time and told him about it. "At first, I couldn’t understand why she was memorializing what I thought was an awkward moment," Bender recalls. ![]() ![]() ![]() He admits that his first impulse was to cringe. ![]() In April 2009, the Los Angeles-based screenwriter - who penned the script for Not Another Teen Movie (2001) and several seasons of the MTV Movie Awards - traveled home for a vacation and spotted his mom displaying a ski vacation photograph. Not Mike Bender, the 1997 Middlebury College grad behind the popular website. I don't know about you guys, but my awkward family photos tend to just gather dust on the mantel.
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