mid 90s to mid 2000s style was the peak I won’t hear otherwise
JNCO parachute pants, a Korn shirt, wallet chains, and ball-chain necklaces were the uniform of that time period. Gen-Z mushroom tops also have nothing on the all around close shave with long front bangs.
I unironically feel that that era had one of the most iconic youth styles in modern history
Dude, those styles are all coming back. Maybe not the Korm shirt, but the 90s styles are coming back, and early 2000s are coming back in some forms, but I assume we’ll see a return to those things soon. We’re already seein. The weird ugly early 2000s sunglasses, we’ll see low rise jeans come back eventually…it’s all cyclical.
As a mid-millennial, though, I don’t see many people making fun of gen Z styles? Which of them are people making fun of?
I want a ‘Korm’ shirt now
TBF, there was the stupid Jonas-brothers hair that was overdone by early Gen Z about 10 years ago. Thankfully that died out a while back
I actually don’t know anything about that. I searched “Jonas brothers hair” and it all looks like relatively normal hair.
I don’t understand why anybody wouldn’t use a chain wallet. You don’t have to worry about your wallet falling out or getting pickpocketed.
Does it actually help with pickpockets though? I feel like if anything, it advertises its location, and with a good strong yank the fabric loop is attached to would just rip out.
Does it actually help with pickpockets though?
I’ve never had it stolen, so…perhaps?
I feel like if anything, it advertises its location
Where else would it be? Don’t right-handed people store it in their right front pocket? And since most people are right-handed…you’re going to be correct most the time.
with a good strong yank the fabric loop is attached to would just rip out.
That would be a helluva strong yank, though, and it would certainly be much more difficult than just lifting the wallet out. Nothing is going to be 100% secure. It’s about making the theft as difficult as possible.
The fuckin cockatiel hair cut from the very front to the back bangs lol. Either they were Goth into industrial or house heads. The spikey hair with bleach tips as well.
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I was so attracted to those type of girls when I was in high school.
Unfortunately, they were never into me :(
I still am, but nobody dresses emo anymore. :(
I was so attracted to those type of girls when I was in high school.
In my early 30s. From what I’ve seen, they’ve kind of changed it a bit and ditched the clothes, but I’ve seen them getting into tattoos a lot more.
As a non-tatted guy, who looks totally different from them, they’re still not into me and I’m still into it hahaha
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Scene*
The term “scene” came towards the tail end of that episode of pop culture.
Same thing.
Seek women of your own age instead of high school girls ;)
Not understanding and not approving of it are two different things. Millennials love our quirky/scary younger siblings, and I won’t hear otherwise.
Yeah Zoomers are great and I can even get down with some of Gen X.
The hate is for boomers only.
Can confirm, as a millennial I love zoomers and their humor. On god fr fr no cap.
I will never shit on zoomer humour because I used to watch YouTube poops
Don’t do this if you’re not ironyposting please. It’ll be taken that way if meant for humor
Tf are you talking about my dude?
This shit is still cool! I’m not even going to act ashamed! Hell fucking yeah I dressed like that, and It was motherfucking “epic!”
Wear whatever you think is cool zoomers, and stop for NO ONE! The moment you start letting others dictate your coolness is when you stop being young.
Rawr XD
Rawring 20s here we come
Rawwwrr XD*
I was lazy even in my teenage years lmao
Wait, go back
Eh. As a zoomer (among the older ones) the styles today aren’t forged from small local communities and interests like the image. Everything has been seeping into my younger cohorts’ brains by social media and conforming to an identity they found online. Personally, it’s unhealthy, and only getting worse for the next generations.
Ah yes, the small local interest of a very popular show on one of the 3 main cartoon channels likely purchased from a nationwide chain that was a staple in pretty much every mall.
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Concerts and bands. Myspace was a reaction, not a catalyst. Heavy social media use in that era was rare and niche. Hence why this pictured style was not as common as you might think it was.
Most children and teens are terminally online and their styles are symptom, not cause.
We were copying bands to be edgy. Now explain broccoli.
What did I do?!
There they are! Get them!
You made all young men shape their hair in your image.
They are trying. Cut 'em some slack, the age of a common generational culture is dead and they’re doing their own thing as best they can.
Our parents had woodstock/hippies/disco, we had nu-metal and gangsta rap, and they have…whatever they feel like having at the moment.
They’re copying YouTubers and TikTok stars.
b r o g l e
The Zim shirt is baller
Stop lying, you know you like it!
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Elder millennial here. Personally I view this as the kind of good natured ribbing that comes from a healthy relationship between an older and younger sibling. I think our generation (and Gen X too) have an overall positive view of Gen Z, but you are out of your mind if you think we’re going to pass up an opportunity to give them some shit when it’s warranted!
Rainmanslim’s comment doesn’t strike me as mean-spirited at all. If anything it’s the opposite of condescending because it acknowledges that the cringiness of being a teenager knows no generational bounds. Embrace it and enjoy it, and then enjoy it again when you’re old enough to laugh at your younger self!
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Mate, that is a whole lot of projection and assumptions in one post. You do you, but I hope someday you learn that being able laugh at yourself is a strength not a weakness.
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Man, if you are in your 40s and still clinging to this idea that you’ve never done anything embarrassing in your life, have never teased a buddy for something stupid they have done, and feel the need to get all self-righteous on me for enjoying friendly banter between strangers then I don’t know what else there is to say here.
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There is a reason “learn to laugh at yourself” is a recurring quote from many people.
This is all this is, to learn to laugh at your younger self. No one is saying your feelings or thoughts as a teenager are invalid but perspectives and priorities change when you get older and the things that make you feel and act that way will seem trivial and therefore silly.
There is a reason this is a recurring theme between generations. Sorry but your generation is no different. It is not bullying, it is learning to look back at your younger self and see that the difficulties you were facing were relatively trivial even if they didn’t feel that way at the time.
Also please remember your sentiment the next time you see one of these memes “attacking” millennials. Basically the way you’ve formed your argument here is that this meme in this OP is “bullying” millennials.
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last time I checked the youngest gen z are already young adultsThe youngest gen z are Indeed in the cringe phase, but many are already over that
Side note: how in the ever loving fuck did the creators of Invader Zim convince the Nickelodeon execs that it was a “kids show” - and not just once, but for two seasons?
Are you talking about the same Nickelodeon that showed Ren and Stimpy and Rocko’s Modern Life?
Nah nickelodeon had weird shows at the time, Zim was tamer than a few shows, what boggles my mind is that someone in nickelodeon even agreed to TALK to Vasquez given his portfolio, like, some exec in nickelodeon read a bit of JtHM and went “yeah, this guy got something the kids would like”
It was the other way around it seems. Nickelodeon wanted that shit
Invader Zim was the shit
Grr
The movie they made recently was damn good as well
That is an aesthetic I can get down with, though.
E girls are just an evolved version of this that’s more feminine
Give it 5-10 years and this will be fashionable again.
I thought the point of this post is that the kids are wearing it again these days?
Honestly I see teenagers in my town and they just look the same as teenagers did 20 years ago. I feel like styles are staying the same.
If you’d told me I’d miss 2006 back in 2006 I’d have laughed.
Let the kids have their cringe phase
I’m so sad I never had a cringe phase :(
I was that age in 2006 and that style was strange to me back then as well
Same. Even as a metalhead adjacent to them, they were still a strange breed of kids. They were harmless though. I couldn’t stand the kids that shit on them for entertainment.
It’s kinda weird and heartwarming to be 30 something and see that style making a comeback. I hope they live as weird a life as we did back then.
Same, was in high school '04-'08 and maybe 1% of the kids dressed like that. Most of us just wore jeans and t-shirts, and had short haircuts.
Rawr
Holds up spork
So random
Bacon lol
OMG rotfl
What’s a Millennial’s favorite fruit?
Rawrberry!
XD
As an elder Millennial, I’m left wondering WTF I missed in 2006?!? All the girls in high school were wearing Doc Martins, turtle necks, and low-cut jeans while sporting streaky highlights in their hair, and all of the girls in college were wearing Uggs and puffy coats with faux-fur hoods. There was none of… Whatever this is.
Scene kids was a period after goths and before hipsters. It peaked before Myspace was taken over by Facebook. So like 2007-2009. By the time most of them moved on to college, hipsters became a thing and a lot of them grew into that or conformed in some way.
Aye. Peak highschool for me.
Started college in '09 and the scene kid was gone.
I was actually a little disappointed, I understood it
Yeah, it’s amazing how quickly it came and went. By the time I graduated highschool in 10 it was already falling out of fashion. You could still kinda tell who was apart of it though. The clown makeup went away, but the bangs remained for a while.
Same. Sigh.
I think the world’s evolving (or devolving) too fast for these broad generational categories to define us anymore.
Eh. Generations are defined by a lot more than what clothes someone wore or what TV shows were being broadcast. Those things move quickly. Generations are usually marked by larger cultural touchstones.
There are quite a few ways to try and slice the Millennial/Gen Z divide, for instance. An easy-on-paper ones are things like what generation your parents belonged to (Boomers/Gen X, respectively), for instance, though that just kind of pushes the issue back to a different generational divide. Or there’s the “do you remember the world before 9/11 happened?” metric. These point to differences in parenting, or differences in the larger socio-political culture within which one had their formative years, and they’re far, far wider reaching than fast fashion.
Can’t really go off parents’ generation. Some people have kids at 16 and some at 45. I’m millennial with Gen X parents because they had me when they were young. I have a sister 15 years younger than me, who is Gen Z. We had very different experiences growing up, but share a parent.
No generational rule is hard and fast. They’re all broad stroke generalities.
You can’t even go based on year, because sociologists disagree on which years to use.
I was one of those weird raver kids with all the neon colors and intustrial-esqe accoutrements. I remember scene kids but that set was younger than me.
Yeah this wasn’t 2006 really and was more like 2009-2010 when the “scene” scene got “big”.
Sounds like you grew up in the South
I mean, I guess I’m in the southern part of Canada.
Aren’t basically all Canadians in the southern part?
