• @[email protected]
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        672 months ago

        Maybe I’m just biased as a millennial, but Scene was definitely a way cooler vibe overall than whatever it is zoomers and alphas are doing.

        And no why would me having a crush on every scene girl in my highschool affect my opinion on this dont be silly.

        • @[email protected]
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          142 months ago

          Currently, Zoomers and Gen Alpha are really into Y2K. So give it a couple of years, and Scene and Emo will be back in fashion and this will be considered peak cool parents photos.

            • @[email protected]
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              102 months ago

              I wish. It kinda falls into like some kind of Bratz-core or something, in my opinion. There’s a handful of outfits I see that wouldn’t have looked out place in a high school in 2000, but a lot of it feels like Temu ripping off Hot Topic vibes. A lot of jeans that wish they were JNCOs, some cargo pants, plenty of crop tops, and zip-up hoodies. The closest I could find to Matrix anything in a quick search were a couple of outfits that wouldn’t look out of place at an MCR concert.

              This is labeled as “Y2K Grunge”:

              • @[email protected]
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                92 months ago

                Bottom style just looks like “girl grunge”.
                Basically most of those wouldn’t be out of place in highschool in the 90s/2000s I guess.

                • @[email protected]
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                  32 months ago

                  Yeah, the weird part for me is that some of these are like “celebrity fits,” so it’s like teenagers to mid-20s adults wearing what the fashion industry thinks 90s - 2000s high school kids wore, as high fashion. Like if people started doing photo shoots and runway walks in skateboard kid outfits. It feels as incongruent as when companies sell ripped t-shirts for $2,000.

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          132 months ago

          Zoomers are dressing like our moms with the belly jeans and that rapey step uncle with the dirty stache that kids were told to avoid when they were doing the mathathon or selling candy bars.

          I mean, we had websites dedicated to making fun of mullets and these kids are sporting them unironically.

          I seriously didn’t believe the mullet could make a comeback once it became associated with incest, rebel flags, and gritty trailer parks.

          What do I know though? I’ve honestly never had any style at all. :p

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            112 months ago

            Dude I’m losing my fucking mind over the zoomer mustaches/mullets. When I was a kid, even boomers wouldn’t be caught dead with that style

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              I knew two people brave enough to rock a mullet. One was the dude I described above, the other was a terribly slow but incredibly sweet fella I worked with at a call center in my early 20s. He got picked on until he cut it. (Oddly enough my autocorrect corrected “picked on” to his last name which was eerie as shit because it isn’t a common name and I haven’t said it in years. Damn! How bizarre!). After he cut I’d sing to him, “gimme back my mullet! picka dernernt, bweeoo Put it back where it belong!”

              Haha

        • @[email protected]
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          92 months ago

          Yeah this is definitively just the same old “what we did as kids was cool but what the kids do now is not”

          • @[email protected]
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            62 months ago

            I did not think the mullet was rad when my dad had it, and I don’t think the mullet is rad now.

            Only one person wore it well and that was David Bowie.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 months ago

            Yeah, I agree. We knew what cool was but kids seem to have lost it somewhere along the way. Though not really same old, older generations were also weird.

            Man I feel lucky to have grown up in the brief period where kids were cool, what are the odds?

      • snooggums
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        162 months ago

        Can’t tell if goth or emo in black and white photos.

        • DreamButt
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          62 months ago

          So technically (pushes up glasses) the picture tells us nothing of their music’s tastes so all you know is how they dressed

          • snooggums
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            102 months ago

            Emo and goth are different mindsets, not just musical tastes.

            I’m not either, so my pics won’t be as entertaining in 20+ years.

          • The Pantser
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            62 months ago

            But emo and goth transcended music and became a lifestyle. Like country, it’s music and a location.

          • @FanBlade
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            42 months ago

            You can’t just ask somebody why they’re scene.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      emo has always been cringe. Growling barely works when you sound like a monster, it doesn’t fucking work when you sound like a child throwing a tantrum.

  • Adderbox76
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    252 months ago

    I suspect X/Twitter will be a long distant memory well before these folks would be grandparents.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    I mean, you can find 70s punk images just like this. I’m sure some are already great-grand parents. Nancy and Sid are from 1977: