Rawr
What’s a Millennial’s favorite fruit?
Rawrberry!
Bacon lol
OMG rotfl
Holds up spork
So random
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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.
I mean… This looks exactly like the 90s.
Totally. Kids are pretty much wearing 90s punk and grunge clothing. My 9 year old daughter will probably start raiding my wife’s cupboard of old clothes she kept from that era.
My kid is wearing my old band shirts that are worth hundreds of dollars now.
I can’t afford the expensive shit for her, but she’s definitely got bragging rights. A kid made fun of her last year over her “old faded shirt” and she said, “my shirt is worth more than your whole outfit. Google it honey.” Haha
I’m letting her slowly ruin a Nirvana shirt that’s worth about a thousand bucks. It hurts a little (a lot), but when I was a teen I would have killed for original things like that from the Beatles. I only make her retire the sentimental ones when I know they won’t hold up. Like my original SOAD toxicity release shirt that glows in the dark. It was the last thing my best friend bought for me before he was killed in an accident.
I’d wear them until they started showing signs that they wouldn’t last too much longer and then I’d put them away. Now she’s getting the rest of their life.
You’re a good parent, your daughter will remember this years down the road.
I remember my sister raiding my dad’s closet for flannel during the grunge era. He was happy to give them to her but was very confused as to why she wanted them.
I just hope Aquanet doesn’t come back.
Gotta wonder what he looks like now
Don’t know about the western countries. But this is definitely not correct for India
It’s very American lol
I have no idea why the millennial vs gen z debate is trending right now but I just love it
It’s just more divisive bullshit purposely turned into bad memes to catch people’s attention. As usual, it puts people in groups and then encourages disagreement between them. It keeps people from looking up. It’s so stupid.
Besides, Boxxxy is just an e-girl. Where are the differences
The entire generational warfare thing is so frustrating because people pretend as if being “anti-boomer” was some kind of revolutionary act while in reality it’s simply more childish infighting among the working class.
Millennials are old enough to be crotchety old farts now.
Source: am millennial; am crotchety old fart.
I don’t care what anyone says I still think this style is cool and I’m 27 years old. Maybe it’s an Enby/Agender thing though, I don’t know.
I use Plex and also think it’s cool
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You’re pathetic for copying my joke.
Thanks for your input. I will retract it
You mean you retract my joke.
Apologies. It is now fixed
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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
A quick Google search puts the birth year range for Gen Z between 1997 and 2012, so between ages 9 and 24. That’s like peak teenage years. You have some younger than that, some older than that, but the majority are going to be right in the middle. Plus, as much as 20 year olds like to pretend that that aren’t cringey teenagers anymore, that behavior doesn’t just change on your 20th birthday, it’s a process that happens over time. I’d say I still had cringey teenager tendencies until I was at least 22 or 23.
I’d say what the person above you said is perfectly accurate. Gen Zs are pretty much in peak teenage years right now.
Edit: so I think the article Google gave me was 2 years old. Still, it would put Gen Zs between ages 11 and 26. I think the point still mostly stands.
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Quick question where did you get a time machine from? I did not know they were already invented in 2021. /s
That’s what I get for copying what I saw on Google instead of doing the math myself. I’ll take the L on this one. 😅
It was probably a two year old article that Google used in their “answer”
Alternatively: the idea of alternative subcultures being “cringe” and worthy of ridicule, attack and condescending bullying like this rightfully dies out with your generation.
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!
The same “good natured ribbing” between siblings that people constantly mislabel as such even though it’s simply bullying, but “boys will be boys”, eh? Sibling relationships that are built on laughing at each other are not “cute”.
Well, guess what, I don’t want to “laugh at my younger self” some time. And I don’t want you to “give me some shit” when you think it’s warranted either. That’s literally just called bullying, and when someone stands up to that, you probably tell them to “learn how to take a joke”. And that’s exactly the mindset (and kind of people) I hope will die out sooner than later.
I want to be a person I would have been proud of becoming when I was younger. Ridiculing and humiliating people for being vulnerable or expressing themselves leads to the exact kind of political climate we have today, and as a German who is familiar with our history it scares me. The Venn diagram between people who make fun of emos, scene kids, furries or whatever other “cringe” minority of the day in a “good hearted” way, and people who “inadvertently” bully them and drive them to suicide, is probably close to a circle.
You telling me I will laugh at my younger self some day tells me exactly one thing: that you laugh at me presently and assume I will be the same when I “grow up”. Newsflash: I do not speak to those adults anymore that used to tell me these things about my teen ages because they - unsurprisingly - just bullied me and thought I would grow up to be as hateful as them eventually. And I still don’t laugh at myself when I was a teenager. As an adult, I am very much in tune with who I used to be, and all my scene/emo/outcast friends besides.
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.
I prefer to appreciate who I am, who I was, and stick to my values. There’s way more strength in defying people who laugh at you than in joining them and betraying what you once stood for merely to appease them.
The arrogance of telling someone that “someday” I might “learn” to laugh at myself is astounding given that I am probably older than you.
I would prefer to live in a world where nobody laughs at people, and where people are proud who they were, who they have become; instead of constantly looking back in embarrassment and shame.
… Just think what hill you’re willing to die on here. A hill defending the idea of “giving people some shit” (your words) when they dress or act the way you find embarrassing. When did peer pressure like this become a virtue?
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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I will just confidently go into the future knowing that I show compassion and you pride yourself on laughing at people. That’s all the future generations need to know about the 21st century.
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.
There is a reason “learn to laugh at yourself” is a recurring quote from many people.
Yes, people who laugh at others expect them to grow into their bigotry. I do not laugh at my younger self. I appreciate who I was, who I am, and who I will become. I am proud of scene kids, emo kids, and all the other “alternative” kids who constantly get told they’ll turn into hateful little old adults some day.
TO BE FAIR… That was a minority demographic.
What were some of the majority demos wearing though?
Yeah you’re right but like… I think the majority were low rise sort of bell bottoms and tight shirts. This would be like picking on the weebs and then bringing it back 10+ years later.
I wasn’t like that, but got myself a scene gal back in the day (not the over the top hair kind tho), we had nothing in common lol
The Zim shirt is baller
Could assemble this whole look at a Hot Topic. Throw in a Jack Skellington chain wallet for good measure.
Stop lying, you know you like it!
Where I live the goth kids, baggy pants, wife beater looks are completely back, just how it was when I lived in California 20 years ago. I live in Central Europe now and it has given me some serious flashbacks. Hell, I feel 18 again. The only thing missing is Avril Lavigne blasting from the radio non-stop.
I was in Berlin last year and got some serious whiplash at the styles. Goth-y baggy pants, tanks, cutoff shirts… Being Berlin, I thought “wow everywhere else will be like these kids a couple years.”
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The only ones I don’t get are the horrible high waisted mom jeans and the curly haircuts on dudes. Those pants look terrible unless you have an absolutely flat stomach and even then, yeesh. The haircuts, I have no idea haha
I’m in Scotland, mullets and bowl cuts are fucking IN right now…it’s mad. Some things should just be dead and buried…
Well, what I do find hard to understand about youth’s aesthetics for the last decade or so is that it’s so samey. There is just no one really sticking out. All the subcultures (be it punks, metalheads, hip hop, emo, what have you) have all but vanished, giving way to… Well… Nothing really. It’s not that “the youths are bad and weird” no. It’s that the youth is not weirdenough for my liking.
OMG so this! I was rocking out to some old NIN in the car and my 10 year old tells me to “turn it down please.” He also prefers button shirts. Did we somehow raise a bunch of straightedge squares? Is it now cool to not be cool?
Don’t do sXe like that, at least we’re still edgy too.
NIN always bored me too, though. Maybe try some Deathcore or Black Metal?
It wasn’t about it being boring, he legitimately acts like an 80 year old man yelling about his lawn when it comes to stuff I used to think was cool. He’d say the same to those genres.
You’re not wrong there. I was a leader for youth summer camps from 2007 to now. When I went to them myself as a kid and then until 2015 or so, there was this ongoing discussion when each age group had to go to bed. Then, something changed. Nowadays, when I stand up from the campfire to see the 11 to 14 year olds to bed at 23:00 for example, I’ll get a weird look and get told that all of them had brushed their teeth, put sleeping clothes on and went to bed an hour ago all by themselves. On the one hand, that’s really self-caring and responsible of them. On the other hand it’s fucking self-caring and responsible go play in the mud already!
Those times were so much better, no Karens or women with blue hair and shaved heads.
There were plenty of people with blue hair lmao what are you on
Or are you using blue hair as an alt right dogwhistle?
ah yes, scene/emo, a subculture famously known for not having dyed hair
