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
Not understanding and not approving of it are two different things. Millennials love our quirky/scary younger siblings, and I won’t hear otherwise.
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
Damn right! I was jealous of these kids who had the courage to express themselves how they wanted and explore their identities outside of what was deemed "socially acceptable" back then, and I will fight tooth and nail for kids to be able to do the same today, even if I don't exactly understand what's "it" nowadays.
I'm almost 40 and sometimes I feel like the only thing I can identify as is a dick. So I try to put that to use for the benefit of others, be a dick to an asshole, save a pussy.
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. :(
Scene*
The term "scene" came towards the tail end of that episode of pop culture.
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.
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?
It's pretty crazy. Jhonen Vasquez's most notable work previously was literally a comic about a guy who kidnapped people to murder in his basement, so it's not like they didn't know what they were in for.
Invader Zim has an episode where he is concerned that a school health inspection will out him as an alien so he begins systematically hunting down the other children and harvesting their organs to stuff inside his own body until he's a bloated monstrosity.
Nickelodeon Execs: "This is fine."
The funny thing is that it might have been on the air even longer if the show wasn't costing so much money. They were recording voice lines for some characters while the actor was suspended from a sort of crane-mechanism. Weird stuff all around.
That is an aesthetic I can get down with, though.
E girls are just an evolved version of this that's more feminine
I was that age in 2006 and that style was strange to me back then as well
If you'd told me I'd miss 2006 back in 2006 I'd have laughed.
Let the kids have their cringe phase
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.
This is the "scene kid" aesthetic that was popular in the mid aughts. They barely made the millennial cutoff as far as I'm concerned and they're not very representative of our generation as a whole.
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.
The kids these days look like they are basically just bringing the scene kid look back to me, maybe I'm just old
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 have no idea why the millennial vs gen z debate is trending right now but I just love it
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.
I could never work up the nerve to talk to these girls, and I don't think I missed out on much.
It was weird back in the 90s in the Midwest when metal heads got called "weirdos" for hanging out in record shops, wearing comfy baggy clothes, and rocking band tees. But then in the early 2000s, sappy, emotional pop rock became the new trend. The same people who used to make fun of metal heads started dressing like that teenager in the picture and hanging out at Hot Topic in the mall. It was ridiculous.
