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[-] BenFranklinsDick@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago

Is emo cringe, or is it too nostalgic for that now?

[-] cowfodder@lemmy.world 119 points 1 month ago

Emo is all cringe, but scene girls are still hot.

[-] lone_faerie 88 points 1 month ago

Alt is hot. Emo, scene, goth, they're all hot.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

And your mom too.

[-] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 month 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.

[-] EldritchFeminity 13 points 1 month 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.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

What type of fashion is Y2K?
Is it matrix-grunge?

[-] EldritchFeminity 10 points 1 month 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":

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month 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.

[-] EldritchFeminity 3 points 1 month 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.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True. Especially for the first and third pics. The other ones are more realistic.

I think all the pics might be ads for tweens though.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

Who doesn't enjoy a nice pair of flares/jeans with the bottom all frayed where you've walked on it, and wet up to your knees because that's the reality of weather.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Ooooh. I knew a y2k grunge girl in the early 2000s. My sister.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month 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

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month 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

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] SkyeStarfall 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month 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.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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?

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

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

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

It's certainly either emo or scene based on their hair. My ESPN tells me they're scene.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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.

[-] DokPsy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Well I'm pretty sure they're not the Jethro Tull type

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month 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.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago

Wait. Does that mean they did the sex?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

They're probably grandparents already

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They did the future sex!

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Assuming they're 30 in that picture and every generation has kids at 20 they don't become great grandparents until 2059.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm assuming they're fifteen.

I remember Kentucky in 2009.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nah, their age is about moving the date up by 10-15 years. It means their kids have kids sooner than if they were fifteen in the photo. It's the oldest they could plausibly be.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Or maybe it will be remembered similarly to things like the Hitler youth in the future.

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago
[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Umm, MySpace, not yourspace…

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

On lemmy.ml would it be ourspace.

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

2024 -2009 = 15

Great grandparents?

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 40 points 1 month ago
[-] einlander@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Ahh, I overlooked that.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Do you always enjoy missing the joke?

[-] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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:

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