• Mantis_Toboggan@lemm.ee
    75·
    2 years ago

    I was so attracted to those type of girls when I was in high school.

    Unfortunately, they were never into me :(

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
      32·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Polydextrous@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 years ago

        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?

      • voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • Obi@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

          • voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 years ago

            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.

      • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

      • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
        322·
        2 years ago

        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!

          • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
            71·
            2 years ago

            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.

              • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
                21·
                2 years ago

                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.

                🍻

          • cobra89@beehaw.orgEnglish
            41·
            2 years ago

            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.

    • maddenim@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 years ago

      last time I checked the youngest gen z are already young adults

      The youngest gen z are Indeed in the cringe phase, but many are already over that

      • Dandroid@dandroid.app
        111·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • ewU2000@feddit.de
          3·
          2 years ago

          Quick question where did you get a time machine from? I did not know they were already invented in 2021. /s

          • Dandroid@dandroid.app
            2·
            2 years ago

            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”

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
    421·
    2 years ago

    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?

    • grue@lemmy.ml
      57·
      2 years ago

      Are you talking about the same Nickelodeon that showed Ren and Stimpy and Rocko’s Modern Life?

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
      26·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • PitzNR@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      2 years ago

      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”

    • Dalinar@lemmy.nz
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’ve been playing the ratchet and clank pc port and one of the voice actors definitely vocied Zim. It’s so distinguishable.

  • Roundcat@kbin.social
    423·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • veroxii@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • theangryseal@lemmy.world
          12·
          2 years ago

          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.

        • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          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.

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • noodle@feddit.uk
    28·
    2 years ago

    If you’d told me I’d miss 2006 back in 2006 I’d have laughed.

    Let the kids have their cringe phase

  • First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    212·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Lifted_lowered@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 years ago

    The kids these days look like they are basically just bringing the scene kid look back to me, maybe I’m just old

    • Screwthehole@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      I really really want to know what my kids generation is called. Post z - born in like 2017. What’s that gen?

        • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          Why are we continuing that pattern? Generation X gets named that, fine. Then we call the next one Generation Y, a few years later we realize that’s stupid because we’ll run out of letters and rename it to Millennial. Then we learn literally nothing from that, repeat the same mistake with Z and then loop over to the Greek alphabet? If we were going with the alphabet, why not start at A?

  • chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world
    181·
    2 years ago

    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

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
      11·
      2 years ago

      I’m in Scotland, mullets and bowl cuts are fucking IN right now…it’s mad. Some things should just be dead and buried…

  • Kichae@kbin.social
    181·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • kquote03@lemm.ee
    192·
    2 years ago

    I have no idea why the millennial vs gen z debate is trending right now but I just love it

    • ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee
      5·
      2 years ago

      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