Alt Teenagers dress weird regardless of when they were born.
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I'll paraphrase a twitter comment: man I did not give a single fuck about gen x as a millenial, these posts are so weird. Maybe we're just more exposed to each other now because of social media
Demographically there were way more millenials than genx.
The cohorts that are demographic bulges (boomers, millennials) get a lot of media attention (because advertising) and it plays out.
I'm convinced that news outlets and big tech intentionally push ageism / generational-warfare to substitute for class warfare, and divert criticism away from capitalists.
Like who decided to mark off these year ranges and put labels on them anyway, it's completely arbitrary and meaningless.
I hope you're being sarcastic because that kind of deranged conspiracy theory nonsense being taken seriously is why this country is so comprehensively fucked in the head.
...also, the whole genx/millenial/genz/etc labels are specifically a thing from marketing. They teach that stuff in business schools because it actually is useful to divide a population like that. The edges are gray, but people squarely in the middle of one of those demographics are more likely to be caricatures of it.
The Millenials laughing at Gen Z are the same Millenials who mocked emo/scene kids back then.
Was a goth, mocked emos and scene kids. Learned my lesson, rock on you little weirdos, enjoy your time of experimentation
This was like, 5% of millennials. Trust me, I was one of them. We got our asses kicked for dressing this way. Most everyone else either did "gangsta" style with low-hanging pants and Timberland boots/Jordans, or "preppy" style with a boring-ass polo shirt and khakis.
Psh, I saw this and immediately thought " I would have wanted to date that girl back in the day". Now I think.... "If I met a girl who was my age rocking that style.... I would want to talk to them for sure"
Same. Also born in 1989 and I would have had a huge crush on this girl in 2006. Haha
Yeah the emo look definitely worked for me... We didn't have a lot of them in my country though, the alt style was more punk/dirty techno, or metalheads but the girls didn't look like that. Shame...
My go-to aesthetic was based on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. I never felt cooler than when I was riding my BMX bike with skinny black jeans, a white t-shirt, and some Airwalk shoes. But I dated a girl who wanted me to dress preppy.
Emocore stuff was also later on and seen generally as a pop-poser spinoff of punk and metal culture. It got uniquely hated on by both mainstream and alternative cliques because of this.
I personally went through a pretty extended punk phase and never really got picked on. I actually made plenty of friends with jocks and stoners in high school, while wearing a pretty cringe getup with operation Ivy patches and shit.
I gravitated toward nu-metal/industrial with wide leg JNCO pants and ball-chain necklaces.
I haven't even heard of "emo" being an actual style until now. I thought it was just goth. Maybe because it's a couple years after my time. I'm an older millennial, graduated high school in 2000.
I was also nu metal and dressed the same, BAGGY jeans, wallet chains and skater trainers. We were "Moshers" where I was from.
Then there came a wave of boy bands with the Mosh aesthetic, like the music industry was trying to sell pop to Moshers. Good Charlotte was one of them.
This brought a whole new wave of kids into the fold, but they were drawn in by different music. These were the Emos and, like us Moshers, were generally frowned upon by those in for longer. The Metal Kids called us Moshers "Posers" or "Wanabees" and we treated Emos the same way.
Decades later my Mosh Wife I lovingly refer to as a Nemo for loving My Chemical Romance and say I'm "a bit Gothy" sometimes, it's all just blended into the alternative subculture.
Most of my close friends are a bit older than me, part of the generation that called me a poser back in the day, and we still poke fun at each others taste in metal but we all headbang to all the tunes, it's just Banter at this stage.
Emo is very specific sub genre of punk, but yeah, even the goths were very dressed down in 2000's and emos and goths looked really similar
Yeah, I'd say Emo really got going after 2000, at least in my experience
Don't forget about thrift store style! Which wasn't a style back then. Advantage though, us thrift store kids could switch styles daily. 'Gangsta' Monday, 'emo' Wednesday, poser Friday.
Wouldn't that just be poser every day?
The use of the word aesthetic as a verb in the last several years blows my mind.
Anyhow, yeah, we dress different when we're kids. I don't think too many people are shocked by this.
This is every generation with the generation before them.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes; written over 2000 years ago.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Wayne Gretzky
-- Michael Scott
We're all still emo/scene kids at heart, it was never a phase mom
That was peak aesthetics.
Was?
You too stray far from the light.
Gonna be honest, I really like the aesthetic even to this day.
My wife and I have a standing agreement that we'll get a divorce if either of have a shot with Hayley Williams
It looks like neo-80s.
God, I miss that time. Closest you get to that aesthetics nowadays still is some forms of visual kei (stuff like lynch.), but it’s a different vibe.
Yeah, you got me. But i don't know what gen z is doing and don't feel like talking down about them for whatever reason. I miss my spiked punk hairstyle, the teased mohawk i rocked and the half covered face emo hair. all of the weird stuff was so much fun.
I'm just a little sad Jhonen Vasquez was too much of a douchebag to keep Invader Zim on the air. It's still pretty watchable though, my son likes it. There's a movie, too, and it's not bad.
I would still happily rock an Invader Zim shirt in 2023