Is emo cringe, or is it too nostalgic for that now?
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Emo is all cringe, but scene girls are still hot.
Alt is hot. Emo, scene, goth, they're all hot.
And your mom too.
Gottem
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.
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.
What type of fashion is Y2K?
Is it matrix-grunge?
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":
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ooooh. I knew a y2k grunge girl in the early 2000s. My sister.
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
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
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
Yeah this is definitively just the same old "what we did as kids was cool but what the kids do now is not"
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.
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?
Can't tell if goth or emo in black and white photos.
It's certainly either emo or scene based on their hair. My ESPN tells me they're scene.
So technically (pushes up glasses) the picture tells us nothing of their music's tastes so all you know is how they dressed
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.
But emo and goth transcended music and became a lifestyle. Like country, it's music and a location.
You can’t just ask somebody why they’re scene.
Well I'm pretty sure they're not the Jethro Tull type
Goth girls are hot. Emo girls, not so much.
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.
Wait. Does that mean they did the sex?
They're probably grandparents already
They did the future sex!
Back to the future sex.
Giggity
Assuming they're 30 in that picture and every generation has kids at 20 they don't become great grandparents until 2059.
I'm assuming they're fifteen.
I remember Kentucky in 2009.
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.
I suspect X/Twitter will be a long distant memory well before these folks would be grandparents.
Or maybe it will be remembered similarly to things like the Hitler youth in the future.
MySpace pic
Umm, MySpace, not yourspace…
On lemmy.ml would it be ourspace.
It would be called "OurSpace", but really it would be "The Party's Space"
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:
2024 -2009 = 15
Great grandparents?
"A tweet from the future"
Ahh, I overlooked that.