• Lifted_lowered@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 months 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
      5·
      11 months 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
          2·
          11 months 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?

  • Mantis_Toboggan@lemm.ee
    29·
    11 months ago

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

    Unfortunately, they were never into me :(

  • Pringles@lemm.ee
    1·
    11 months ago

    Where I live the goth kids, baggy pants, wife beater looks are completely back, just how it was when I lived in California 20 years ago. I live in Central Europe now and it has given me some serious flashbacks. Hell, I feel 18 again. The only thing missing is Avril Lavigne blasting from the radio non-stop.

  • Milk@lemmy.sdf.org
    03·
    11 months ago

    Those times were so much better, no Karens or women with blue hair and shaved heads.

  • whome@discuss.tchncs.de
    01·
    11 months ago

    To me these looks are cringe bc they look like the adults when I was a kid /teen (80s,90s) used to look.

  • First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    131·
    11 months 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.

  • Kichae@kbin.social
    1·
    11 months 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.

    • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • cobra89@beehaw.org
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yeah this wasn’t 2006 really and was more like 2009-2010 when the “scene” scene got “big”.

      • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
        71·
        11 months 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!

          • cobra89@beehaw.orgEnglish
            31·
            11 months 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.

          • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
            51·
            11 months 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
                1·
                11 months 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.

                🍻

    • maddenim@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months 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
        21·
        11 months 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.

      • veroxii@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months 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.

        • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          11 months 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.