• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
      301·
      1 year ago

      JNCO parachute pants, wallet chains, and ball-chain necklaces were the uniform of that time period.

      • Polydextrous@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year 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·
        1 year 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
          0·
          1 year 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·
            1 year 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·
        1 year 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.

  • Mantis_Toboggan@lemm.ee
    65·
    1 year ago

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

    Unfortunately, they were never into me :(

  • Roundcat@kbin.social
    443·
    1 year 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.

      • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
        171·
        1 year 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
            7·
            1 year 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·
                1 year 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
            4·
            1 year 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.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
    311·
    1 year 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
      44·
      1 year ago

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

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
      22·
      1 year 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
      6·
      1 year 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·
      1 year ago

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

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
      71·
      1 year 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
    23·
    1 year ago

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

    Let the kids have their cringe phase

  • Lifted_lowered@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

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

  • kquote03@lemm.ee
    131·
    1 year ago

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

    • ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year 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

  • Kichae@kbin.social
    121·
    1 year 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
      202·
      1 year 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·
      1 year ago

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

  • First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    121·
    1 year 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.