• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
      271·
      2 years ago

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

      • voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
        1·
        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
          0·
          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.

    • zelifcam@lemmy.ml
      0·
      2 years ago

      It was weird back in the 90s in the Midwest when metal heads got called “weirdos” for hanging out in record shops, wearing comfy baggy clothes, and rocking band tees. But then in the early 2000s, sappy, emotional pop rock became the new trend, and guess what? The same people who used to make fun of metal heads started dressing like that teenager in the picture and hanging out at Hot Topic in the mall. It was ridiculous.

  • Mantis_Toboggan@lemm.ee
    50·
    2 years 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·
    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.

      • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
        152·
        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 generation. Embrace it and enjoy it, and then enjoy it again when you’re old enough to laugh at your younger self!

          • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
            5·
            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
                2·
                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
            3·
            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
      5·
      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
        9·
        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
    271·
    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
      43·
      2 years ago

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

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
      16·
      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
      6·
      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”

    • Altima NEOEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      It was the other way around it seems. Nickelodeon wanted that shit

    • 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.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        Richard Horvitz is indeed in there. Fun fact: he’s also the voice of most of the Alpha robots from Power Rangers.

      • Altima NEOEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Richard Horvitz is the man! He also did angry beavers, psychonauts, and alpha 5 on the power rangers

  • noodle@feddit.uk
    19·
    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

      • veroxii@lemmy.world
        6·
        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.

        • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          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.

  • testman@lemmy.ml
    172·
    2 years ago

    I was that age in 2006 and that style was strange to me back then as well

    • JakoJakoJako13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Same. Even as a metalhead adjacent to them, they were still a strange breed of kids. They were harmless though. I couldn’t stand the kids that shit on them for entertainment.

      It’s kinda weird and heartwarming to be 30 something and see that style making a comeback. I hope they live as weird a life as we did back then.

    • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 years ago

      Same, was in high school '04-'08 and maybe 1% of the kids dressed like that. Most of us just wore jeans and t-shirts, and had short haircuts.

  • Kichae@kbin.social
    141·
    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.

    • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
      172·
      2 years 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.

    • JakoJakoJako13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Scene kids was a period after goths and before hipsters. It peaked before Myspace was taken over by Facebook. So like 2007-2009. By the time most of them moved on to college, hipsters became a thing and a lot of them grew into that or conformed in some way.

    • Sarcastik@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      Same. Sigh.

      I think the world’s evolving (or devolving) too fast for these broad generational categories to define us anymore.

      • Kichae@kbin.social
        0·
        2 years ago

        Eh. Generations are defined by a lot more than what clothes someone wore or what TV shows were being broadcast. Those things move quickly. Generations are usually marked by larger cultural touchstones.

        There are quite a few ways to try and slice the Millennial/Gen Z divide, for instance. An easy-on-paper ones are things like what generation your parents belonged to (Boomers/Gen X, respectively), for instance, though that just kind of pushes the issue back to a different generational divide. Or there’s the “do you remember the world before 9/11 happened?” metric. These point to differences in parenting, or differences in the larger socio-political culture within which one had their formative years, and they’re far, far wider reaching than fast fashion.

        • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Millennials are a strange generation because I feel like elder millennials and younger millennials are kind of divided by whether they remember a time before the Internet went mainstream or not.

          To your point, another dividing line for Millennials and Gen Z is that Gen Z kids’ first phone was probably a smart phone and they probably got theirs a couple years younger on average than millennials.

        • candybrie@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          Can’t really go off parents’ generation. Some people have kids at 16 and some at 45. I’m millennial with Gen X parents because they had me when they were young. I have a sister 15 years younger than me, who is Gen Z. We had very different experiences growing up, but share a parent.

    • Naja Kaouthia@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I was one of those weird raver kids with all the neon colors and intustrial-esqe accoutrements. I remember scene kids but that set was younger than me.

    • cobra89@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

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

  • kquote03@lemm.ee
    12·
    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
      2·
      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

  • Lifted_lowered@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    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
      5·
      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
          5·
          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?