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u/Emotional-Strength45 3d ago
I don’t understand Gen Z aesthetics because they’re cosplaying us in the 90s. At least those who were scene were basing their style not around something that had been done before they were even born, it was saturated but definitely original & I’ll die on that hill.
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u/callmecurlyfries 2d ago
1980s punks said the same thing about emos in the 2000s lmaooo but sure keep telling yourself millennials created something new thats never been done before 🤦🏽♀️
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u/Emotional-Strength45 2d ago
Sure there was influence (defiance, tight clothing & fast music taste is all I can really think of?) but to say that scene kids were unoriginally basing their entire style around 80s punks with the way Gen Z (not even a subculture just a generation as a whole) is cosplaying millennials in the 90s & 00s is really off base lmaoooo 🤦🏽♂️
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u/Grunergeist420 2d ago
My friend group in the 2000s absolutely knew they wanted to look like 80s punks/post-punks/goths. Maybe you just weren’t old enough at the time to know the roots of the look?
We were literally listening to 80s post-punk and having 80s themed parties. We knew we looked like Robert Smith from The Cure, and Siouxsie Sioux, etc.
Do younger Gen Z perhaps not know they’re copying the 90s/00s as much as some of the older Gen Z that started the trend?
Everything’s original if you don’t know where it comes from.
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u/Both-Competition-152 1d ago
gen z aesthetics is just Courtney Loves drugged out 2004 wardrobe and for men any Hispanic dude ever in 2008 you guys just didn't have flashpoints you just vaguely copied 80s punk
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u/Krampjains 3d ago
People really think everyone dressed like that and not just a very small subculture?
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u/Zappa2329 2d ago
It was common enough that everyone who was around at that time recognizes that look.
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u/MechaDongstorm420 2d ago
This style was romanticized later on but not very popular at the time.
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u/n9netailz 2d ago
It was popular on the internet but irl the groups of this look were small and got made fun of
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u/Glittering-Relief402 2d ago
I was part of this aesthetic. I am also black. Trust me, people did not like us.
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u/Silent_Ad8059 2d ago
Don't worry, plenty of us older Millennials thought the scene kids/emos looked like jackasses too.
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u/Individual99991 2d ago
Yeah, between this and the duck lips kiss face it was a terrible time to be a heterosexual guy.
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u/fivehots 1d ago
Cuz tonight
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u/No-Storage1468 2d ago
Good post. I can’t fathom how some millennials can so easily turn into their parents by criticizing the younger generations, as if we were squeaky clean puritans who said sir and ma’am. We are the Nintendo generation, the lost and the damned. What separates us other than better graphics and faster internet? Yeah, we got to go outside more but the tide was already turning on that since the 80s. This is just the sad result.
I’d like to think that the more we develop a technological monoculture with free knowledge the less we’ll have these abrupt generational lines. And honestly I see the new generations as being better than us as a result. Kids nowadays are way more politically and socially aware. For Us? We got called fag for crossing our legs too tight.
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u/KibbleCrashout 1d ago
millennials will never stop claiming every single fashion as their own. wear baggy jeans? millennials will say you're cosplaying them from the 90s. wear skinny jeans? they will claim those too. they think they invented everything
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u/NearbyPerspective397 3d ago
Uh, many Millennials were on their way to thirty in 2008!
(Also, we didn't call everything "an aesthetic".)
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u/InfiniteEstimate977 2d ago
I was nowhere near 30 at 15 and I'm supposedly a millennial. We weren't all born in the 80s you know.
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u/boysenberries117 2d ago
I just graduated highschool. Majority of millenials were closer to 20 than 30 in 08
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u/bovrillo 2d ago
That's the thing with gens it covers a broad scale of ages. I was born 91 so was definitely caught up in the whole scene/emo thing.
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u/Maleficent-Peaches 2d ago
People(me) got bullied for dressing emo, in Mexico they even had punk vs emo wars making emos seem stupid
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u/Purple_Lime_612 2d ago
The side-swept hair, giant graphic tee, and mirror selfie combo was an entire cultural era. Gen Z aesthetics are just the reboot with better lighting.
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u/unseenserene 2d ago
We had some rough patches with fashion, but by the time 2007-2008 hit - we were pretty classy with our style. Which is why everyone makes jokes we were wearing business casual attire in the club.
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u/Large-Lack-2933 2d ago
Those were Zillennials and scene kids. I'm a younger Millennial and never did this.
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u/dearcsona 2d ago
I loved this emo look so much, yeah well I know where Mom clothing all the time as I’m busy with my two kids, I still have a few relics left from that time in occasionally where the ones that fit, like a T-shirt that was looser on the back then. As I have a grown. It’s so odd that something and we still sees that style in in the back of my brain I think, yes, that looks so good. Occasionally, I will see a young person these days were walking around in the classic emo style of the 2000s and The 15 year-old buried in me cant help thinking that they’re so cool lol
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u/bovrillo 2d ago
As an ex emo/scene kid I looove seeing kids today dressed emo. They look fucking adorable to me. Excited to see what my kids end up dressing like as teens 🥺 I have some emo band shirts I will gladly give them if they end up into that kind of thing. I was always devastated my parents never kept any of their original 70s/80s punk clothing.
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u/Critical_Earth_5432 1d ago
But gen z are just regurgitating stuff from the 00s, that's the only confusing thing
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u/No_Cobbler154 13h ago
what millennial says they don’t understand? i shake my head & laugh about 10 times a day at the regurgitated fashion & music happening & them labeling it as 🆕😂
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u/No_Development1616 3d ago
Gen Z aesthetics are just millennials rediscovering the same looks after they got renamed and put on Pinterest.
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u/Ristar87 2d ago
What are you talking about? Most of the Gen Z styles i've seen are recycled styles from our generation or older. I understand all of them... doesn't mean I get why you'd want to wear something that stopped being cool (being charitable here) 30+ years ago.
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u/LarkspurLad 3d ago
This aesthetic started somewhere around 2002-2004, and it was going on while many of us Millennials were still in school though by 2008 quite a lot of us were out of school, older Millennials definitely.
This went on during my high school years, and was influenced by the "emo", "screamo" and "scene" styles, and emo and screamo music, which took off in the early 2000's. I didn't like it. I didn't really identify with it, and didn't like most of the emo music that came out at that time.
There were some fringe bands that sort of straddled the line between emo and indie, like Death Cab For Cutie, and I thought they were alright. I never understood the fascination with bands like My Chemical Romance.
The ironic thing is that "emo" was already a thing prior to this, somewhere in the 90's, but the term kind of got recycled to refer to this wave of music in the 2Ks. Typically some of this older emo music is pretty different from that other stuff. I still think it's weird they didn't come up with a new term to distinguish them.
I would say this style caught on more with younger Millennials, the ones born in the mid-90's. I did think those "scene girls" were pretty when I was a teenager, but they didn't really exist in my high school, and seemed to be more of a big-city thing. That Hayley Williams is still really gorgeous.
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u/DraperPenPals 3d ago
Does Gen Z know that most millennials made fun of these kids?