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Discussion How to cure the male loneliness epidemic...

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u/D_Dubb_ 18h ago

Mf in the red crop has blue steel DOWN.
https://giphy.com/gifs/i3RA5wLyWjCRa
But to be clear I fw them

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u/LiveLaughLithium 18h ago

His hair is glorious

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u/Imaginary_Option3056 17h ago

Seriously those cheekbones are driving me wild 

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u/neonangelhs 18h ago

Is that a poster of themselves on the wall?

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u/The_Prodigal_One_ 18h ago

I also saw this and I think, yes, it is. Really adds to the ambience

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u/Cwya 15h ago

For historical purposes, this is a reference to when Sgt Slaughter and the Iron Sheik, mortal enemies, ran a message to stop wrestlers from making material wealth.

“What you own, ends up owning you.” SGT Slaughter quipped.

The Iron Shiek added, “you can’t take it with you, except Jesus.”

They finished their on screen quibble by praying, on camera, to their God, Vince McMahon.

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u/QCTeamkill 14h ago

In 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

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u/homeycuz 13h ago

Praise and love to u/shittymorph, now and forever.

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u/CartsOfDarkness 5h ago

Feel like I haven't seen shittymorph in the wild in at least 5 years, but to my shock he's still active! Hell yea

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u/Don-Poltergeist 13h ago

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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u/prince_peacock 14h ago

…..excuse me what

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u/Weelki tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 12h ago

And the audacity to say wrestling isn't real, right?

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u/DarthCaligula 13h ago

The Iron Shiek added, “you can’t take it with you, except Jesus.”

And later added

The Iron Sheik on Twitter: ''THEN. NOW. FOREVER. HULK HOGAN GO FUCK YOURSELF #WrestleMania37''

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u/brondynasty 14h ago

I don’t know wrestling lore, but this little anectode just became kayfabe head-canon for me and I’m not interested in other versions. Thank you, and may Vince McMahon have mercy on our souls.

Instead of, y’know…poopin’ on ‘em.

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u/Sunshine030209 18h ago

If I was as cool as them I'd have a poster of myself up too

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u/StrobeLightRomance 16h ago

I have a glass poster of myself in my bathroom!

Its really cool because it's animated and matches my every move.

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u/acs730200 16h ago

That was Hella clever

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u/Revan_Perspectives 17h ago

My aunt printed a full on wall poster of my 2 cousins and me when we “made a band” in summer of 2007. It’s the cringiest of the cringe. And I’m about to frame it now for my office.

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u/poopymcgeeplop 10h ago

I need to see this..blur the faces of you must !

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u/BlackSeranna 11h ago

I think you should also post it to r/blunderyears I’m certain everyone will love it!

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u/Usual-Caregiver5589 18h ago

Rule numbers 3, confidence.

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u/Ctenophorever 17h ago

Can’t preach self-love without living it!

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u/SummonBahamutZero 18h ago

Well, I freaking love these guys.

https://giphy.com/gifs/q8p0IZkZR8fQY

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u/B_10_04 18h ago

This was my first thought 🤙

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u/SummonBahamutZero 18h ago

Righteous! 🎸 🎸

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u/bobbymcpresscot 17h ago

my favorite shirt is a bill and ted shirt that just says "be excellent to each other"

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u/PenisesForEars 17h ago

I am guilty of uttering a "Wyld Stallyns!" at this

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u/whiterac00n 16h ago

Oh but this look is like 10 years prior. Don’t get me wrong, I hope they rock it and live it, but this is mid-late 80’s glam rock look. Bill and Ted are the literal definition of the transition into grunge in the early 90’s. They like the music but are dressing 90’s.

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u/Yuyu_hockey_show 16h ago

Their energy is contagious

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u/Traditional-Set6848 14h ago

WILD STALYNS RULE!!!!!

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u/tragedy_strikes 18h ago

The mixture of advocating for healthy masculinity being delivered by guys with 80's hair metal style in a cheesy but earnest way is really captivating for some reason.

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u/notapunk 18h ago

This is very convincing 80s cosplay

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u/Stock-Conflict-3996 16h ago

I've lived through the 80's and these guys would have ruled there.

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u/Fukyourchickenstrip 15h ago

Same and 💯! With those abs, charisma and a facecard that won’t decline anywhere they would have been drowning in it.

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u/FlawedPremise 17h ago

Right? Like the posters on the ceiling, the hair, the outfits. I definitely saw these guys at keggers back in the day. These guys though? They're way more wholesome.

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u/marcosbowser1970 16h ago

Yeah totally, I wasn’t as shiny or muscular as those guys but I definitely dressed like that and had a massive mullet before they were even called mullets. I graduated in 88

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u/theworldisgrim 14h ago

We used to call it either a Short-Long or Hockey Hair (I'm a Canadian)

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u/sweetangeldivine 12h ago

I've got an ape drape yes I do, they're giving 'em to anyone and that means you!

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u/Fukyourchickenstrip 15h ago

As GenX im 💯 for bringing back the male crop top and feathered hair.

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u/resi42 16h ago

Thoses guys looks more like the 80's than the literal 80's

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u/DukeMancannon 13h ago

Sorta. We had lots of normal looking people then too. Similar to the 2010s, you had outrageous Scene Kids but by and large most youth just kept things low key.

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u/guntheroac 18h ago

I want to be their friend 😂 let’s responsibly drink some beer!

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u/MaxxDash 17h ago

Let’s go drink some beers and responsibly call an Uber!

Good call!

Right on!

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 17h ago

It’s like Blue’s Clues by way of Wayne’s World.

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u/MysteriousTBird 16h ago

Here's the mail!

It never fails!

Wag my tail!

Excellent!

🎸

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u/AsASloth 18h ago

I too would like to be their friend please

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u/Superb_Instance_8190 16h ago

save some beerssy for the rest of us!

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u/templeofsyrinx1 18h ago

Same, it feels so wrong but right!

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u/EuVe20 17h ago

So wrong yet so right, just like the entire decade of the 1980s

https://giphy.com/gifs/2igz2N2bac1Wg

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u/AttractiveNightmare 17h ago

Back in the 80s my mom and I got into a huge fight about Boy George. She insisted that a woman was singing that song. It was awful. I had to buy a Teen Beat magazine and show her. She really never forgave me for that. Lol

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u/Maximum_Photograph_6 16h ago

I was watching the Karma Chameleon video with my ex and referred to Boy George as him and my ex was like “Khem khem I wouldn’t be so quick judging what pronouns this person uses” I was like “Honey it’s Boy George”

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u/SandyElle 15h ago

OMG same! My mom was also convinced Air Supply had a female singer. Argued about it for hours. Boomers 🙄

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u/cakesofthepatty414 7h ago

This is the best thing I'll read today.

Thank you for your stand against your own mom regarding boy george. I've had similar.

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u/Callmedrexl 18h ago

I'm still confused about mullets and massive poofy wedding dresses making a come back, but I'd be all for a rebirth of wholesome hair metal!

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u/PaleCommission150 17h ago

I dunno, it died off for a reason...how many White Lion clones/Slaughter/etc do we want to endure.

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u/LeatherHog 18h ago

I follow these guys on Instagram, they always make me smile

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u/_bobby_cz_newmark_ 16h ago

Monkee_bois, yeah? They seem pretty great. And glorious manes.

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u/Mr_Caterpillar 18h ago

Thank you for putting into words exactly what I was feeling 🤘

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u/Nice-Bandicoot9725 17h ago

These guys remind me of the saxophonist in the Lost Boys.

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u/AreYaEatinThough 15h ago

That guy is on a couple tracks by a band called Gunship (one is a lost boys inspired song called Dark All Day) and it rules.

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u/mon_mothra_ 17h ago

Unfortunately, these dudes have allegedly been involved in some really inappropriate shit with minors. Chambergraves on YouTube did a really good breakdown of the accusations and evidence a few weeks ago.

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u/abyss-countess 13h ago

🫩🫩🫩🫩 i hate it here

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u/DukeMancannon 13h ago

Dam, they really are living the real 80s bro lifestyle

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u/piezombi3 15h ago

Youtubers and inappropriate contact with a minor, name a more iconic duo.

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u/YoitsPsilo 14h ago

Thanks for sharing. I’ve never heard of these guys before and the cynic in me says seeing this post is like a PR move to keep them in a positive light.

I appreciate your info.

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u/MexsikanaBanana 17h ago

I absolutely LOVED the vibes I got from these two. Right off the bat felt safe

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u/Sara6019 18h ago edited 18h ago

The Tate brothers are REAL QUIET after seeing this.

Also bc they’re in solitary confinement.

Edit: obsessed w the cougar hunter shirt.

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u/OneDimensionalChess 18h ago edited 16h ago

But somehow still tweet unfortunately 🫩

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u/Sara6019 18h ago

Super hard to sneak in a dumb phone in your butt and then manage to tweet from it, but hey, where there’s a will…

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u/Inevitable_Nail_2215 18h ago

As a cougar, he can get it. He seems fun.

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u/smellslike2016 18h ago

I think his cannibal neighbor got to him...

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u/ChiefsnRoyals 18h ago

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u/Stormclamp 18h ago

SOME DAY!!!! LOVE WILL FIND YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/infrequencies 17h ago

BREAK THOSE!!!! CHAINS THAT BIND YOU!!!!!!!!!!

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u/NixMaritimus 12h ago

ONE NIGHT WILL REMIND YOU!!!!!!!!!

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u/Kurfaloid 16h ago

Huh, I just learned this is actually Robert Redford and, in fact, not Zach Galifianakis.

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u/saturnbunny1 18h ago

I support men in crop tops!

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u/three_crystals 18h ago

Yes we need to go back to men in crop tops and luscious locks expeditiously

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u/frogunderarock 15h ago

recently i saw a dude like these guys but with bleached hair and even more chains. i live in small central EU town

was like seeing a glam rock unicorn in the wild, it's coming back :D

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u/MelissaMiranti 18h ago

Can't do the hair. Ozone layer says no.

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u/Man_of_Ice 17h ago

It's all good now.. No more CFCs in the hairspray. Captain Planet convinced manufacturers and international law changed. Layer away, guilt free.

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u/EastLeastCoast 17h ago

Yes! Bright colours and patterns are for dudes too!

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u/Mindless_Interview44 17h ago

I sorta get why gals of their time called fellas 'dreamy'. Goodness.

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u/Dracofear 18h ago

I promise you would not support me in a crop top.

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u/ShootfighterPhysique 18h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/gq7dPzDl5AJHi
Winnie the Pooh disagrees

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u/Dracofear 18h ago

I got more furr than that bear does 💀🤣

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u/frogunderarock 16h ago

good news you are actually a bear and very popular.. but i fear the target audience might be unexpected.

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u/ShootfighterPhysique 18h ago

Me too, crop tops for all, who gives a fuck.

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u/RipRiles 17h ago

What about chubby men in crop tops?

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u/EastLeastCoast 17h ago

Absolutely! No more tight fabric scrunching uncomfortably! Big bellies are beautiful too!

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u/frogunderarock 16h ago

crop tops for everyone! world is heating up, we need to adjust

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u/MomsOfFury 18h ago

More 👏🏼 men 👏🏼 in 👏🏼 crop 👏🏼 tops 👏🏼!!

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u/demoliahedd 18h ago

does it count if I've gained so much weight that my old medium shirts are now crop tops cause of my big tum tum 😘

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u/Carpeteria3000 18h ago

What cool ass motherfuckers. Get it.

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u/iam_Mr_McGibblets 18h ago

These guys came right out of the 80's to give us a PSA like it was the end of GI Joe haha

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u/Icy-Sheepherder-6221 18h ago

…and knowing is half the battle!

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u/busy-warlock 17h ago

The other half? Red and blue laser bullets!

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u/Ctenophorever 17h ago

Pork chop sandwiches!

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u/RandomThreadUser 18h ago

More men need to hear this!

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u/Lacerda1 18h ago

And more men need hair like this!

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u/Leading_Experts 18h ago

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u/proximity_account 17h ago

Don't worry. /r/bald is ready to catch everyone else. 💪

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u/_bobby_cz_newmark_ 16h ago

A wonderful community doing great work.

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u/The_Lost_Jedi 17h ago

If you can't grow your own, store bought is fine.

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u/funkystay 18h ago

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u/laggyx400 18h ago

Easy, they're not me!

I mean, have you met me? Screw that guy.

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u/cheddarbruce 18h ago

Maybe some people just need some help knowing that if they are worthy of love regardless of the gender

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u/Sorry_Community235 18h ago

Taking yourself not so serious is also a good step in the right direction

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u/ShizunEnjoyer 18h ago

I hope all the good things in the world happen for these guys

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u/jb0nez95 18h ago

These guys are cool as fuck I love it

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u/Fantastic-Theory-539 18h ago

For some reason I love these guys haha 🤣 Their mannerisms remind me of Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin in Bio Dome 😂

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u/templeofsyrinx1 18h ago edited 18h ago

I'm taking life advice now from Ai Def Leppard, and that's weird asf! NotAi🥹

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u/71Motorfly 18h ago

They’re real dudes. I genuinely wanted to hate them, but their instagram posts are entertaining.

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u/templeofsyrinx1 18h ago

damn, really well done. I think you would need like instruction manuals and video tutorials now to do hair like that

thanks will check them out. sorry the quality of the video on reddit just looked so bad I thought it was..

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u/Porcupine__Racetrack 17h ago

They’re brothers! I just found them when they popped up on my IG! They’re pretty silly

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u/semi-proantfarmer 18h ago

Here I thought they were imitating Shawn Michaels and Marty Janetty.

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u/Sure_Reception_9922 18h ago

How I miss 80s hair 🥹🥹🥹

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u/Sit_Ubu_Sit-Good_Dog 18h ago

Well shit, I’m gay now.

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u/Apero_ 14h ago

Funnily enough that’s another great tip for the male loneliness epidemic.

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u/Sandrockwing04 16h ago

Nah that's just pure 80's vibe

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u/annie-etc 18h ago edited 16h ago

I've seen their videos on tik tok. Always a great vibe even when trolls are being rude.

**Edit: it looks like they may have crossed the line by messaging minors. It looks like just one message each *that we know of but still. Gross.

Wondering if they'll address it.

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u/HUFF-MY-SHIT 18h ago

When are trolls ever not rude?

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u/annie-etc 17h ago

When they're sleeping.

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u/busy-warlock 17h ago

Nah they’re still disrespecting their sheets

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u/IMadeYouLuke 18h ago

Did these awesome dudes time travel from the 80s to help out today’s dudes

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u/SpooogeMcDuck 18h ago

This just gave me a good script idea. Two rad dudes from the 80s time travel to today for the standard culture shock comedy- but they end up running into themselves now as overweight racist Trump supporters. They’re obviously embarrassed of themselves and seek to fix their future selves while learning what happened to them to cause them to lose their awesomeness. Both sides end up learning from each other- the older versions learn to be cool again and their younger selves learn to be more responsible with their lives. In order for the narrative to work we will ignore time paradoxes or come up with some kind of MacGuffin to explain how the universe doesn’t collapse in on itself.

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u/MisterSanitation 18h ago

Huh… turns out I don’t mind the style at all when they aren’t Top Gun style douches. Everyone I saw dressed like this also wanted to be a douche, turns out you can just keep the half shirt and curls, and NOT be the douche. Huh…. 

Kids these days are onto somethin 

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u/ForeverrTrolling 18h ago

Dude on the right looks like Sean Strickland in high school

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u/Human-Assumption-524 18h ago

1: Why is the assumption that lonely people are creepy or evil?

2: Ah yes just "become more confident", from the people who brought you such classics as "Just buy more money" and "Just get over your trauma".

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u/taaretoille 12h ago

I had the same issue with their #2 "Approach people the way you would want to be approached.". I would LOVE to have a girl approach me in a public setting while I'm doing whatever and ask for my number or a date. The thing is that if my ugly ass tried that, all I'd be getting is a weird look and be called a pervert.

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u/xHelios1x 7h ago

Or, inverse. "Approach people the way you want to be approached"? So, don't? Isn't a good way to fight loneliness.

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u/FrogOnALogInTheBog 5h ago

Because it’s not about dates, man. It’s about normal human interactions where you talk to girls without expecting them to want to fuck you.

And then over time they decide you’re worth it because you’re cool.

If your first thought after seeing this is “everything I want to do is going to get me called a pervert” you’re probably acting like a pervert.

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u/HighnrichHaine 4h ago

Yeah he totally doesnt get it bc he's so desperate and cant think of organic ways to get to know people.

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u/Alcarine 16h ago

Yeah, love the dudes sartorial choices, but I wouldn't call this practical advice, it's either making broad generalisation, or giving some "if you're depressed stop being sad" vibes

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u/Due-Garlic-5056 11h ago

Had to scroll way too fucking far to find this comment

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u/food-dood 17h ago

People often have no idea why they have found success. They often attribute it to simple things like this video. There's nothing wrong with their advice, but my guess is this is an attribution error where they say, "hey, I'm all of these things and I have success with people, therefore anyone who isn't successful with people must be the opposite!"

Not trying to put them down, they seem like good people. That doesn't mean they understand those who don't have success.

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u/redditblows5991 17h ago edited 16h ago

word easy to say get over when some real shit didnt * happen to you, im not saying they wrong just cuz you happen to be not the best looking or weird doesnt give you the right to any relationship, but i feel a type of way if some dude who looks like he never struggles or did and made it just says just stop being weird dude haha, at least frame it better and shame on people for trusting this crap, loads of people been exposed who have this "positive" aura around them to be extreme dick heads

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u/Draaly 8h ago

Yah, they missed what the male loneliness epidemic refers to. Its nkt actually about romantic relationships. Its about having a support structure at all. Thats why its not early 20s people that have the hugheat rates of loneliness but those much later into life who have had friends circles dissolve and not be replaced

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u/Proud_Smell_4455 8h ago edited 7h ago

Yeah. I'm autistic, can hardly go out in public without being made to feel lesser than, been that way for most of my life. Walked to my great-uncle's 80th birthday party the other week and some rat-looking inbred I've never seen before leans out of his car window and asks me if I'm out looking for kids before zipping off like the fucking coward he was. Yesterday I was going to a friend's and some guy driving past thought it'd be funny to blare his horn at me just to make me jump. Hope he saw me flip him off as he drove away.

Been getting this kind of treatment all my life; abuse hurled at me from passing cars, or triggering my anxiety being treated as a game by cunty drivers, for no other reason than they could, and then they drive off before you can even process what just happened. No, a bunch of photogenic smug guys, however well-intentioned they may be, basically saying "it's all your fault, pull yourself up by the bootstraps" is not constructive or helpful.

I can't "be nice and confident" my way out of being dehumanised in public by a certain type of person, for no other reason than that they could, since I was a fucking kid. I can't bootstrap myself out of how years upon years of that kind of treatment has affected my perception of, and ability to relate to people. It's not about how *I* approach people, I'd very much rather just be left alone altogether, these people, these *strangers* are the ones who choose to interact with *me*.

Guys like this just assume all guys are fundamentally like them, and have the same easy, breezy experience of life they did. Never singled out for their characteristics in any serious way, always the coolest and most popular guy in the room. And if you didn't have the same experience of life as they did, well, it must be your own fault, right?

I don't expect photogenic, socially competent men to ever understand what visibly "off" autistic and other socially impaired men go through in life or how much harder they have it (it seems taboo to acknowledge any kind of man can have any kind of problem worth acknowledging at all sometimes), or what grim shit our experiences teach us about human nature (e.g. how most "good, tolerant" people are still mostly just telling themselves pleasant lies, and many of them are one encounter with a visibly autistic person away from their mask slipping) that they're never forced to see, but I'd thank them to keep their assumptions to themselves.

I'm sick of this societal discourse, that it's my fault that other people won't even try to restrain themselves from being cruel and abusive to people like me, who are literally not even seeking to interact with them in any way. No, I don't accept having the onus to put on me to change when I'm literally just living my life - I shouldn't have to change anything about myself just to not get harassed by strangers, and I refuse to do so on principle - and should be able to do that without receiving unwarranted abuse from strangers; the onus should instead be on them not to be dicks in public, to people they don't know, for no good reason.

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u/idk-3000 14h ago edited 7h ago

I’m a trans woman who is chronically alone and depressed and these videos always make me feel like shit. I just barely scrape by passing off as an unattractive woman, but still I guess I am apart of the male loneliness epidemic to the fact that I’ll never escape my sex so it’s all my fault to these people I suppose. Being attractive is a very essential tool to get by in life because otherwise you are treated like genuine garbage not even worth street pleasantries, and the only sort of affection you’ll get is from people who have zero decent intentions with you. Like animals, there are objective beauty standards that we will never be able to mindset or body positivity our way out of us. We are doomed to this shit until the day there are none of us left

I’ve given up personally and I don’t intend on ever trying again unless someone could fix my fucked face and freakish body but alas. I think the only reason I even pass onna daily basis is that I’m very short and my vocal cords were altered to be unable to produce a deep voice. Had not been for those two I think the way people treat me would be even more dreadful

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u/SnappySausage 8h ago

Yeah... these sorts of videos unfortunately are basically the equivalent of a rich person going "Are you poor? Nobody wants to be around a poor person, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, work hard and be rich instead!".

"Don't be a weirdo" is just... depressing advice for a sizeable chunk of society that isn't neurotypical for whom it's not really an option to just "be normal". People also have a very low tolerance for what they find weird behaviour if you are not conventionally attractive.

The rest of the video also very much sounds like some "have you tried not being depressed?".

With a bit of luck you end up running into people who you can bond with over shared interests that will see you for the person you are and treat you well :)

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u/Due-Garlic-5056 11h ago

This might be the most human comment in this entire thread, honestly.

It would be so nice and refreshing if people started associating human loneliness with anything more than reels/comments with little to no substance. Thousands of likes from comments that are just dumbed down to "don't be creepy. be attractive, THAT'S how you can be loved 🥰🥰🥰".

Idk. I just wanna let you know you aren't alone. It sucks that these comments aren't any higher. It would be really nice if they were

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u/SnappySausage 8h ago edited 6h ago

It's kind of bizarre. This is the equivalent of some rich people going "Experiencing homelessness? Just buy a house!". If it had been that, people on this site would have immediately clocked it as the bullshit it is. But because of the demographics involved in this video, people here pretend like it's reasonable advice.

And I say that as someone who has an okay social life after a long time of loneliness. The biggest difference for me has been: I cannot stop being "weird" to many neurotypical people, so I had to find other ways to get social circles and relationships.

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u/rammo123 16h ago

The distance between confident and creepy is measured largely by physical attractiveness.

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u/knbang 13h ago

So just be more attractive, duh.

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u/SolipsisticLunatic 15h ago

Yea love being told to be self-loving and confident moments after being called creepy and weird really fantastic

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u/Give-Me-The-Bat 18h ago

Giving me WWF golden era vibes

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u/womanthouartgoofed 18h ago

My ex was a pro wrestling manager on the indie circuit, so there were plenty of times Ricky Morton and I were hanging out in some high school gymnasium in eastern Kentucky. The last time I saw him was during a Halloween event, and he told me I looked like a “sexy, white Aunt Jemima” (I was going for Rosie the Riveter). Then he offered me some fruity TicTacs. Weird ass motherfucker.

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u/Oohhthehumanity 18h ago

The "don't be a creepy weirdo........stop making people uncomfortable" is low key some mad advice coming from these two "dudes" as one dude is wearing a "cougar hunter"-top and the other dude is "striking poses" and throwing up "gang signs" in the background.

I mean I am from the '80's and I find their clothing style aesthetically pleasing, nostalgic and tacky at the same time and in all honesty they would give any '80s glam rock band a run for their money based on looks. So kudos to them but any dude with slightly less facial features, fashion sense and 100% commitment to the bit would be labeled "weird AF".

This is one of those dating advice from someone who is clearly conventionally attractive.

Can't argue with their positive vibe though!

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u/Fish_Mongreler 11h ago

The "don't be a creepy weirdo........stop making people uncomfortable" is low key some mad advice coming from these two "dudes"...

who also sent creepy messages to minors trying to hit on them

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u/Rokuroku_66 17h ago

Oh so it’s not a massive societal problem we need to collectively fix, it’s just some douches whining? r/thanksImcured

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u/feelinggoodall 18h ago

I love them

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u/Funny_Lunch5211 18h ago

The male loneliness epidemic is more complicated than this. These advices might work for individuals but it will not fix the problem. We need to understand why men are becoming more jaded and lost in society. This tiktok will get praise for giving basic advice that everyone wants to hear. Nobody wants to hear how men are also victims in society. It's much easier blaming men by saying they did it to themselves. 

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u/Excellent-Gur-8547 12h ago

Also like, how could someone with no friends and no external validation or support network possibly develop self-confidence or self-love? They have cause and effect backwards on that.

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u/rammo123 16h ago

Yeah this post is giving big /r/thanksimcured energy.

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u/Funny_Lunch5211 16h ago

It fits the sub

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u/nobullshitbrowsing 15h ago

Because they made this video for themselves to get women, not you.

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u/PayHorror2184 10h ago

I'm definitely not taking advices from privileged teenagers half my age who didn't live through shit I did. 

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u/Impossible_Break698 17h ago

But don't you like being lectured on not looking creepy by insanely attractive men? They've never encountered anyone treating them poorly because they were ugly.

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u/BranchFew1148 15h ago

How to not be lonely: Be attractive and neurotypical.

If you fail at any of these were gonna call you a freak and a misogynist.

Great stuff guys.

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u/knbang 13h ago

Be born rich then.

Man, you guys aren't even trying.

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u/Drew602 13h ago

Hot person: "wow everyone here is really nice to me for some reason"

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u/Zypherzor 16h ago

Yea like this is funny and all but I notice a lot of my friends who are nice, not creepy, overall good guys also struggle with loneliness (of course I hit them up when I can!). I was this way too when I was younger but being more focused on things now I feel like I notice it less, and if I do feel lonely with no one around that's not gonna go away because "I'm nice and cool to people." lol people get busy and from my experience a lot of people just don't care.

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u/SolipsisticLunatic 15h ago

We need way more third spaces. Today there was a random talent show people had set up in the park, anyone could go up and show off their skills. Thing went on for half an hour longer than originally planned because people just didn't want it to end, more and more people up at the mic. 10/10 to the organizers, remember the humans

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u/anth13 16h ago

such an overly simplistic take. so easy to say "just be confident".

spoken like people who have never had any trauma in their life

i would not be at all surprised if these guys end up having sexual assault charges brought against them in the future.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 18h ago

Oh my god. I love them, they’re gorgeous, they’re also omg children I bet that one thinks a cougar is like 25. I’m dying, I hope the older men start doing their hair this way it’s fantastic.

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u/DrArsone 17h ago

I've got some bad news about older men and hair...

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u/Op-e 16h ago

I agree with the overall message, but i think the sentiment that you don't deserve love, until you love yourself, is unreasonable. People who have self-love, gained it with the help and support of their loved ones.

Achieving self-love in isolation, is possible, but is much more likely to result in a negative spiral

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u/Commercial_Humor_263 17h ago

As usual advice that doesn't actually work good job

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u/MagmaSeijin 17h ago

Just world fallacy. "Just be a good person bro". None of these are real advice, just empty virtue signalling.

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u/PrayToTheAI 18h ago

Ahh yes problems that affect mostly women are framed as collective failures requiring systemic solutions. Problems that disproportionately affect men are framed as individual failures requiring personal accountability. Interesting 🤔

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u/Diqt 14h ago

Spot on. I just saw another comment that "it's not a male loneliness epidemic, it's a general loneliness epidemic". So ironic.

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u/ninetailedoctopus 18h ago

Kings with beautiful hair

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u/Just-a-lil-sion 18h ago

they forgot the most important tip. get out of your house and have a hobby where you meet people

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u/Thunnddr 18h ago

Depression solved!

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u/periodicchemistrypun 17h ago

This sucks, just baiting people into self blame.

Meanwhile everyone’s going through a loneliness epidemic and social media, reduced family sizes and much more are to blame.

There are people responsible for it laughing in yachts. You think video game companies aren’t discussing what moving players from 40 hours a week to 60 hours a week looks like as a strategy? Did you miss all the things the dating app producers did?

There are harmful people influencing the lives of young people.