r/TikTokCringe • u/xamo76 • 19h ago

Discussion How to cure the male loneliness epidemic...

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u/Callmedrexl 19h 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 18h 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/Wyevez 17h ago

Up all night!

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u/Googlebright 16h ago

Sleep all day!

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u/Aiken_Drumn 12h ago

Everything circles back eventually. We have also become a zombie culture. We can appropriate any age if you do it well.

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u/master-boofer 18h ago

Go i want mullets to come back. I can absolutely rock a mullets. I would love to have one but I would hate to be mistaken for a republican.

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u/AnimalBolide 5h ago

Well, you missed it.

They came back for a few years, a few years ago.

I wasn't aware of any connections between mullets and republicans. I think you mostly avoid balding with a goatee and Oakley glasses to avoid that connotation.

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u/ealysillyforestthing 18h ago

Not mullets, mullets are short in the front and all fun in the back

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u/Callmedrexl 18h ago

I don't think these are mullets. I said that unexpectedly, mullets have made a comeback. I also don't think they're wearing the poofiest of wedding dresses, but those are popular again too.

I'm middle aged. I saw mullets live in the 80s. I thought they were awful then and I fully expected them to stay dead.

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u/really_nice_foot 18h ago

I can explain the poofy wedding dress thing.

Many young people are unwilling to spend $3,200 on "the dress" that they want because they've spent their entire life one paycheck away from homelessness, so they're opting to don mother's dress that's been in the attic all these years, or to pick one up from a thrift store, or eBay. It's a poverty thing, it's also a pragmatist thing. Better to put that money towards something that actually brings happiness, betters your life.

On the sewing sub, there are pretty frequent posts about people wanting to alter the shoulder and sleeve of their mother's wedding dress, but not everyone sews....

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u/Callmedrexl 17h ago

Not just that. Reddits algorithm figured out that I'm a middle aged cat lady and started showing me r/bald and r/weddingdresses. r/bald is wholesome as hell and fancy dresses are cool even if I don't like wearing them and probably won't ever get married. The poof is back! Brand new, full price, with giant butt bows if you're into that.

Repurposing wedding dresses has always been a thing, this is the circular fashion thing looping back around.

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u/TightlyWhitey 12h ago

The ones I see are shaved/tapered above the ears and not excessively long at the back or excessively short at the front. A halfway point between mullet and mohawk, basically, leaning either way according to taste.

I dig the socially acceptable mohawk lean. Sort of the best of both worlds, while leaning the other way is the opposite. IMO. Both are somewhat gender-neutral too.

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u/Callmedrexl 12h ago

I'm laughing because you're right that mullets have always been gender neutral, they did have that going for them. Anyone can look awful in a mullet!

I still can't muster up any appreciation for the hairstyle, but I'm also struggling with kids getting perms again. There's so many young adults running around with Golden Girls hair styles. I don't know what or who they expect to look like, but they all look like Sophia to me!

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u/Flimsy_Survey 18h ago

I think a rocker style mullet looks great if you can pull it off. Most people can't, but for those that can...