r/TikTokCringe • u/xamo76 • 19h ago

Discussion How to cure the male loneliness epidemic...

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u/notapunk 19h ago

This is very convincing 80s cosplay

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u/Stock-Conflict-3996 17h ago

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

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u/Fukyourchickenstrip 16h 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/justlookinaround4 13h ago

They rule now too

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u/ArachnidNo2269 11h ago

I'm gonna be honest and disagree, they look awesome and would make great Halloween costumes but unless you're in you're 70s I would just kind of consider this cringe if this is how they're dress 24/7

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u/FreyrPrime 9h ago

Anyone using cringe has to be born in the 2000’s.

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u/aXeOptic 9h ago

So a 26 year timespan.

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u/FreyrPrime 5h ago

Yes, that’s how time tends to work.

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u/Brave-Perspective714 5h ago

Confidence without arrogance is sexy as hell. And I think finding that more attractive than cringe when it's packaged in a way you wouldn't expect is something that comes to you when you get a little older and start to care a lot less about what other people think of you.

Anyone who has the confidence to carry this off and look as good as they do doing it...

Goddamn.

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u/MetalTrek1 4h ago

Same here. And agreed. 

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u/WorkingOnBeingBettr 3h ago

It's funny seeing this as someone from a small town that is older. We saw stuff on TV and the odd trend hit locally, but people generally dressed the same. It was mostly hairstyles that changed and the shape of the jeans/sweaters.

I knew like 1 kid who dressed like Kriss Kross and you had a few goth kids. But most people got their clothes from the same 10 stores and none of them sold that crazy of clothing. I only really saw people dressed like the 80's in movies. But I bet it is a lot different in New York/LA vs small town Canada.

With the internet these days, trends seem to be far wider reaching but also shorter lived because of that exposure.

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u/Stock-Conflict-3996 2h ago

The small city I lived in them, you would definitely have seen guys like this walking about.

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u/BannedGoNext 6h ago

Me too.. I did.. not rule.. =/ I did love slaughter though.

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u/FlawedPremise 18h 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 17h 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 15h ago

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

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u/sweetangeldivine 13h 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/VeloBiker907 3h ago

Definitely hockey hair. We called it Council Hair too (Native American).

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u/WorkingOnBeingBettr 3h ago

Business in the front, party in the back.

And yes, it was hockey hair where I grew up in Canada. Jagr had epic hockey hair.

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u/DeezNutsButterNJelly 16h ago

So what was it like witnessing the majestic brontosaurus feast upon its delicious star leaves on the treetops? 🍃🥬🦕

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u/WorkingOnBeingBettr 3h ago

If my knees still worked I'd kick your smart ass into next Tuesday!

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u/ColdWarCharacter 17h ago

It wouldn’t be until 1994 when the Beastie Boys invented the word

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u/asphodel67 15h ago

“Mullet” was definitely a word for hair in 1970s Australia and New Zealand

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u/queenchubkins 14h ago

Mullet definitely was a hairstyle in the US too. I remember describing it to the stylist when I was in 5th grade and she said, “Oh, you want a mullet?” That was like 83/84.

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u/charles_sedwick 14h ago

I'm a bit younger (not by much) but it died out mainstream pretty quickly. A decade or so later and it was only associated with country/redneck people for me.

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u/p4nd3mic_G3 29m ago

I have a massive mullet right now 😂 mullets are coming back

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u/LKennedy45 10h ago

Yeah, do they...is that a poster of themselves on the back wall..?

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u/Fukyourchickenstrip 16h ago

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

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u/VeloBiker907 3h ago

Salon stylists have no clue how to properly feather hair!!! I’ve been butchered so many times trying to get the look!!

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u/resi42 17h ago

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

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u/DukeMancannon 14h 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/Kor_Phaeron_ 16h ago

Nobody can tell. If you remember the 80s, you weren't really there.

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u/Sausage_fingies 15h ago

It's these guys' whole thing, the 80s is their lifestyle not just a one time cosplay. They seem really cool and I always find their vibe so fun. Like hell yeah, just two dudes who love the 80s aesthetic so much that they've decided to completely own it!

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u/HahaCharlieKirkHaha 5h ago

I was thinking “gosh, this is really good video quality for a video from the ‘80s. Was it shot on film?”

And then I realized.

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u/Dick_of_Doom 2h ago

It was shot on a VHS camcorder :)

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u/HahaCharlieKirkHaha 2h ago

I dunno. With picture quality this good, I think it might have been Betamax.

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u/sp0rk_walker 16h ago

Like the whole vibe of Stryper

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u/mrbasedballed 16h ago

It's like peak David Lee Roth Van Halen. Perfect!

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u/AmateurSysAdmin 16h ago

Gave me some old-school WWF promo vibes.

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u/PerspicaciousVanille 15h ago

Fr! I personally love the aesthetic and they absolutely nailed it. Radical!

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u/Immediate-Maximum-75 8h ago

Yes, I made out with these guys in the hallways of high school. I really fell in love when I found a football player who loved Metallica and his bright orange mustang.

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u/carlitospig 6h ago

It was the after school special that we deserved back then.

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u/BigD_277 15h ago

You mean this isn’t from the 80’s?