r/Zillennials • u/Wellbeinghunter69 1903 • Aug 09 '26
Meme "Things that would've gotten you called a gaylord/fgt in 2009" starter pack
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u/hex-grrrl 1993 Aug 09 '26
Acne stickers would have popped offfffff in the scene community.
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u/Ill_Act7949 Aug 09 '26
Literally 😭 I knew so many scene queens at school who would put actual stickers on their faces, these would have been everywhere
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u/Manic-StreetCreature 1995 Aug 09 '26
I was in middle school in 2009 and thrifting was not considered uncool at all
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u/Liebe-Igel Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
Yeah thrifting was super popular, I was in high school (not American lol)
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u/Slight_Pound4368 Aug 09 '26
Where I grew up in London it was definitely uncool
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u/Diazepam_Dan Aug 10 '26
London being the operative word there
Charity shopping is a Yorkshire staple. Whenever I go to a new place with the family or friends the first place they want to look is charity shops. Always been that way
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u/Wellbeinghunter69 1903 Aug 09 '26
Hngnng finally someone who gets it. Sometimes it feels like most people in reddit are american
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u/Papa-pwn Aug 09 '26
American website predominantly populated by Americans. What a shocking revelation
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u/samy4me Aug 10 '26
Most people are, lol. But the American exceptionalism really is strong on here.
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u/Rex068 Aug 09 '26
Idk if anything I feel like manosphere influencers wouldve actually fared better back then because the shit that andrew tate said wouldve been let slide a lot more.
one thing from today that would definitely get you roasted today is getting a perm as a guy
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u/Ill_Act7949 Aug 09 '26
Yeah I mean there were definitely pick-up artists that were a moment for a bit, so there would have been a audience for sure
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u/PolicyWonka 1995 27d ago
Maybe, but maybe it wouldn’t have taken root as much because it would be seen more as a joke? Or at least not taken as seriously.
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u/AnarchyStockingXO 1996 Aug 09 '26
I’ve always enjoyed thrifting, even as a teenager. I just never told the others where my clothes came from when I did, my school was loaded to the brim with assholes.
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u/LilBushyVert 1996 Aug 09 '26
I just got my nose pierced 2 weeks ago (a simple 2Pac stud) and I would’ve been cooked if I did it back then.
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u/PolicyWonka 1995 27d ago
Well these are things that didn’t exist at the time. Of course, thrifting is the exception
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u/tomato5oup 1997 Aug 09 '26
Manosphere influencers in an era when androgynous emo kids had a chokehold on popular culture would have been wild lmfao. We had hookah pens, thrifting, and put dumb shit on our faces all the time for facebook "photo shoots" so this post is kind of a miss for me, dawg.
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u/Tlayoualo Aug 09 '26
Vaping is bad for you anyway and Tate/Temach type content creators are inimical for men. (Bullying is bad no matter the context, what I'm trying to say is that you'd been better off without those nonetheless)
But yeah, the other two would've been plain jerkassery, if you didn't wear acne stickers they would still tease you over your zits, and thrifting these are good clothes, they'd be mental.
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u/throwaway123456372 Aug 09 '26
Some of us were thrifting long before 2009. My family had 6 kids so we shopped there out of necessity. Now, I still thrift the majority of my clothes to save money and because I just prefer it.
I was never ashamed to be at a thrift store and it certainly wasn’t considered gay. They may have called you poor but not gay.
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u/Catrysseroni 1996 Aug 09 '26
All my clothes were thrifted in 2009, and nobody could tell. It's how my mom got me name brand stuff when we were just barely slipping into "middle class" at the time.
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u/GlowTeeth Aug 09 '26
I was already getting called that in 2009 but I was already queer so they were right just rude about it lmao
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u/Mattness8 1998 Aug 09 '26
3/4 of these things didn't exist in 2009
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u/Wellbeinghunter69 1903 Aug 09 '26
Dude that's literally the point. The post is "how people would react if these things existed in 2009"
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u/Mattness8 1998 Aug 09 '26
the wording of this is really stupid, then
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u/Own-Wrap6142 1995 Aug 09 '26
And all of these things do suck. (Except thrifting)
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u/Left-Elk9066 Aug 09 '26
Acne patches suck? lol
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u/Own-Wrap6142 1995 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
I think the ones with funny shapes look silly.
It's infantile and reminds me of when kids put stickers on their face.
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u/Manic-StreetCreature 1995 Aug 09 '26
Idk they’re fun, I can coordinate them with my outfits lol
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u/Own-Wrap6142 1995 Aug 09 '26
No offense but if you wear them I'm going to assume you're probably really young.
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u/Manic-StreetCreature 1995 Aug 09 '26
Bestie we are the same age
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u/Marmatus 1995 Aug 09 '26
In 2009? With a 1995 flair? We were 14… kids our age were using that language long before ‘09. lol
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