The internet is a time machine.

Man, it really is and it’s so cool to see. It brings back memories you forgot you had!

‘the sacred texts’

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I read them in Boxxy’s voice, it’s automatic

I’ve never thought about that. Could it be because :) became the shortcut for emoji?

Excuse me I exclusively wore preppy clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch thank you very much

The manbun will go down in history as one of the worst hairstyles of all time

The boomer’s had everything better. That fashion works for me.

But everyone was so much thinner back then. The average person was so much hotter.

The only thing that’s really improved is people’s teeth.

Yeah that’s just facts. This Bowie type shit is ANYTHING BUT straight, that’s what makes it iconic.
The straights have always copied/been inspired by queer fashion, just like white america with black american music genres (jazz, rock, blues, r&b, rap).

I think back then you could do “gay” things without being seen as gay so it was okay.

It was okay to dress like that if everyone knew you were out smashing loads of chicks.

But not people are going to think you’re gay so it’s really different.

I gravitated toward nu-metal/industrial with wide leg JNCO pants and ball-chain necklaces.

I haven’t even heard of “emo” being an actual style until now. I thought it was just goth. Maybe because it’s a couple years after my time. I’m an older millennial, graduated high school in 2000.

Yeah the emo look definitely worked for me… We didn’t have a lot of them in my country though, the alt style was more punk/dirty techno, or metalheads but the girls didn’t look like that. Shame…

Wouldn’t that just be poser every day?

Same haha. I do vaguely remember people looking like a much, much more toned down version of this, but yeah this shit was mostly relegated to Youtubers and Hot Topic models.

Allow me to offer a different perspective from the previous reply: holy frickin shit, I honestly never noticed this before. Tbh I’m not sure about the intentionality behind it though.

I mean, who exactly is intentionally doing this? Intent is important here; if it’s not individually-assignable, and say emerges from a complex series of interactions between various other policies, or instances of individual decision-making - for example - then it seems hard to reasonably place “blame” like that.

This doesn’t preclude taking action against the companies which will be salient for them (e.g. puts financial viability in question, rather than BS fines that amount to parking tickets)… I mean corporations are people too, now, right? Just a thought on how to argue/clarify the premise.

Because otherwise… Yeah, wtf. A lot of dividing lines, a lot of material insecurity, and so on, and nobody has the time - let alone the resources AND perspective simultaneously - to challenge the real dynamic. One which arguably IS being perpetrated with individual intent at multiple scales, and with cancerous impacts (figuratively and literally) on the societies which enable and tolerate them.

I hope you’re being sarcastic because that kind of deranged conspiracy theory nonsense being taken seriously is why this country is so comprehensively fucked in the head.

…also, the whole genx/millenial/genz/etc labels are specifically a thing from marketing. They teach that stuff in business schools because it actually is useful to divide a population like that. The edges are gray, but people squarely in the middle of one of those demographics are more likely to be caricatures of it.