Gen-X here. I would like to know who in our generation decided to let their kids (Gen-Z) raid their closet. Yesterday alone I saw multiple teen girls wearing 90’s era mommy pants and two, TWO, girls wearing MC Hammer parachute pants!!! Neither of these was ever cool!
Millennials. If our kids give you grief, just remember that they thought it was a good idea to bring back parachute pants.
It’s how it always goes. First, it’s stylish, then it’s lame, then it’s R E T R O
Some of this shit skipped the initial stylish step though
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This guy Hammer Timed.
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Can grunge be stylish again? At least it was comfortable.
Just be a lesbian, you can grunge all you like and it never goes out of style.
Yeah, but I just like cock too much.
Transbians have entered the chat
(I’m just shitposting, fuck who you wanna fuck, in case it needs to be said)
The whole athleisure thing of the last 10-15 years has been great for dressing comfortably everywhere.
Grunge was never stylish. That was the point.
I just want Jnco’s that aren’t $300.
Is that really what they cost now? When I was a teenager I was astonished that they cost…I want to say $60-$80. That was so expensive to me then. So I never owned a pair despite wanting to for years.
I had the luck to get a pair of 32” jncos in ‘97 I think, maybe ‘98, and I remember them costing over $100. The bigger you went the more expensive of course.
But yea, they still make them. Just checked their website and it looks like prices have come down. Last I checked, about a year and a half ago, they were starting at around $300, but I’m seeing them in the $130 range with the 32” starting at $180 and the 50” going to $260. This is great, I might buy a pair later this year.
I suddenly don’t hate my frugal ass self for spending 100$ on a custom piece of 100% hemp clothing for the first time last week. No way could I ever see myself spending > 200$ on a single pair of jeans
Yeah I think I remember the $100+ ones too. Might have been some on sale on occasion for less but I definitely envied everyone else who got them!
I had the luck to get a pair of 32” jncos in ‘97 I think, maybe ‘98, and I remember them costing over $100. The bigger you went the more expensive of course.
But yea, they still make them. Just checked their website and it looks like prices have come down. Last I checked, about a year and a half ago, they were starting at around $300, but I’m seeing them in the $130 range with the 32” starting at $180 and the 50” going to $260. This is great, I might buy a pair later this year.
When you were a teenager the dollar was most likely worth a lot more. 60-80$ 20 years ago is 300$ in todays money
Yeah, maybe a good point
I literally saw a 12 year old the other day wearing a “Boyz in tha Hood” shirt, like, do you even know what movies are?
Menace II Society is the true underrated gem.
The last pics or videos I saw of everything “cool” (VIPs, gen Z stuff like interviews, festival pics,…) felt like old 90 stuff. I really thought they were old but no, it was stuff from about 1-2 weeks ago. Why is stuff like hair styles and make up also the same as it was years ago?
Fashion is cyclical
I kinda miss the bell bottom revival of the early 2000’s. Not the late 90’s “equilateral triangle from the knees down” look our big sisters did; I always liked the “just enough bell bottom that the tip of her shoes poke out.” I always thought that was a cute look.
Kids are wearing pipe leg jeans again 🤧
Good Charlotte and AFI shirts will be back in a few years along with studded belts.
What are your thoughts on U.F.Os?
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It doesn’t work though, zoomers are in the same stolen future millennials are; there’s solidarity
As millennials, we were told we weren’t old enough and that we’d understand the nuance of when we got older. We were brushed aside. Well we got older and realized things are even worse than we thought as kids. Now Zoomers complain about much of the same stuff and we cheer them on. Hell yeah, kids, fight the power!
We can count on their support and social awareness to finally have the voice we’ve been robbed of since forever
“You know this thing every generation does that’s often just simple jokes? It’s corporate-funded class war!”
Yeah okay lol
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“ahaha, millenials, teens don’t think you’re cool”
I can already feel the raging fires of class war
Meh, with people genuinely proposing to increase the voting age because “Gen Z bad”, the jokes are wearing thin.
People are really proposing that? lol
Ok boomer lol
that insult is so old it’s a boomer.
So is ur mom
Wow now we really have an elderly quip on our hands. The ur mom stuff wasn’t really a thing since like 1998
So is ur horse
Ooph all these jokes are boomers.
Like ur toilet
I keep having to explain to my 9-year-old that I’m not a boomer 🤔
I just said this in another thread- my 13-year-old thinks every discovery she makes about the 80s or 90s is something I didn’t know about.
“Oh my God, have you heard about these old ‘Tamagotchi’ things?”
“DO NOT QUOTE THE ANCIENT MAGICS TO ME, CHILD, I WAS THERE WHEN THEY WERE WRITTEN”
Did you know phones used to be in the walls and they were the internet?
That was the 30s, not the 90s.
Yo, they had internet in the 30s?
Yes, but the robots took it away before moving to Pluto.
That really makes you think. Pluto is probably flat, come to think of it.
Did you ever have dial up?
OK boomer.
Your the bees knees.
They’re actually a psycho driver. Apparently proud of it too
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Joke’s on them, I don’t care what teens think is cool.
I care
If teenagers think I’m uncool, I’m probably doing something right
Teenagers are lame af
That sounds pretty coool to me…
He cracked the code!
I think only ones caring what teenagers think are other teenagers.
Why would I care what teenagers think?
Haha losers I can get into a bar. Go drink your warm keystone while hiding from your parents. Make sure you make curfew.
This is the true take lol
Frankly, being seen as uncool by teenagers is a good thing. Modern teenagers think people like Logan Paul are cool (not that we were any better when we were teens, but that just furthers my point)
A lot of teenagers in our age cohort thought that Heidi and Spencer Pratt were cool. Obviously, lots of us didn’t; which I assume is also the case for Zoomers and the Pauls.
But some of them will grow out of the Pauls, some of them won’t. But just as the Pratts, they’ll slowly fade into oblivion as time passes.
Oh I’m not pretending that we were any better when we were teens. I’m not ragging on today’s teens specifically, but teenagers in general, most definitely including us when we were that age lol
Oh absolutely agree!
Some of us got lucky a lot of our stupid, cringe phase was deleted from the internet during the huge data loss that MySpace had. And people back then weren’t on smartphones screenshooting social media posts to Digg, twitter, et al. All in all, I kind of feel bad for teens now.
Smart phones, social media and their terrible algorithms combined created a perfect storm for the most narcissistic people and traits to really shine in real time.
Back then, you had a camera, had to take out that SD card, load it on the computer. Then go through the photos / videos and slowly and painfully upload them on to a site like Myspace. That or some 250px flip-phone picture was annoying as hell to bring into your PC and upload it. Unless, you had a T-Mobile Sidekick and uploaded that shit via AIM… but I was too poor for that lol
Also back then, at least in my case, and because you had to do all that, you sometimes gave it a bit of thought on whether you should publish something or not. Now it’s just instant and you don’t really think about it.
At least those are my theories.
the teens (and people) that are actually cool are the people that can actually be themselves and not shackled by societies perception of a cool person. aka not being an NPC lol
people that like logan paul esque content are literal NPCs they have to be. none if these rich white dude trendy people have ever made decent content its always been obviously for money.
Did we ever want to be cool to teenagers?
Businesses care very much so they can extract their and their parents’ money from them. Sadly, it’s working very well, fellowkids posts mocking cringy corporate ads are the exception and not the rule.
There’s a trend of elder millennials shitting on Gen Z because Gen Z is doing what all kids and young people do: rebel against their elders. And it’s the most cringe thing I’ve ever seen. Eddy Burbank had a video on it a while ago and holy crap. Just stop, y’all. The poster in the pic has the right idea.
Gen Z is one of the only things that gives my old ass hope
Gen Z is alright. I like to believe the future is in good hands with them. Other than the cringe, but we were all cringe at their age, we just trauma-block it from our memories.
You guys trauma-block your cringe instead of remembering it while trying to sleep?
Oh no, I definitely remember lots of cringe while trying to sleep. It’s just that sometimes some piece of ancient cringe will come up with photo evidence that I have no memory of, and I conclude that my mind was trying to protect me from that specific piece.
I sleep like a baby every night. Daytime is when all the crippling memories come.
I only shit on zoomers for making TikTok a thing. Otherwise, they’re cool people.
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Yeah, millennials getting pissy about “kids these days” is cringe as fuck. Wasn’t that long ago you were getting “kids these days” about dumb shit, really couldn’t wait huh?
gen z here. I genuinely think most millennials are cool asf. y’all took the brunt of the hate from older generations for us. I just hope we can pay it back somehow in the long run
While I appreciate the sentiment, I honestly think us Millennials just did our time in the barrel and now it’s your turn. My evidence: I use Firefox, by default it congregates a bunch of “news” articles from around the web (via Pocket, I think. Whatever the fuck Pocket is) and here’s a headline from Elle I’m looking at on my other monitor as I type: “Is Gen Z Killing Vintage Fashion?” You are The Demographic now, so there’s going to be about 15 years of exactly that bullshit to roll your eyes at.
I’m so glad I’m not being blamed for the decline of a shitty industry no one else took part in either, otherwise it wouldn’t have failed.
Yeah, now it’s more like “are gen Z killing X industry?”
me: “God I fucking hope we are”
Maybe they’ll finally deliver the death blow to golf courses, country clubs, guest rooms, diamonds and other shit we can’t afford… Or would really care to, if we’d have the means.
I’ll help zoomers all I can to have a better future politically
From everything I’ve seen, you will. Just keep working for what’s right and good.
Fight the fights we turned complacent on.
My neighbor’s 13 year old thinks I’m cool as shit because i make them loads of baked goodies. Cakes, cookies, granola, cupcakes, or whatever I’m baking for my weekly challenges.
Ummm that sounds like you are cool as shit.
Won’t you be my neighbor?
Of the list of things I’m struggling with as I’m getting older, this is pretty fuckin low on the list.
Like, I understand the adults in my life as a teenager and why they didn’t really give a shit about what I thought about certain things. I was young and stupid and didn’t know shit about shit.
I was stupid when I was a kid, especially at times, but also I clearly remember situations where I was like 8 and still know to this date that the adults were drastically in the wrong and I was completely right. It was insanely early for me when I learned that adults were wrong as shit sometimes. What took me a very long time to accept though, is that often people do not care if they’re actually wrong, they’re more concerned with feeling/acting right. When you’re a kid especially, these types of people love to steamroll you.
The teens are correct, I am not cool. To quote Abe Simpson, “I used to be with It, but then they changed what It was. Now what I’m with isn’t It, and what is It is weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you.”
Now I think I’m slightly younger than Abe was in that scene, but I’m not yet at a place where teenagers are “weird and scary” to me. Juvenoia hasn’t set in yet. I’m definitely out of touch, like I don’t know what bands the kids are listening to these days, slang is starting to leave me behind. But I think I feel okay with the kids these days growing up in their own decade, which a lot of adults seem to struggle with. I’m going to try to hang onto that.
As for their opinion of me? Yeah sure. I’m a 36 year old homeowner that spent my free time last week cutting back my azaleas and canning a year’s supply of homemade jelly. I have a shelf where I keep my carpet cleaning supplies. Any teenager who thinks I’m not cool is pretty much correct. And I’m fine with that.
My kids’ friends all think I’m cool, and they’re Gen Z. Which is weird because I’ve never been cool.
Get off of my generation X lawn.
Gen X has to come up with something other than lawn care. Lawns are for boomers.
Gen X is too cool/apathetic to care about lawns. The issue is that Gen X isn’t really trying to gatekeep anything.
If I had to tell the boomers or millennials or gen z to “stay off my bandwidth” I’d probably be more like “ok, suit your self, I have no shits to give”.
While there are plenty of issues where I’d support the younger generations against the older, being cool isn’t one. None of them have any idea, and neither did we.
My mother, who is Gen X: “Whatever.”
Your mother’s reaction is the most clever thing I’ve ever read.
Allow me to gen-x-plain:
The thing isn’t necessarily apathy. It’s an acknowledgement of being able to handle the request regardless of the input. That’s what gen X does. We handle shit. Regardlessly.
Exactly, “whatever” is us graciously accepting that we’re the donut hole between two huge generations and political and economic power will be neatly handed past us to the millennials.
Whatever you say man, I know I won’t have a choice.
Gen X has to come up with something other than lawn care. Lawns are for boomers.
How about: “step aside, I can’t see the TV.”
You do you, just stay off my LAN.
Pssh, youre genx. It’s not like you’ve had the time to use your lawn for anything fun. It’s not the kids fault your entire generation got sequestered off to middle-management purgatory.
Just remind yourself that teens bet other teens to do really really stupid and often inane/dangerous things. We were all there. (And sure, not all teens) but a lot have need to be still watched by an adult so they don’t kill themselvs attempting what most adults do. Getting to the point, it isn’t worth any self esteem damage if they call you basic.
I think it’s easier to not really care about what is or isn’t cool to teens.
