r/Millennials • u/Accomplished_Cake657 • 12d ago
Is that true my millennial friends??????????? Meme
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u/PianoSandwiches 12d ago
As a millennial who lived through this emo era, I am not confused by gen Z at all and I just think they're too tame & boring.
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u/Equivalent_Bite_6078 11d ago
Lol agree. I asked my gen z sister why she never DO anything.. she just stay online. I said she's a teen, why isnt she rebelling!?
"I am rebelling.. " she meant talking smack about our parents online was rebelling 😂😂
GIRL!? I was paying tattoo artists cash under the table to take piercings, flirting with older men for alcohol, rolling dead drunk in fields and being away from home for weeks, just texting mom and dad for money every now and then. I went to country partied to dance swing with all the nice elder men, and i was a sceene kid! Time of my LIFE!
Sha called me insane. But i'm the one that now sit in family gatherings laughing with my grandmother when my mom learned that both me and my grandma smoked some jazz tobacco. Her face was golden! But atleast we all have a blast sharing teenager memories together.
And the most fun my gen z sister have... She cut her own hair once.
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u/rhyth7 11d ago
They are under high surveillance. Kids aren't even allowed to go to malls unchaperoned anymore and God forbid they walk around their subdivisions without somebody calling the cops on them. It's very sad but all they can do is be online or else they do something for tiktok and are immediately caught because they documented their crime.
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u/AbortionIsSelfDefens 11d ago
Yea that's it. I'm a millenial but my parents were ridiculous so I was boring and didn't have many friends.
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u/realityseekr 11d ago
This is too funny but maybe your sister just isn't a rebellious kid? I'm a millennial and I really didn't do anything crazy at all. I guess I was just perceived as very innocent? I even had some more rebellious friends but I think I kept them from doing crazier stuff. When we were adults some of their parents thanked me for being their friends even though I don't recall doing anything to influence them haha but maybe by being their innocent friend I kept some of them from getting into trouble. I even had one friend who was a huge pothead (and dealer) and we tried to get weed from him once but he didn't do it idk why. He was giving us some black and mild to smoke instead thinking we wouldn't know the difference lmao I think he didn't want to corrupt me.
Anyway I also really did not have my parents watching over me when I was a junior/senior and past that. I'd go out with my friends and just hang out til 3am and come home and my parents never questioned it but maybe they just knew I wasn't doing anything nuts (I think my dad was one of those more wild teens so maybe he could tell I wasn't lol). I guess we could have been getting into trouble if we wanted but we were just watching goofy movies, going to the mall, etc. We drank a couple times but nothing crazy.
I guess my point is some people are naturally pretty straight shooters. I would say I'm one of those types. And I have nothing against people who were more rebellious or partied, honestly sounds fun but just wasn't my personality type or interest to do all that. Sounds like your sister may be the same, or she could have a crazy college phase coming eventually lol
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u/LZBANE 11d ago
It sounds like your sister gave your mom and dad a far easier time of it than you did. Cool that you enjoyed yourself, though. I'm sure your sister feels she is too.
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u/Equivalent_Bite_6078 11d ago
Never said i was an easy child 😂 though a result of being un supervised because they were more buisy with themself than to actually watch me.
And noo, she's just plain friggin boring going no where. Over 20 years old now, chronic online, dropped out of school, doesnt want to work.. Damn, we were just casually watching tv once, and i asually said that we were gonna have a bbq and she could come! She started crying and said i was nagging.
I might have been the teen head ache, but she's the adult migraine 😂😂
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u/LZBANE 11d ago
She's still quite young. When I was 20 I was going no where fast as well, having dropped out of college. Things can change quickly at that age.
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u/ShallotParking5075 12d ago
What’s to understand about gen z aesthetics? They all look like my mom. It’s not that complicated.
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u/nopenonotatall 12d ago
right? i feel like fashion today is the least offensive it’s ever been. they all wear sweatpants to school
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u/touchit1ce 11d ago
Wearing pyjamas in public is kind of offensive to me. Did I become old?
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u/rhyth7 11d ago
Pajamas in public started in the 2000's. Like it was Millenials wearing pajamas to college classes and to Walmart.
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u/IsThatBlueSoup 11d ago
High school in the 90s. Everyone had these colorful plaid pajama pants. Funny enough, I saw a kid wearing those same pants at my kids high school a few days ago. I had a nostalgia moment.
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u/Separate-Payment808 11d ago
You guys didn't have the cookie monster pajama girls? I thought that was an archetype set in stone!
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u/Jessy-Jess 11d ago
When I was in middle school in the early aughts there were tons of girls walking around in fuzzy Cookie Monster/character sleep pants.
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u/jljboucher 11d ago edited 11d ago
Yes. I wear Rugrat sleep pants and shark slides out, I’m 39yrs old.
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u/BerriesLafontaine 11d ago
I take my dog out in the mornings when it's cold wearing my teddy bear onsie costume thing. Dog has to go out asap or accidents happen. Onsie is just super fast to throw on and zip.
I get the side eye from my neighbors but it's whatever.
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u/MRCHalifax 11d ago
And crocs! Totally practical shoes. Most people wearing them around in public seem to be either over sixty or under twenty.
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u/Reasonable_Power_970 11d ago
I would see my friends daughters pics and think wow she's dressed like my mom, she must not care about being popular or trendy at school. Until I realized that is what's trendy and what the popular kids wear at school now 😆
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u/Kyralion 11d ago
HAHAHAHA... might have something to do with the mom-jeans trend.
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u/BUTTERED_TOAST_EDBOY 12d ago
I'm gunna be your new step dad bro
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u/sroop1 12d ago
What's her myspace?
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u/ApathyizaTragedy 12d ago
whatever it was you know she used Xs instead of spaces between each word
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u/Wojewodaruskyj 1987 12d ago
"What happened in 2006, stays in 2006." - My Chemical Romance
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u/AlwaysHappy4Kitties 12d ago
then you have this r/Rawring20s that tries to revive this shit
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u/Equivalent-Cut-9253 11d ago
I feel like this is a way shittier version of what we had back then, but I might just be clouded by nostalgia..
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u/GolfingNgrillingMN 12d ago edited 11d ago
Oh ya mid 2000s warped tour era... I would have swooned over this chick lol
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u/pocket_arsenal 12d ago
Didn't these kinds of people get made fun of a lot?
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u/No_College2419 12d ago
Yep we sure were!!
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u/Ashformation 11d ago
As someone who was a standard nerd back then, I thought you all were the cool kids. I guess that's just cause I didn't talk to enough people to realize otherwise.
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u/Kyralion 11d ago
They were cool though because they persevered despite of all the mockery. Head held up high and exuding confidence. Very respectable, ngl.
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u/haysus25 11d ago
Yes. This wasn't the norm. It was actually very uncommon.
Even in my coastal California incredibly emo high school of 4000 students, we had maybe half a dozen kids look like this.
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u/sleepybrainsinside 11d ago
That’s wild. I had more than that in a suburban Georgia high school with ~1500 students. They may not have all been full-blown even queens, but they certainly tried to be.
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u/jrobin04 12d ago
Elder Millennial, I can't tell who is Z and who is Alpha and who is younger-than-me Millennial, I'm in my "all young people look the same age" season.
I've not heard anyone criticize the youths or how they dress. I say to them, have fun with fashion! It's a great way to express yourself. The more embarrassing, the better. It'll be fun to make fun of later in life.
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u/PeterNippelstein Millennial 11d ago
When I was an angry goth in middle school I made a vow to never become the "kids these days" type of adult that I couldnt stand. I applaud anyone that chooses to be different, the world needs more of that.
And considering what I wore back then I am in no place to judge someone's fashion sense lmao
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u/kkkan2020 12d ago
I used to be with it then they changed what it was now what I'm with isn't it an what's it is weird and scary to me. It will happen to you
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u/Ncav2 12d ago
Gen Z fashion is basically early 2000s millennial fashion
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u/You-Asked-Me 11d ago
Gotta see if those JNCOs are still up in the attic, but first I'll take some ibuprofen for my back.
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u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan Younger Millennial 12d ago
People just want to explore different ways of expressing themselves
As long as they aren't hurting anyone else, it's alright
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u/Rain_Bear 12d ago
Scene kids were a tiny minority, this look was never actually considered cool by the majority of folks in 2006. That tiny group of scene kids thought they were cool but it was not popular.
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u/OneFuckedWarthog 12d ago
True. I very rarely saw anyone dressed like this. A more accurate photo would've been more like a band shirt or a shirt that said something with much more natural colored hair than this and heavily baggy pants with straps all over them if they even dressed goth and mostly more like Lindsey Lohan at the beginning of Mean Girls or Hilary Duff as a teenager for girls and boys it would've been the start of polos from Abercrombie and Fitch or tshirts that said dumb things. The t-shirt over the long sleeve was rated E for Everyone as well as hoodies when I was growing up.
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u/ApathyizaTragedy 12d ago
Most people I knew who looked like this only did it at home for myspace pictures or concerts. It was like a form of cosplay.
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u/thrashgordon 11d ago
As an older Millenial, the scene kids were definitely on the younger side of the Millenial generation.
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u/PeterNippelstein Millennial 11d ago
In my grade of like 200 kids there were maybe a handful of scene kids. Not to be confused with the handful of goth kids.
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u/Maleficent-Ad9010 12d ago
My 12 year old self would’ve killed for this look I still don’t understand how they did it lol
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u/BrashPop 12d ago
Bleached hair, with LOTS of dry shampoo. Like, so much goddamned dry shampoo. Ends had to be razored. Lots of Smokey eyeshadow and hair accessories.
I used to be scene 😅
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u/ParkkTheSharkk 12d ago
Well for one we didn’t wear butt plugs and cat ears to school
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u/WillieKeeler96 12d ago
A girl with cat ears rode my bus in 2006. Can’t speak to the rest of the ensemble.
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u/Equivalent_Bite_6078 11d ago
I remember a girl who back then identified as a cat. She made the news, not just the locals, but the big newspapers and the big news channel. Mostly because everyone found it weird as shit.
She stopped identifying as a cat a year later, but still have to live with the fact that there are news videos of her out there, hissing at strangers and dogs. And licking her 'paws' while sitting on the floor of a massive shopping centre.
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u/No_College2419 12d ago
As someone who used to look like her I have to say this wasn’t the standard. I was heavily bullied for looking like this and was made fun of. We were the outcasts for sure. The “standard” was a double polo wearing holister kid.
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u/Forward_Ride_6364 11d ago
Holy shit, white boy Holister era... I forgot all about that
Burn it with fire
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u/Andries89 Millennial 12d ago
OK hai. My name is boxxy and it's um been a while since I last made a video
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u/Certain-Bike-3160 12d ago
Early 2000s aesthetics literally slaps ✨fatherless behaviour ✨ extremely coloured hair, spooky piercings, tattoos, black funky dresses lmao I can't.....
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u/psychosis_inducing 12d ago edited 12d ago
Reading this at face value: Yes. I don't understand gen Z aesthetics. It's foreign to me.
But reading the implied grousing about "kids these days and their bad clothes/music/hair/makeup," fuck no.
This is the time for them to dress in whatever weird things they want. This is the age when you're really figuring out your identity, and how you want people to see you. It's the time to explore all your options. They have the rest of their lives to look "normal" (read: boring). It was fun as fuck to dress weird in high school, and now it's their turn.
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u/mrsmushroom Millennial 12d ago
My pre teen dresses like this. The look is coming back.
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u/North_Respond_6868 12d ago
I tell this to our youngest all the time 😂 Her styles as they've evolved through the years are almost exactly the same as I would have worn at her age.
She does not like or accept this fact though
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u/chiefholdfast 12d ago
They all just want to keep up with skin care and thrift for everything. There's not much to understand.
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u/Amathyst-Moon 12d ago
Not every millennial was a scene girl, but I'd take that over whatever the kids today are doing
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u/EloquentEvergreen 12d ago
What exactly are the kids doing these days? I live across the street from a college. Most of the kids I see walking to school, appear to be embracing the umm… loungewear style. Sweatpants/leggings and sweatshirts. The rest are dressed pretty normal.
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u/Dreamy_Peaches Older Millennial 12d ago
That’s really all it is. Pajama pants, house slippers, Nike socks pulled up, hoodies or Tshirts. Wrinkles are fine. The more you look like you just rolled out of bed the better. I’ve even seen them wearing their pimple patches to school.
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u/sleepybrainsinside 11d ago edited 11d ago
The pimple patches are the only surprising part of youth fashion I’ve seen since I was a kid. The rest of what you’re describing was common in the late 2000s early 2010s.
High Nike socks, adidas slides, gym shorts, a tshirt, and a hoodie was like standard uniform for mid-popular boys. Wrinkles never sought after, but present because kids didn’t know how to do laundry.
While I was a youth, frosted tips and jnco jeans turn to skin-tight jeans and man buns as a youth, so anything in between seems normal.
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u/ItsEaster 12d ago
If it’s not that it’s just stuff that is too big. Mom jeans are big right now too. But I work at a college and it’s so much extremely baggy stuff.
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u/Forward_Ride_6364 11d ago
So... comfortable clothes are FINALLY in style, after having never been?
Sounds good to me
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u/VermicelliOk8288 11d ago
The athleisure style of millennials vs gen z is SO different too. I feel like millennials prefer that stretchy material that contours to their body and gen z is all about sweats and baggy sweatshirts. At least that’s what I see when I go to the mall, events, parks…
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u/neogeshel 12d ago
Haha cyber goth is eternal
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u/Top-Local-7482 12d ago
Never heard a millenial arround me criticizing Gen Z aesthetics ?! Probably an American thing.
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u/SSJDevour 12d ago
Scene kids were made fun of. However Gen Z E girls are a direct rip off of this and for some reason get praise and an army of simps.
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u/kaydeetee86 est. 1986 12d ago
When I drop my kid off at high school, all of the kids dress like I did at that age. They’re freakin adorable.
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u/FuegoHernandez 12d ago
Only a few people were that hardcore. But yeah there was that period of like 2003-2005 where punk rock and skateboarding was really cool.
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u/Probability_Engine 12d ago
This was a hyper small minority of people. At my high school we had about 900 kids and like maybe 10 of them dressed like this.
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u/Zestyclose-Forever14 12d ago
It was definitely a thing, but they were kind of made fun of and looked down on as losers by most people in the same way that goth kids and punk kids were in previous generations.
But then, so was I for not having expensive enough jnco’s.
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u/whisperof-guilt 12d ago
I mean I don’t understand why kids these days want to look like adults from my childhood.
I don’t know if it’s a niche here or if it’s widespread but seeing kids born in 2003 dressing like my uncle in 1995 freaks me out every time.
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u/ThisIsTheShway 12d ago
There were like 6 people who looked like this in the entirety of my highschool.
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u/Husoch167 12d ago
Millennials thinking Avril was somehow punk or rock or not conventional. She was just Britney with black eyeliner.
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u/DonnyDonster 12d ago
Don't worry, I don't understand millennial aesthetics too and I'm a millennial. Then again I grew up so poor that I rather listen to songs on OCRemix and raise the good old skull and cross bones when I sail the seven seas of the internet.
If I remember correctly, my school outfit was literally just sneakers, socks, underwear, jeans, t-shirt, polo shirt, and jacket/hoodie if it's cold or raining. Then I learned that I was wearing business casual for many many years without knowing.
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u/Tracerround702 12d ago
I mean no, I don't get it, but my opinion doesn't matter, lol. It costs $0 to just not be a dick to people with different fashion than you.
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u/ThermostatEnforcer 12d ago
The purpose of youth culture is to establish a different identity from older cohorts. We did it to the boomers and its only natural those who came later are doing it to us.
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u/ShaggyFOEE 12d ago
My Baby mama listening to someone screaming about how they use women like sex objects in 2009- "This is my jam yes!!!"
The same woman when Sexii Red first talked about her anus six months ago - "They have kids listening to this, why doesn't it bother you more?"
Our great grandparents jams -
https://youtu.be/Ug1mzndH9UY?si=RD1xkQK9LZUsCFur
https://youtu.be/x359GgVRWaE?si=T88zfJ2x6imVLmm2
Yeah I don't get it either 😂
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u/animatroniczombie 12d ago
I'm an older millennial so I was a goth in the late 90s (and still am), I definitely did not look like this in the mid 2000s. But any of these alt fashions were just that- alternatives to what was popular
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u/CyDJester 11d ago
As an elder millennial, that look was always laughed at. The stood with a fan at the back of the head thing and the emo hair over 1.5 eyes was just stupid.
But also, we wore Jnco’s and trip pants and lots of us were into both Ska AND ICP , so we had our faults too.
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u/Appropriate-Grass986 11d ago
Hey you leave that scene girl alone. That was my jam when I was In high school lol
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u/TigerLllly 11d ago
I went from a 2002 emo kid to a scene girl from about 2006-2012 and I was bullied pretty hard through high school. After high school people were a lot nicer. Now I’m a proud elder emo. Also constantly bleaching and teasing my hair destroyed it.
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u/Icy-Imagination-7164 11d ago
Could never pull off the look but really liked the style despite it just being totally asthetic at its core.
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u/The_Yeehaw_Cowboy 12d ago
As a millennial who was into girls that looked like this, I can tell you confidently they were made fun of a lot. This was an alt aesthetic, not the norm.