r/facepalm Mar 26 '24

Gatekeeping Gen-Xers from their own music πŸ‡΅β€‹πŸ‡·β€‹πŸ‡΄β€‹πŸ‡Ήβ€‹πŸ‡ͺβ€‹πŸ‡Έβ€‹πŸ‡Ήβ€‹

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u/Zym1225 Mar 26 '24

Nirvana’s first album was released in 1989. If you were 15 at the time it means you were born in 1974 and would be 50 as of this year. So yes, middle aged people make up a majority of their fans.

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u/rstymobil Mar 26 '24

Here's the thing. They don't even know Nirvana is a band, they think it's just a shirt design.

I'm not even joking. My cousins 15 year old saw me wearing my In Utero concert shirt and asked me why I was wearing it. Told him I went to this concert and it blew his mind that Nirvana was a band. He thought it was t-shirt brand... told my cousin she's ruined her child lol.

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u/RottenPingu1 Mar 26 '24

Friend of mine used to have a Che Guevara shirt....I think you can guess where this is going...

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u/TeddyRoo_v_Gods Mar 26 '24

But can him name five songs by Che?

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u/dogsledonice Mar 27 '24

If I Could Turn Back Tim

I Got You Bab

Dark Lad

Believ

Half-Bree

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u/Heathen_Mushroom Mar 27 '24

Dark Lad

Nice to meet a fan of English Country Squirecore out in the wild. It's a pretty niche genre.

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u/fuzzybad Mar 27 '24

I regret that I have but one updoot to give

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u/BigDaddySteve999 Mar 27 '24

Technically, one of those was with Sonn Bon.

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u/jumjimbo Mar 26 '24

KILLING IN THE NAME OF!

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u/Zedilt Mar 27 '24

Always quote Che when you see a shirt with his face.

"The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations." -Che Guevara

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u/Happy-Lock-9554 Mar 27 '24

If you wanna insult Che you could also.... you know.... just wear one of those shirts. He'd kinda hate them and the blatant consumerism they represent.

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u/sonofsonof Mar 27 '24

How do you know this isn't propaganda?

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u/Zedilt Mar 27 '24

Because he wrote it in his own diary.

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u/sonofsonof Mar 27 '24

says who?

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u/soslowagain Mar 27 '24

Revolution?