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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 75 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 34 points 9 months ago

It's how it always goes. First, it's stylish, then it's lame, then it's R E T R O

[-] root_beer@midwest.social 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Some of this shit skipped the initial stylish step though

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[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Can grunge be stylish again? At least it was comfortable.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 months ago

Just be a lesbian, you can grunge all you like and it never goes out of style.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Yeah, but I just like cock too much.

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[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

The whole athleisure thing of the last 10-15 years has been great for dressing comfortably everywhere.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Grunge was never stylish. That was the point.

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[-] Cozy@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

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?

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

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?

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

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.

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[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 52 points 9 months ago

I keep having to explain to my 9-year-old that I'm not a boomer 🤔

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 68 points 9 months ago

"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"

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 9 months ago

Did you know phones used to be in the walls and they were the internet?

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

OK boomer.

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[+] IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] lateraltwo@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

It doesn't work though, zoomers are in the same stolen future millennials are; there's solidarity

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[-] root_beer@midwest.social 41 points 9 months ago

Joke’s on them, I don’t care what teens think is cool.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

I care

If teenagers think I'm uncool, I'm probably doing something right

Teenagers are lame af

[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

That sounds pretty coool to me...

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

He cracked the code!

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[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

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)

[-] Neato@kbin.social 27 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

Gen Z is one of the only things that gives my old ass hope

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 23 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

You guys trauma-block your cringe instead of remembering it while trying to sleep?

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

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.

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[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

I only shit on zoomers for making TikTok a thing. Otherwise, they're cool people.

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[-] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago

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.

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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 months ago

From everything I've seen, you will. Just keep working for what's right and good.

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[-] CoolBeance@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

Did we ever want to be cool to teenagers?

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[-] Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 18 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] phar@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Ummm that sounds like you are cool as shit.

Won't you be my neighbor?

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My kids' friends all think I'm cool, and they're Gen Z. Which is weird because I've never been cool.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Get off of my generation X lawn.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 10 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

My mother, who is Gen X: "Whatever."

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[-] amio@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

I think it's easier to not really care about what is or isn't cool to teens.

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