• Test Display Name ⭐@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1172·
    2 years ago

    Behold! The blogging aesthetics of 2006:

    hi every1 im new!!! holds up spork my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me _… im 13 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of commentses!!! DOOOOOMMMM!!! <— me bein random again _ hehe…toodles!!!

    love and waffles,

    t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m

    • NX2@feddit.deEnglish
      45·
      2 years ago

      I recently came across a blogpost explaining something I was researching, and the comments beneath were exactly like this. Then I looked up from when it was: May 2006.

      The internet is a time machine.

      • MicahParsons@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        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!

    • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      21·
      2 years ago

      The sacred texts, they’re so bright I almost need to avert my eyes.

    • thedrivingcrooner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, I kind of understand why the older generation was afraid of using the internet, they saw this lingo while trying to fix a leaky pipe on a Yahoo Answers thread and said “not my worldwideweb!”

      I didn’t talk this incredibly stupid and “unique” on chats during AOL and MSN days but by the time I got to highschool I realized I needed to stop with all the emojis and emphasis in text form because nobody knows how nor cares to decypher what you’re saying anyway.

    • Nepenthe@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Oh god, I forgot about the spork thing. The sporks seemed a natural part of the foundation. Where did the sporks go? This would have been perfectly at home on the very first forum my child ass ever joined, and I can feel everything I ever loved evaporating.

      • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

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

          Because they inherited an economy with actual food and replaced it with “food” filled with industrial inventions like corn syrup

    • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      Give them a break, they had no other accepted way to explore their sexuality

      /s but also not /s

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        94·
        2 years ago

        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).

        • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          91·
          2 years ago

          Absolutely, there’s a long history of the “in-group” co-opting culture from the “out-group” because it’s seen as exotic and transgressive. Was it hypocritical for such a homophobic generation to idolize queer icons, only so long as they were cool and made good music? On a cultural level, yeah. On an individual level, depends on the individual and their specific beliefs and actions

          Edit: Also my favorite Bowie album will always be Ziggy Stardust. Maybe a little basic but it just hits all the right campy, flamboyant, and always-incredible notes

    • vd1n@lemmy.mlEnglish
      102·
      2 years ago

      And these are the ones scared of gender/LGBTQ politics… We know why now…

  • Snow-Foxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    521·
    2 years ago

    It’s sad they got so much hate back the days. Their style was so awesome and different. I always admired that, but didn’t have the courage to go full emo and draw everybodys hate on me.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      51·
      2 years ago

      Helps that the style “hides” a lot, hard to tell what she really looks like under the makeup, loose clothing and accessories.

  • sparemethewearysigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    411·
    2 years ago

    I’m a millennial, and I still dress all emo even in my 30’s. My 20 year old coworker even complimented my black skinny jeans with zippers in random places the other day. No reason to stop loving your late teen/early 20’s aesthetic! Don’t let the world crush your creativity, do you and to hell with everyone’s opinions!

      • nik282000@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        At 35 I continue to wear home made stenciled t-shirts and jeans I cut into shorts. If my boss doesn’t like it he can go break a hip about it, how I look has no bearing on how well I do my job.

    • pazukaza@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Hell yeha, as long as you’re not harming anyone, just do whatever the hell you want without thinking twice.

    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Same. I stopped dying my hair black but otherwise my style has stayed very similar

    • BrokenToshy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Kids these days trying to take away our skinny jeans! Never I say!

      We’ll see who is laughing when it snows and their ankles are frozen. Suppose they all have to learn somehow

  • Manu@feddit.deEnglish
    36·
    2 years ago

    The Millenials laughing at Gen Z are the same Millenials who mocked emo/scene kids back then.

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      25·
      2 years ago

      Was a goth, mocked emos and scene kids. Learned my lesson, rock on you little weirdos, enjoy your time of experimentation

      • Smallletter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        2 years ago

        Goths mocking emos always made me laugh. Which is itself a third layer of comedy because I was supposedly an old school punk but really just another kid with a funny 'do (green mohawk…which I still hold as the most righteous hairstyle known to man, however)

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 years ago

          I mocked all of you. Jokes on me you all turned out pretty cool and to have good taste in music. I was just uncomfortable experimenting and possibly coming off ridiculous. Somehow I managed to be cringe because of my efforts not to.

          • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            cringe finds us all. Our curse was out fear of it, our blessing is we can free future generations with our knowledge.

            There’s no escaping regret, so lets all just celebrate ourselves and understand others are doing the same.

        • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          to my hormone soaked brain being disaffected and into the grotesque was infinitely cooler than being disaffected and sad.

          We enjoyed punks though, there was this group of kids that’d meet up in the city and we’d be punks, metalheads, and goths all confident in our superiority to emos who we called posers.

  • ezmack@lemmy.mlEnglish
    35·
    2 years ago

    I’ll paraphrase a twitter comment: man I did not give a single fuck about gen x as a millenial, these posts are so weird. Maybe we’re just more exposed to each other now because of social media

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      I’m convinced that news outlets and big tech intentionally push ageism / generational-warfare to substitute for class warfare, and divert criticism away from capitalists.

      Like who decided to mark off these year ranges and put labels on them anyway, it’s completely arbitrary and meaningless.

      • steveman_ha@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    Sometimes I think that since I still really love goth chicks I haven’t changed that much since the 00s

    But then I remember that over that time frame goth chicks went from edgy rebellious teenagers in a ton of makeup to moms in their 30s with a wicked sense of humor that wear a lot of black. They still deal weed and hate authorities though.

    • interloper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Yeah I don’t get it. Do they not see the irony?

      Just let the next generation be the next generation.

  • weariedfae@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I’m old and crotchety. Can someone supply an example of the gen z aesthetics referenced in this post? All I can think of is big ass eyebrows, ultra bold multi colored eyeshadow, and crop tops.

  • sickpusy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I don’t if it’s just me but a lot of weirdness was then part of various subcultures, especially music ones. Now it has been decoupled from those onto tiktok. Not saying good or bad.

    • catshit_dogfart@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      That’s how I try to keep things in perspective, by saying - was I any different?

      Yes I think it’s all stupid and annoying, literally everything about tiktok which the kids are soooo involved with, minecraft, fortnite, however they’re dressing these days. Stupid and annoying, all of it.

      But hey there was a time when my dig-pet was the most important thing I owned, my beanie babies were “an investment”, could easily play Halo for 12 hours straight, I wore giant jnco jeans with chains on them, and listened to Limp Bizkit.

      So, was I any different? Nah, it’s the same.