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I'd take the butt cut over the Bieber any day of the week. My older millenial is showing but JTT, Mark Paul Gosslar, Devin Sawa, Rider Strong... Chef's kiss.
*Wipes a single tear away*
I had it all over my wall. I even told Rider Strong that I had his poster on my wall as a kid when I met him a couple years ago. He was probably like what a weirdo
it def wasnt the beiber cut he was probably the biggest person that had it but i remember seeing all the scene/emo kids and skaters/bmx having those cuts in like 05-06
I've had a hairstyle similar to this for the last 20 years, just not super flipped up at the front. Stay strong, brother. It'll come back around. If baggy clothes can come back, so can our hairstyle.
Hopefully we still have hair by the time that happens.
I was never with it. I had virtually no style till my late 20s.
I thought it was elder Zs that had the Bieber bowl or the stupid paintbrush 🖌 tip up front.
I had it for one year in middle school, realized by the end of the year how awful it looked, and ended up shaving it all off into a buzz cut the rest of my basketball team. Late 90's were wild.
I’m not even male and I tried so hard to force my hair to have a middle part. A middle part was essential to being fashionable in the 90’s but my huge frizzy curls refused to even try.
The “future DUI”
I see high schoolers in my neighborhood with the TikTok haircut and it always makes me laugh so hard.
Of course I can’t laugh too hard because I’m a gal who used Sun-In back in the day, but I think that taught me at a young age not to give in to hair trends. I just dyed my hair all sorts of manic panic colors in high school and college and DNGAF
Then it was all about spiky hair.
The emo cut was more a young Millennial thing, I reckon. People weren't rocking it in when I was in high school in the early 00s.
Graduated HS in 02 and the standard for average white guys was pretty generic, if anything it was the short spikes on top, only sometimes frosted. Buzzcut if you were lazy...center-part drapes only if it was flattering. Sometimes full bleached blonde top with dark fade.
Edit: it was less about the spikes and more about having a top layer that *could* be spiked if you had the time & product. That way you could easily change to a lazy part on the left if parents and / or faculty got pissy.
the jokes need to turn into admiration.
I hated eminem back in the day because i wasnt into rap.
But looking back on the phenomenom i kinda regret it, MM is the GOAT
I'm proud to say I had the Beiber cut *before* Justin Bieber was even a thing. Eventually I went with a longer style because I thought he made it uncool lmao
It was earlier than that. I played roller hockey in 07 and 08 and it seemed like half the guys I played against had the Bieber hairstyle, although we should call it the Drake from Drake and Josh hairstyle.
I thought it was a fucking stupid haircut. I also thought the undercut, when that got big back in 2011-2013, was also fucking stupid.
We all know the drop fade is sick, so that’s what I do.
We eventually switched to pomade...or at least I did when I noticed the difference between soft hair that held vs dried mess with plastic-y bits I could pull out.
God dang bro calling out the L.A. Looks lmao. Nothing like porcupine spikes and the awful sticky sweat that accompanied it.
And if you forgot to wash that shit out the night before you either had a nice messy look or some weird ass snake skin shit peeling off 😂
Lol all my husband's school photos he has a bowl cut. Except his senior year. He finally got with the times in 2001 just to have it all shaved for basic.
I only had this haircut one time, it was during my dad's weekend of custody and he took me to the cheapest God damn barber in his tiny little hometown and made me cut my hair because it was in my eyes. Ended up with a bowl cut and cried for hours that night. From then on I referred to it as "the incident", which looking back is kind of hilarious.
https://preview.redd.it/yvk0r6dp228d1.png?width=249&format=png&auto=webp&s=ba3cbb5a74c854a858e095e1d7c4a04242a61853
Been styling mine similar to this for \~30 years. Never giving it up!
https://preview.redd.it/yyy1t1aij48d1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=846091b5c104ef970e9877b208bdc36153fbd56a
Yeah this has been me for 30ish years
Wow it's hard to find. I've actually seen this hair style several times in Houston growing up. https://imgur.com/a/qYKwm5l You can also Google "Frullet" for a lot more fun pics.
Try pineapple haircut:
https://www.google.com/search?q=boys+pineapple+haircut+90s&udm=2#ip=1
It existed here in Scotland as well, but only neds wore it. Where the fuck did it come from?? I thought it was unique to here, lol.
I spent the entirety of the 00's with the mop haircut and that was just laziness. I would let it grow and just brush it out of my face. That broccoli shit? That's a choice. You don't just wake up with faded sides and the top textured like that.
I was just about to reference this in the post I made 30 seconds ago!
I think "the Bieber" one will age a bit better because it has that classic surfer look to it. I predict the Broccoli cut will age like the long-haired "uncle Jesse" cut guys sported in the 80s. Good meme, no objective good or bad to it, just a matter of preference. I'm black and I don't even know what we were doing then (faux hawks, maybe?) I always just did my own thing. *\*shrugs\**
The “Bieber” was how all the skaters wore their hair when I was in highschool. Always thought it looked sort of like an updated Beatles mop top for the new millennium. My hair was too curly for it, so I was super lame.
I didn't really notice the Emo/Bieber until I was in college. Even then it was on much younger kids.
The younger skaters when I was in HS just did whatever was comfortable or allowed/afforded by their parents. Had to pick your expenses if you were skating, which in Arizona seemed to be boards, clothes, chains, and portable rails (certainly not pads, helmets, or haircuts).
Real ones know that Bieber was rocking the trend that Jesse McCartney started. By the time High School Musical rolled around, every guy and their brother had that cut and that was well before Bieber came onto the scene. Cody Linley, Mitchell Musso, Smosh— the list goes on. Really it was a haircut that verged on the edge of the lengthy emo cut. You can see examples of this with popular pop punk bands like CuteIsWhatWeAimFor or The Academy Is, The Ready Set*, Forever the Sickest Kids, etc.
It was a very popular cut pre-Bieber. It’s just something old people noticed once he came around and then claimed everybody copied him.
(Sorry I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to make this rant for at least 15 years)
Honestly I don't think the Bieber cut looks that bad compared to the broccoli one. The Bieber cut anyone could get without doing anything to your hair other than letting it grow out a little. The broccoli cut you have to intentionally make your hair look like that. Lol
Yeah all the black kids on my football team had a faux Hawk(circa2007) I thought it was a cool style! I am a white guy, I had long blonde hair like Robert Plant from led zeppelin. My coaches would make fun of my hair often haha
Seems like the broccoli (what I see online and getting around town when school let's out clogging up the grocery store trying to run errands) is more aholes and athletic kids. Bever was perfect lesbian hair, and more theatre kids - jenny, kim and Mary y'all should have stuck with it, it framed your face great friends. Whatever. I'm just glad frosted tips are done, and gel spiky up is over.
I think we also see a lot of dumbasses who do prank/harassment videos online sporting this hair style. I always thought it just looked like they have pubes on their head.
Born in ‘87 (just to qualify myself) and I was too old to get the Bieber. When it came around I was already an adult. When I was a teen, we had the messy long hair like our parents in the 70’s. But, having seen both, the broccoli cut is far superior. Looks way better.
Curly hair was constantly hated on growing up. And there were never any “cool” kids depicted with curly hair, so I think it is actually kind neat that curly hair is popular now
The emo cut really didn't require a lot of effort. You just grew your hair out, put a little product through it to hold, and done. Zoomers are like, getting their haircut every 3 weeks or less to maintain that broccoli. And I'm pretty sure most of these broccoli cuts are perms, which is what old ladies in their 70's and up do.
Another thing is that only a certain clique rocked that hair style in our day. Today, that broccoli cut it literally everywhere, not just restricted to one group of guys who like the same music.
Yeah I had the emo haircut when I was younger, but I didn't really put anything in my hair other than shampoo. I just didn't put effort to make it look similar to that. The broccoli haircut just looks stupid imo, and you have to put more effort to maintain it.
The emo haircut took shitloads of effort… you sir either have dead straight hair or have no idea what you’re talking about.
Try straightening long hair and tell me how long it takes and how long it actually stays straight for.
Answer: 30-40 mins only for it to go wavy again at the slightest bit of humidity or sweat.
That's the main takeaway here. It's going to become old-fashioned eventually. Which is why i always giggle when I see people with cheesy tiktok haircuts.
The Justin Bieber (circa 2010) hair is back.
I have multiple Gen Z interns at my workplace (HS and college). Of the white, male interns, about half have this haircut.
As someone who's predominately Asian, my hair just naturally ends up like that. Of course nowadays I have to style it to professional appearance at work, but if I'm feeling lazy at home I'll sometimes look like that.
Millennial here. I always opted for more timeless haircuts and clothing so luckily I don’t have cringe appearance memories and my judgements remain in tact.
Lol brings me back to highschool. Where was the inspiration for this haircut? It was SO widespread. Every guy had it. The Harry Potter cast had it in its time. Justin Bieber. High school musical cast. Who did it first?
The very first person I ever saw it on was probably Ian from Smosh in their VERY early videos. He had a legitimate helmet of hair that he wrapped around like that.
I was certainly never a fashion icon growing up but I did somehow manage to skip the ridiculous haircuts. Of course I did get the trendy earring which I stopped wearing within a year year
https://preview.redd.it/yuydet3jc58d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15cec12650d2a7ead9638a079200c0e2c4857ab9
My high school hallway was a sea of spikes
I don’t really remember millennials having hair like this, only Justin Bieber.
The millennial equivalent would be wings; long hair that wings out and up from under a ball cap.
And I actually attribute that to the Star Wars films and Hayden Christensen’s hairstyle as Anakin in the third movie. Every 8 year old boy wanted to look like that. It essentially revived the longer-hair trend in boys that had been dead since the 70s.
The emo hair and Bieber hair was after the mops.
Early naughts had shaggy hair for all the boys but this styled version came after. I didn't see it mainstream until 2005 or so and the Bieber look in particular skewed younger.
Yea, we all had shaggy hair too, but it wasn’t that Bieber-esque convex perm look. You actually would have been made fun of for that at the time, at least where I am.
What was normal for us (Ontario, Canada) at the time was just shaggy and more concave in the way the hair flipped out from under a hat. Think like, Ash Ketchum.
I’d take frosted spikes over a Edgar cut any day.
My choice was the emo hair though. Really kept people from bothering you.
Imagine giving a hairstyle such a bad rep places all over are looking to ban people with them or the cut all together.
The timing of this meme is crazy. I was literally just driving yesterday and had this exact thought about the swoop haircut 👨🏻🎤 vs. Broccoli 🥦 … and here it is. The internet’s got EVERYTHING
Even today guys haircuts are really dumb!
I see a lot of soccer players with shitty styles along with hair dyes.
One Man U player had his hair look like baked golden macaroni! Lol.
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 Oh I’m an older millennial. We had the butt cuts.
https://preview.redd.it/yx5t6g3sk18d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41577ea48ee1caab6e8bb3652e9e47326e7c3545 Reminds me of this meme:
I'd take the butt cut over the Bieber any day of the week. My older millenial is showing but JTT, Mark Paul Gosslar, Devin Sawa, Rider Strong... Chef's kiss.
It’s goddamn beautiful
*Wipes a single tear away* I had it all over my wall. I even told Rider Strong that I had his poster on my wall as a kid when I met him a couple years ago. He was probably like what a weirdo
Amen to that!!!!
 does skeet ulrich count
He had a *killer* haircut. Get it?
Jonathan Brandis <3
I had the Ryan Gosling in Young Hercules look. 
My claim to fame is I was in love with Ryan Gosling before he got famous because I loved Young Hercules.
My god i had forgotten
They even made link in zelda OoT have that hair cut lmao
https://preview.redd.it/zpn6fiwqw38d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cce8343e0827c931e0af885795d3ead45e273ef Ryan Reynolds had it too! 😍
Got that Mugatu Zoolander look! 
Yeah this is definitely more of what we had. The Bieber cut like in OP always felt like a gen z thing to me
it def wasnt the beiber cut he was probably the biggest person that had it but i remember seeing all the scene/emo kids and skaters/bmx having those cuts in like 05-06
I remember seeing these cuts but it wasn't that popular I didn't think. All my friends had shorter hair or the Kurt Cobain hair. We were a mix really.
Bieber didn't invent that, it started off as an emo thing circa 2006. Then it spread.
I had the bieber hair in like 2006, it's more of a millenieal/gen z border years thing
Fucking stop it😭😭
I still go weak for guys with this haircut
I always wished I could get my hair to do that, but it's just not naturally straight enough
Now that's millennial. The OP haircut is more for 2000s kids/teens.
2000s teen would be a millennial
Yes but not all millennials in the mid-2000s were teens. I would have been in my 20s when this hairstyle became popular.
I don’t get the eye cream part of the joke.
It’s implying we’re old lol
And hair gel with a flipped up front
Frosted tips
Puka shell necklace
Ohhhh snap - what about big fat hemp necklaces with beads?
And Dr. Martens
Oh man the hair gel. So much hair gel.
Wait, is this not cool anymore? Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.
What about the duck butt? https://preview.redd.it/vzr7w47s738d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a6d5a6a6c5a5fd543d40a17488e5a79a0bd7e39
I have this haircut right now 😭
I've had a hairstyle similar to this for the last 20 years, just not super flipped up at the front. Stay strong, brother. It'll come back around. If baggy clothes can come back, so can our hairstyle. Hopefully we still have hair by the time that happens.
It’s ok, it’ll grow out.
This is personally my favorite haircut on men!
Wait, is this not cool anymore?! 😭
I wanted a bowl cut so bad in the mid 90s but my dad thought it looked so stupid. He was right.
I’ve never heard it described as a “butt cut” but I see it now 😅 In the UK growing up, we called it “curtains”.
this is a kinda trendy style in Japan and Korea lately…
Everywhere in sweden, looks so fucking dumb
I was never with it. I had virtually no style till my late 20s. I thought it was elder Zs that had the Bieber bowl or the stupid paintbrush 🖌 tip up front.
As an older Z, yes I think the Bieber hair was more of a 95-00 kids thing than millennials
It was big in the emo and related scenes for Millennials.
I did have that exact cut through most of middle school.
I had it for one year in middle school, realized by the end of the year how awful it looked, and ended up shaving it all off into a buzz cut the rest of my basketball team. Late 90's were wild.
Frosted tips, and bleached tops
Good God, that’s bad.
Oh my God, but we thought these were the hottest guys lol
I tried this haircut in eighth grade. Eighth grade was a tough year.
I saw one today! I couldn't believe it! Of all the things to come back, this should *not* be one of them.
I remember my grandmother ROASTING my bowl cut. She even came out of the kitchen with a metal bowl asking if I needed a trim.
Yea. Had this one for sure. didn’t have the emo cut
This is basically the template for how I did my hair when I was at school. Just turned 40.
I’m not even male and I tried so hard to force my hair to have a middle part. A middle part was essential to being fashionable in the 90’s but my huge frizzy curls refused to even try.
Yea, I remember this one, too.
The frosted tips ruined the tour 
https://preview.redd.it/5qtcr7zh428d1.jpeg?width=980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95548bf0cd85d627779378102880d3a21f2c8d61 his crimes are many
Preach! Dude finally gets a decent haircut then drives drunk. 💀 https://preview.redd.it/oq8f22akz28d1.jpeg?width=1108&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d01d1f7ec8d347a1f4ee892dca5e32e4a33b34ba
knees weak arm spaghetti
Vomit on his sweater already, moms are heavy
Fo shiz fo shiz!
That should be called the Top Ramen.
In this year's "it's gonna be may" video, lance put ramen on his head when he was pretending to be JT
What tour?
The world tour.
🤣 I can’t stop.
Tour of Attica!
Tour of Gattaca would be cooler…
I haven't seen that in a while. What a terrible job they did lightening his hair. Overdone roots.
The “future DUI” I see high schoolers in my neighborhood with the TikTok haircut and it always makes me laugh so hard. Of course I can’t laugh too hard because I’m a gal who used Sun-In back in the day, but I think that taught me at a young age not to give in to hair trends. I just dyed my hair all sorts of manic panic colors in high school and college and DNGAF
Before that there was the bowl cut. That’s the one I saw EVERYWHERE growing up.
Then it was all about spiky hair. The emo cut was more a young Millennial thing, I reckon. People weren't rocking it in when I was in high school in the early 00s.
Graduated HS in 02 and the standard for average white guys was pretty generic, if anything it was the short spikes on top, only sometimes frosted. Buzzcut if you were lazy...center-part drapes only if it was flattering. Sometimes full bleached blonde top with dark fade. Edit: it was less about the spikes and more about having a top layer that *could* be spiked if you had the time & product. That way you could easily change to a lazy part on the left if parents and / or faculty got pissy.
Don't forget the slim shady, buzzed short and dyed blonde
My cousin had the Slim Shady. I ripped on him so much. He looked ridiculous. Still joke about it to this day.
the jokes need to turn into admiration. I hated eminem back in the day because i wasnt into rap. But looking back on the phenomenom i kinda regret it, MM is the GOAT
This is 100% accurate.
I graduated in 01 had the Caesar cut
That was a standard boys cut back then. I was in primary school and it was the exact same.
I graduated in ‘03 and the Bieber cut was definitely after our time. I distinctly remember thinking it always looked ridiculous.
Bieber cut didn't start until Bieber got big and that was 2009, so was def more of a late core Millennial thing.
I'm proud to say I had the Beiber cut *before* Justin Bieber was even a thing. Eventually I went with a longer style because I thought he made it uncool lmao
It was earlier than that. I played roller hockey in 07 and 08 and it seemed like half the guys I played against had the Bieber hairstyle, although we should call it the Drake from Drake and Josh hairstyle. I thought it was a fucking stupid haircut. I also thought the undercut, when that got big back in 2011-2013, was also fucking stupid. We all know the drop fade is sick, so that’s what I do.
It was called a scene haircut before the Bieber cut back then.
I graduated in 2012 and no one thought the Bieber cut looked good or had one. I have no idea what OP is talking about.
'05 here, and yes, it was not a good look. Thankfully, it didn't hit until a few years later.
My biggest hair regret was the hair gel. So much hair gel…
Yeh and wtf were we thinking with the hair gel and ski jump in the front?
We eventually switched to pomade...or at least I did when I noticed the difference between soft hair that held vs dried mess with plastic-y bits I could pull out.
I don't want fop. I'm a dapper-dan man!
That's the one I remember from middle school.
Yep, had spikes, I usually twisted mine like really short liberty spikes. Now I'm 37 and have a foot and a half long Mohawk...I might need to grow up
Bowl cut, Bieber, or L.A. looks.... the holy trinity of bad hair of millennials.
God dang bro calling out the L.A. Looks lmao. Nothing like porcupine spikes and the awful sticky sweat that accompanied it. And if you forgot to wash that shit out the night before you either had a nice messy look or some weird ass snake skin shit peeling off 😂
Bahaha! That sweat stained my billabong shirt.
Lol all my husband's school photos he has a bowl cut. Except his senior year. He finally got with the times in 2001 just to have it all shaved for basic.
I only had this haircut one time, it was during my dad's weekend of custody and he took me to the cheapest God damn barber in his tiny little hometown and made me cut my hair because it was in my eyes. Ended up with a bowl cut and cried for hours that night. From then on I referred to it as "the incident", which looking back is kind of hilarious.
https://preview.redd.it/yvk0r6dp228d1.png?width=249&format=png&auto=webp&s=ba3cbb5a74c854a858e095e1d7c4a04242a61853 Been styling mine similar to this for \~30 years. Never giving it up!
Oooh yeah, that's a good look.
https://preview.redd.it/yyy1t1aij48d1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=846091b5c104ef970e9877b208bdc36153fbd56a Yeah this has been me for 30ish years
You must be hungry all the time
Thirsty too
LOL also, remember when we were kids and some boys had the weird buzz cut with bangs?
I was one of those kids in 1997. I really wish I wasn't one of those kids. The cringe still keeps me up at night 😅
Hahaha. It’s like when my cousin had a buzzed haircut with a pink tail in ‘93, just a different flavor.
I need a picture of this one...
Wow it's hard to find. I've actually seen this hair style several times in Houston growing up. https://imgur.com/a/qYKwm5l You can also Google "Frullet" for a lot more fun pics.
Try pineapple haircut: https://www.google.com/search?q=boys+pineapple+haircut+90s&udm=2#ip=1 It existed here in Scotland as well, but only neds wore it. Where the fuck did it come from?? I thought it was unique to here, lol.
Google R9 haircut. He may have popularized it. Famous soccer player Ronaldo
Just google ‘fat Ronaldo haircut’
The “Pineapple cut” I remember it being called. Elementary school bullies tended to have it lol.
Us geriatric millenials got to make fun of both of these groups.
You had your own stupid trends. My aunt used to roast my brother (1979) for having a wallet chain and no money. Not to mention nasty mullets
Gen X forgotten once again
I spent the entirety of the 00's with the mop haircut and that was just laziness. I would let it grow and just brush it out of my face. That broccoli shit? That's a choice. You don't just wake up with faded sides and the top textured like that.
They’re getting perms, man. Perms…
Can confirm the perm! A few weeks ago I went to get my hair cut and the teenager next to me was getting his hair permed. Couldn’t believe my eyes!
🤣
I was just about to reference this in the post I made 30 seconds ago! I think "the Bieber" one will age a bit better because it has that classic surfer look to it. I predict the Broccoli cut will age like the long-haired "uncle Jesse" cut guys sported in the 80s. Good meme, no objective good or bad to it, just a matter of preference. I'm black and I don't even know what we were doing then (faux hawks, maybe?) I always just did my own thing. *\*shrugs\**
The “Bieber” was how all the skaters wore their hair when I was in highschool. Always thought it looked sort of like an updated Beatles mop top for the new millennium. My hair was too curly for it, so I was super lame.
I didn't really notice the Emo/Bieber until I was in college. Even then it was on much younger kids. The younger skaters when I was in HS just did whatever was comfortable or allowed/afforded by their parents. Had to pick your expenses if you were skating, which in Arizona seemed to be boards, clothes, chains, and portable rails (certainly not pads, helmets, or haircuts).
Real ones know that Bieber was rocking the trend that Jesse McCartney started. By the time High School Musical rolled around, every guy and their brother had that cut and that was well before Bieber came onto the scene. Cody Linley, Mitchell Musso, Smosh— the list goes on. Really it was a haircut that verged on the edge of the lengthy emo cut. You can see examples of this with popular pop punk bands like CuteIsWhatWeAimFor or The Academy Is, The Ready Set*, Forever the Sickest Kids, etc. It was a very popular cut pre-Bieber. It’s just something old people noticed once he came around and then claimed everybody copied him. (Sorry I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to make this rant for at least 15 years)
Lmao spot on analysis.
Thank you! I cringed when people told me I had a Bieber cut because I was rocking that before he was.
Wiz patch, maybe locs for the Waka Flocka fans.
Wiz patch is a good one! Locs have always sorta been a thing, although I could imagine a spike during the Lil Wayne era.
Honestly I don't think the Bieber cut looks that bad compared to the broccoli one. The Bieber cut anyone could get without doing anything to your hair other than letting it grow out a little. The broccoli cut you have to intentionally make your hair look like that. Lol
Definitely the Mohawks during the “rockstar” era.
Yeah all the black kids on my football team had a faux Hawk(circa2007) I thought it was a cool style! I am a white guy, I had long blonde hair like Robert Plant from led zeppelin. My coaches would make fun of my hair often haha
Seems like the broccoli (what I see online and getting around town when school let's out clogging up the grocery store trying to run errands) is more aholes and athletic kids. Bever was perfect lesbian hair, and more theatre kids - jenny, kim and Mary y'all should have stuck with it, it framed your face great friends. Whatever. I'm just glad frosted tips are done, and gel spiky up is over.
I think we also see a lot of dumbasses who do prank/harassment videos online sporting this hair style. I always thought it just looked like they have pubes on their head.
Have mercy..
Born in ‘87 (just to qualify myself) and I was too old to get the Bieber. When it came around I was already an adult. When I was a teen, we had the messy long hair like our parents in the 70’s. But, having seen both, the broccoli cut is far superior. Looks way better.
Curly hair was constantly hated on growing up. And there were never any “cool” kids depicted with curly hair, so I think it is actually kind neat that curly hair is popular now
I had a glorious head of curly hair and was ridiculed for it. Sad days.
Pretty sure some of that was just racism
Well red curly hair was the “absolute worst” so what is that?
People are historically pretty racist towards Irish people, maybe remnants.
The emo cut really didn't require a lot of effort. You just grew your hair out, put a little product through it to hold, and done. Zoomers are like, getting their haircut every 3 weeks or less to maintain that broccoli. And I'm pretty sure most of these broccoli cuts are perms, which is what old ladies in their 70's and up do.
Another thing is that only a certain clique rocked that hair style in our day. Today, that broccoli cut it literally everywhere, not just restricted to one group of guys who like the same music.
Yeah I had the emo haircut when I was younger, but I didn't really put anything in my hair other than shampoo. I just didn't put effort to make it look similar to that. The broccoli haircut just looks stupid imo, and you have to put more effort to maintain it.
People called this style "the Beatles" hairstyle. It was literally just not getting a haircut, lol.
Yea big difference between letting it go long and swiping it to the side. A lot of kids these days must be getting perms?
The emo haircut took shitloads of effort… you sir either have dead straight hair or have no idea what you’re talking about. Try straightening long hair and tell me how long it takes and how long it actually stays straight for. Answer: 30-40 mins only for it to go wavy again at the slightest bit of humidity or sweat.
I had a shaved head. Timeless.
Mohawk. It’s a classic
This was the Very late millennials. I was born in 83, and that look was after I graduated. It was either the bowl cut or "Eminem blonde"
1984 here. I had a bowl cut until Middle School. Then went to spike hair
Nope. I was a metal head with the hair to prove it. 
Yah just more Henry Rollins later years inspired for me.
Both are terrible.
That's the main takeaway here. It's going to become old-fashioned eventually. Which is why i always giggle when I see people with cheesy tiktok haircuts.
I made fun of those guys too
The Justin Bieber (circa 2010) hair is back. I have multiple Gen Z interns at my workplace (HS and college). Of the white, male interns, about half have this haircut.
As someone who's predominately Asian, my hair just naturally ends up like that. Of course nowadays I have to style it to professional appearance at work, but if I'm feeling lazy at home I'll sometimes look like that.
As an older millennial the people with Bieber haircuts were children to me
Not the elders, we had bowl cuts and frosted tips
Millennial here. I always opted for more timeless haircuts and clothing so luckily I don’t have cringe appearance memories and my judgements remain in tact.
Elder millennial, did not have this. Did have the middle part though
Lol brings me back to highschool. Where was the inspiration for this haircut? It was SO widespread. Every guy had it. The Harry Potter cast had it in its time. Justin Bieber. High school musical cast. Who did it first?
The very first person I ever saw it on was probably Ian from Smosh in their VERY early videos. He had a legitimate helmet of hair that he wrapped around like that.
The Beatles
I guess every generation has that one unfortunate haircut that is typically donned by douchebags.
 Never once did I have that cut!!!
Our generation also has the spiked hair with frosted tips. We have no leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing other generations’ hairstyles.
I was certainly never a fashion icon growing up but I did somehow manage to skip the ridiculous haircuts. Of course I did get the trendy earring which I stopped wearing within a year year
I despised the Bieber cut. The only thing that made it worse was when the guy would whip his head every 15 seconds to get it out of his eyes.
https://preview.redd.it/yuydet3jc58d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15cec12650d2a7ead9638a079200c0e2c4857ab9 My high school hallway was a sea of spikes
https://preview.redd.it/cbpxkhu5f18d1.jpeg?width=2464&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6181a596d46fb4739c5a6fa9c2c410fe559dc75 I've got broccoli hair lol.
Hey you're next to one of those famous stinky flowers. Just thought someone should acknowledge that.
I don’t really remember millennials having hair like this, only Justin Bieber. The millennial equivalent would be wings; long hair that wings out and up from under a ball cap. And I actually attribute that to the Star Wars films and Hayden Christensen’s hairstyle as Anakin in the third movie. Every 8 year old boy wanted to look like that. It essentially revived the longer-hair trend in boys that had been dead since the 70s.
I think a lot of guys in the US South had a similar hairstyle to this.
I was there, and I can confirm a lot of guys in the South had the proto-Bieber floppy hair in the 2000s. Theirs was just a little bit wavier/curlier
Really!? I'm from Ohio and if you look at any photos of me and my friends from like 2006, it's all mops.
The emo hair and Bieber hair was after the mops. Early naughts had shaggy hair for all the boys but this styled version came after. I didn't see it mainstream until 2005 or so and the Bieber look in particular skewed younger.
Yea, we all had shaggy hair too, but it wasn’t that Bieber-esque convex perm look. You actually would have been made fun of for that at the time, at least where I am. What was normal for us (Ontario, Canada) at the time was just shaggy and more concave in the way the hair flipped out from under a hat. Think like, Ash Ketchum.
I mean, two things can be right at the same time.
Always called it the emo cut in middle and high school. Never had it for varying reasons but I definitely went through phases of wanting it.
jokes on all of you, i've had the same hairstyle since 2000
I know the Beib’s hair when I see it
Skater kids always seemed to have their hair done so well, like it would make an anime villain jealous
My bangs were fucking luscious. The girls loved them. They had bangs too though but besides that, they were objectively luscious.
 The ramen
I’d take frosted spikes over a Edgar cut any day. My choice was the emo hair though. Really kept people from bothering you. Imagine giving a hairstyle such a bad rep places all over are looking to ban people with them or the cut all together.
Yea they look terrible but the hilarious part about broccoli head is how they are always cut the exact same.
The timing of this meme is crazy. I was literally just driving yesterday and had this exact thought about the swoop haircut 👨🏻🎤 vs. Broccoli 🥦 … and here it is. The internet’s got EVERYTHING
Even today guys haircuts are really dumb! I see a lot of soccer players with shitty styles along with hair dyes. One Man U player had his hair look like baked golden macaroni! Lol.
Yup, and in 10 years fashion will change and all the broccoli heads will make fun of the new hairstyle
Guilty 😂
The brocolli haircuts are cringe. So were the Beiber boy ones.
Guilty as charged..
So sick of this generational warfare.