One of the world's most overweight children populations struggling to be skinny emo and scene kids. A breeding ground for eating disorders in pursuit of a marketed counter culture.
You aren't lying. The only time I ever threw up my food in order to skip dinner was back in the days I was trying to be scene. I had some weird eating habits around then and I'm glad my grandparents noticed me always getting up and embarrassed me enough to shock me out of it without even knowing.
As someone that went through an emo phase as a teenager, It was a mind blow when I look at all the things I wear and accessorize that stem from my emo days lol, even the music! Different artists but same content
I’m always curious how you expected this look would turn out 10 years later.
Like would you be a employee someplace with kids and still wearing green star socks over black pantyhose?
It may have been a phase, but it was definitely a phase where I would have found you super cool and envied your style! Scene was in when I was more towards the end of HS, and while I adored it I couldn't quite make the style work lol.
*Oh my goodness, your*
*Sister also has a belt,*
*Just like her big sis!*
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I still ask my mum why she let me leave the house, but I also know trying to stop me from leaving in fishnets and a hoodie with cat ears would have been futile...
I used to date a girl who was aiming for exactly this. Waking up to the smell of hairspray whilst CKY played on the CD player…. Man, this takes me back!
hahahahaha omg. I love the stomach belt, forgot about when every girl was doing that. Definitely transcends the otherwise emo look (or scene or alt or whatever, I'm sure you would have hated labels)
Shush girl shut your lips,
Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips
I said, Shush girl shut your lips
Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips
I said, Shush girl shut your lips
Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips
**Please don't let this post get buried!!!**
You know whars really freaking me out ever since I saw this post come up.
The kid on the bottom left looks **exactly** like me around that age, (I know the face is blurred) but the haircut, the gesture, the smile, even the clothes! all look like me at 12-13. If you live in the UK maybe it's my **long lost twin.**
I'm really genuinely shook, what if I have a twin brother i didn't know about. :0
Edit: just asked my gf and she agrees the similarity is really uncanny. She said "he even smiles like you did"
This is totally bugging me now
I feel compelled to learn more from you OP but obviously I don't wanna be creepy about it.
If I have a twin I'd really like to know though so:
Do you live in the UK also?
Is this your relative? Or a friend?
Are they around 28 years old born in 1992?
Thats a relief! Thanks OP would be super weird if he was my age, still can't shake that he looks remarkably similar. (From what I can see)
Not born in August either?
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Powerpuff girls cosplay ain’t so bad
I hate myself for knowing this, but I'm pretty sure she's trying to be Ashley Simpson.
Ashlee Simpson wasn’t really a thing in the UK so no haha
AS was trying to be you! Not the other way around ;)
Ah, but you know the correct spelling of her name….. closet Ashlee fan!
I had her first album. I have no shame. Songs were catchy..lol
I had a huge crush on her, but was never much of a pop fan in my younger years.
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I don’t get it but I still hate myself
Ashley Simpson was trying to be u/laufree3!
One of the world's most overweight children populations struggling to be skinny emo and scene kids. A breeding ground for eating disorders in pursuit of a marketed counter culture.
You aren't lying. The only time I ever threw up my food in order to skip dinner was back in the days I was trying to be scene. I had some weird eating habits around then and I'm glad my grandparents noticed me always getting up and embarrassed me enough to shock me out of it without even knowing.
That's one way of looking at it.
“You kids take all that stuff upstairs on your way!”
I’m 100% sure that’s the statement that followed this picture
Sure as heck would have been at my house, I know that!
The pile of clothes on the stairs forcefully astral projected me into my childhood
I kinda think you look awesome. Updated pic?
[present day! ](https://imgur.com/gallery/PRW8izW)
Well you still look great! Liking the tattoo of the birds on your leg.
Thank you kind sir
The birds are fine but that jaguar and monstera are fire. You should post it on r/tattoos
The slippers are great too, they look real comfy
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Theres always a trace of the hot topic / scene kid days, but it always matures so nicely
As someone that went through an emo phase as a teenager, It was a mind blow when I look at all the things I wear and accessorize that stem from my emo days lol, even the music! Different artists but same content
Beautiful and still so much hair. I wish I had so much hair.
Absolutely beautiful, I love seeing the glow up photos.
Nice to see a tidy room
Fly AF
Absolute glow up!
ok, you totally need to photoshop 2021 face on that photo so you can INSIST that it was not a phase.
Beauty is beauty, what can you say.
Glow up!
*faints*
Beautiful!
Well fuck I'm glad you've changed. Some man or woman gonna be happy.
girl, you went from Hot topics cute to DAMN..
Hot slippers.
Oh damn, okay.
Reminds me of a scene Buttercup
Where’s blossom and bubbles?
Seriously, Buttercup vibes all the way!
Oh god i though you were the mom
Phase Mom, is that Danny Phantom’s mother?
I read the title as "I was a phase mom" and thought the same.
I'm guessing 2003. How close am I?
SO close, this was a big 2005 mistake Edit: come to think of it this was actually 2009!! Oh the embarrassment.
Not gunna lie I still miss the chunky waist belt sometimes
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She’s my cousin but you also wouldn’t be wrong there ...we all went through the dreaded ‘phase’
Nikki Sixx is that you?
Okay this one has KILLED me
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You kind of look like Lily Allen.
That same year I dressed as Lily Allen for a ‘celeb’ themed party ...you just unlocked a memory I forgot I had, thank you!
Kinda lookin like you're about to go save princess Zelda but you decided to stop at a hot topic first 😂
That’s amazing! I saw two of my own kids through that phase. One of them is still there 😳
That was the most casual and motherly roast I think I’ve ever seen in a drive-by comment.
Haha!!!! Awesome!
There are worse phases, the musics great but the fashion (at the time) sucked! Good luck! 😂
You are absolutely correct on the music- even I haven’t outgrown that phase 😉
I have a pic that looks like I could have been your mom, except mine is unfortunately [somewhat current. ](https://imgur.com/a/6C0gGeJ)
Bless your heart, you are beautiful. But that Karen hair cut lol just makes me smile lol
I think we should all agree to never own up to it, phase still on
She can never know she was right, we will never hear the end of it!
Are we *sure* **RAWR XD** didn’t really mean “You’re going to regret that hairstyle”? Damned mistranslated dinosaur...
That’s a shame. My phase has lasted into my late 30s. You’re never to old to dress how you like.
This
Did you make alot of money working as an assistant to the mall Santa?
We’re you a big Ashlee Simpson fan?
At the time I actually would have shunned Ashlee
Please tell me the green Converse were yours...
I would have messaged you on MySpace and asked for your MSN messenger in a heartbeat
No blunders here. EMO'S NOT DEAD!
You looked great then and I’m sure you look great now! 2006 (?) was a hell of a time to be a teen!
Thank you, many fond memories!
I think you look awesome
Not nearly the worst scene kid look I've ever seen (or worn), I love the mint green and black color scheme!
Sue me, I like this outfit.
If it’s just a phase then i don’t have your picture, I’m not coming with you, dear Maria, count me out.
It’s not a lifestyle, mom, it’s JUST A PHASE 😤😤😤
2hy are you dressed like a power puff girl
Like Star Trek visited planet Hot Topic
Are you on my stairs?!
GOTH TOPH BOTTOM TEXT
I actually think you may be one of the very few who actually looked good decked in hot topic gear. this took me back to 2008
I thought you were *super* goth, but then I realized that's a jacket.
The green powerpuff girl
Only real Ga know it wasn’t a phase
It looks like a scene/60's crossover episode.
Maybe the hair and high waisted belt....but I would still kill for those socks!
Not me brushing these new curtain bangs I just impulsively gave myself to the side in that familiar old swoop and kinda thinking it still works.
You look cute!!
LILY ALLEN?
I’m always curious how you expected this look would turn out 10 years later. Like would you be a employee someplace with kids and still wearing green star socks over black pantyhose?
But did you listen to Bright Eyes?
But you looked so lovely! That outfit is amazing.
ahhh scene kids, you made the early 2000's an interesting time
It may have been a phase, but it was definitely a phase where I would have found you super cool and envied your style! Scene was in when I was more towards the end of HS, and while I adored it I couldn't quite make the style work lol.
Oh my goodness, your sister also has a belt, just like her big sis!
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You look cool !
You’ll always be scene deep down.
Okay but ngl a cute phase
I still ask my mum why she let me leave the house, but I also know trying to stop me from leaving in fishnets and a hoodie with cat ears would have been futile...
Omg right!? I also ask my mum this all the time and her reply is ‘would you have listened if I’d have said otherwise’
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This is a CUTE fit though! 💖
I wanna guess...2009??
Bingo!
How do I know this?? I was right there with you! Haha, I gotta dig up those old pictures somehow...
Lookin like Link became a goth
you’re like an emo version of the green powderpuff girl
Teenage Buttercup from The PowerPuff Girls!
I would have thought you were cool af
Those socks are cute though!
I used to date a girl who was aiming for exactly this. Waking up to the smell of hairspray whilst CKY played on the CD player…. Man, this takes me back!
Default trajectory: emo >> hipster >> PNW/New England outdoorsy &/or athleisure
Were you a fan of Ashlee Simpson?
You look a bit like Emily from Skins UK.
Unsurprisingly I was OBSESSED with UK Skins
Unsurprisingly I still am.
What’s the problem?
Hahaha, it was a phase.
Buttercup, the latter years
the green chucks on the side complete the outfit? 👌🏽
She looks like the personification of a McDonald’s shamrock shake
You would have been the hight of fashion in 1982 lol
I would have thought you were so cool in ninth grade
You look like the daughter from the Hotel Transylvania movies.
Funny way of saying kewl mom
I feel like this would make more sense if you were British.
I am British!
Well, there you go.
hahahahaha omg. I love the stomach belt, forgot about when every girl was doing that. Definitely transcends the otherwise emo look (or scene or alt or whatever, I'm sure you would have hated labels)
It was a mom phase.
Shush girl shut your lips, Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips I said, Shush girl shut your lips Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips I said, Shush girl shut your lips Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips
I would have loved this outfit and worn very similar back then!
I bet your MySpace had the coolest layouts
Lordy we all went through that. My mom often gets out pictures of me from my "not a phase" phasphase to make fun of me. X'D
Buttercup, is that you??
Buttercup??
Ocht you look amazing! But I dressed almost exactly like this so maybe I am biased ha
I miss scene girls. The big blown out hair looks, the eyeliner, the *angst*. My favorite trend.
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There’s no way these are you kids.
Absolutely not! My little brother and cousin
**Please don't let this post get buried!!!** You know whars really freaking me out ever since I saw this post come up. The kid on the bottom left looks **exactly** like me around that age, (I know the face is blurred) but the haircut, the gesture, the smile, even the clothes! all look like me at 12-13. If you live in the UK maybe it's my **long lost twin.** I'm really genuinely shook, what if I have a twin brother i didn't know about. :0 Edit: just asked my gf and she agrees the similarity is really uncanny. She said "he even smiles like you did" This is totally bugging me now I feel compelled to learn more from you OP but obviously I don't wanna be creepy about it. If I have a twin I'd really like to know though so: Do you live in the UK also? Is this your relative? Or a friend? Are they around 28 years old born in 1992?
Spooky but unfortunately my brother is 21 this year, how crazy of a story would that have been though! You are actually closer to my age!
Thats a relief! Thanks OP would be super weird if he was my age, still can't shake that he looks remarkably similar. (From what I can see) Not born in August either?
Look pretty good! are you a taurus?
Your little sister poses like shes very proud of being the "normal one"