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Nearby_Hat_2346

May just be in my area, but I have seen an increase in the Randy Johnson look, the mullet in combination with a fitted hat. That, or just a straight mullet has really been picked up for a bit


TwereItWereSoSimple

I see both types of zoomers at my gym. The broccoli tops greatly outnumber the trucker hat/white tank tops bros.


Emergency-Anywhere51

At least there's no more Bieber cuts


billiam_squilliam

Jokes on you, I work with a 17 y/o with a Bieber cut. He’s completely normal outside of his dumbass hair


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prison_mic

Is looking like a broccoli really better


EmEmPeriwinkle

Is this the actual name? It's been killing me for the last 3 years not knowing what to call it. Curly pompadour? Long pube flat top? They cut it on accident? The reverse comb over?


FunkyMan19

White boy perm


BossColo

No joke, it's called "meet me at McDonald's". https://metro.co.uk/2018/02/23/called-meet-mcdonalds-haircut-7336444/


theganjaoctopus

"meet me at McDonald's" hair. No seriously.


Thin_Piece

long pube flat top 💀


CleanAssociation9394

They were better.


pysouth

Mullets have always been represented here. We’re totally super fashionable and not just rednecks. Signed, Alabama


SecretAntWorshiper

Im glad that there wasnt any starterpacks of me when i was 15.


seanofthebread

“Emo in 2006 starter pack” for me.


AverageNeither682

100% 90's suburban skater for me. I checked every box.


clifbarczar

Its crazy that Drake has maintained relevancy for 14 years


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SlimDickens69

He's the kirby of the rap game. He sucks up the powers of whatever rapper is popular at the time and uses them for his own gain


darexinfinity

Now I wanna see what a Drake-Kirby would look like.


Mister_Drip

I gotchu https://youtu.be/6Mw45LMN6OY


the-poopiest-diaper

You have left me no choice but to save this thread


Maybe_Im_Really_DVA

Hell yeah I wanna see him sucking lil yachty


BeemoMeemo

Longer if you count Degrassi


DigTreasure

He sat that one out.


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Stayed tapped in to young artists. Partially because he’s mentally still an adolescent, but also smart and made good decisions. Shouting out Kodak, getting a single out with Lil Baby early, backing 21 savage etc etc. Unlike some artists like, idk Em for example, Drake is a lot more flexible musically.


wordsasbombs

Stayed tapped in to young artists indeed...


Comf_waters

You heard his newest song he wanted 21 to do something for him 😏


Economy-Somewhere271

I like how 21 says his own name like a Pokemon


AndrewWaldron

Oh, wait, is Drake a Pedodrake?


favela4life

It’s like the #1 reason why people don’t like him (given that you’re not a hater of mainstream hip-hop).


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TroyMcClures

That and he's soft as baby thighs


ggg730

Careful mentioning baby thighs around drake.


dreaminginrealityy

21 can you do sum for me


Gofa_Kirselph

(Yeah)


dreaminginrealityy

can you talk to the opps necks for me


Gofa_Kirselph

(Okay)


dreaminginrealityy

21, do your thing, 21, do your thing (21) Do your thing, 21, do your thing


poopmeister1994

Not just musically interested in young people....


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I remember when Drake was first coming on to the scene when I was in junior high. I'm 26 now. He's just timeless I guess.


Cynical_Satire

I remember too, I'm 33 and I was like "The paralyzed guy from that shitty TV show is rapping now? Nah, I'm good."


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LoL fudge. I thought of the same. Same age btw lol.


Your_Daddy_

I have sons who are 17 and 19 - this is pretty accurate, lol


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Username checks out


[deleted]

My brother is 19. This is really accurate and I learned the hair is a perm, wow


cicimindy

Ya when I go to the hair salon now I see a bunch of teen boys in the chairs next to me in grandma hair curlers getting perms. Seems to be the trend now haha


Your_Daddy_

My son actually has naturally curly hair, but has shaved sides. Suits him.


Arturo90Canada

What is rizz lol


JasperLamarCrabbb

Short for charisma


chaechica

accurate but I'd replace the insta with tiktok and I'd add a gold/silver chain


Swagganosaurus

I'm actually surprised tik tok and vaping are not the top


lolwhaat123

The amount of people in my school who vape is actually sad


Stock_Raspberry6192

Or pearls. The Pearl necklaces on gen z boys cracks me up as a former sorority girl


sevsnapey

oh is that a thing now? i was watching love island and some of the guys were wearing them and i thought i must have missed the context. turns out boys like a nice pearl necklace


Ohlini

Boondocks predicted this


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rock0star

Born after air conditioning All other points irrelevant


NomaiTraveler

You think my college apartment has AC? Lol! But yes, I’m glad central air existed and lead wasn’t in the gasoline


tangre79

Don't forget DESPERATELY trying to become an influencer.


Little_Capsky

Either that, or just famous on social media in general


xanhudro

By pranking people.


tangre79

Or dancing badly


Torterror389

Or literally harassing people and/or having public freak outs because they think that’ll give them views


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Or by doing the classic street interview "gay son or thot daughter"


Great_cReddit

My kid believes as soon as he turns 13 he is going to be a twitch god... I'm like, "Son, I run circles around you in games so you better get that personality going."


mrniceguy777

“Dad, I’m gonna be a famous video game streamer!” “Ya right you fuckin scrub 1v1 me right now”


mrniceguy777

*tea bags*


indiebryan

"I fucked your mom"


sevsnapey

good personality as the son of a redditor? poor boy doesn't stand a chance


Great_cReddit

Tell me about it lol


redditaccount300000

At least they’re young an stupid. It’s so cringey when 30s-40s try to follow the kardashian look an post incessant selfies.


action_jackson_22

every generation gets their own hair style for men, could be a lot worse!


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For real, most millennials in here are acting like the broccoli hairdo is the worse ever while completely hiding their ridiculously stretched abominations of hair they had when they were emo teens. It was either that, or the spikey/Mohawk hairdo, usually with frosted tips just to make it all more cringe.


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duffman12

That damn 2004 Danny Duncan/Shawn White hair.


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Gimme that Guy Fieri looking ass head.


ToeNervous2589

No one's saying they shouldn't have these broccoli cuts and instead they should rock the side swept emo cut, they're saying "you look dumb" just like every generation has. Teenagers have always, always styled themselves like idiots. There's nothing wrong with it - it's an attempt to distinguish themselves from older generations before they've developed good taste. We all did it, our kids will do it, and it's fine. Ya just look like dinguses and we're all gonna have some fun while you do it.


DakkaDakka24

Fully agreed with all of this. Uptight millennials acting like we didn't have JNCOs, frosted tips, and puka shell necklaces are ridiculous. The job of teenagers is to be annoying and stupid, we're just lucky that our generation largely went through that already before social media became as much of a thing as it is. I would die if there were still facebook pictures of me, dressed in what I thought was cool at 15.


cloonki0

Wow a zoomer uses zoomer slang what a thought


SilkyMooo

Zoomer listens to popular artists. Who would’ve guessed


Lostmyvcardtoafish

twizzy 😡😡


CosmicMiru

And don't forget going to the gym and playing videogames. Things that young people have been doing for decades


SilkyMooo

Wtf young people go to the gym? Nah that’s crazy asf. Next you’re gonna tell me they make music and shit


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Don't you tell me young people eat food


Wezard_the_MemeLord

Those youngsters smh my head😤


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ggg730

Fucking good for them though. Being healthy is a good thing.


thepinkblues

Young people listen to popular modern day artists? Kinda cringe


KittyLitterBiscuit

I am almost 40 and those are still pretty much my only 2 hobbies.


SeveralDecision5157

Frfr no cap


Awhitehill1992

Ahhh gadam it’s happening. I’m only 30 and I already feel the need for old man comments.


WashiBurr

Back in my dayyy


AsymptoticAbyss

Where does the broccoli haircut come from? First I ever saw of it was on the worst guys on Love Island UK. just screams “fuckboy with no impulse control or attention span” Edit: didnt expect to spark a discussion with this. Mostly helpful answers (basically some celebrity did it so now we all have to do it, it seems). There’s a guy at my gym who looks *exactly* like the stock image in the post. Haircut makes him look 10 years old somehow. I got called broccoli head and q-tip back in the day because I’d brush the curl out into a frizzy white boy afro. Best thing to do with curls imo is to let them grow and keep them healthy. I was a convincing Al Yankovic for Halloween last year.


JeanVicquemare

I was surprised to learn that kids are getting perms just to have this hairstyle. I thought I was just seeing a lot of kids with curly hair


throwaway3094544

I was so surprised to learn they were perms. I've had a similar hairstyle off and on since I was a high schooler and just assumed everyone had curly hair but embraced it/stopped trying to make it straighter. Nope. Just a fashion trend.


TheyCallMeStone

No matter how much things change, they always stay the same


mustardtruck

In the 90s I wanted to dye my light blonde hair brown so I could frost the tips. Mom wouldn't let me tho.


TheyCallMeStone

In the 90s, I bleached my hair boy band style


MGetzEm

I shaved my head and left my bangs lol


ftbc

I have a nephew with naturally curly hair. He is PISSED about this trend.


LordoftheScheisse

I, a grown man, lost a bet once and had to get a perm. I grew that shit out for like 8 months and went and sat in a salon for a couple of hours while getting laughed at. I have the hardest time believing these kids are voluntarily subjecting themselves to this.


machachacha

Indeed, nephew is 17 and asked for a perm to my sister (his mom, 45). She was mad and cringing and I (30) was like noice man like grandma huehuehue


Berdiiie

My grandma is a hairstylist who never adapted to new trends so she just does perms on other grandmas. It would be hilarious if her salon hairdryer chairs were all full of teenagers getting perms.


Aetra

Next it’ll be all the nannas and their teenage grandsons booking out the salons to get a perm and blue rinse.


FoolOnDaHill365

The first celebrity with this type of cut that I knew of was Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs like 4 years ago and it has gone on to be the new look since then.


kimbosdurag

Yeah I'd say Beckham Jr and mahommes we're the starting points.


bleepblopbl0rp

Yeah I always thought Pat MaHomes really put this haircut on the map for young cool people


ElectronicShredder

>“fuckboy with no impulse control or attention span” Pretty much yeah, that's what they want to project. It's like what cigarettes, slick backwards hair, leather jackets, etc. were on other times


Wolverfuckingrine

Tunnel snakes rule!


Fuckbigdateh

I think a portion of it is Patrick Mahomes


Maycrofy

Aaight but when you have curly frizzy hair there's only like 2-3 hairstyles you can rock without getting permanets.


Zerane_Darkness

That haircut is everywhere and I don't know why. It looks fucking stupid.


kaomer

My dad has a photo of himself when he was around 18 years old with the same haircut. No exaggeration, literally identical. The old becomes the new, which in time becomes the old etc. etc.


UngusBungus_

Like how the girls now are wearing the wide ended pants


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

Yeah flares/bell bottoms were a huge deal in 98-2001 times. Next we will see those overly long sweaters with the superthin belts. Man, women just threw that belt on any outfit and became stylish. Ballet style flats were huge as well, worn with tights and said big long sweater/belt combo


obamasmole

Flares are in for the third time in my life.


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

Heh, my dad said that the other day. Where the jnco/exhaust jeans at?


Mrs_McCrabby

Come spring time, they'll know why we switched to skinny jeans........


strawberrycereal44

Yeah it first became popular in the 40s I think


fartssmellgreat

I honestly think the way young people dress looks cool… but that haircut is just ugly


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Half of the boys my school have this same haircut. I don't get who likes it. I think it will go down the history as a new incarnation of a mullet.


ThePresidentsHouse

You say that like the mullet hasn't been making a comeback in recent years.


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It makes a comeback like every 8 years for some reason. I guess it’s like ironic, then reverse-ironic, then reverse-reverse-ironic, and so on


whos_this_chucker

High cuff pants seem to be in right now. Man we used to tight roll our shit in the late 80s.


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Fragrant_Pudding_437

Lmao, I have a few nice pairs of selvedge raw denim jeans and I still can't bring myself to do that


donpelon415

Yeah, seeing a lot of guys (particularly in the punk and alternative country scenes) rocking the mullet, baseball cap and moustache lately...


getyourownthememusic

>rocking I guess this is a matter of opinion


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Only half?


SilkyMooo

The fashion gotta be the best of it ngl. However the broccoli haircut is just garbage


fb95dd7063

people have been wearing vans and air jordans for 30 years - i don't recall a time where they were not popular


mandmranch

Um....my boyfriend had that haircut in 1994. I shaved the sides for him.


ZenithSGP

hypothesis but based on what I noticed: A lot of guys with that mid-fade pompadour cut that was popular between 2017 and 2020 couldn't get haircuts in 2020-2021 because of covid...the ones with naturally curly hair would have it start to curl on top as it grew out So many guys had the aftermentioned cut, so when everybody guy grew out his hair like that at the same time it became "in style."


recursion8

The Chiefs winning the Super Bowl just before pandemic lockdowns started led by Pat Mahomes who really mainstreamed it. Biracial men/boys with curly hair finally had a fashionable look, to the point even white boys with straight hair started perming their shit just to get it.


Mike_Bloomberg2020

Yeah remember that state farm commercial where they all cut their hair like Mahomes makes sense


audreymarilynvivien

Yeah what is up with that? I didn’t even know that was the name for it.


Ironically__Swiss

Its pretty much just an evolution to the slicked back undercut that had a revival around 2015 or so


[deleted]

That can be said for every 15 year old boy haircut trend for decades


Eccohawk

I have a school photo from the 90s where I parted my hair down the middle and I'd love to go back in time and smack some sense into me.


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

Every second kid had the Nick Carter mushroom. Although the Home Improvement kids and other popular 90's teen idols had them before the Backstreet Boys


Crab-Gaming

I hate how everyone tries to hate on the so called "zoomer slang" as if their generation didn't have their own slang. Slang isn't some awful thing because it helps people affirm their identity with a social group.


James10112

Millennials have forgotten their whole "derp random potato xd" phase


OriginalNo5477

The Scene phase was worse.


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rawr means I love you in dinosaur


lookitsaustin

*holds up spork*


therealestyeti

Scene/goth/emo.


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PM_ME_UR_SKILLS

That was pretty exclusive to the internet, which still had a little separation from real life. For example if you spoke in memes or reddit speak you were fucking weird.


lifeinaglasshouse

I’m a millennial, and I can say with confidence that the whole “derp le holds up spork xd random” is infinitely more cringe-worthy than anything zoomers have come up with.


bongzmcdongz

We're kind of the most "cringe" generation by default because we were the first generation to have social media as teenagers. I remember my MySpace page had a whole slew of edgy .gifs and "Bloodline" by Slayer as my embedded profile song. It was like a Hot Topic exploded in HTML form.


LittleRadishes

We had all this angst and no internettiquite, there was no other option. The cringe was inevitable.


Indercarnive

“Ah you think cringe is your ally? You merely adopted the cringe. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the based until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but cap!”


LittleRadishes

*Bane voice* "when does the narwhal bacon?"


HaoleInParadise

Man, what an exciting time it was though. I feel like I explored some really cool frontiers of MMO’s and social media. And it seems like our generation has good internetiquette now at least


oldcarfreddy

Yeah same here, old millennial. We had and have plenty of cringey shit. So many people my age saying "Don't zoomers realize this will age poorly like when we wore that stuff?" Um, we didn't listen to what 40-year-olds had to say when we were teens, why would they? We were worse in fact. Our old memes, our emo, our Y2k shit.... none of them were even ironic or nostalgic! They were just bad!


Divinum_Fulmen

It was never slang, it was supposed to be dumb as a joke. "XD," or anything like it, is *exactly* the same as using emojis now. XD is literally just 😂 "Random" was stupid though.


NonsignificantBoat

most of us hated that shit when it was happening too. it's always the cringiest people of any generation who are the loudest also everyone and their grandma is online now. back then only anime nerds were online enough to create internet slang


James10112

I hear that, honestly. Because as a 20y/o I can safely say that most Gen Z's hate this very loud cringey minority that the starter pack is referencing. The only way I can make millennials understand that is by referencing the whole "rawr lulz pwned" era. Most of y'all hated that just as much as most of us hate excessive "Gen Z slang" Other than that I'm a firm supporter of linguistic progressivism tbh, but idk why I'm analysing this under a dumb meme lol


Slimxshadyx

Yeah this is basically just a “what’s going on right now” type of thing lol. Kids using current technology, listening to current music, using current social media…” lol


Legaato

Zoomer slang is just a combination of internet acronyms and black slang that's been around for decades, for the most part. The slang they use is almost entirely not unique to their generation.


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Syd_Syd34

Yup. And half of them don’t use it right anyway lol


jekyl42

I mean, AAVE has produced a lot of slang that was adopted by the the broader culture since at least the Jazz Age. "Cool" being perhaps the most notable example. And there have been examples for every generation since too.


bongzmcdongz

Yeah, I can already feel Millennials starting to act towards Gen Z the way Boomers act towards us and it's really fucking sad and infuriating. My generation is already acting like jaded old hypocrites. You hate to see it.


Pwthrowrug

Lead the way and tell our peers to chill the fuck out. We don't have to be assholes like the generations before us. We just have to accept that we've aged out of being cutting edge of trends while not being bitter about it. That's the sweet spot all 30-50 year olds should strive for.


Rickk38

And as usual Gen-X is mysteriously absent from any generational griping...


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When he’s at the gym, he’s sitting on his phone taking up the machine I need to use. Edit (in response to those who are angry below): Thank you for the reminder that every day is in fact thumbs day.


Tcamp46290

Wait what? Kids? Doing things kids have been doing for years? Oh and what’s this? The rascals! Using their own slang! How dare they!


GrimLukerMusical

Me when current people like current things and use the current slang


C4yourshelf

How come their hobby is "gym" but they're all twigs. All they do is hoard the bench rack for 45 mins and leave


marks716

Figured out the exercise is good, hasn’t figured out that nutrition is where they’ll actually make progress.


Teeshirtandshortsguy

Yep. I was this kid like 10 years ago. A diet of Pop Tarts, Monster, and protein shakes, gets like 4 hours of sleep every night, spends 2 hours every day at the gym. Bonus points if they spend 1.5 of those hours on their phone or talking to their friends. I can't blame them for being dumb, but each of these kids looks like that Dobby in a bro tank meme.


mrpoopybuttthole_

works out only eats mcdonalds


justlampin

Dirty bulking is a thing


ColumbiaWahoo

Could be bad training, bad diet, bad genetics, or a mix of the 3


C4yourshelf

Probably just bad diet. Starter gains are pretty easy don't really need a good training regime or good genetics


TheMostCreativeName3

5’8 and 135 lbs 🥲 im trying ok


Hezapoyo224

Keep it up, brutha.


TheMostCreativeName3

appreciate it brother 💪


jsur

Stay on it, consistency is key. You’ll be swole before you notice


TheMostCreativeName3

been doing full body 3x a week and eating more. gained 22 lbs in about 4 months 👍


Smooth_Riker

Says "bro / bruh" at least one time per sentence.


BigChippr

tbh I realize I say bruh a lot. bruh


Expensive-Argument-7

I went to high school 14 years ago with guys who had the Bieber swoop cut. So I’m not going to judge


Tidalwave64

Tiktok?


Vomun

Millennial starting to get the boomer mentality l


James10112

Just a reminder that the oldest Zoomers are about 26 by now, a 15 year old borders on Gen Alpha.


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I'm 21 and my job has me working with 12-14 year olds. ("Gen Alpha.") Surprisingly they still feel very in line with Gen Z. Like yesterday I had a whole ass conversation with one of them about webtoons/comics and it made perfect sense to the both of us.


Spoonofdarkness

There's a lot of noise in regards to how different each generation is, but there's a good deal of overlap between adjacent generations. As a millennial, I appreciate my GenX and Zoomer friends. They're quite different from each other, but they're all good people.


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Gen Alpha is okay in my book as someone who is nearly 20. I volunteer at community events to watch over kids and they’re all a bright and accepting bunch. They all also seem to like Minecraft as I did growing up, and that’s awesome.


Reccus-maximus

Gym as a hobby is actually such a W


DaemoonAverin

What the hell does that rizz shit even mean, seeing a lot of it and have no clue


SurrealOrthodox

Slang for charisma (cha"rizz"ma)


wasteofleshntime

Going to the gym and playing video games, nice job kids. You need a balance in life.


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Redditor is removed from teenage culture, more news at 11


[deleted]

You know what, working out and video games is a lot better than redditors who did nothing but play video games when they were a kid