• Test Display Name ⭐@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year 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
      5·
      1 year 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.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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

    • Nepenthe@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year 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.

    • AlexisFR@jlai.luEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Did she ever made friends this day, or is it just a full on copypasta?

      • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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
      1·
      1 year ago

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

      /s but also not /s

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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
          1·
          1 year 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

  • Snow-Foxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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.

    • BraBraBra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Millennial fashion was pretty bad imho. From the emo look all the way down to the lumberjack look. All quite contrived and corny, but that’s just my opinion.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    This was like, 5% of millennials. Trust me, I was one of them. We got our asses kicked for dressing this way. Most everyone else either did “gangsta” style with low-hanging pants and Timberland boots/Jordans, or “preppy” style with a boring-ass polo shirt and khakis.

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Emocore stuff was also later on and seen generally as a pop-poser spinoff of punk and metal culture. It got uniquely hated on by both mainstream and alternative cliques because of this.

      I personally went through a pretty extended punk phase and never really got picked on. I actually made plenty of friends with jocks and stoners in high school, while wearing a pretty cringe getup with operation Ivy patches and shit.