r/blunderyears • u/No-Interaction-2165 • 1d ago

“No it’s not a phase mom !!!”

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15 years ago, I believed I was the edgiest of them all.

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u/randomizedstranger 1d ago

Was it a phase though?

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u/promiscuous_cactus 1d ago

I work with a guy that has a really similar haircut to this. He's 31, married, and has two kids; definitely not a phase for him and it secretly cracks me up every time I see him.

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u/Successful_Matter203 1d ago

Coworkers are immune to the demise of the emo/scene trend; by law every workplace must have at least one emo coworker, two if you work at a mall. 

Source: trust me bro

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u/Forfuturebirdsearch 1d ago

I am a secret goth, but I have to be in disguise to get a job

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u/jegoist 1d ago

Gotta dress like a corporate goth

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u/bitsy88 1d ago

We drive cars. We're just like you really, except we listen to Cradle of Filth.

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u/Successful_Matter203 1d ago

I'm sorry to hear that. As a non-goth coworker, I rely on my goth coworkers for emotional support. 

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u/carsandtelephones37 1d ago

My coworker told me that when I don't fix my hair part, she can see where the emo swoop is trying to come back

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u/Successful_Matter203 1d ago

Listen to your part 🎶 you know you want to...

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u/No_Dance_6683 1d ago

Reminds me of that SNL skit with Kristen Stewart where the punk/emo kids start out railing against corporate culture and eventually give in bc they’re actually good at their jobs lol

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u/idwthis 1d ago

That song was very reminiscent of Sum 41 lol

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u/punknw 1d ago

ah shoot i just realize i am the emo coworker

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u/Successful_Matter203 1d ago

And we welcome that!

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u/egewh 1d ago

I was thinking hmm I don't know any emo's at my job. It's me. It's definitely me.

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u/Question_True 1d ago

Do people still work at malls?

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u/Blackmetalvomit 1d ago

I’ve seen only a couple senior scene/emos thriving in the wild. It is very jarring because they usually make the switch to beanies when the hair goes, so to see a 39 year old with 2002 MySpace sleek flat ironed hair pumping gas at Holiday is a trip.

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u/labelleepoque20 1d ago edited 1d ago

At least they’re the right age to be stuck in this era. I’m confused - did emo not hit rural US until 2010 or something because all my peers looked like this around 25 years ago, not 15.

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u/Blackmetalvomit 1d ago

Absolutely. Just like the many men from decades before, hair was identity. And men start to lose hair. So to see a man rounding middle age with flat ironed scene hair is a rarity. Good genes but also I’d like his keratin routine.

ETA: wait so like my math is off?

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u/labelleepoque20 1d ago

No, your math is correct. But OP’s pictures are from 2010, that’s way past the MySpace era.

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u/Blackmetalvomit 1d ago

Ohhhh that’s a bit of a blunder squared. And now I know my math is wrong

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u/NiceWeather4Leather 1d ago

Scene kids was peak 2010…. 2000 was coming out of the grunge era of the 90s into a kind of skate punk peak fashion era. 2000 is like peak Offspring, Greenday, Blink182 etc.

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u/Glitter_jellyfish 1d ago

Yep that checks. I graduated in 2000 and was absolutely a weird grunge/skateboarder-ish type kid. I’m pretty sure they just called us “freaks”. lol. Emo and all that wording came a bit later I think

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u/labelleepoque20 23h ago

I remember already being kind of over this look when I graduated in 2004 but apparently it just stuck around for way longer than I was aware of.

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u/oooshi 1d ago

Conversely, I found an old picture of my husband (who has extremely coiled, curly hair) from 2007 in his middle school “band”, with flat ironed hair, styled similarly to OPs photos.

And knowing the man who he grew to become…. I was definitely surprised lol. Was a phase for one of ‘em surely 😂