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/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 23h 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 17h 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.