#cheugy 2000s

[mortemappetens]

I just made myself laugh, thinking about how the Bieber hairstyle was everything back in the late 2000s, and how Megumi probably wanted to grow his hair out to “rock” the do. But of course, Satoru shut that shit down hard. He was already Toji’s “mini-me”. There was no need to make it worse.

Kento was probably a scene kid too, with the swoopy Myspace hair and all that “rawr is dinosaur for I <3 you” printed Tees. That is, until his first non-sorcerer internship. He traded in his ratty old Vans for some sensible oxfords.

I know Satoru owned at least one pair of shutter shades and a few skinny jeans. Unfortunately, he was only able to wear them at most twice because, 1. he was back in uniform getting his teaching license and 2. Kiyotaka once ripped into him for his moose knuckle - the first (and only) time Satoru was ever, ever bullied by him. He swears he didn’t cry a little bit.

[despazito]

Back in my day we didn't say cheugy we said I'm so 3008 you so 2000 and late

[dreamgrlarchive]

you know what’s a fashion discussion I’ve always been interested in? the timelessness of 90s style. It always fascinated me how even after all these years, people still draw inspiration from 90s style and revere it at such a grand level. other decades don’t have the same hold as the 90s. styles from other decades didn’t age as well. the 50s/60s are seen as “too grandma/grandpa”, the 70s/80s are seen as too tacky and loud, the 2000s are seen as too blingy and gaudy, and even the 2010s are seen as too plain, drab & cheugy. some of these decades are celebrated by niche audiences. But the 90s is the only one that fascinates the masses

I cant seem to pinpoint why but there’s just something about the way major fashion houses at the time crafted garments with specific color schemes, patterns, silhouettes, fabrics, accessories, and much more. it teetered the line between minimalist sensibility (contributing to the wearability of said garment) and playfulness (making the garment have personality and deviate away from “boring”). I just wanted to know what your thoughts are on this?

no i completely agree! (esp with the cheugy ‘10s) think the 90s focused SO MUCH on essentials. it was extremely simplistic yet still look worthy.

[cluethegirl]

this is so: . Like blank. It's pulling up a blank, for me, for me, it's a blank. This is such a useless take, like this is the thing you're supposed to open the argument with, but only if you're writting an infomercial about why using the transit over your own car is a good thing! This, to me, taste the same as those stupid ass covers that play in coffee shops where you can feel the spit of the singer through the speakers, this is the hgtv version of a home that hasn't been nice since the early 2000s. This is equally a bungalo and a mcmansion, this is a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside, but you're not gonna know that, because this house is made of fucking cheugy little beige carpets. There is something in this that just draws me in but I don't want it to. It reminds me of something my father once said.

American moment

[atlanticcanada]

Zillennials: The newest micro-generation has a name

There was a time when Juliana Olarte, a 26-year-old travel publicist living in New York City, couldn’t figure out where she fit in from a generational standpoint.

Her Generation Z sister, who is 16, sometimes calls Olarte “cheugy,” she said. Gen Z uses the term to refer to “millennial things that are kind of uncool or cringey,” according to Olarte.

“My sister sees me as a young millennial, and millennials see me as Gen Z,” she said.

The term millennial (also known as Generation Y) refers to anyone born between 1981 and 1996, and Gen Z refers to anyone born from 1997 through 2012, according to the Pew Research Center.

Along the blurry edge at the cusp of the two generations, between Gen Y and Z, is where zillennials live.

“When I first heard the term zillennial, in college, I was like, ‘That’s me,’” Olarte said.

Unfamiliar with the term? It’s a tiny group.

“Zillennials refer to a small cohort born between the early 1990s and the early 2000s,” said Deborah Carr, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science at Boston University. “They’re on the cusp of Gen Z and millennial, thus the mash-up label of zillennial.”

Members of this micro-generation, loosely defined as being in their early to mid-20s, have faced and overcome much adversity in their relatively short lives, Carr said via email.

“They were babies and children when 9/11 struck and don’t know life before airport security screenings, rampant domestic terrorism and other frightening threats,” she said. “They attended college during the pandemic, and missed out on important social markers.”

Zillennials were born roughly between 1992 and 2002, but there isn’t one consistent cutoff point that experts agree on, Carr said.

Ask a zillennial, though, and they might tell you who they are.

Olarte’s sister and other members of “Gen Z grew up with a phone in their hand and with social media — they didn’t miss a beat,” Olarte said. A decade earlier, “we had the iPod Touch to download music online and did YouTube-to-MP3 converters.”

HOW DOES TECH DEFINE THE CUTOFF FOR GEN Z?

The different ways generations grow up with and use technology is a strong delineator in defining generations.

Zillennials straddle the generations of millennials, who are considered digital pioneers, and Gen Z, who are considered digital natives who never knew life before screens.

“We’ve been growing up with technology our whole lives, but we’re not TikTok dancers like Gen Z but also weren’t on MySpace like millennials,” said Sabrina Grimaldi, 23. She launched Zillennial Zine, a mostly online site for her micro-generation, in 2021.

Grimaldi has a younger sibling who is Gen Z and an older one who’s a millennial. “My entire life, I’ve been told I’m a millennial or a new Gen Zer. I really do relate to both, but I also don’t at all,” she said.

Her website’s most popular articles have covered such topics as what to wear to Harry Styles and Taylor Swift concerts, “the best cozy Nintendo Switch games,” and recipes inspired by the Utah dirty soda trend on TikTok, which involves pouring creamer into soda, Grimaldi said.

Among the celebrities she considers part of her zillennial cohort are Zendaya and American singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter.

“We are kind of this weird, in-between ground nobody talks about that’s also young and figuring things out, at the beginning of our careers and discovering the world as an adult,” she said. “The most misunderstood thing about us is probably our existence.”

WHY LABEL GENERATIONS ANYWAY?

In addition to a shared relationship with technology, members of a generation or birth cohort often share critical life experiences, Carr said.

For the so-called greatest generation, that includes being called to serve during the Second World War, she said. For some baby boomers, having grown up together in the tumultuous 1960s is a commonality. Generation X came after the boomers, from the mid-1960s to 1980.

Gen Z attended high school during the pandemic and missed out on major youth milestones. For Americans, these might be prom and traditional graduations.

“Some generations reject the labels given to them by others, and some generations embrace the name if they feel it fits them and their values or differences,” said Jason Dorsey, a generations researcher and president of the Center for Generational Kinetics, a generational research firm.

“We find that zillennials often push away from the negative millennial headlines that they are trying to avoid or not replicate, such as the clickbait stories on acting entitled as adults or having overly high expectations,” he said via email, noting that zillennials also push away from teenagers and teen trends that feel too young.

Some millennials, too, shun the label they’ve been given because they believe it has a negative connotation and sells them short, Dorsey said.

“In fact, contrary to many popular memes of millennials not working, they are often the largest generation in a company’s workforce and frequently the largest generations of managers,” he said.

CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?

While zillennials often feel they don’t fit in with either Gen Z or millennials, Dorsey said the middle zone they occupy has its own advantages.

“At our research centre, we’ve seen cuspers like zillennials often end up having an advantage because it tends to make them more aware of both generations before and after their own,” he said.

His firm’s research has shown Gen Z to be more connected to social causes than millennials, with zillennials similarly more interested than millennials when it comes to social issues.

People in Gen Z “care a lot about environmentalism, trying to reduce their carbon footprints and reduce their plastic waste.” Grimaldi said.

From a young age, zillennials have learned the effects of climate change, Carr said. “They are very mindful of the threats to the planet — yet also know they can play an important role in reducing their carbon footprint (Think, Greta Thunberg),” she said.

But the stereotypes society creates for generations are just stereotypes, Carr said.

“We need to remember that every generation of young people has their own struggles,” she said, “and that they’re coping the best they can with the world that past generations have created for them.”

Philip Cohen, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, calls generational labels meaningless.

“Marketers and fadfluencers will want to be the first to name a ‘generation’ or ‘microgeneration’ for clicks and followers,” Cohen wrote via email. “But it is meaningless to do so before we know what it is we’re studying and why.”

He added, “Social science does not pay much attention to the discourse over ‘generations’ because it is mostly superficial hype.”

Try telling that to a zillennial, however.

Grimaldi thinks it’s up to every generation to band together to support the next group of people growing up in society after it — all the better to help ensure a brighter future for all. And her generation, she said, is already on it.

“Every time a new generation pops up there’s this argument about who sucks and why they suck, and I think as zillennials we are trying to stop that as much as we can,” Grimaldi said. “We don’t have to hate on every new upcoming generation.

“We’re all collectively raising these new generations. Let’s focus on building a better future together.”

from CTV News - Atlantic https://ift.tt/q6I9WNU

[soupinmyveins]

so isn't there a paradox here

fashion cycles are getting smaller than ever; we saw that the high waisted 90s trend quickly gave way to 2000s y2k low rise etc., so the logical sequence for the next cycle seems to be 2010s trends. 

BUT. 2010s trends were predominantly millenial-inspired and now, since gen-z considers most millenial-inspired things to be “cheugy” or whatever, ummm??? what’s next??? what fashion cycle are we going to follow??? 

[homemade-potato]

i live my life knowing that everything i enjoy is has been or will be seen as 'cringe' at least once in my lifetime, and i'm okay with that.

[mull3ts]

Your moots as brands?

sure :D

@nakamotocore - louis vuitton; you remind me of that specific monogrammed tote bag looking thing that my own mother finds cheugy and so it brings me joy bcs now everytime I see one, especially at like some goodwill, I laugh a little. But ofc you're ie my beloved so I shall say you're the monogrammed bag but instead of the LV being white it's like rainbow

@jaesspresso - louboutin; you're giving me the red bottom high heel kinda beat rn and I think I'm gonna vibe w it you fucking pussy god camellia you're forever a pussy god in my head I'm sorry

@bbyyangiex2 - chanel; elie, you remind me of thoss chanel suits. Surprisingly I've worn one before iT WAS MY MOMS, and the way I felt in that suit I feel as though it matches your vibe, elegant, high quality, all over the place and excellent. I simply cannot expect anything good from you because you yourself are, in fact, great instead

@kjmsupremacist - kate spade; ah yes, kate spade. This is my dear auntie's favourite brand and whAT DO PEOPLE CALL MY AUNTIE? a milf. aND WHAT ARE YOU DEAREST XIAMI? a milf. but like it's not like coach level milf bcs that's so bLeH like I like coach don't get me wrong but kATE SPADE MILF IS LIKE COOL ASS COLORS OF PURSES AND I LIKE MILFS WITH HOT PINK KATE SPADE PURSES

@fullsuhnny - burberry; when I think burberry I think yOUTH. and what did I say you reminded me of: beaches. see, I'm using my brain muscles and making a connection somehow- 👁️👁️

@tastyykpop - tom ford; I- ik this brand is directed towards males but whO cARES TOM FORD PERFUME SMELLS NICE AND IDK I FEEL LIKE U WOULD TOO??? just like very,,,c l e a n

@deobis-moon - ysl; YVES SAINT LAURENT LETS GO. IT JUST SCREAMS LIKE THOSE BLAZERS WITH A BELT TO ACCENTUATE THE WAISY YK?

@joh--pping - coach; ah yes, coach. another one of my milf auntie's favourite brands. Coach is very 💅 I like it. They have these now like early 2000's looking purses and theRE WAS A BLUE ONE AND IT REMINDS ME OF YOU :D

@najatheangel - gucci; gucci,,,is somehow a classic in my book. nAJA SHAWTY YOURE DEF NOT A GUCCI FLIP FLOP OR LOAFER PLS NOT A LOAFER ISTG- you're like one of those really pretty blouses :D

@04023s - prada; jo,,,,,,,you're like a classic it girl who's down to earth somehow. and that's the kinda vibe I get from prada, esp tHAT PRADA NYLON BAG- I- mhm yes, it screams you shawty.

@dieharddoyoungsquish - stussy; idk why I thought of stussy, but I did