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!!!
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.
Has there ever been a study from like an anthropologist/evolutionary biologist or something about why the :) smiley won out over the =) smiley? I used to be a =) guy back in the day, but over time felt pressured to switch to :) because everyone else was using it. Now, whenever I see someone use =) I just assume they’re a boomer or something.
It came before emojis/a shortcut for them. I would think it’s from T9 keyboards. If you wanted any of those types of characters, it was a cycle of a single button and : comes before =, so doing : ) was a lot less button presses than = )
I used to work with a lot of people who were younger than me, and I knew a few Katy’s in my time (in some cases, literally, though not all younger but still - Catherine Kathrine Kathy Cathy Kate and like 3 Katie’s were all people I knew in the space of about 3 years lmfao). 😂
E: to clarify - absolutely nothing against them! I was a closeted goth (already being bullied for but not knowing I was autistic started early and was bad enough) and I wish I could have embraced the weirdness like that.
Honestly, I kind of understand why the older generation was afraid of using the internet, they saw this lingo while trying to fix a leaky pipe on a Yahoo Answers thread and said “not my worldwideweb!”
I didn’t talk this incredibly stupid and “unique” on chats during AOL and MSN days but by the time I got to highschool I realized I needed to stop with all the emojis and emphasis in text form because nobody knows how nor cares to decypher what you’re saying anyway.
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.
I’m a millennial, and I still dress all emo even in my 30’s. My 20 year old coworker even complimented my black skinny jeans with zippers in random places the other day.
No reason to stop loving your late teen/early 20’s aesthetic! Don’t let the world crush your creativity, do you and to hell with everyone’s opinions!
At 35 I continue to wear home made stenciled t-shirts and jeans I cut into shorts. If my boss doesn’t like it he can go break a hip about it, how I look has no bearing on how well I do my job.
Sometimes I think that since I still really love goth chicks I haven’t changed that much since the 00s
But then I remember that over that time frame goth chicks went from edgy rebellious teenagers in a ton of makeup to moms in their 30s with a wicked sense of humor that wear a lot of black. They still deal weed and hate authorities though.
Watching my once fully goth and punk friends raise kids is odd but also wonderful, knowing that they’re passing their zero tolerance for societies’ bullshit on to their kids (as best they can, considering what we’re up against) is heart warming.
Wouldn’t want to do it myself though lol
I don’t if it’s just me but a lot of weirdness was then part of various subcultures, especially music ones. Now it has been decoupled from those onto tiktok. Not saying good or bad.
That’s how I try to keep things in perspective, by saying - was I any different?
Yes I think it’s all stupid and annoying, literally everything about tiktok which the kids are soooo involved with, minecraft, fortnite, however they’re dressing these days. Stupid and annoying, all of it.
But hey there was a time when my digi-pet was the most important thing I owned, my beanie babies were “an investment”, could easily play Halo for 12 hours straight, I wore giant jnco jeans with chains on them, and listened to Limp Bizkit.
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The use of the word aesthetic as a verb in the last several years blows my mind.
Anyhow, yeah, we dress different when we’re kids. I don’t think too many people are shocked by this.
They’ve aestheticed
I’m aestheticking right now
It’s used as a noun here? I’m confused
“the aesthetic” was always a noun, dude
Yes, not a verb, which is why I’m confused
the verb is aesthetical “It’s not aesthetically pleasing”
That’s an adjective & adverb… “pleasing” is the verb in the example you give, “aesthetically” describes the verb
Surely that’s an adjective and adverb respectively?
Aw, it’s Ambrehhhh! I still follow her on YouTube (I think, if she still has a channel) and Instagram, lol.
Behold! The blogging aesthetics of 2006:
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.
Man, it really is and it’s so cool to see. It brings back memories you forgot you had!
Holy shit what a throwback to the past
You truely were random as dice. ;)
Has there ever been a study from like an anthropologist/evolutionary biologist or something about why the
:)smiley won out over the=)smiley? I used to be a =) guy back in the day, but over time felt pressured to switch to :) because everyone else was using it. Now, whenever I see someone use =) I just assume they’re a boomer or something.I’ve never thought about that. Could it be because :) became the shortcut for emoji?
It came before emojis/a shortcut for them. I would think it’s from T9 keyboards. If you wanted any of those types of characters, it was a cycle of a single button and : comes before =, so doing : ) was a lot less button presses than = )
The sacred texts, they’re so bright I almost need to avert my eyes.
‘the sacred texts’
My ROFLCopter goes SOISOISOISOISOISOI
I used to work with a lot of people who were younger than me, and I knew a few Katy’s in my time (in some cases, literally, though not all younger but still - Catherine Kathrine Kathy Cathy Kate and like 3 Katie’s were all people I knew in the space of about 3 years lmfao). 😂
E: to clarify - absolutely nothing against them! I was a closeted goth (already being bullied for but not knowing I was autistic started early and was bad enough) and I wish I could have embraced the weirdness like that.
Is it bad that I can still read these shitposts in the correct tone?
I read them in Boxxy’s voice, it’s automatic
I miss MySpace.
Honestly, I kind of understand why the older generation was afraid of using the internet, they saw this lingo while trying to fix a leaky pipe on a Yahoo Answers thread and said “not my worldwideweb!”
I didn’t talk this incredibly stupid and “unique” on chats during AOL and MSN days but by the time I got to highschool I realized I needed to stop with all the emojis and emphasis in text form because nobody knows how nor cares to decypher what you’re saying anyway.
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.
Did she ever made friends this day, or is it just a full on copypasta?
Oh fuck! This caused my brain to reboot after a cascading failure of memories tripping fuses right the way back to 2001.
Did your brain then play the windows XP boot up sound?
This made my eyes water
I’m a millennial, and I still dress all emo even in my 30’s. My 20 year old coworker even complimented my black skinny jeans with zippers in random places the other day. No reason to stop loving your late teen/early 20’s aesthetic! Don’t let the world crush your creativity, do you and to hell with everyone’s opinions!
Same. I stopped dying my hair black but otherwise my style has stayed very similar
I’m with you!!! I’m gonna dress how I feel like I should and now that I’m an adult nobody can stop me!!
At 35 I continue to wear home made stenciled t-shirts and jeans I cut into shorts. If my boss doesn’t like it he can go break a hip about it, how I look has no bearing on how well I do my job.
Yesss you rock!
Mine is the casual yuppie look. Ha
Hell yeha, as long as you’re not harming anyone, just do whatever the hell you want without thinking twice.
Kids these days trying to take away our skinny jeans! Never I say!
We’ll see who is laughing when it snows and their ankles are frozen. Suppose they all have to learn somehow
Can we just get a happy medium between JNCO and skinny jeans, please? 😭
Skinny Jeans forever. I can’t imagine not having a few pairs at home. They are the most comfortable pants I own!
Are there any movies that capture this period in time?
I don’t know about movies but you just want to feel that mood check out Invader Zim, the cartoon from her shirt
I want to say Eurotrip
We’re all still emo/scene kids at heart, it was never a phase mom
I still cry listening to Bright Eyes.
I don’t care what anyone says though. No one can write like Conor Oberst.
Preach. If I could be any age forever it would probably be one of the ones from my days as a scene kid.
It looks like neo-80s.
I would still happily rock an Invader Zim shirt in 2023
I have one, and do. It’s gir and says free hugs.
We stumbled so that you could also stumble but down some stairs.
Im an emo kid
Nonconforming as can be
You’d be nonconforming too if you looked just like me
Edit: revisiting these lyrics, this song is an important time capsule
I’ve got paint on my nails and makeup on my face
I’m almost emo enough to start shaving my legs
Oh man, that brings back memories
Those complaining ones are boomer converts. I see more of them in retro game groups.
Yeah I don’t get it. Do they not see the irony?
Just let the next generation be the next generation.
Alt Teenagers dress weird regardless of when they were born.
alt adults also do
God, I miss that time. Closest you get to that aesthetics nowadays still is some forms of visual kei (stuff like lynch.), but it’s a different vibe.
Sometimes I think that since I still really love goth chicks I haven’t changed that much since the 00s
But then I remember that over that time frame goth chicks went from edgy rebellious teenagers in a ton of makeup to moms in their 30s with a wicked sense of humor that wear a lot of black. They still deal weed and hate authorities though.
Watching my once fully goth and punk friends raise kids is odd but also wonderful, knowing that they’re passing their zero tolerance for societies’ bullshit on to their kids (as best they can, considering what we’re up against) is heart warming.
Wouldn’t want to do it myself though lol
I don’t if it’s just me but a lot of weirdness was then part of various subcultures, especially music ones. Now it has been decoupled from those onto tiktok. Not saying good or bad.
That’s how I try to keep things in perspective, by saying - was I any different?
Yes I think it’s all stupid and annoying, literally everything about tiktok which the kids are soooo involved with, minecraft, fortnite, however they’re dressing these days. Stupid and annoying, all of it.
But hey there was a time when my digi-pet was the most important thing I owned, my beanie babies were “an investment”, could easily play Halo for 12 hours straight, I wore giant jnco jeans with chains on them, and listened to Limp Bizkit.
So, was I any different? Nah, it’s the same.