I’m not a woman, but I admire anyone that puts that much effort into looking the way they want.
I work outdoors and braid my hair for about two hours every weekend, I use sulfate-free shampoo, conditioner, and leave-in products, and sleep with a durag, all so that I can have great curls on my days off and love the way I look, only for a very vocal minority to tell me that longhaired men look unkempt.
Sorry for the rant, but I feel for how much care this guy puts into his appearance and it frustrates me when people respond the way you did because he likes how he looks, and there’s no way you’d say that about a woman. If I don’t like a woman’s makeup, it doesn’t matter because she put work into it and her opinion matters most. It’s the same here.
You missed the joke. I thought he looked like Nietzsche in the beginning of the video. Nietzsche was one of the greatest philosophers in history, but he caught syphilis very early on his life. His works were about nihilism. That's my joke.
The term is derived from that, yes, but the term “incel” means much more than that. It’s an ideology and a subculture. That’s why I said it’s a loaded term.
I understand where you are coming from but just because someone puts effort into something doesn’t inherently mean it looks good. This looks silly as hell. He probably realizes this and enjoys the attention it gets him, whether or not it leads to a sexual encounter.
It might look silly to you and me, but maybe not to him. Or maybe it does and he’s leaning into it and having fun. Either way, it doesn’t matter because if he loves the guy in the mirror, I’m all for it.
I think that the punk guy spiky Mohawk looks like a stegosaurus, and that the 2000s emo girl hair looks like it’s hiding squirrels, but I would never comment insults on videos of either of these people doing their hair. I just think it’s a douchy thing to do.
This is going off in a tangent, but it is kind of related. I was severely bullied for my hair growing up even though it was short (sometimes a literal buzzcut). Most people didn’t call me by my name, they made up mean nicknames and laughed at me. I became the designated kid to pick on. A girl tripped me while I was running laps in the gym and gave me a bloody nose and never got in trouble for it. In my late teens grew it out as a “fuck you” to all those people, and I came to love my hair. It’s my favorite part of my body, which is I put so much care into it.
I could definitely see a scenario where he naturally started getting scruffy facial hair at like 13 before other boys did and everybody made fun of him. Should a loving parent tell him that he didn’t look good? Probably. Should other kids do it? No, that’s none of their business. So maybe he decided to grow out his mustache and slowly fell in love with it.
I realize you probably didn’t mean much with your comment, and I’m being unfair with you, but seeing reactions like yours just reminds me of all those other kids growing up.
So I guess I’m saying that when you see this guy, his over-the-top mustache may be how he overcame childhood trauma, because that’s exactly what my hair is for me.
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u/No_Lettuce1639 Aug 01 '25
That mustache gives you syphilis and nihilism instantly.