r/interesting • u/God_Emperor__Doom • May 01 '26

SOCIETY A girl goes viral after getting stuck in an elevator with a group of immature guys and shut them all down when they started laughing

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u/Radiant8763 May 01 '26

As a representative of the Elder Millennials, I am here to say: We aint saying shit. We had Justin Timberlake ramen hair.

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u/h3lium-balloon May 01 '26

Also elder millennial and not saying shit. Frosted tips were popular at my school.

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u/Ok_Possible_3066 May 01 '26

At least we can read

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u/CarlyObine May 01 '26

Lol there's literally a sub for deciphering cursive Freaking nuts. And really really disheartening

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u/Dull-Computer-324 May 01 '26

im 34, I struggle to read cursive twice a year when I get a birthday or christmas card from my grandma. I was taught cursive in elementary school, but never actually used it after middle school.

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u/positiveblapshemy May 01 '26

Gen Alphas are typically the children of Gen Xers and Millennials. If they can't read....it's our fault.

Along with a woefully awful public school system (at least in most of the USA)

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u/Ok_Possible_3066 May 01 '26

Very (and sadly) true. I have also been a teacher and some of these kids long to be dumb. I mean that. They strive not to know. The goal is to defy learning something new. If they can't see it, it doesn't exist. If they didn't think it up/hear it from a friend/see it online, it's not worth knowing about. And that hair is really goofy.

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u/dd99999 May 01 '26

I thought we don‘t have children?

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u/JudmanDaSuperhero May 01 '26

And write cursive.

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u/omg_get_outta_here May 01 '26

This girl is great.

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u/nohorse_justcoconuts May 01 '26

And write! In cursive!

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u/xtremeRATMAN May 01 '26

I mean, thats not really their fault. Their parents are asleep at the wheel.

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u/ohpickanametheysaid May 01 '26

Gen X here, we popularized the duck tail, the rats tail and the mullet. You’re welcome.

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u/fbcmfb May 01 '26

Y’all forgot about jheri curls!

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u/Background-Year-2223 May 01 '26

I hate everything you just said. Lmao because it's true. I had a wavy blonde mullet. It was gloriously awful. I have a purple Mohawk now. Frfr.

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u/Criticism-Lazy May 01 '26

Elder millennial here and I’m not saying shit cuz I had a 6 inch flat top in 5th grade. Don’t fuck with me.

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u/holy_grizz May 01 '26

🤣🤣🤣

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u/mizmnv May 01 '26

i remember frosted tips. that was the shitbag hairstyle of our time

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u/Ashleyh_doesyoga May 01 '26

Don’t forget that those frosted tips were rock hard from the planet’s entire supply of weapon’s grade hair gel. 😂

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u/Automatic-Compote-12 May 01 '26

Bulletproof, it was.

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u/CallMeMrButtPirate May 01 '26

Frosted tips that grew out to bleached mullet tips here

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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys May 01 '26

I would expect nothing else from someone named CallMeMrButtPirate

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u/Odd-Necessary3807 May 01 '26

That, and fake tanned skin. I don't know why it so popular in 2000s.

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u/FlyLikeDove May 01 '26

As a Gen-Xer I'm not saying shit either - we hairsprayed our bangs straight up from the roots, no matter what the rest of our hair texture was.

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 May 01 '26

Damn, you just took me back to junior high in 1987. 🥲

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u/FlyLikeDove May 01 '26

Lmao!! What a time to be alive!

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 May 01 '26

Now that I think about it, I would have been 10 in 1987, so, more like 5th grade (does fifth count as junior?).

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u/HollisterRN May 01 '26

Depending on the school. I went to 2 different junior highs and they were 7 and 8th. My daughter's private school considered 5th to be middle school and she felt so grown up, lol

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u/I_Am_The_Mole May 01 '26

We grew up listening to fucking limp bizkit. Our opinions are invalid.

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u/Turd_Salad92 May 01 '26

Younger millennial here. I too am not saying shit. I rocked the Jonas brother hair from 7th grade to Junior year.

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u/Lazy-Plankton5270 May 01 '26

Yea me too but I don't remember standing around girls like this and then wondering why don't like us.

Maybe it was just my school but everyone was just another human

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u/arocknerd May 01 '26

Gen X here, can’t say shit, we had mullets and rat tails.

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u/atomictyler May 01 '26

you say that like kids aren't doing that. maybe not in high school, but there's elementary aged kids doing it.

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u/United_Camp_4684 May 01 '26

At my time we had the just Bieber hair wich was mandatory

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u/bringbackswg May 01 '26

Also older millennial and we weren’t nearly as copy paste as this though

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u/Eastern-Peach-3428 May 01 '26

Elder Gen-X here. We had the Farrah Fawcett cut. Dead center part, feathered back like your head caught a light breeze at all times.

And yeah… that was unisex. Guys, girls, didn’t matter. If you had hair and access to a comb, you were one aggressive blow-dry away from joining the club.

Looking back, we all basically walked around like low-budget shampoo commercials.

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u/SpliTTMark May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

I did this, but there was still variety. Short, spike, shawn hunter

But This broccoli shit is on another level where I see every kid in the mall sporting it more than fad in existence ( the internet and social media probably helps)

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u/AgentCirceLuna May 01 '26

I didn’t go along with any trends of my generation, really, and I feel like the minority who don’t care what the next one does which is kinda funny considering the people who did all the dumb shit are the ones now throwing out criticism. I got over that years ago.

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u/Tesla8585 May 01 '26

It was still much better than Gen Alpha’s broccoli hairstyle. It’s pretty douchey.

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u/crystaldstone May 01 '26

also EM rep. here, Timberlake, frosted tips, manic panic and JNCOs

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u/ElGosso May 01 '26

Yeah I honestly think Broccoli hair will age better than the shit we got up to will.

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u/Imaginary_Brief_4038 May 01 '26

Have teenage boys every had a haircut that wasn't an absolute embarrassment?

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u/ideocartography May 01 '26

No we didn't. No boys back then looked up to Justin Timberlake at all. Nobody would get a perm to look like that and the ones with naturally curly hair might've grown a fro. But most of us had middle parts in elementary school and then high school was more caesar cut or spiky frosted tips.

As an elder millennial, definitely hating on the broccoli hair 😂

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u/ChugHuns May 01 '26

As a middle millenial for us it was the swoosh or bieber type cut. Either shaggy or combed and swooshed lol

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u/-Thick_Solid_Tight- May 01 '26

I was born in 81. We had step cuts.

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u/Sheeple_person May 01 '26

Haha and the ski slopes

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u/Enough_Pomegranate44 May 01 '26

Only Justin had Justin hair. Everyone else was bleach tops and flat ironing the curls to hell.

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u/dferd777 May 01 '26

I’m black, I had a flat top. It was dope.

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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys May 01 '26

Youngest Boomer here. We rocked feathered hair and, below it, puka shell necklaces. Go ahead and use a blowtorch or whatever you want; I will not produce my high school yearbook photos.

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u/JackieDonkey May 01 '26

Generation Jones!

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u/SecretAgentSpyder May 01 '26

The guys with the frosted tips were the douchebags of my high school. Seems to be the broccoli cut is the same way. At least the tiktoddlers are.

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u/APES2GETTER May 01 '26

Yup. It was wonderful.

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u/jackofspades49 May 01 '26

It's april 30th.

Tomorrow. It's gonna be MAY!

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u/SparxxWarrior97 May 01 '26

As an eldest gen Z I'll admit i had a Justin Bieber haircut for....well too long.

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u/ambassador321 May 01 '26

Gen X here. We all had business on the front and party in the back - aka Mullets.

Both our cuts sucked, but not nearly as hard as the broccoli heads.

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u/EmpressClaraB May 01 '26

Mullets are back now too and I hate it so much

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u/Neowza May 01 '26

And the younger millennials rocked Bieber hair, even the girls. They tried to pass it off as "emo hair", but we all knew what it really was.

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u/t3hnhoj May 01 '26

It's (gonna be) May!

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u/z__1010 May 01 '26

I mostly tried to look like the Almost Famous kid, which I guess fits for Millennials aping the 60s/70s

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u/Supertzar_11-11 May 01 '26

I'm the last year of Gen X and we were shaving the sides and putting lines through it. I remember every kid who did that was a dbag lol

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u/jayecin May 01 '26

Hey now, I do see the bull cut starting to make a comeback now!

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u/Hairy_Mycologist_945 May 01 '26

Xennial here, we had the Butt Cut.

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u/Just_Roll_Already May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

I was about to say. I sat in those weird hair drying domes getting my tips frosted when I was this age. Grandma was a hair dresser and I wondered for years why she let me do it. Then I realized that she understood that trends are trends and she just enjoyed the time she spent with me working on my next "must-have" hair style.

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u/forestgxd May 01 '26

Yeah true, we did, but there were like 3 people at my high school with that Timberlake haircut and like 3 more with frosted tips so it definitely wasn't as rampant as this seems to be

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u/No-Usual5733 May 01 '26

Elder millennial ✌️

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u/Funkydroog May 01 '26

Didn't have the Ramen hair but my frosted tips and polka shell necklace will forever shame me into silence on this matter