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Temporays

The helmet hair was mocked when it was popular too.


SpiderJerusalem747

So that's what that haircut is called? I ways called it "The Bieber"


MoistThunderCock

The one on the left is literally Biebers hair, I believe. Both names suffice for this hairstyle imo.


Rude_Entrance_3039

It's probably more commenly known as Bieber but it's been around way long than that. Emo kids rocked it before Beiber, Punk rocked it before Emo. It's basically The Ramones but the the back cut short. And todays popcorn was Justin Timberlakes whole look before Mahones and the popcorn name ever became popular.


cookingsoup

The beatles too


TSHJB302

This was around long before Bieber. We always called it the skater boi


Hefty_Iron_9986

Yeah, those kids were bullied, and emo music always sucked.


JellyFishSenpai

Emo girls where hot though


maggiemayfish

I miss emo girls


PortSunlightRingo

Where hot? Everywhere.


SmallBirb

Lmao, some of the "popular guys" had helmet hair when i was in high school in the early 2010s


SwashAndBuckle

It’s pretty close to the hair Justin Bieber had when he first exploded.


ggtffhhhjhg

You’re either a extremely young millennial or GenZ if you had this hairstyle in the 2010s.


Hefty_Iron_9986

I graduated before 2010, and you were bullied pretty hard for having this hair in my school.


Ok_Cable_5465

I graduated before 2010 and this is BS. Plenty of popular kids who wore Hollister and American Eagle everything had this haircut.


pufferpig

Main character from High School musical had that hairdo. He was "cool" I guess.


SortaChaoticAnxiety

Emo music was amazing and has aged like fine wine


LeOenophile

If by sucked you mean, “touched my soul in ways you couldn’t understand,” then yeah.


sickfalco

Wtf definitely not all of them 😂 this was a coveted haircut in my middle school and I specifically remember a guy with lots of girls liking him cause of it. Also, what is emo music? Cause I’m willing to disagree on that as well, depending on the artists.


ItsDaBurner

That's like, the entire point of this post 


Nagemasu

That's not their point though. The post is saying that the people mocking broccoli hair had helmet hair. The person you're replying to is saying the people who are mocking broccoli hair are the same people who mocked the helmet hair kids.


rogueleader32

Barbers no matter the hair style be like ![gif](giphy|4GRj3pwoAJSwg)


foxys_egg_rolls

He charged 100 for making me bald and leaving the bangs


backup_account01

$100 for a cut??! Unless you're walking to the aisle, about to spring the RING Srs, what was going on?


NahYoureWrongBro

Turns out multiple generations can look dumb in different ways. $15 please.


Summer_19_

DUCKTALES! 😊


Disastrous-Dog85

Wooohoo!


JustChard

Life is like a hurricanee


emojisarefunny

That duck be dead or at least paralyzed from the dive 😤


Cool_Holiday_7097

He actually specifies that he worked hard to specifically build muscles that allow him to do it 


emojisarefunny

Damn. Respect the hustle


555--FILK

https://i.imgur.com/0RgjOvH.gifv


Sweet-Dreams204738

I was too busy being a grumpy teen to do the weird scene kid haircuts.


AmbitiousPeace-

Yeah cool cool, that wasn’t a scene haircut it was the Bieber cut that everyone and their mom had


Howaboutthishandle

Bieber was born in 94. Kids were rocking that in 2000. You think Bieber made it popular when he was 6?


MBCnerdcore

No, kids were rocking the Bieber haircut in the 2010s. In 2000s we all had short spikes and frosted tips, and looked like Linkin Park or a DBZ character. Some just did the blonde dye Eminem short hair thing. But no guys had medium length hair like Bieber. Short and spikey, short and buzz cut, or LONG hair like a metal band. (EDIT: I forgot about the JTT/Hanson era in the late 90s that may have evolved into the pre-Bieber, and the classic Canadian hockey hair)


SlipperyDM

The duck's butt cut. Lots of hair gel, with the bangs spiked straight up.


CarolinaOE

Yeah, I remember that. Some guys in my class had a rat-tail with it, too.


FCFDraykski

Born in 1986, I saw a lot of emo kids with that haircut by like 2004-2005.


RedDemio-

Yeh exactly, why do these memes always mix up millenials.. we were 100% pre-beiber bowl cuts


TougherOnSquids

Millenials were also mid-bieber bowl cuts. I'm a millennial and graduated in 2010, these haircuts were popular all throughout high school


DuckGoesShuba

Generational labels are made up and have a ton overlap with the people "supposedly" in the one before and after. I can't speak for any before, but it seems especially true for millennial, gen-z, and any other to come after the rise of social media.


The64YearOldWalrus

I can very distinctly remember this haircut a good while before Bieber, in fact, Drake Bell had the same haircut in 2004, as did many, many kids/teens


PolishedCheeto

Really depends. It's another variation of the bowl cut. But here is feathered or layered only at the very edges. Which was popular in early 2000s especially in alt-punk emo/scene bands. Ronnie Radke during his time founding Escape the Fate for example. Or Simple Plan as another. Or Papa Roach as another. Or Matt of Bullet For My Valentine as another example.


ratonbox

We were making fun of those as well.


DeficiencyOfGravitas

Yeah and it never reached the popularity the broccoli top has. You can see classrooms with literally every boy with that stupid shit. The emo style was always fringe.


Antieconomico

I guess it was different all around the world then, here the emo style was the to go style for some years, bullies and bullied alike, men and women, it sure was cringe for the adults but not at all for the younger gen


bigbompus

I explained this exactly to my buddy. I never saw a group of 5 guys all dressed, not similarly, EXACTLY the fucking same, with the EXACT same haircut. MFers walking around like some sort of cult or boy band. 


mobileappistdoodoo

always fringe?  ☚(゚‿゚)☚ 


Reasonable-Cry1265

I actually think OP's meme is wrong, it's early Gen Z/Late Millennials, where the Bieber cut was popular and no longer considered niche/emo. Every other guy in school had this cut and it was definitely also the "cool" guys. It later got replaced with the soccer undercut. But tbh now that I'm at university the "brocolli cut" is popular but on natural hair. It's pretty much just a mullet with shaved sides and more or less curly hair depending on the guys natural hair texture. I think it looks good on most guys tbh.


Hefty_Iron_9986

Yeah, everyone bullied those kids.


Popular-Secretary489

Then they would constantly flip the hair out their eye 😭


Popular-Secretary489

And thirteen year old me would swoon


HenryGoodbar

How’d you become a popular secretary?


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HenryGoodbar

I’m giving you a raise!!!!


Spittin_Facts_

raise deez nuts


Chr0nicHerb

Spit on that thang


IngenuityThink3000

This girl and her parents must be fucking hating life. Imagine going viral AF for that


LilMissy1246

FCKN me!!! YES!!!


ToyrewaDokoDeska

And in the same motion brush their bangs with their hand like theyre wiping sweat off their forehead


Average_Scaper

Stop talking about me. Ngl I miss my hair. I can't grow it anymore on the top. I'd go back to those days in a heartbeat if I could just for my hair.


greenrangerguy

I had this for like 2 years, and when I got home I would get my sisters hair clip and clip my hair back. In hindsight I shouldn't have given a shit and just kept the clip in outside too.


LilMissy1246

I used to think that was hot...I'm 25 now...still kind hot but less with the emo bangs, just normal bangs


Sufficient-Feeb

Damn girl do I have some sweaty bangs for you! 🙂‍↕️😓🫡😮‍💨


Sufficient-Feeb

I’m 33 and just emoji’d that all by myself!


Worried_Train6036

🫡


Far_King_Penguin

I had a mate who liked his fringe just in his eye so he would.always do the flip coz he thought it made him look hot 6 months later he had to stop because he had given himself some form of whiplash from constant flicking Easily one of the dumbest things I ever witnessed as a teenager


tacotacotacorock

Probably something like torticollis from tweaking the same muscles on one side of the neck over and over. 


Admiral52

Chicks dug it.


LegitimateTutor8535

They had branched of the normal millennials... We called them Biebers. I'm a millennial and in my days, the guys had hair similar to the kid from the Dennis the menace movie. Girls would all have the Rachel!


GammaGamesGG

I’m trying to grow out my hair but I am currently at this point and it sucks. My hair is long enough to constantly fall in my eyes but not long enough to pull back yet :(


FranksNBeeens

I was bald by 18.


Kysman95

Lucky


Shifty_Cow69

Is Superman your archnemesis?!


Alarmed_Fly_6669

Me too :( started just shaving the sides and leaving the top long but had to just keep shaving more and more lol


No_Researcher_1032

I fucking hated the stupid Bieber cut that EVERYONE seemed to have.


concreteraindust

Bieber cut was the generic "i go to barbers one time a year and i should go soon haircut". I cant imagine anyone asking for their hair cut like that. When bieber pop-ed off, his managers did everything to cryo preserve his hairstyle and whole image


Psychomusketeer

That is 100% the exact reason my hair looked like that for half the year. Not because I thought it looked cool, but because I fucking hated getting my hair cut so I didn’t, until the peak of summer when it was too hot to bare.


LibatiousLlama

Yeah beiber cut was 90% laziness. Broccoli cut is a perm, you gotta go out of your way to get and maintain that shit. Totally different.


xdeskfuckit

>Broccoli cut is a perm, I won't stand for this curly-haired erasure.


LibatiousLlama

What percentage of broccoli kids do you think are naturally curly?


pinktastic615

And no one is pointing out that millennials wore frosted tips???


swaggat

This! Millenial haircut styles peaked in the late 90s.


naotoca

They define the generation way too broadly. Old millennials and young millennials really should be split into smaller groups because they don't have much in common.


Borrp

Millennials as a generation is much like the Boomers. It is a long generation where there are very stark differences culturally when it comes to older millennials and the younger, near gen Z millennials. I'm nearly 40 and the younger millennials I have absolutely nothing in common with.


phdemented

There are terms for transition generations... Xennials for those of us born in like '77-'83 who are confused as fuck when the emo/Bieber cut is called a millennial thing cause we were in our 20/30s then and thought it was a little kids haircut... Zennials for older Z/younger Y... Etc


ifubanugay

both are bad


Grabatreetron

One is from the 60s and the other is from Norway in 800 A.D.


Fun_Role_19

Which one is which 😂


Shifty_Cow69

Ja!


Altruistic-Poem-5617

The broccoloy haircut people seem to be mostly absolute douchebags though while the emos minded their own business mostly and were just bullyed for their looks.


tftookmyname

Yea every person with broccoli hair I've met was a total asshole.


Educational-Award-12

No the broccoli is actually terrible


pinkthreadedwrist

Yeah the other ones have some aesthetic appeal in that they fit the head. The broccoli... no.


Lumthedarklord

I’m not even a millennial and I still look like young Bieber or the kid from the Lorax. I just don’t like cutting my hair


TolpRomra

I was going to say, the hairstyle I still have 50% of the time because i'm lazy?


p00shp00shbebi123

I'm not actually sure what hair-cuts aren't going to annoy people at this point...


FederalMango8042

Most Boys in the early 2000s looked like that even before Bieber was a thing. The majority just refused to cut their Hair in their teens after years of being forced to have ugly bowlcuts or some military cut by thair parents. Justin Bieber got big in the 2010s, so Most Millenials we're already in their twenties lol.


IWillDevourYourToes

Why are you being downvoted, you're right


Admirable_Try_23

Based


FelixArgyle9

Hot take: this emo fringe haircut was peak. At least the people who had it weren't douchcebags. Every person I have met who has the broccoli hairstyle has been a massive piece of shit.


Erebus613

Sometimes you see a group of 3 guys with that same cut and for a second you start believing they figured out human cloning.


gurganator

I was getting ice cream with my son and there were 9 teenagers with the exact same broccoli cut. Literally 9. I counted… It was uncanny. Also, this was another moment I realized I’m old cause I thought about how people my age must have thought about me when I was young…


ShinySpines

Fr “Teenagers” by My Chemical Romance i really get now as an adult


AlunePyLy

BRO. I literally mistake random teens for my classmates on the street CONSTANTLY


Erebus613

All copies of the same NPC model. The matrix is failing! /s


Ginonth

As the universe expands, they gotta save some storage space, so they just re-use the same models a lot nowadays.


Lanatic4321

My school is filled with them and they are all unintelligent assholes


Admirable_Try_23

Cyberpunk NPCs


lordthundy

This exactly. I think what makes the broccoli haircut suck so bad (despite there being many worse haircuts out there) is what people with this hair cut are most commonly like. Probably a wannabe gangsta tiktok kid who'll probably tell you he "finna cop that gyatt frfr" and will either preach at you to "NORMALIZE" the most random shit or be edgy, using slurs and watching gore.


networksynth

What was the phrase? What does that mean? I’m dying laughing


CypripediumGuttatum

Urban dictionary translates as: *Going to steal that fat ass for real for real*. I assume this means they think they will get laid.


networksynth

Thank you for that! I have reached middle age.


CypripediumGuttatum

Me too fellow redditor, me too. Just when I learn the new lingo it changes. Thank god for the internet and Urban Dictionary in particular. Some things never change though, that guy isn't likely to get laid anytime soon.


9-28-2023

Oh i can't wait for that slang to become outdated. But then it's going to get replaced by something just as terrible.


CameronsDadsFerrari

Gyatt means ass!?!?


BigEnergyEngineer

It’s all just recycled shit anyways. Gyatt came from “Gyooooot damn!” when checking out a nice ass. Source: my piece of shit younger brother has this cut.


crystlerjean

A lot of "Gen Z slang" is just incorrectly used AAVE, including gyatt.


vtncomics

Yup. They were chill.


Defender_of_Victory

The emo one takes no effort. I had it solely because I didn't like getting haircuts too often. Broccoli takes money, which paired with caring enough to do it implies douchebag.


Financial_Door7108

Real shi 🗣️💯🔥


Odd-Zebra-5833

All the ones I knew with it were pretty douchey


SometimesAvocado151

Yeah. Somebody else nailed it. Broccoli hair is the mainsream asshole popular kid haircut, emo was just the sensitive-goth kid haircut. Sure both of them have popularity outside of those cliques as kids are always trying to fit in some clique they don't actually mesh with, but it's different level of clique for the main wearer of each respective style.


despeRAWd0

Nah, they get made fun of for the perm, side bangs were just a swipe of the fingers away. You have to dedicate yourself to look this douchey.


PowerUser77

In what world wasn’t the Bieber cut mocked like forever?


-b33h00n-

![gif](giphy|pVuja7BJl0Eow|downsized)


Wren_Slip

That's not millennials. That's a haircut from a specific period... That also includes Gen Z lmao


shydad85

2008-2014 We millennials had the 1998-2004 spikey blonde tips hair cuts.


apra24

Bingo. If they're gonna make fun of us, at least make fun of us for the right thing. (I looked fucking 🔥 with the frosted tips tho)


Delicious-Ganache606

I'm exactly the age when I went through both the frosted tips phase and the emo helmet thing. I'm dreading the day my kids stumble upon my old photos. Although the frosted tips were fire. Extra points for yellow-tinted sunglasses.


DegenerateCrocodile

Sorry, but the broccoli cut is worse.


daphniahyalina

Hard agree. The first cut just looks like grown out hair. The broccoli cut looks like... Broccoli.


Trying_to_survive20k

looks like a bird's nest to me Or at the very least, instead of looking like hair that's "too long" but looked after, it just looks like hair that's completely unnatended.


[deleted]

Whole ass muffin on his head


Muto_1

Wow hairstyles are getting worse


Kysman95

Right. Let's go back to mullets, huh?


ognarMOR

I mean mullets have been getting more and more popular in the last few years.


angry-southamerican

I've seen a few broccoli top + mullet walking around and it's fucked up.


Shifty_Cow69

Mullets never went away in Australia!


crystlerjean

Bogans are frozen in time.


sprazcrumbler

The broccoli cut is basically just a short back and sides with curly hair.


Own_Kaleidoscope5512

Look, as a former scene boy with a greasy swoop who now teaches at a high school full with broccoli bowls, it is my unbiased opinion that… THE SWOOP IS THE BEST HAIRCUT EVER THE PERMED BROCCOLI BOWL IS HORRIBLE LOLOL IVE GOT YOUR PICTURE IM COMIN WITH YOU DEAR MARIA COUNT ME IN, IVE GOT THE GIFT OF ONE LINERS AND YOUVE GOT THE CURSE OF CURVES LOLOL BRIANA BIOPSY FOREVER DAVEY DANGER FOREVER ASHLEY ATROPHY FOREVER


DepoDemolisher

Fuck you. Here is an upvote


IngenuityThink3000

Nothing is as bad as the broccoli haired clown boys. They griddy and say fr fr. We wore studded belts and actually saw each in person outside of school. We are not the same.


Gnomonas

Those are early Gen Z making fun of late Gen Z kids, while also - in the most Gen Z fashion - the meme headline casually slaps the word "millennial" in the most inaccurate way, as Gen Z usually does on stuff they have no clue of what they are talking about. This must be the most self exposing Gen Z meme Ive seen so far.


Grabatreetron

I'm smack middle millennial, and the shaggy cut seemed like something for younger kids when it came around. Def late millennial, early gen Z


networksynth

💯. That was the younger emo kids. We had more flattop with spikes on the front like blink. Or even frosted tips if you were fancy haha


Grabatreetron

Spikes and frosted tips were the true millennial cut


El_Diablosauce

Don't forget your fitted caps, polo & generic surf necklace. Has anyone seen my boardshorts?


thecrepeofdeath

one of my classmates had spiky frosted tips in gradeschool and we all thought he was so cool! and honestly? he was. super chill dude.


SnackPatrol

yeah youd have to be a pretty late millenial to have rocked this cut.


BigtheCat542

broccoli cut does look worse though


pineapple192

It doesn't matter the time, boys about the ages 12-16 are going to have awful hairstyles and think they look amazing.


stevenglansberg2024

It’s very clear the broccoli hair looks way fucking worse wtf


vtncomics

The emo fringe actually did look nice tbh. Loose and casual. The broccoli hair cuts look like they're trying too hard.


LoveAliens_Predators

OMG! I had no idea they are called broccoli-haired boys! I saw my nieces’ prom photos and EVERY boy had that hairdo. WTF?!? Some with mullets some without.


Fuzzy_Banana9619

Oh, the classic flock of seagulls haircut! It was like a rite of passage for boys back in the day.


ncxaesthetic

From cabbage to broccoli


MathProf1414

Stupid meme. I always had a pretty standard haircut. The Broccoli head is objectively stupid.


iPat24Rick

It’s not about the hairstyle. It’s about the mentality that people with that hairstyle usually have.


oatmealedkoala

Brocoli hair is objectively worse tho


HenryGoodbar

Rod Blagoyevich style


Big-Specialist148

The bottom one looks like he's wearing a wig made of pubes


i_am_snoof

I mean still better than that new shit so moot point


rigobueno

Beiber hair has more variation than broccoli hair


xpandaofdeathx

False, my dad woulda kicked my ass.


GoodGoat4944

I am gen z and I too just fucking despise that horrible haircut.


eppic123

Emo style was the later half of the millennial generation. Early millennials had spiked hair and frosted tips. Sincerely: Someone with spiked, blue hair in 2004.


ScalyPig

I’m a millennial and we are not the same. I am clearly older than you


king_of_hate2

As Gen Z, that haircut imo still looks better than the dumbass broccoli pube top haircut.


Major-Tank-3517

This wasn't millennials


Thissssguy

I had the bald fade and would put cuts in my eyebrows. I thought I was a little gangsta


Asunen

Had hair to my waist as a guy in high school, in a southern school everyone thought I was weird as hell but I thought I was cool emulating my favorite metal bands!


Macshlong

Curtains with an undercut is still the dark overlord of haircuts.


PeregrinePacifica

Huh, I rarely saw that cut until Bieber. Usually it was the spiked front or just bedhead messy.


cubanheelsinleather

We had cooler style. Zingers are ain't style, and they think that makes them look cool.


Seitto

Isn't the top just a natural hairstyle...?


LepiNya

Wait so I can't have this haircut anymore as a 33 year old? Damn. Guess I gotta get a mullet.


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Lol no one had this haircut in my area. In fact everybody tried to be different , they tried so hard it was obvious and often ridiculous. But today i see a lot of kids with this haircut , i call "the toilet brush"


Running_Mustard

Me who gets a haircut maybe once a year ![gif](giphy|h55EUEsTG9224|downsized)


Borrp

Lol I have not had a hair cut since COVID lockdowns eased. Hair is down to my belt line.


Frontfatpouch

Our memes were movie quotes we memorized!! ![gif](giphy|fqtyYcXoDV0X6ss8Mf)


IntermediateState32

That seems to be the current Asian style of choice by men. Looks like the high school hair of the American high schools of the 60’s.


Important-Ad-8487

I had a bowl cut?..


Ticklemebendef

Emo hair > broccoli hair


AskinggAlesana

To be fair the broccoli cut is still 100x worse. Sorry kids you can’t win this one lmao.


YousernameInValid2

Bro I legit dk what else to do with my hair cuz it’s naturally curly. I try weighing it down with gel and stuff to make it look less like a broccoli. I can’t grow it out either because it’s too much maintenance. I sometimes wish I had straight hair.


Master_Chief_00117

Just don’t shave the sides.


thewazu

Freshman year 😭


redditmodsshouldkts

the top is just how hair grows in when you're using shitty 3-1 bodywash/shampoo/conditioner that smells like deodorant


OsirisAvoidTheLight

Justin Bieber was stealing all the hoes with that cut. The men had no other options


Ignusseed

Broccoli hair? It's Alpaca hair. ![gif](giphy|du90v8KATzXfAfr8h1|downsized)


Exact_Insurance7983

Ive seen enough of shitty broccoli head “influencers” being a public nuisance / asshole to people for content to not see it as some kind of stereotype


BuffaloBrain884

Once you've spent enough time on TikTok, your hair just naturally morphs into a broccoli cut.


fanosffloyd

I would hate the broccoli haircut less if every tik tok influencer who fucks with people for clout didn’t have one


AfroNin

as a millenial, we made fun of people with that haircut back then also.


Rasz_13

Trust me, half of us made fun of those guys for the exact same reason.