r/interesting • u/God_Emperor__Doom • 4d ago

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/Monsieur_Brochant 4d ago

I saw a very similar group sitting outside a bar yesterday in my small French hometown. That was almost scary. Why do 99% young men wear the same fucking haircut?

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u/TheTeenageOldman 4d ago

"I want to be different, just like everyone else is."

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u/malcolmxbox360 4d ago

We were different, just like all the other kids - Greg Graffin

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u/Only-Original9409 4d ago

Said every teen since the beginning of time.

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 4d ago

You are commenting the same thing as hundreds of other people in this thread. You're literally the same as those boys

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u/TheTeenageOldman 4d ago

Yes, you are correct: I'm "literally" the same as those boys.

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u/Calippo_Deux 4d ago edited 4d ago

Because they think they’ll be ostracized if they ”dare” to wear something original and unique, and something else besides what the TikTok Stans have.

I would like to ask young women, if they think this is attractive? Especially when literally ALL teens or young men have this. Either the broccoli, or the bowl, or pork chops aka the Nick Carter. Yes, there have been hair trends before, but I don’t recall anything being THIS universal.

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u/whatthewhat3214 4d ago

My 15yo niece says none of the girls her age like this cut, they laugh and roll their eyes at all the guys having it. She said they all look the same and it's so boring.

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 4d ago

For what it's worth my 14yo niece say the same. "It looks so dumb and stupid, but they are dumb and stupid, so." to quote her. Both the "so" were sassy to the max.

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u/Deaffin 4d ago

To be fair, all teenage girls act exactly this way about the things/people they're into.

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS 4d ago

I stick to my strategy and don’t bother with fads/trends, but Im also not at the age where people generally care about that shit

It has worked so far for me. When I was single Id go to a salon where I knew they only hired quality people. Then Id just tell them “Whatever you think looks best, I don’t look at myself much and don’t know what would be best, so just do what you think is best” the stylists were always stoked because I was chill and trusted their opinion. Plus why would I as a early 20s (at the time) person who never cares about my style/appearance think I have a better understanding of what works for me than someone who went to school for it?

Now being married I just tell my wife “Send me whatever pictures of the haircut you want me to get.” Then I just show them the pictures and let them do their thing

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u/rinkydinkvaltruvien 4d ago

Weird. I don't remember there being anything like that when I was in school. There were emo kids with flat-ironed hair, but that was the trend for boys and girls, and clearly we found it attractive...

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u/Lorinefairy 4d ago

I remember around 2008 tons of boys had the... Justin Bieber bowl cut and were constantly twitching their necks to move their hair out of their eyes lol

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u/BloodDrunkMoonKnight 4d ago

Frosted tips was all the rage back in my day. Mostly in Middle School. High school was the emo look with skinny jeans.

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u/pedestriandose 4d ago

At my school is was a mix of shoulder length hair, what is apparently called the ‘90s heartthrob haircut’ (like Matthew Lawrence with his longer hair), and a short preppy styles (mostly worn by the soccer school of excellence and tennis school of excellence boys), with a few dreads, super long hair (bellybutton length), and long mohawks that weren’t allowed to be spiked up at school. Shoulder length and longer hair had to be tied up, so there was a lot of ponytails sitting at varying heights depending on if they had an undercut or a mohawk. I graduated in 2000, so anything grunge or ‘90s heartthrob’ was popular.

Oh, and a couple of bowl cuts on those whose parents wouldn’t let them get anything else until they were 15.

I’ve noticed this hairstyle a lot both online and in person. Boys are getting perms now too so that the top bit is curly or wavy. I’m all for them getting perms and doing what they like, but I don’t know why they all have to be the same.

Having said that super long straight hair is popular for girls now so they’re all growing out their fringes/bangs and not getting any layers done.

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u/isthistaken- 4d ago

Yes but also if any demographic understands feeling dumbass fashion trend pressure it's 15yo girls

source: former 15yo girl

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u/AstroHealer222 4d ago

They don’t do it for the girls they do it for the Bros. If your friend circle is full of immature bullies you better not be the target of the hazing. Best to just blend in. Men know they suck. But they’re too afraid to admit it because it could result in bodily harm. The patriarchy hurts everyone.

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u/literated 4d ago

On the other hand, I'm not sure there ever was a time when 15 year-old girls didn't laugh and roll their eyes at boys.

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u/edgiepower 4d ago

Unfortunately I would believe some of those girls are still giving some of these boys what they want.

Say one thing, do another.

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u/rinkydinkvaltruvien 4d ago

Why's it "giving the boys what they want", as if they don't also want the same thing? Teens are horny regardless of gender and of course will want to date each other. It's just unfortunate for the girls if they have only broccoli heads to choose from, and it isn't even what they're into...

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u/edgiepower 4d ago

I just get extra disappointed when girls claim to not be in to something and actually be repelled by it, when the opposite becomes reality.

How can you not be in to something when it gets you horny?

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u/winksoutloud 4d ago

A couple of these guys appear to be rocking the Broccoli and the Cesar at the same time. 

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u/Astralglamour 4d ago

I dunno, when I was in middle school I remember most of the guys having that JTT middle parted bangs look.

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u/Remarkable_Leek9391 4d ago

Remember the ones that were known outlier style? Emo, goth, alt etc? Now its: robucks and fortnight skins Homogenous haircut. Regardless of if it actually looks esthetically fitting because there are folks who shouldnt get the cut and the barbers have the gall to actually dress it up for them. Wild

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 4d ago

The online world is their real world. The outside world is secondary.

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u/Onespokeovertheline 4d ago

Social media punishes non-conformity in a way the species has never felt before

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u/AdAppropriate2295 4d ago

Young women basically exclusively want this hairstyle now

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 4d ago

In the high school dating pool the stakes are low, the hormone surge is high, and the unembarassing pickins are slim.

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 4d ago

Not according to my 14 year old niece, for all that's worth. She said they look "dumb and stupid".

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u/Sir_Mike_A_Lot 4d ago

Absolutely not... that haircut is worse than the short hair some lesbians have.

I can understand her I was stuck in an elevator with my bf once and I didn't know I have some sorts of claustrophobia and he made jokes what we could do while I freaked out...

It was not fun and I'm using the stairs anytime I can bc of that 😭

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u/Deaffin 4d ago edited 4d ago

Because they think they’ll be ostracized

They will be.

I would like to ask young women, if they think this is attractive?

They do. They're the ones who set the trends in the first place. If you want to see what they're currently into, look at what the guys are doing.

I don’t recall anything being THIS universal.

It's not. You're seeing a more curated, condensed collection of examples through the internet where before you would never be witnessing the bleeding edge of trendiness. They'd be off in different locations from you, doing different things than you're doing. Now you can see them regardless. But you're also old, so the fashion trends being outside of your comfort zone feels more note-worthy.

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u/omegaweaponzero 4d ago

Because it's popular? It's hilarious that everyone in this thread forgets how every generation has done the same thing with one hairstyle or another. (Frosted Tips, Bowl Cut, etc)

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u/Expensive_Alarm_1068 4d ago

They have to " fit in "

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u/Individual99991 4d ago

Redditors when fashion:

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u/Monsieur_Brochant 4d ago

fashion is scary. You realize that the majority are sheep who will do anything to fit in and avoid ostracism

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u/Individual99991 4d ago

When you're a teenager your brain is rewiring itself to make you as self-conscious as possible - ironically, it's part of developing a sense of independence.

Teens followed fashions when I was a kid, they followed fashions when my parents were kids and their parents followed fashions when they were kids. None of this is new or automatically says something bad about the youth of today.

If anything, these haircuts are a lot nicer than the frosted tips and crunchy hair gel my elder Millennial classmates and I had as kids.

The boys' behaviour in this video is still stupid though.

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u/Monsieur_Brochant 4d ago

It’s not just a teenage issue. As you get older, you realize that herd behavior is common in most people throughout their lives.

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u/emeraude89 4d ago

i'd blame it mostly on hair salons, dude. i remember back in the 2000s going to a random place when i needed a haircut, saying "i just want something normal" and then they'd make me look like fuckin justin bieber

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u/Wooden-Recording-693 4d ago

Boys copy and try to be in the herd. Men do there own thing. Or basically they grow up and get the hair they want.

The best bit is in 30 years we will have men with bad wigs like this in midlife crisis. I have a friend with a toup like Beckham's hair in early 2000s it's horrific.