This is how my hair was at like 18, I can’t criticise anyone else
I’ve never had hair like that, but the pic seems like a pretty normal haircut I’ve seen from mid-90s through to now
It’s basically just a crew cut…AKA one of the most popular short haircuts of all time!
Isn’t that a Caesar? It’s combed forward which makes all the difference.
Yeah but the signature of this was the propped up “wave” in the front, I remember that being huge through elementary and middle school in the 90s
It’s this a crop of Ellen DeGeneres?
This is not nearly as bad as the broccoli fuck boys although this definitely was the hairstyle of the future fuck boys I was in elementary school with back in the day.
culture peaked
Is this supposed to be a dig at guys with long hair? Guys with long hair are sexy. Not my fault you feel intimidated by their masculinity.
Lol. Not at all.
This picture may represent humanity at its peak.
“What do ya waaaant?”
I hear it’s better to burn out than to fade away. I think that’s the anthem of 2025 America.
This was the time when rock stars wore heavy makeup, painted their nails, had long lucious curly hair wore pants that cut off circulation
Nobody said they were “gay” or “trans”, they were just rock and fucking roll and whatever they wanted
I’m sorry but this is erasure of the very real homophobia these glam metal bands experienced as part of later backlash.
And the guys in Skid Row tell of going out in public in the late eighties with “their hair stacked to the sky” and fighting with rednecks who called them removeds (Konow 296). While I never had to duke it out with anyone because of my long hair (the extent of my glam look), I did have similar experiences in the real world. Once, when with my mom at Huntington House, a now-defunct furniture store, a female sales clerk came up behind us and asked, “Can I help you ladies?” And on another occasion, when looking at clothes at Joslins in the Westminster Mall, a woman approached me from behind while remarking, “What do we have here? A lady looking at men’s pants!”
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If that’s the extent of the “bad” they got, then I’d say you’re wrong.
Denim pants, shirts, jackets… jfc they had it figured out
The Era of Aquanet.
Objectively glorious.
Speak for yourself, I had frosted and fire tips.
Billabong sweater, or T-shirt over long arms. Oakleys, baggy low on the hip jeans and (possibly JNCO even if I prefered other brands) DC skateboard shoes. Soundtrack - The Offspring - Conspiracy of One. I would jack back into 2000 in an instant
Don’t forget the puka shell necklace
Man I lived in DCs for years. Zero arch for my flat feet and they just slipped on. Even good for working in restaurants.
Vans.
Yep. Far superior to DC.
What the fuck is broccoli hair?
It’s a temple fade. Kinda like what people wore in the 90s and early 2000s.
No
Exhibit B:
Where I am, mullets made a comeback a year or so ago, and now the odd person will get one.
Not just mullets, but mullet and tache combo.
Yes. Odd people.
We get a weird half mullet. It’s long-ish in the back, short on the sides, and long-ish on top. It’s like they wanted a mullet, but wanted plausible deniability too.
Just commit…
My condolences
That happened half a decade ago here. Been spreading.
What do you even ask for at the barbers to end up with that?
Skin fade to pot noodle, please mister?
Do we know if they actually perm their hair? With as many haircuts like this that I see, they can’t ALL have curly hair right?
They do.
I’m probably the only one but I think it looks pretty cool.
I think it looks like stupid influences, very punchable.
it does, people get saltier and crankier with time
I’m 40+ and hope it will not happen to me any time soon.
The early 90’s mushroom haircut trend was worse by far
Once the butt cut was peak hair.
Is that five different people?
I hate to sound racist against (other) white people, but I genuinely can’t tell the difference between these 5. I bet they can’t dance and like mayonnaise as well…
It’s back bay-bee!
I’m just waiting for the other early 2000s hair trends to come back. Frosted tips, insane amounts of gel to spike it up, maybe some pukka shell necklaces? Maybe some Hawaiian shirts? Maybe those big ball chains? Converse? Just bring back third wave ska?
Well given that broccoli hair is just another word for the perms from the 80s, just give it 20 years and it’ll be back in again. You could even be ahead of the curve, just give it some new name, christmas cake hair for example if it’s all about frosted tips, and start wearing it in 15 years time. You’ll become famous for “starting” a “new” trend!
I would argue Converse is pretty timeless
Yeah that one doesn’t fit. Kids have continued buying chucks straight up to modern day. Only difference is the soles appear to have gotten chunkier.
I’d like to see 50-60 year olds doing up their hair like the Static-X guy.
Fuck yeah static-generation-x
Absolutely bring back the ska! Tbf, it never really went away, just not in the mainstream anymore.
Tbf, it never really went away, just not in the mainstream anymore.
You can say that about most things people want to bring back.
If you can’t bully children for their terrible haircuts, why even perpetuate their creation?
“me had hair?”
No way, broccoli hair is significantly worse than almost any other hairstyle.
You couldn’t convince me broccoli hair was started as a meme to see if people would make themselves look dumb to follow a trend.
May I remind you of the existence of the one true stupidest haircut ever invented: the mullet. The great equalizer of looking bad. Not one person on the entire planet Earth can wear it well.
Counter point the mullet looks perfectly acceptable when combined qith headware such as hats. Or if you are a snake, a bandana.
I rest my case.
What makes it so bad?
The look, mostly.
I don’t really mind the broccoli cut. There are many far worse follicular atrocities throughout history. Beehives, flat tops, the mullets already mentioned, and many others are worse than broccoli hair IMO.
Yeah, the haircut in OPs picture is normal, if they wanted to show and idiotic haircut it should have been the manbun.
Tbh I still find that haircut to be quite attractive. Cannot say the same for broccoli cuts.
Round our way it is still mullets and Ned Flanders moustaches.
Good for them. I could never pull that off.
It is the right of younger generations to confuse older gens with their style and older ones to be confused/offended by them. A tale as old as time.
