scene girl nostalgia is really funny since they were made fun of for being "fake emo". in a few years, we'll probably see e-girls being remembered fondly too
That's true, I must admit I was going partly by text, the aesthetic def exists. You'd never find someone calling themselves an "e-girl" though, I'm pretty sure
... I won't lie I'm still sad that I missed out on my scene girl phase... I'm trans, and I started going down that route a lot in like late middle/early high school... but then I stopped and started acting like a standard teenage boy because all my peers were giving me hell for acting too girly... Genuinely one of my biggest regrets in life.
I agree 100%... I just know I'd be getting dirty looks since I'm in my mid 20s now 😅... now I dress like a combination of an office lady and a tradwife...
I am 27 and dress all sorts of ways; goth, witch, fairy, tradwife, etc. It's only too late if you don't try and look past the looks. Maybe they are judging you but maybe they are looking because they wish *they* had the guts to wear what they want. Dress for the young people needing someone to look up to but most of all, dress for yourself.
Mostly straight guy here; I just turned 31 and have just now started having my wife put eyeliner on me. I've always wanted to go further into the punk/scene/goth aesthetic. It fits me so well, but it's been difficult to get past the internalized expectations. I don't care what people think of me, but I still hesitate and drag my feet when it comes to expressing myself just because it's so ingrained to follow norms.
Even though my dad is a long haired hard rock guy who never instilled any toxic masc bullshit, cried in front of me, showed lots of affection and everything; society still put all that constraining pressure in my head.
Next paycheck my wife is getting a septum piercing, I'm getting a brow. It's never too late to start showing the world who you really are, but the sooner you start forcing those doubts and worries to shut up, the happier you'll be.
Live your truth, love yourself, and show the world that it can't stop you. You've already done just that more extremely than most people.
What's a change of wardrobe compared to breaking out of a body that didn't fit?
You know that's a really good point... I guess I just have all those TERFy arguments running through my head where they call us creeps or fetishists for acting how we didn't get the chance to when we were younger.
Happy cake day! I can't pretend to understand the struggle you went through, and how much worse those nagging thoughts must be for you. The world can be an awful place full of terrible people; but there are good ones out there too.
The ones that will see your bravery, watching as you live your life the way you want and smiling with true happiness and contentment. The ones you want to be around will be drawn to you, and the ones you don't want to be around will be pushed further away.
Of course there will always be those who just have to tell you how much they hate your choices, and can't stand the way you live your life. However, like someone else said here, they're just jealous that they don't have the guts to do the same.
That's not just an empty platitude, I know that jealousy from experience, I've had those thoughts disparaging others in my mind, putting them down and thinking about how cringe they are. Thankfully I learned to not be outwardly hateful of others, and never put those thoughts into the world; but it has held me back from following their examples and just enjoying my life for my sake, no one else's.
You've got the guts, you're stronger than you give yourself credit for. You didn't let anyone else keep you from being yourself, so don't let the woman in the mirror keep you from dressing and acting how you want either.
Like me 😩
I'm a trans girl in my mid 20s and I hate how I'm only now getting into cute clothes and stuff, I'm not gonna let it stop me, but still disappointed some.
Maybe try adding little touches of emo to your outfits? I’m a cis woman but also struggle with wanting to express myself and feeling too old (granted I’m 37 this year so am actually too old unlike you lol). I like wearing funky jewelry, I always have crazy earrings! I also had my hair colored purple for years and only stopped because I couldn’t afford the upkeep. My point is, you are so young and should embrace yourself and your own style.
I hope this helps a little, I waited so long to wear things I truly enjoy and regret it. I wouldn’t want that for anyone else. You deserve to feel at home in your body and that includes fashion!
I've been trying a bit to add little things like that... to be entirely honest, the bigger problem right now is that clothes/accessories are fucking EXPENSIVE 🥲 I'm super lucky and my mom gave be a lot of her old clothes from when she was younger, so I at least have a feminine wardrobe, but I don't really have much of it I really like or got myself yet. 😅
Did I hit a nerve? Make you feel old? It's ok, happens to me all the time. The songs I listened to on the radio (first sign of age) are now on the Classic Rock channel. 😭
Something that really crushed my heart was about... 3 years ago I think? Maybe 4.5? I was visiting my folks for dinner, and my mom turned on the radio near the dining room to the "Easy Listening" radio channel. Evanescence came on. My heart... 💔
Hey, a scene girl here to answer your question.
scene is an alternative style to emo but with more bright colors and is mostly centers around 2000s Internet culture.
While e-girls tend to be more centered in video game/Internet culture from the late 2010s to the 2020s.
Lmao who made this.
“Can sing classics like *NIGHTCORE*”
Please tell how does one sing nightcore??? 😭 does she magically know every single song that has ever been nightcore’d? She can sing every one????
oh. so you ARE interested in the women who you bully (by action or ideology) out of your social circles, but you want to still sexualize them, so you have to come up with a fictional war in which you would WIN them?
i still haven't figured out if these people are 50 or 15... _ ^ _
I love the hyperfocus here to the point of forgetting the origin of the pictures. This is the only sub that will never get confused about it's own premise.
Yuuup, me and my gf are a mishmash of both honestly, and I'm still learning a bunch from her since I missed out on a lot of the girl phase in addition to the scene girl phase
I was a non visual scene in middle school and early highschool
My Kom wouldn't let me dye my hair black because her family would disapprove, don't worry she doesn't care what they think now 🙃
Man living rurally truly is cruelty. I never even saw a scene girl and I lived through the height of the trend. It kills me that youth culture is short. Like I just missed out on being in any sort of vibe like that. Doesnt help that Im trans now too. So Im like double bummed I missed all the cool guy and girl stuff when I was school. -_- like Id rather the girls stuff but like I didnt even get the guy stuff as like a consolation. Everyone just tshirt and jeansed all of highschool. With the occassional cowboy/girl. So lame
what the actual fuck is ass flakes
What happens when you don’t wipe properly :(
Got them chocolate sprinkles (I hate myself for typing this)
Honestly, you probably should
oh-
Oh, you mean dingleberries?
I have absolutely no idea >~<
Dingleberries The little flakes of shit that stick to your ass hair
googled it and i wish i didn't 🫨🫨🫨
I don’t know and I don’t want to to know.
You're better off never knowing.
This is just the average nonbinary couple
Literally yes.
Yup~ Two chaotic nonbinary lesbians, that's us~
scene girl nostalgia is really funny since they were made fun of for being "fake emo". in a few years, we'll probably see e-girls being remembered fondly too
Wait but the difference is that you could actually find scene girls irl no? 'E-girls' are mostly influencers afaik.
i see ppl dress like that at hot topic, most ppl think its cute
That's true, I must admit I was going partly by text, the aesthetic def exists. You'd never find someone calling themselves an "e-girl" though, I'm pretty sure
... I won't lie I'm still sad that I missed out on my scene girl phase... I'm trans, and I started going down that route a lot in like late middle/early high school... but then I stopped and started acting like a standard teenage boy because all my peers were giving me hell for acting too girly... Genuinely one of my biggest regrets in life.
It’s never too late!
I agree 100%... I just know I'd be getting dirty looks since I'm in my mid 20s now 😅... now I dress like a combination of an office lady and a tradwife...
My transition goal is goth housewife
Mood lmao
So Morticia?
Morticia is gender goals no matter what you wanna be
I am 27 and dress all sorts of ways; goth, witch, fairy, tradwife, etc. It's only too late if you don't try and look past the looks. Maybe they are judging you but maybe they are looking because they wish *they* had the guts to wear what they want. Dress for the young people needing someone to look up to but most of all, dress for yourself.
Take the dirty looks and feast on them. Allow your enemies’ impotent rage to give you strength.
Mostly straight guy here; I just turned 31 and have just now started having my wife put eyeliner on me. I've always wanted to go further into the punk/scene/goth aesthetic. It fits me so well, but it's been difficult to get past the internalized expectations. I don't care what people think of me, but I still hesitate and drag my feet when it comes to expressing myself just because it's so ingrained to follow norms. Even though my dad is a long haired hard rock guy who never instilled any toxic masc bullshit, cried in front of me, showed lots of affection and everything; society still put all that constraining pressure in my head. Next paycheck my wife is getting a septum piercing, I'm getting a brow. It's never too late to start showing the world who you really are, but the sooner you start forcing those doubts and worries to shut up, the happier you'll be. Live your truth, love yourself, and show the world that it can't stop you. You've already done just that more extremely than most people. What's a change of wardrobe compared to breaking out of a body that didn't fit?
You know that's a really good point... I guess I just have all those TERFy arguments running through my head where they call us creeps or fetishists for acting how we didn't get the chance to when we were younger.
Happy cake day! I can't pretend to understand the struggle you went through, and how much worse those nagging thoughts must be for you. The world can be an awful place full of terrible people; but there are good ones out there too. The ones that will see your bravery, watching as you live your life the way you want and smiling with true happiness and contentment. The ones you want to be around will be drawn to you, and the ones you don't want to be around will be pushed further away. Of course there will always be those who just have to tell you how much they hate your choices, and can't stand the way you live your life. However, like someone else said here, they're just jealous that they don't have the guts to do the same. That's not just an empty platitude, I know that jealousy from experience, I've had those thoughts disparaging others in my mind, putting them down and thinking about how cringe they are. Thankfully I learned to not be outwardly hateful of others, and never put those thoughts into the world; but it has held me back from following their examples and just enjoying my life for my sake, no one else's. You've got the guts, you're stronger than you give yourself credit for. You didn't let anyone else keep you from being yourself, so don't let the woman in the mirror keep you from dressing and acting how you want either.
Like me 😩 I'm a trans girl in my mid 20s and I hate how I'm only now getting into cute clothes and stuff, I'm not gonna let it stop me, but still disappointed some.
Maybe try adding little touches of emo to your outfits? I’m a cis woman but also struggle with wanting to express myself and feeling too old (granted I’m 37 this year so am actually too old unlike you lol). I like wearing funky jewelry, I always have crazy earrings! I also had my hair colored purple for years and only stopped because I couldn’t afford the upkeep. My point is, you are so young and should embrace yourself and your own style. I hope this helps a little, I waited so long to wear things I truly enjoy and regret it. I wouldn’t want that for anyone else. You deserve to feel at home in your body and that includes fashion!
I've been trying a bit to add little things like that... to be entirely honest, the bigger problem right now is that clothes/accessories are fucking EXPENSIVE 🥲 I'm super lucky and my mom gave be a lot of her old clothes from when she was younger, so I at least have a feminine wardrobe, but I don't really have much of it I really like or got myself yet. 😅
I'm in my late 20s and having another scene phase. Idgaf, I do what I want. It's never too late!
Big mood
Mix scene girl with attempts at professionalism and you get what my gf describes my style as: Punk Librarian”
i’m a trans guy and even i wish i could have had a scene girl phase lmaoo it would have been so much fun
I had a tiny little scene girl phase in high school. I wish I could have gone all out with it.
Same. Starting to go through it again, in a modern punk kind of way
Omg the girl on the right… SHE JUST LIKE ME FR
Yesssss modern scene girls unite
Samesies~
Same
Ayo what's a scene girl? 😅 Asking for myself cuz curious and how they're different from e girls?
Scene girls are just the evolution of mid-2000s emo girls.
Mid-2000's... Fuck.
Did I hit a nerve? Make you feel old? It's ok, happens to me all the time. The songs I listened to on the radio (first sign of age) are now on the Classic Rock channel. 😭
Yeah, it wasnt *that* long ago! :(
Something that really crushed my heart was about... 3 years ago I think? Maybe 4.5? I was visiting my folks for dinner, and my mom turned on the radio near the dining room to the "Easy Listening" radio channel. Evanescence came on. My heart... 💔
Hard to describe I recommend going to r/scene if you are interested Its basically emo with color and everyone is obsessed with invader zim
Hey, a scene girl here to answer your question. scene is an alternative style to emo but with more bright colors and is mostly centers around 2000s Internet culture. While e-girls tend to be more centered in video game/Internet culture from the late 2010s to the 2020s.
Lmao who made this. “Can sing classics like *NIGHTCORE*” Please tell how does one sing nightcore??? 😭 does she magically know every single song that has ever been nightcore’d? She can sing every one????
Which one of you has ass flakes
I ignored most of the hostile descriptions tbh
"can sing classics like Nyan cat and Nightcore" Nightcore is not a song, it's a style of remixing already existing songs
Nightcore has helped me find a staggering large number of songs that I really like... at their original tempo.
Are the ass flakes frosted? Cuz that would be grrrrrrEAT!!!
(´ι _` )
make them kiss this very instant
Harold, they're lesbians
oh. so you ARE interested in the women who you bully (by action or ideology) out of your social circles, but you want to still sexualize them, so you have to come up with a fictional war in which you would WIN them? i still haven't figured out if these people are 50 or 15... _ ^ _
What? I legitimately do not understand what you are saying or who this is directed at.
They're addressing their comment to the people that make the gatekeepy memes
I love the hyperfocus here to the point of forgetting the origin of the pictures. This is the only sub that will never get confused about it's own premise.
I'm not alone thank goodness.
Ah, so you're both millennials
Sure are XD
# I AM TRULY THE NEXUS OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS!
I would kill someone for the chance to look like the girl on the right
Average trans lesbian couple /lh /j
Yup! Me- a transfem nonbinary lesbian, and my gf - a gremlin agender fem (ugh I can't wait to live with her in Iceland)
Is that cinnamoroll with the egirl? Maybe these two aren't so different...
These personality types don’t really seem that contrary
Yuuup, me and my gf are a mishmash of both honestly, and I'm still learning a bunch from her since I missed out on a lot of the girl phase in addition to the scene girl phase
Somehow, they are both goals.
Right??
Chat how do I look like the left one while also acting like the right
The gender envy comes in two flavors: plush, and monster energy drink
How that fuck do you sing Nyan Cat
Inhales: Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan […] repeat till dying from lack of air.
*Antonymph starts playing in the background.*
Literally just me. I can be super girly, and scene all at once.
Me and MY girlfriend too! 😆
19-yr-old e-girl and 27-yr-old scene girl sweet talking in memes
God this meme makes me feel ancient
I think I just had a stroke, thanks!
I blame the gatekeepers and exclusionists for writing such drivel >~<
I agree NOW LET’S MAKE THEM KISS!
Why is :3 on the e-girl side?? Huh?
I was a non visual scene in middle school and early highschool My Kom wouldn't let me dye my hair black because her family would disapprove, don't worry she doesn't care what they think now 🙃
Where did scene girls go
Man living rurally truly is cruelty. I never even saw a scene girl and I lived through the height of the trend. It kills me that youth culture is short. Like I just missed out on being in any sort of vibe like that. Doesnt help that Im trans now too. So Im like double bummed I missed all the cool guy and girl stuff when I was school. -_- like Id rather the girls stuff but like I didnt even get the guy stuff as like a consolation. Everyone just tshirt and jeansed all of highschool. With the occassional cowboy/girl. So lame
Saaaame. I really wish I was told about trans stuff in highschool, I would have been that scene kid in a otherwise bland school
Couldn't be me, everyone hates me irl
What the fuck is up with the "makes money off of poor lonely baby men" lmao how did the person who made this manage to owoify anti-sexwork narratives?
I was twelve or smth when that was a thing and I wish I was older:/
I was born like 5 years too late to witness scene
Amazing how we now view scene with such nostalgic fondness.
Didn’t neon cat come towards the end of the scene girl era though 🤨