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Generational discourse sucks. There aren't massive singular shifts every twenty years, and the scene aesthetic hit primarily the late millennials and included early gen z, by standard dates. Scene aesthetic was also just the futurist spin on punk. The aesthetic of the 00s.. https://twitter.com/helen/status/1263607396040990720
From scene to pop, the aesthetics were increasingly informed by mass cultural memory, seen in the Invader Whatever shirt, as the internet enabled a widespread mass culture. The aesthetics we have now? Are continued variations on these. If you dye your hair every month...
You're engaging in a behavior that largely started with MySpace culture. Most youth fashion is essentially a refinement of pop fashion of the 00s which was largely dictated by Disney's live action world - which in a sense extended from the fictional to the real.
Like. I'm too tired to make a well researched and super meaningful post here, but I'm not confused by gen z aesthetics. No one really is. Like I'm a millennial, technically, and my partner is a gen z, technically. We don't actually differ in aesthetic by generational tones.
Like some scenes just faded out of relevance, and with them their aesthetics. Most scenes just developed further. Like... The mass deaths of the world wars are what created this strong notion of culturally homogenous generations - because so many people were killed there is...
Essentially a "gap" in a cultural continuity for people who were of age for war. That discontinuity is one of the few historical events that truly created a generational rift, as aesthetics, scenes and styles didn't have a nornal population landscape to propagate over.
But like... There's no discontinuity between Xers and Millennials and Zoomers. You just don't like adults, and adults don't like being friends with kids.
Oh yeah, if you're actually confused by 00s aesthetics of any generation, you should checkout Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. It's a strong distillation of the Zeitgeist at the introduction.
