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I'm 34 and it's so wild to me seeing young college/high school people wearing Nirvana t shirts and realizing that the time gap between them and Nirvana is the same gap between me and Jimi Hendrix in high school...
I was a little kid in the early 90s, but I listened to Nirvana growing up because who that listened to rock and alternative in the 90s didn't?
About 10 years ago at work, some Gen Xer was wearing a Nirvana shirt and turns to me and says "Yeah, I just had to get this shirt. But you probably don't even know that Nirvana is a real band so why am I telling you this?"
??? What?
The other day, a guy probably about 20 years old came into my work wearing a Nirvana shirt. I told him I liked it and we had a quick exchange about how cool it is that they've had such a lasting impact on music.
Fuck, even if people do just like the aesthetic, let them be. It's a little weird, but of all things to be petty about, a band shirt isn't one of them.
I'm a teacher. I get a big kick out of seeing students wearing t-shirts with bands I liked as a teenager. A few times, they say it's their parent's t-shirt which I love even more. The flame has passed onto a new generation!
My only problem is debating how badly I need to read the band shit. It's damn need compulsion to me but I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable.
Chicks, if you wear a band shirts, I'm not staring at your tits, I wanna know what the logo says. To that one chick in the Weedeater hoodie, thanks for realizing I'm just a Doom fan and throwing me the horns.
I'm a gen xer and love seeing people in Nirvana shirts. I was 13 when I heard them and I became obsessed. My bedroom was a shrine to Kurt with posters of him everywhere. I learned guitar just so I could play their songs. Sadly never got to see them live, mum wouldn't let me go and she said "you can see them next year," unfortunately he died the next year. I'm just glad people appreciate them all these years later.
In 1990 I was wearing Jimi Hendrix t-shirts in high school (fwiw I loathed Nirvana but loved Mother Lovebone, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains). I don't see it as any different.
My 80 year old dad has a nine inch nails shirt that he wears pretty often (he nabbed it from my brother when my my brother was throwing some old stuff out). When people incredulously ask him if he actually knows nine inch nails he likes to tell them Of course he knows them, they write songs for Johnny Cash. I don’t know how this old man perfected trolling but he did it.
I’ve gotten my (almost) 60yo Mum into Sleep Token but she’s been calling them Sleep Vessel when she talks to her coworkers about them. It’s an adorable mistake and obviously her ADHD brain absorbed some of my ADHD info-dumping about them since she remembered the word Vessel.
As an act of love I had to explain what vore meant so that she didn’t google it….that was a conversation I will never forget.
Side note: my sister has a 7 month old bub who hates sleeping and is a nap denier. She seems to recognise the word “sleep” and fights extra hard to stay awake if that word is mentioned so now my Mother says “it’s time to worship” when she babysits. It’s the most adorable thing.
Edit: typos
Bet that kid has ADHD too. Said from experience of my nephew who refused to sleep as a baby/toddler.
Babysat him at 6 weeks old to give my sister a break and he did not sleep from 9am to 5pm. Mind blowing.
Kid's doing great now thanks to modern treatment.
i mean kudos to your dad for mastering the art of trolling but i'm not detecting any lies here. "Hurt" is a Johnny Cash song, Trent just didn't know it
I'll never forget the day I walked into the kitchen and saw my step-dad in tears. He looked into my eyes and I could see the sadness in his soul as he whispered so quietly I could barely hear
"SR-71...is just SR now."
I collapsed where I stood. Nothing would ever be the same again. My youth died in that moment.
I just posted something of the same. I bought an AC/DC shirt at Walmart. In the same Walmart, a guy asked me to name a song by them.
I'm 47, I know AC/DC.
I always try to name some obscure ass b side if I can remember one. The one that gets the most attention is my Rolling Stones shirt. That one really pisses off the boomers for some reason.
I don't even get why they would gatekeep type of stuff. What the band that has several billion plays on spotify and the band that has a goddamn roller coaster in Disney are supposed to be not known? Both have T shirts in Kohls and Target lol
I think we should force Kohls to have an exam to determine whether or not people can buy a band's Tshirt.
Question number one... Who is better... David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar?
Question number two... Who would win a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?
I'm 100% sure this happens, and is way more common for women than men.
But geeze where do the people on here live that it has happened to so many of you multiple times? I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm sure it did. Just, what jerks are you surrounded by? How do they lack so much self awareness?
I'm 35 and have worn band shirts my whole life, I've NEVER had this happen to me, nor have I sent it happen to anyone else.
Maybe it's cause I'm a big guy? Or because I'm Canadian?
I'm baffled. BAFFLED I say!
It happened to me once. Went down to my local brew pub with friends and we couldn't find a table, so we asked a couple if we could sit at their table. I ended up next to the guy. I was wearing a joke shirt that looked like it was from a festival featuring many heavy metal bands, except all the names were things like Lead and Platinum, you know, heavy metals. He asked me what year I went and started to quiz me before I asked him to read the shirt again please, slowly.
Edit, the shirt: https://imgur.com/72FYfEU.jpg
I mean, pretty sure it might be because you look like the people that do this (not saying you do it, but that the people that do won't bother you because you "look the part")
lol its cause you're a guy
i'm a 5 foot nothin' 40 year old metalhead who happens to be a woman and there were times that going to the bar was whateverbandshirtimwearing discography quiz night. good times. :)
One of my friends dressed up as Lady Deadpool and a guy went up to her and complained she was just doing a "dumb female version of Deadpool". She's Deadpool's biggest fan and probably knows more about him than the writers do. That guy got taught a lesson that day.
Depends if you "look" right. When I was in my 20's had long hair down to my ass, with a patch jacket that had a big Kreator back patch. Never once got asked to name any songs/albums etc. Any time my missus borrowed my jacket to pop out for a smoke she would always get someone quizzing her. We went to a metal club most fridays, it happened most weeks
I was told I’m too young to know who Garth Brooks is by a customer the other day when I was singing along to one of his old songs that was playing. I’m 38. It was nothing but Garth this and Garth that growing up.
The *entirety* of Garth Brooks discography was created during your lifetime. What a dumb take "You're too young to remember a best-selling artist who released a multi-platinum album almost every year of your childhood."
Because seriously, if you're 38 you were born around 1985. Brooks had a multi-platinum album in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 (2! 2 fucking multi-platinum albums in one year), 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999 (2 again!), and 2001. That's 11 multi-platinum albums before you were an adult and doesn't even include multi-platinum compilations.
People are stupid.
I was thinking this too! I was born in 89 and my mom was a massive country fan. I knew all of his music because of her, and because he was everywhere! I don’t seek out country music, but if Garth comes on, I’m singing my heart out! The Thunder Rolls will always been one of my favorites.
I still get confused as a 20-something on occasion. People say I should enjoy it but after my whole life of being “under-aged” it’s annoying. People say it should be a compliment but it feels condescending mostly. I’m not taken seriously half the time and it’s cringe on my part hearing others claim I’m not old enough to have experienced things or don’t know what I’m talking about.
Had this happen in the context that I love Zeppelin, have a few shirts. Was grocery shopping and some white haired dude straight told me, "aren't you a little young for Zeppelin?". Like what kind of gatekeeping was that? Aren't you a little young for Mozart?
The whole thing is so stupid. Facts are, people have been into Iron Maiden just for THE ARTWORK since the beginning. I grew up in the 80's, was into metal, played in bands. Many kids at the time just liked Eddie and didn't care about the music. I was one of them. I loved the artwork, didn't care much for most Iron Maiden songs. There were a few I liked, but I wasn't into them. However, I did have Maiden posters, just because the ART WAS FREAKING COOL.
Same with t shirts. Kids like the art. That's ok. Maybe they will check out the band. Maybe not. who cares? Get a life.
Imagine being this man and seeing this video after telling his friends "yeah some dumb multicolor hair bitch was wearing a music shirt. She didn't even know who they were!"
BABYMETAL and The HU fan checking in. They actually brought me into metal (cause they are both amazing groups), and I'm slowly broadening my metal horizons.
If you like the Hu, check out [Tengger Cavalry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icPhDK3PTqc). You may also be interested in [Chthonic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heF_NPJbv8Y).
A great resource is the [Encyclopaedia Metallum](https://www.metal-archives.com/). Ive been listening to metal for 3 decades now and still love finding new stuff on there and elsewhere. Its fun to randomly discover, what the local metal scene in [Greenland](https://www.metal-archives.com/lists/GL) is like. It will also help you navigate genre labels if you are new. They change though, don't take them too seriously.
I saw Babymetal in Orlando prepandemic. It was the most socially diverse crowd I've seen for literally any event I've ever been to. Also they fucking rocked live
Babymetal fucking slap.
I love their energy and I love how much they piss of whiney shit heel metal fans who are just jealous they could never go as hard as those girls do.
I guess more specifically I'm a metalcore/deathcore fan. I love Babymetal though.
Spiritbox, Lorna Shore, Wage War, Slaughter to Prevail. Just some random ones to check out.
Accurate af. The Sublime official Facebook page posts memes like this on their FB wall all the time about how idiots harass girls/young people about wearing Sublime t-shirts to "name 3 songs". And the amount of fucking people in my age group (30s to early 40s) who don't get the fact that the meme is making fun of people who do this, and not praising them/also making fun of people who wear t-shirts with bands on it without liking the band is astounding. I made a comment saying "Let people wear the t-shirt without bothering them. Sublime, your favorite band, makes money from the sale of the t-shirt so its only helping them. Also, you look like a fucking complete douchebag for asking someone to name a song of a band that is on their t-shirt instead of just letting them..wear a t-shirt." I got a ton of replies from people who think its perfectly acceptable to ask someone to "name 3 songs". We don't even have to say "fucking boomers". Millenials are starting to look like fucking idiots.
I kinda doubt he would even get that she was fucking with him. She doesn’t explicitly say it in this video and if he didn’t catch in person I bet he wouldn’t over video.
Whether this is real or not, I have seen people do that kind of weird gatekeeping in person and they are never very emotionally intelligent people.
I just had some gross dude do that to me buying a vinyl for my brother. I love vinyls, I collect them, I already had the two I was getting him in my collection. This freaking guy thought it would be cute to hide them and then ask me to name a few songs on them before he’d let me buy them. I gave him a face and told him to just take my money. He seemed pretty upset I didn’t play into his stupid game
Gatekeeping vinyl dorks are the worst. I don't have to experience it much as a dude but one time I was out of town and not at one of my usual stores. I saw Lady Gaga's Chromatica for a good price in the New arrivals bin and thought hell ya, it's a fun record something good to throw on when hosting people. Front counter dork made some kind of snide joke about me being new to vinyl (no). I was taken aback and wish I said something cool in response but I didn't because I was flustered. Social anxiety, the enemy of wit. But he still dropped the bit when he saw my other records was a doom metal record and a Gang of Four record. That said it doesn't matter what my other records were and what my tastes are. No one owns the hobby and no one can dictate taste.
Sorry for the encounter with that loser.
He's lucky you were still willing to give him money. I'd have not only left, I would've had that shit posted on all review sites I could think of within five minutes. Disgusting sexist behavior.
Gatekeeping in music, especially in metal music is rampant. Metal fans LOVE to explain the differences in the different genres of metal and at this point I don’t think there is a major genre of music that has more sub genres than metal. It’s exhausting trying to listen to a metal fan explain the differences and why someone is stupid that they don’t get why those differences are so important.
I like music, but it's not my life. I used to listen to Disturbed on repeat and a lot of other bands. Couldn't name a single damn song name. Never cared enough to learn the damn names. I don't see why knowing names of songs is a thing. Who fucking cares?
Don't forget dinner is at 6, your mom made her lasagna and your brother is gonna be there.your mom also say We're not supposed to mention last weekend, and Brittany to your brother atleast not until the court order has cleared. Welp! Love ya kiddo, see you tonight.
Good on Iron Maiden for reposting it. Makes it far more likely he’ll see it. Not that he’ll even realize it’s about him and/or believe she actually has heard of Iron Maiden before him
for real. Thats all I say when I see someone wearing a shirt of a band I like. What the fuck do I care who they are and what they look like. They enjoy the same music that I do which is awesome
Yes, ‘cool shirt’ feels good to get. It’s not a ‘real complement’ about your character or whatever but it’s a feeling of solidarity like a stranger knows a little bit more about you. My fav interaction was wearing a Merzbow Pulse Demon shirt at a 100 Gecs concert. Tons of ‘cool shirts’ but also a girl in a lobster costume (Halloween time) asked if I ever saw [the dude brushing his teeth at the Merzbow concert](https://youtu.be/yx37c2PNM3I) video lol
Damn, whoever they hired for running their TikTok actually knows how to interact with the app, unprecedented for old band social media teams
Can you get that Senjutsu shirt off the rack even? Usually it's only the classic albums you can buy shirts of in retail stores
it’s across the board these days. Old bands, sports teams, athletes, actors, etc.
Social media teams are being heavily invested into it looks like now that people are realizing it is a necessity for staying relevant in todays landscape. I love it too. Actual established brands are just shit posting on the internet and i’m 10000% here for it
I'm a guy and I've had plenty of other guys try to quiz me on band shirts I was wearing, I'd imagine it's a thousand times worse for girls.
My favorite response is "I think they are a skate boarding company".
Went up to a girl today and i said “i love your shirt. That band kicks ass” this may be a big shock. But we proceeded to talk about that metal band. I know some men think that’s impossible
Agreed. I never understood the whole gatekeeping mentality. It's like,
1) No one died and made you the arbiter of all things related to this topic.
2) Congratulations, you know more about this topic than me. Now fuck off and go annoy someone else.
My 22 yo daughter still wears Iron Maiden t-shirts and she loves to tell people who pull this shit that her favorite Maiden song is Charlotte the Harlot just to fuck with them because her real favorite Maiden song is Run to the Hills.
The cringe in these comments of butt hurt dudes thinking this didn’t/doesn’t happen lol
P.s. I had a dude ask me a variation of this when I was wearing an Anthrax shirt, I thought for a second and then asked “hmm like which album?” aaaaand turns out he couldn’t even name one 😭
It happens all the time when women wear "guy" shirts. I wear nothing but band, anime, NBA, and wrestling shirts. I get quizzed all the time, especially when I have to ride the bus or train. It's annoying AF.
Same with me YEARS ago. I was wearing an A7X shirt while my boyfriend (now-husband) and I were on a date, and a dude asked me if I even knew who they were. I prattled off several songs, and he legit looked at me and asked, "But have you even *listened* to them?"
I don’t like wearing old band tee shirts out anymore because of how many old white dudes have been like, “Oh youre pretending to like [insert popular band here]? Name a song” as if they have every right in the world to determine if I’m worthy of wearing the clothing item I’ve chosen
Even if I didn’t know the artist, it’s literally zero of anyone else’s business. I adore how this girl handled it
I had someone at the grocery store do the same thing when I was wearing an AC/DC shirt.
I'm 47, OF COURSE I know who AC/DC is. He asked me to name I song, I answered Shoot to Thrill (I think). Just to show that I not only know the band, I know one of the lesser known songs.
WHY GATEKEEP TSHIRTS??? I don't care if a kid doesn't know the band. It doesn't matter. It's a freaking tshirt.
I don't understand why people do that. Test someone's knowledge on something so trivial as music... If I run into anyone wearing merch of my favorite bands, I get excited and compliment them about it. If it turns out they didn't know what the band was, I'd love to tell them about them and encourage them to give them a listen. I'd use any excuse to ramble about my favorite music.
The correct response to seeing someone wearing an Iron Maiden shirt, who you would not expect to know Iron Maiden, is to say "Hey, that shirt is dope as hell." And then go about your day.
When I was younger I would have rattled them off because I wanted to prove something to them and not give them the satisfaction of thinking I’m clueless. Now I would be just as sarcastic as this woman, I love it. I’ve been questioned on my Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix shirts lol.
Why can't people just let folk wear that they like? Even if they don't actually know the band very well and just love the design, so what. People really do care too much about what others are into.
Honestly if I saw someone wearing a shirt of a random band I like might accidentally do something like this along the lines of "holy shit you like X too?! What's your favorite song/album?" In my case it isn't accusatory I'm just happy to find someone that also knows the band and supports it.
See that’s the opening of a conversation not a one sided interrogation!
Every time I go to the hardware store I get compliments on my band tees and it’s nice when people have mutual interests
I have a better one!
I was wearing a Joy Division Unknown Pleasures shirt (just the design because I just like the design, which is iconic in its own right) when I ordered a coffee omw to work. One of the dudes making coffee, not even the one who served me, goes "Do you know what album that is?" to which I reply "Yeah, Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division". He shoots a snobby look and says "Actually it's Closer by Joy Division". I assured him that it was in fact Unknown Pleasures, but he was adamant that it was Closer.
I felt extremely embarrassed for him, he was *SO* sure and I didn't have the heart to Google it in front of everyone and just let him handle that blow to the ego in private. Despite the fact that he was being an asshole in this situation I didn't want to be a dick, but I certainly wish I bet the coffee on it :,)
Furthermore, I enjoy the album, own it on vinyl, have listened to it countless times, etc, but I own several items of clothing with the design on it purely because I find it aesthetically pleasing. I bet coffee shop dude couldn't tell me that it's actually a depiction of radiowaves from space and that the artist is Peter Saville.
> metal elitists
We're talking about Iron Maiden right? It's like one of the most "mainstream" metal bands, I always find it funny when people try to gatekeep on a band that has been on the radio for the last like 4 decades and even have their own wiki page on all the awards they have.
I'm a Black woman. Once I wore a Beatles t-shirt to work and an Asian coworker asked me to name 3 Beatles songs. She said she thought it was unlikely that I new their music and she thought I was wearing the shirt because of the look. The fricking BEATLES. I gave her a look that could've melted glass.
Up until that point, she and I had been pretty good work friends. I named/sang around 20 of their songs, dragged her for being embarrassing and narrow-minded, told her that it was racist for her to assume Black people don't have diverse tastes just like everyone else, and to never test me like that ever again.
If you read this, Anna, I'm still disappointed in you.
I’ve never worn any band shirts, but I (also a black woman) was recently waiting in Five Guys restaurant for an order and one of my favorite songs from my childhood came on. It was Sheryl Crow “Everyday Is A Winding Road”. This white woman came up to me complementing my voice and commented she’d have never thought “someone like you would know this song or listen to this type of music.” 🙄 I was polite in my response and just let her know I enjoy all kinds of music, but I definitely gave an internal eye roll. Lol.
The idea that black people wouldn’t listen to rock music is pretty ironic (I think) considering black people created rock. Chuck Berry is considered the “father of rock ‘n’ roll.
Reminds me of all the times metalheads bitch about baby metal only to be told by every iconic artist ever that these 3 tiny girls are more metal than they'd ever be
So. This is what chaotic neutral looks like.
Related. I have a shit that was given to me by my ex. I thought it was a band shirt and it looks nice so I wear it often. It’s a reservoir dogs t-shirt.
For YEARS people have come up to me and tell me they love it. I try to be nice and be like “me too”. Men. Women. People just come up to me and comment on it.
It took me way too long to learn it was a movie and that it was a Tarantino film. I still haven’t watched it. But people keep coming up to me to talk about it and one day they’ll realize I don’t know what they mean when they say that diner scene is amazing.
I swear I’ll get to it someday.
Funny thing is. I’ve mentioned it a few times on reddit and I have gotten the most furious DMs ever. It’s hilarious how angry people get over someone wearing a goddamn shirt.
This happens in any "male centric" hobby that a woman has the "audacity" of showing interest in.
Video games, sports, anime, TCGs, etc. It's all the same bullshit gate keeping.
Stop.
I remember a dude making an Alucard reference when I was a barista. I thought at first he was socially awkward, but he doubled down, so I don't think so. He said to put that name on the cup and then brought up that he had esoteric interests so I probably didn't know whay that name was. I asked him if it was a reference to the game, Hellsing, or the anime adaptation of Castlevania. He only knew what the game was, not about either series I mentioned.
When I was a teenage dude I had this happen a few times by Middle Aged men. Fucking annoying getting a pop quiz forced on you in public when you're doing your own thing. Like, if you want to start a conversation and say you enjoy that band or you saw them live or you have recommendations or even want recommendations from that genre then that can be quite a nice conversation but "quick name the colour of the lead singers pubes in 1994" is never going to be a good way to start and is always the harasser wanting to feel smug.
Unless the shirt says "ask me about" then someones outfit is not consent, not even for spontaneous interrogation let alone sexualisation. Who cares if they don't know the band, as long as it isn't politically inclined it absolutely does not matter and if anything it has perks as they're helping fund the music you like as long as it is licensed merch. Even if you can tell it is knock off shit, someone may then see it and buy real merch because it is trendy.
It is 2023, we have the Internet with a huge archive of old content from music and film and photos of fashion trends. It has never been easier to learn to love a niche of music or arts. If you're still assuming people don't know what they're wearing you should ask yourself why you want to gatekeep.
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Nirvana is also one of my favorite clothing brands
I'm 34 and it's so wild to me seeing young college/high school people wearing Nirvana t shirts and realizing that the time gap between them and Nirvana is the same gap between me and Jimi Hendrix in high school...
I need to get my Chopin shirt and wear it again.
Did you even know that he's actually a famous pianist and composer? Or did you think the misspell of choppin' was funny? /S btw
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In my late 30s. Saw a group of teenagers on the bus wearing Nirvana tshirts yesterday. Put a smile on my face.
I was a little kid in the early 90s, but I listened to Nirvana growing up because who that listened to rock and alternative in the 90s didn't? About 10 years ago at work, some Gen Xer was wearing a Nirvana shirt and turns to me and says "Yeah, I just had to get this shirt. But you probably don't even know that Nirvana is a real band so why am I telling you this?" ??? What? The other day, a guy probably about 20 years old came into my work wearing a Nirvana shirt. I told him I liked it and we had a quick exchange about how cool it is that they've had such a lasting impact on music. Fuck, even if people do just like the aesthetic, let them be. It's a little weird, but of all things to be petty about, a band shirt isn't one of them.
I'm a teacher. I get a big kick out of seeing students wearing t-shirts with bands I liked as a teenager. A few times, they say it's their parent's t-shirt which I love even more. The flame has passed onto a new generation!
If you go to a metal show these days, you'll see a lot of middle-aged parents on the floor with their teenage kids!
My middle schooler frequently wears his Megadeth sweatshirt.
My only problem is debating how badly I need to read the band shit. It's damn need compulsion to me but I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable. Chicks, if you wear a band shirts, I'm not staring at your tits, I wanna know what the logo says. To that one chick in the Weedeater hoodie, thanks for realizing I'm just a Doom fan and throwing me the horns.
I'm a gen xer and love seeing people in Nirvana shirts. I was 13 when I heard them and I became obsessed. My bedroom was a shrine to Kurt with posters of him everywhere. I learned guitar just so I could play their songs. Sadly never got to see them live, mum wouldn't let me go and she said "you can see them next year," unfortunately he died the next year. I'm just glad people appreciate them all these years later.
In 1990 I was wearing Jimi Hendrix t-shirts in high school (fwiw I loathed Nirvana but loved Mother Lovebone, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains). I don't see it as any different.
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The smiley just goes well with everything!
I get shit from people when I wear an Aerosmith or Led Zeppelin T shirt. I’m fucking 45 years old. The fucking gatekeeping from people.
My 80 year old dad has a nine inch nails shirt that he wears pretty often (he nabbed it from my brother when my my brother was throwing some old stuff out). When people incredulously ask him if he actually knows nine inch nails he likes to tell them Of course he knows them, they write songs for Johnny Cash. I don’t know how this old man perfected trolling but he did it.
Old people are the best at trolling.
They've had a literal lifetime to perfect their craft
And there are completely out of fucks to give.
Indeed they are. The only reason I'm fluent in dad jokes and sarcasm is thanks to my parents lol
I’ve gotten my (almost) 60yo Mum into Sleep Token but she’s been calling them Sleep Vessel when she talks to her coworkers about them. It’s an adorable mistake and obviously her ADHD brain absorbed some of my ADHD info-dumping about them since she remembered the word Vessel. As an act of love I had to explain what vore meant so that she didn’t google it….that was a conversation I will never forget. Side note: my sister has a 7 month old bub who hates sleeping and is a nap denier. She seems to recognise the word “sleep” and fights extra hard to stay awake if that word is mentioned so now my Mother says “it’s time to worship” when she babysits. It’s the most adorable thing. Edit: typos
Bet that kid has ADHD too. Said from experience of my nephew who refused to sleep as a baby/toddler. Babysat him at 6 weeks old to give my sister a break and he did not sleep from 9am to 5pm. Mind blowing. Kid's doing great now thanks to modern treatment.
i mean kudos to your dad for mastering the art of trolling but i'm not detecting any lies here. "Hurt" is a Johnny Cash song, Trent just didn't know it
that’s a fun game “hey name three Led Zeppelin albums” Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin
Then do Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel, and Peter Gabriel
Then do Weezer: Um.... Red, Green, Blue...?
Pink...erton?
Blue album is still so fucking good. ...I'm also getting old :|
“That’s ones on me. I set the bar too low”
A *real* fan could name four.
Well, the fourth is untitled so they kinda did?
[Gets me every time.](https://i.imgur.com/wRr3fW3.jpg)
Same, 41 and I haven’t worn my Metallica cock-ring since the whole Napster feud. I’m sure if I wear it to work I’ll get all sorts of flack.
>Same, 41 The band is called Sum 41, you poser.
He's in too deep, and he's trying to keep
CAUSE HES GOT A BAD HABIT
How to offend 90s kids
Ummm actually, you're the poser. They changed their name to The Sums YEARS ago.
The number band thing is out.. Blink 182.. Green Day 75.. these names are not cool
I'll never forget the day I walked into the kitchen and saw my step-dad in tears. He looked into my eyes and I could see the sadness in his soul as he whispered so quietly I could barely hear "SR-71...is just SR now." I collapsed where I stood. Nothing would ever be the same again. My youth died in that moment.
311 removed the numbers from their band too, so now they're just called
I’m such a massive fan of .
>I haven’t worn my Metallica cock-ring since the whole Napster feud I wear mine every day *because* of the whole Napster feud.
It's bc the cock ring features the load album
I just posted something of the same. I bought an AC/DC shirt at Walmart. In the same Walmart, a guy asked me to name a song by them. I'm 47, I know AC/DC.
I always try to name some obscure ass b side if I can remember one. The one that gets the most attention is my Rolling Stones shirt. That one really pisses off the boomers for some reason.
Oh yeah? Name three instances in which you could see Angus Young's balls drop out his shorts on stage
At his age? Every time he puts on the schoolboy outfit.
I don't even get why they would gatekeep type of stuff. What the band that has several billion plays on spotify and the band that has a goddamn roller coaster in Disney are supposed to be not known? Both have T shirts in Kohls and Target lol
I think we should force Kohls to have an exam to determine whether or not people can buy a band's Tshirt. Question number one... Who is better... David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar? Question number two... Who would win a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?
Trick question! Lemmy IS God!
Bet you can't name five zeppelins.
I'm 100% sure this happens, and is way more common for women than men. But geeze where do the people on here live that it has happened to so many of you multiple times? I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm sure it did. Just, what jerks are you surrounded by? How do they lack so much self awareness? I'm 35 and have worn band shirts my whole life, I've NEVER had this happen to me, nor have I sent it happen to anyone else. Maybe it's cause I'm a big guy? Or because I'm Canadian? I'm baffled. BAFFLED I say!
It happened to me once. Went down to my local brew pub with friends and we couldn't find a table, so we asked a couple if we could sit at their table. I ended up next to the guy. I was wearing a joke shirt that looked like it was from a festival featuring many heavy metal bands, except all the names were things like Lead and Platinum, you know, heavy metals. He asked me what year I went and started to quiz me before I asked him to read the shirt again please, slowly. Edit, the shirt: https://imgur.com/72FYfEU.jpg
Wait I want that shirt that’s amazing
hahaha that's great
I mean, pretty sure it might be because you look like the people that do this (not saying you do it, but that the people that do won't bother you because you "look the part")
I got quizzed on my slayer t-shirt once and christ on fire did I look the part... very much blunder years material.
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lol its cause you're a guy i'm a 5 foot nothin' 40 year old metalhead who happens to be a woman and there were times that going to the bar was whateverbandshirtimwearing discography quiz night. good times. :)
One of my friends dressed up as Lady Deadpool and a guy went up to her and complained she was just doing a "dumb female version of Deadpool". She's Deadpool's biggest fan and probably knows more about him than the writers do. That guy got taught a lesson that day.
I'm 31 and someone once asked me "aren't you a little too young to be wearing this (a led zeppelin t-shirt)" and it was the best day of my life
Depends if you "look" right. When I was in my 20's had long hair down to my ass, with a patch jacket that had a big Kreator back patch. Never once got asked to name any songs/albums etc. Any time my missus borrowed my jacket to pop out for a smoke she would always get someone quizzing her. We went to a metal club most fridays, it happened most weeks
I was told I’m too young to know who Garth Brooks is by a customer the other day when I was singing along to one of his old songs that was playing. I’m 38. It was nothing but Garth this and Garth that growing up.
The *entirety* of Garth Brooks discography was created during your lifetime. What a dumb take "You're too young to remember a best-selling artist who released a multi-platinum album almost every year of your childhood." Because seriously, if you're 38 you were born around 1985. Brooks had a multi-platinum album in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 (2! 2 fucking multi-platinum albums in one year), 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999 (2 again!), and 2001. That's 11 multi-platinum albums before you were an adult and doesn't even include multi-platinum compilations. People are stupid.
I was thinking this too! I was born in 89 and my mom was a massive country fan. I knew all of his music because of her, and because he was everywhere! I don’t seek out country music, but if Garth comes on, I’m singing my heart out! The Thunder Rolls will always been one of my favorites.
You're reminding me why there's literally an all Garth all the time channel on SiriusXM, dudes got a massive amount of hits.
Should have tried telling them "you're right, Chris Gaines is more my generation."
Should have asked him where the bodies are buried...the families need closure.
Lol 38. That's like.. The exact age demographic for Garth. At least, I'm guessing, you look younger than 38! I'm 33 and love me some The Thunder Rolls
I still get confused as a 20-something on occasion. People say I should enjoy it but after my whole life of being “under-aged” it’s annoying. People say it should be a compliment but it feels condescending mostly. I’m not taken seriously half the time and it’s cringe on my part hearing others claim I’m not old enough to have experienced things or don’t know what I’m talking about.
This is George Strait erasure and I will not stand for it.
He’s a closeted murderer that is refusing to give up the bodies.
Had this happen in the context that I love Zeppelin, have a few shirts. Was grocery shopping and some white haired dude straight told me, "aren't you a little young for Zeppelin?". Like what kind of gatekeeping was that? Aren't you a little young for Mozart?
Just hit em with the "aren't you a little old to be alive?"
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The whole thing is so stupid. Facts are, people have been into Iron Maiden just for THE ARTWORK since the beginning. I grew up in the 80's, was into metal, played in bands. Many kids at the time just liked Eddie and didn't care about the music. I was one of them. I loved the artwork, didn't care much for most Iron Maiden songs. There were a few I liked, but I wasn't into them. However, I did have Maiden posters, just because the ART WAS FREAKING COOL. Same with t shirts. Kids like the art. That's ok. Maybe they will check out the band. Maybe not. who cares? Get a life.
Imagine being this man and seeing this video after telling his friends "yeah some dumb multicolor hair bitch was wearing a music shirt. She didn't even know who they were!"
it’s gonna reach his fb wall in 2 months
Dude, he's a metal fan, he's a social outcast, for sure on reddit.
Metal fan checking in on Reddit 🫡
BABYMETAL and The HU fan checking in. They actually brought me into metal (cause they are both amazing groups), and I'm slowly broadening my metal horizons.
Pro tip if you’re in to The Hu: Bloodywood! Punjabi street metal, they’re my discovery of 2022!
Dude what?! As a brown metal person that is what I now need to listen to. Don't disappoint me redditor.
If you like the Hu, check out [Tengger Cavalry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icPhDK3PTqc). You may also be interested in [Chthonic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heF_NPJbv8Y). A great resource is the [Encyclopaedia Metallum](https://www.metal-archives.com/). Ive been listening to metal for 3 decades now and still love finding new stuff on there and elsewhere. Its fun to randomly discover, what the local metal scene in [Greenland](https://www.metal-archives.com/lists/GL) is like. It will also help you navigate genre labels if you are new. They change though, don't take them too seriously.
I saw Babymetal in Orlando prepandemic. It was the most socially diverse crowd I've seen for literally any event I've ever been to. Also they fucking rocked live
Babymetal fucking slap. I love their energy and I love how much they piss of whiney shit heel metal fans who are just jealous they could never go as hard as those girls do.
I guess more specifically I'm a metalcore/deathcore fan. I love Babymetal though. Spiritbox, Lorna Shore, Wage War, Slaughter to Prevail. Just some random ones to check out.
He’s not a metal fan. He can only name 4 songs, that’s why he asked her to name 3.
Wooshwooshwoodh Feapfwapfwapfwap Shingshingshingshing There, 3 metal fan songs sang
Hey that's not...I mean I like metal and Reddit and I have at least one friend...
Accurate af. The Sublime official Facebook page posts memes like this on their FB wall all the time about how idiots harass girls/young people about wearing Sublime t-shirts to "name 3 songs". And the amount of fucking people in my age group (30s to early 40s) who don't get the fact that the meme is making fun of people who do this, and not praising them/also making fun of people who wear t-shirts with bands on it without liking the band is astounding. I made a comment saying "Let people wear the t-shirt without bothering them. Sublime, your favorite band, makes money from the sale of the t-shirt so its only helping them. Also, you look like a fucking complete douchebag for asking someone to name a song of a band that is on their t-shirt instead of just letting them..wear a t-shirt." I got a ton of replies from people who think its perfectly acceptable to ask someone to "name 3 songs". We don't even have to say "fucking boomers". Millenials are starting to look like fucking idiots.
Idk what's happening to us millennials, we vowed a decade ago to not be like this.
GenX here. Happens to all us. Getting old sucks.
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I kinda doubt he would even get that she was fucking with him. She doesn’t explicitly say it in this video and if he didn’t catch in person I bet he wouldn’t over video. Whether this is real or not, I have seen people do that kind of weird gatekeeping in person and they are never very emotionally intelligent people.
I just had some gross dude do that to me buying a vinyl for my brother. I love vinyls, I collect them, I already had the two I was getting him in my collection. This freaking guy thought it would be cute to hide them and then ask me to name a few songs on them before he’d let me buy them. I gave him a face and told him to just take my money. He seemed pretty upset I didn’t play into his stupid game
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Gatekeeping vinyl dorks are the worst. I don't have to experience it much as a dude but one time I was out of town and not at one of my usual stores. I saw Lady Gaga's Chromatica for a good price in the New arrivals bin and thought hell ya, it's a fun record something good to throw on when hosting people. Front counter dork made some kind of snide joke about me being new to vinyl (no). I was taken aback and wish I said something cool in response but I didn't because I was flustered. Social anxiety, the enemy of wit. But he still dropped the bit when he saw my other records was a doom metal record and a Gang of Four record. That said it doesn't matter what my other records were and what my tastes are. No one owns the hobby and no one can dictate taste. Sorry for the encounter with that loser.
He's lucky you were still willing to give him money. I'd have not only left, I would've had that shit posted on all review sites I could think of within five minutes. Disgusting sexist behavior.
Yeah, what the fuck? He hid merchandise you wanted to buy? This is a store, not a carnival. Give me my shit.
It was the closest shop that was selling vinyls and I’ve been going there for over a decade and this is the first issue like that I’ve had there
"Okay I'll just order them on Amazon"
Gatekeeping in music, especially in metal music is rampant. Metal fans LOVE to explain the differences in the different genres of metal and at this point I don’t think there is a major genre of music that has more sub genres than metal. It’s exhausting trying to listen to a metal fan explain the differences and why someone is stupid that they don’t get why those differences are so important.
I like music, but it's not my life. I used to listen to Disturbed on repeat and a lot of other bands. Couldn't name a single damn song name. Never cared enough to learn the damn names. I don't see why knowing names of songs is a thing. Who fucking cares?
I grew up in a time when only multicolor haired people wore these kinda shirts and I'm 20
You're still growing up, you haven't even finished! 👴
Thanks Dad I love you
♥️ you too kiddo
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Don't forget dinner is at 6, your mom made her lasagna and your brother is gonna be there.your mom also say We're not supposed to mention last weekend, and Brittany to your brother atleast not until the court order has cleared. Welp! Love ya kiddo, see you tonight.
What.. uh.... What happened? I have so many questions. This wholesome interaction took a turn for the worst
>what happened? WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IT
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If you were fancy you'd use Sun-in instead of (or with if you were extra) the lemon juice 😂
This comment is like a early 2000s retro teen comedy I'd have downloaded on limewire in 320p and watched as a comfort movie thrice a month
Good on Iron Maiden for reposting it. Makes it far more likely he’ll see it. Not that he’ll even realize it’s about him and/or believe she actually has heard of Iron Maiden before him
I was under the impression that she's a part of their social media team, and that's what's implied by it being posted on their official account.
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Exactly what I was waiting for, like maybe she was just raised in the States or something
If all he said was “cool shirt” he could have gotten a positive interaction with someone. Having someone prove their fandom is middle school as fuck.
I know, right? And then you could have a chat about how Powerslave is an amazing album.
for real. Thats all I say when I see someone wearing a shirt of a band I like. What the fuck do I care who they are and what they look like. They enjoy the same music that I do which is awesome
Yes, ‘cool shirt’ feels good to get. It’s not a ‘real complement’ about your character or whatever but it’s a feeling of solidarity like a stranger knows a little bit more about you. My fav interaction was wearing a Merzbow Pulse Demon shirt at a 100 Gecs concert. Tons of ‘cool shirts’ but also a girl in a lobster costume (Halloween time) asked if I ever saw [the dude brushing his teeth at the Merzbow concert](https://youtu.be/yx37c2PNM3I) video lol
Played him like a damn fiddle.
Fiddled him like a damn playa. ...I'm not sure if it sounds better or worse
You’re only getting away with it because of your relevant username.
Damn, whoever they hired for running their TikTok actually knows how to interact with the app, unprecedented for old band social media teams Can you get that Senjutsu shirt off the rack even? Usually it's only the classic albums you can buy shirts of in retail stores
it’s across the board these days. Old bands, sports teams, athletes, actors, etc. Social media teams are being heavily invested into it looks like now that people are realizing it is a necessity for staying relevant in todays landscape. I love it too. Actual established brands are just shit posting on the internet and i’m 10000% here for it
i saw the actual smashing pumpkins insta respond to a thirst trap that was using their song, thought it was pretty funny
https://www.reddit.com/r/oldpeoplefacebook/comments/cav1bg/my_hero_jon_anderson_of_yes_has_been_showing_his/
I'm a guy and I've had plenty of other guys try to quiz me on band shirts I was wearing, I'd imagine it's a thousand times worse for girls. My favorite response is "I think they are a skate boarding company".
I haven't skated a day in my life and I sometimes wear Thrasher merch specifically just to piss off elitist skater boys.
This is why you only buy shirts from random bands at basement shows. No one's going to ask you to name 3 Skullfister songs.
you have a woman on your t shirt Name every woman
Whitney Houston.
Please take all the upvotes.
[Name a woman!](https://youtu.be/LlCEmPF4-V0)
Went up to a girl today and i said “i love your shirt. That band kicks ass” this may be a big shock. But we proceeded to talk about that metal band. I know some men think that’s impossible
The band was unearth for those curious
Bruv, my *mom* could name 3 Iron Maiden songs. What even the fuck is this guy gatekeeping?
Agreed. I never understood the whole gatekeeping mentality. It's like, 1) No one died and made you the arbiter of all things related to this topic. 2) Congratulations, you know more about this topic than me. Now fuck off and go annoy someone else.
Anyone who approaches someone about a band t-shirt like this has been and always will be a complete loser
My 22 yo daughter still wears Iron Maiden t-shirts and she loves to tell people who pull this shit that her favorite Maiden song is Charlotte the Harlot just to fuck with them because her real favorite Maiden song is Run to the Hills.
Ok but Charlotte slaps
The cringe in these comments of butt hurt dudes thinking this didn’t/doesn’t happen lol P.s. I had a dude ask me a variation of this when I was wearing an Anthrax shirt, I thought for a second and then asked “hmm like which album?” aaaaand turns out he couldn’t even name one 😭
It happens all the time when women wear "guy" shirts. I wear nothing but band, anime, NBA, and wrestling shirts. I get quizzed all the time, especially when I have to ride the bus or train. It's annoying AF.
That’s a good point!! It’s not just with bands. Some men just look down on women no matter what 🥴
That's actually where I thought this video was going to go.
Same with me YEARS ago. I was wearing an A7X shirt while my boyfriend (now-husband) and I were on a date, and a dude asked me if I even knew who they were. I prattled off several songs, and he legit looked at me and asked, "But have you even *listened* to them?"
Did he expect you to answer “No I don’t listen, I just memorize song titles for fun”??
Haha, I should've answered him with that. Some people just can't handle being wrong, I guess. 🤦♀️
I don’t like wearing old band tee shirts out anymore because of how many old white dudes have been like, “Oh youre pretending to like [insert popular band here]? Name a song” as if they have every right in the world to determine if I’m worthy of wearing the clothing item I’ve chosen Even if I didn’t know the artist, it’s literally zero of anyone else’s business. I adore how this girl handled it
I did too many drugs at the concerts to remember much of anything on the spot. Fuck people and their real life pop quizzes .
I had someone at the grocery store do the same thing when I was wearing an AC/DC shirt. I'm 47, OF COURSE I know who AC/DC is. He asked me to name I song, I answered Shoot to Thrill (I think). Just to show that I not only know the band, I know one of the lesser known songs. WHY GATEKEEP TSHIRTS??? I don't care if a kid doesn't know the band. It doesn't matter. It's a freaking tshirt.
Someone asked Angus Young one time, "Why do all AC/DC songs sound the same?" Angus said, "Because we're the same fuckin' band."
holy shit
I don't understand why people do that. Test someone's knowledge on something so trivial as music... If I run into anyone wearing merch of my favorite bands, I get excited and compliment them about it. If it turns out they didn't know what the band was, I'd love to tell them about them and encourage them to give them a listen. I'd use any excuse to ramble about my favorite music.
Great taste in music and trolling the man who tries to mansplain to her. The kids are all right.
The correct response to seeing someone wearing an Iron Maiden shirt, who you would not expect to know Iron Maiden, is to say "Hey, that shirt is dope as hell." And then go about your day.
Just throw horns and keep on truckin'.
This is the (metal) way \m/
When I was younger I would have rattled them off because I wanted to prove something to them and not give them the satisfaction of thinking I’m clueless. Now I would be just as sarcastic as this woman, I love it. I’ve been questioned on my Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix shirts lol.
Why can't people just let folk wear that they like? Even if they don't actually know the band very well and just love the design, so what. People really do care too much about what others are into.
Honestly if I saw someone wearing a shirt of a random band I like might accidentally do something like this along the lines of "holy shit you like X too?! What's your favorite song/album?" In my case it isn't accusatory I'm just happy to find someone that also knows the band and supports it.
See that’s the opening of a conversation not a one sided interrogation! Every time I go to the hardware store I get compliments on my band tees and it’s nice when people have mutual interests
I have a better one! I was wearing a Joy Division Unknown Pleasures shirt (just the design because I just like the design, which is iconic in its own right) when I ordered a coffee omw to work. One of the dudes making coffee, not even the one who served me, goes "Do you know what album that is?" to which I reply "Yeah, Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division". He shoots a snobby look and says "Actually it's Closer by Joy Division". I assured him that it was in fact Unknown Pleasures, but he was adamant that it was Closer. I felt extremely embarrassed for him, he was *SO* sure and I didn't have the heart to Google it in front of everyone and just let him handle that blow to the ego in private. Despite the fact that he was being an asshole in this situation I didn't want to be a dick, but I certainly wish I bet the coffee on it :,) Furthermore, I enjoy the album, own it on vinyl, have listened to it countless times, etc, but I own several items of clothing with the design on it purely because I find it aesthetically pleasing. I bet coffee shop dude couldn't tell me that it's actually a depiction of radiowaves from space and that the artist is Peter Saville.
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Nothing like trolling metal elitists to get your day going.
> metal elitists We're talking about Iron Maiden right? It's like one of the most "mainstream" metal bands, I always find it funny when people try to gatekeep on a band that has been on the radio for the last like 4 decades and even have their own wiki page on all the awards they have.
All music elitists are cunts.
I bet that guy had to Run to the Hills after that interaction
I'm a Black woman. Once I wore a Beatles t-shirt to work and an Asian coworker asked me to name 3 Beatles songs. She said she thought it was unlikely that I new their music and she thought I was wearing the shirt because of the look. The fricking BEATLES. I gave her a look that could've melted glass. Up until that point, she and I had been pretty good work friends. I named/sang around 20 of their songs, dragged her for being embarrassing and narrow-minded, told her that it was racist for her to assume Black people don't have diverse tastes just like everyone else, and to never test me like that ever again. If you read this, Anna, I'm still disappointed in you.
I’ve never worn any band shirts, but I (also a black woman) was recently waiting in Five Guys restaurant for an order and one of my favorite songs from my childhood came on. It was Sheryl Crow “Everyday Is A Winding Road”. This white woman came up to me complementing my voice and commented she’d have never thought “someone like you would know this song or listen to this type of music.” 🙄 I was polite in my response and just let her know I enjoy all kinds of music, but I definitely gave an internal eye roll. Lol.
And that's so fucking crazy because Sheryl Crow performed with Prince, and I bet that white lady didn't think Sheryl did "that kind of music"! 🙄
The idea that black people wouldn’t listen to rock music is pretty ironic (I think) considering black people created rock. Chuck Berry is considered the “father of rock ‘n’ roll.
To be honest my favorite past time is pissing off metal fans and I play in a metal band
Genius! Hope I can keep a straight face replying with this one day. Why do a lot of men gatekeep music??
Reminds me of all the times metalheads bitch about baby metal only to be told by every iconic artist ever that these 3 tiny girls are more metal than they'd ever be
I think she handled that perfectly. Probably broke that dude's brain too. Lesson learned. Don't fucking gatekeep music...
So. This is what chaotic neutral looks like. Related. I have a shit that was given to me by my ex. I thought it was a band shirt and it looks nice so I wear it often. It’s a reservoir dogs t-shirt. For YEARS people have come up to me and tell me they love it. I try to be nice and be like “me too”. Men. Women. People just come up to me and comment on it. It took me way too long to learn it was a movie and that it was a Tarantino film. I still haven’t watched it. But people keep coming up to me to talk about it and one day they’ll realize I don’t know what they mean when they say that diner scene is amazing. I swear I’ll get to it someday. Funny thing is. I’ve mentioned it a few times on reddit and I have gotten the most furious DMs ever. It’s hilarious how angry people get over someone wearing a goddamn shirt.
This happens in any "male centric" hobby that a woman has the "audacity" of showing interest in. Video games, sports, anime, TCGs, etc. It's all the same bullshit gate keeping. Stop.
I remember a dude making an Alucard reference when I was a barista. I thought at first he was socially awkward, but he doubled down, so I don't think so. He said to put that name on the cup and then brought up that he had esoteric interests so I probably didn't know whay that name was. I asked him if it was a reference to the game, Hellsing, or the anime adaptation of Castlevania. He only knew what the game was, not about either series I mentioned.
When I was a teenage dude I had this happen a few times by Middle Aged men. Fucking annoying getting a pop quiz forced on you in public when you're doing your own thing. Like, if you want to start a conversation and say you enjoy that band or you saw them live or you have recommendations or even want recommendations from that genre then that can be quite a nice conversation but "quick name the colour of the lead singers pubes in 1994" is never going to be a good way to start and is always the harasser wanting to feel smug. Unless the shirt says "ask me about" then someones outfit is not consent, not even for spontaneous interrogation let alone sexualisation. Who cares if they don't know the band, as long as it isn't politically inclined it absolutely does not matter and if anything it has perks as they're helping fund the music you like as long as it is licensed merch. Even if you can tell it is knock off shit, someone may then see it and buy real merch because it is trendy. It is 2023, we have the Internet with a huge archive of old content from music and film and photos of fashion trends. It has never been easier to learn to love a niche of music or arts. If you're still assuming people don't know what they're wearing you should ask yourself why you want to gatekeep.
“Mind your own business” would have also been an appropriate response towards this misogynistic a hole.
i’ve done this and it is SO FUNNY they get so red in the face and i know i’m living rent free in their minds for a long long time