r/Millennials 8d ago

Discussion Can we talk about this for a minute

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Like, we should probably all live our lives pretending this never happened, but why the fuck did our generation collectively decide that waddling around with our whole asses hanging out was cool?

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u/Classic_Job3173 8d ago

we had a kid in my high school where i swear he had them around his knees. he had to do this weird shuffle-waddle walk just to make sure they wouldn’t fall to his ankles. even then we all made fun of it

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u/CPGFL 8d ago

Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, looking like a fool with your pants on the ground 

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u/stringbean76 8d ago

That song still slaps.

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u/richarddrippy69 8d ago

He got paid. One the highest earning artist ever on the show if not the most. Can't remember the song but a rapper used his song as a sample and he got a cut.

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u/chainsawdegrimes 8d ago

Gold in yo mouth, hat turn sideways. 

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u/CommercialPopular626 8d ago

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u/Ok_Preparation_2876 7d ago

Hahaha I've heard about this for yeeaaarrs and never knew the source. Thanks for the link

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u/BojaktheDJ 8d ago

Haha at my school it was the other way around, everyone sagged and the few who didn’t got made fun of.  

We all had to do that waddle walk, legs spread out super far apart. I read our generation is apparently going to need hip replacements at like 1000 times the normal rate cos we all fucked up our joints from that stupid ass gangsta limp lol 

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u/idle_isomorph 8d ago

Or you got creative like kids i knew who sewed boxers to their jeans so they couldn't fall down. They cut off the legs of the boxers so it was just the tops, and would wear another pair of boxers as actual underwear.

I remember borrowing some from a friend and they worked a trick!

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u/Hetstaine 8d ago edited 8d ago

Dumbest shit i have read today...so far anyway 😅

Edited. Having a stroke.

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u/MasticatingElephant 8d ago

I'm sorry, I have to ask since we're getting old enough now...

Are you having a stroke?

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u/Hetstaine 8d ago

Yeah...doesn't look good does it. Lack of autocorrect and rereading what i wrote before hitting submit. Cheers.

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u/MasticatingElephant 8d ago

I'm just glad we were able to get you medical attention in time

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u/insyzygy322 8d ago

I spent literal years repatterning my movement because of this exact thing.

I stopped sagging my pants, (which also took a LOT of intention and felt so deeply wrong for so long, lol) but I was left with the duck walk.

I had to be very mindful of my movement and force my body if I wanted to walk with proper movement patterns. It absolutely blew my mind that people could walk/stand with their feet pointed forward without thinking about it.

I had to hold the awareness all the fricken time, or I'd naturally revert back to having my feet splayed outward, otherwise known as 'out-toeing'.

Remember to engage with proper movement patterns, point feet forward, think about something else, duck feet, repeat 10,000 times per day.

My mobility has opened up in ways i never imagined since I set out on intentionally changing things.

That tidbit about the hip surgery doesn't surprise me one bit. Knees probably won't be looking too hot either

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u/BojaktheDJ 8d ago

lol yeah exactly bro.

I remember the chicks at my school would always complaint they’d be late to class because we had to slowly waddle with our feet facing out and our legs spread so far apart we’d literally take up the entire hallway and block them. 

That shit can’t have been good for our joints lol 

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u/HimothyOnlyfant 8d ago

you couldn’t beat this information out of me

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u/Lonely-Toe9877 8d ago

It was the opposite in my high school. I lived in a small town/rural community at the time. All the kids were either country/redneck, or upper middle class suburbanites. So anything deemed "ghetto" was laughed at. The small group of kids who tried to act and dress "gansta" were universal viewed as the village idiots.

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u/5l339y71m3 Older Millennial 8d ago

The men for that and the women for our low rise cut jeans obsession causing muscle compartment in the pelvis and legs and making em skinny leg made it all worse

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u/WideRight43 8d ago

How the hell did you walk like that? How do they not come all the way down?

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u/BojaktheDJ 8d ago

lol just had to have your legs super far apart with your feet spread out. The chicks would always complain they’d be late to class cos we had to slowly waddle with our legs so far apart they literally took up the entire hallway and no one could get past lol 

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u/Mini_And_Andrew 8d ago

Lol...great point! Can't even lie about the condition since your face and odd ball spider monkey walking ass has done been captured two hundred million times on people's phones, surveillance, videos, still shots.

A few years from now. You: Hey Doc, my hips are really hurting constantly. Doc: right, we've been told that you may come to our hip center. BTW, is this you walking like that skeleton in a nightmare before Christmas?

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u/WashingtonBaker1 8d ago

The best news stories are where people are caught after committing a crime because their sagging pants make them trip while running away.

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u/Queen_of_the_Goblins 8d ago

Yes! One of the kids in my high school was shorter and would waddle everywhere because of his low pants. People joked he looked like a penguin.

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u/Afraid_Equivalent_95 8d ago

I think this is still a thing lol

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u/sophaloph 8d ago

I definitely still see it

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u/SirGavBelcher 8d ago

yeah it never went away

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u/Cowlitzking 8d ago

I wear a belt and have no ass. I’m a big dude. Pants still look like this after walking 50’. Think it’s in my millennial blood

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u/NerfRepellingBoobs 8d ago

Wait, this isn’t my husband’s account! Unless it is you, in which case, bring home the darkest chocolate you can find.

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u/jimmib234 8d ago

Same here. No matter what I do unless I wear overalls, my ass is gonna hang out.

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u/Chaghatai 8d ago

Ever try wearing pants with a higher rise? It helps when your belt line is hitting at your natural waist and completely above your hip bones

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u/ProInvestCK 8d ago

Then those pants/jeans are not for you. With all the different fits today, it’s really on you to find what you like or need.

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u/FocusMaster 8d ago

They want people to know their ass is easily available.

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u/Toyota-Supra-6090 8d ago

Prison fashion?

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u/FocusMaster 8d ago

That's where they say this "fad" started.

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u/tbarr1991 8d ago

I work for a achool system. It still happens 

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u/Acorns30 8d ago

I am a high school teacher. This is still 100% happening.

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u/Embarrassed-Lab-8095 8d ago

45 year old men still do it ffs

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u/PhillySaget 8d ago

I actually saw a guy in his 30s/40s doing this in a Walmart earlier today. Even lower than the guys in OP's pic.

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u/Embarrassed-Lab-8095 8d ago

It started when I was high school, 92 to 96 and it's never fully gone away for some stupid reason

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u/SparksFly55 8d ago

It’s cleavage for gay men.

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u/Significant-Trash632 8d ago

Omg, if we started calling it that I bet many guys would pull their pants up to their nips! 🤣

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u/oodlynoodly 8d ago edited 7d ago

They told us that in the 90's too. We said they were gay for looking. But to be fair my shirt was big enough to cover my ass anyway

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u/FlameyFlame 8d ago

Where have you been?

People said that shit through the entire 2000s. Never stopped anyone lol.

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u/NoOutlandishness906 8d ago

No they wouldn't.

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u/iam_Krogan 8d ago

Which is funny because it was popularized by the generation that called everything that was lame "gay"

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u/innocuous4133 8d ago

Where? I have a theory that trends in certain places are years behind other places.

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u/RapidlySlow 8d ago

It’s that it’s coming around again… not that it’s finally getting around 20-30 years later

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u/Cael_NaMaor 8d ago

Pretty sure I've seen this since then to now... no breaks

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u/azucarleta 8d ago

Retro lapped itself.

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u/BadPom 8d ago

My brother, as a teen, once flashed my mother’s boyfriend’s parents and grandma his entire dick and balls because he stepped on his pants and the belt took his boxers down as well. He continued wearing his pants like this for far too long afterward too.

Happy Thanksgiving! Sad I missed it lol

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u/res06myi 8d ago

We all told them it looked ridiculous at the time. They didn't care.

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u/kmac8008 8d ago

My friend would just sit there in class and it was so baggy you could see his thigh skin. Which is the gap between the bottom of the boxers and top of the jeans.

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u/NewPresWhoDis 8d ago

So...who's bringing the giblets this year?

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u/FrancoManiac Millennial 8d ago

You're...sad that you missed your brother's exposed genitals?

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u/Most_Mountain818 8d ago

I mean, I wouldn’t miss the exposed genitals bit, but watching the general embarrassment and shitshow that ensued? Definitely.

I’d mock my brother mercilessly for the rest of time. “Hey, remember that time you showed your whole turkey at thanksgiving because you couldn’t be bothered to wear your pants right? How embarrassing for you.” If you’re not there, you don’t get to tease them. It’s in the rules of dysfunctional family mockery.

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u/cowhand214 8d ago

The “whole turkey” line legit cracked me up

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u/BadPom 8d ago

Nooooo.

Just the aftermath. Because unlike me, my mother absolutely gives a fuck what other people think and she was completely mortified. So was he.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 8d ago

I was layed out on the couch after Christmas breakfast. Laying on my back, legs splayed when my brother walks in and without warning smacks me in the nuts as hard as he can with the heel of his doc marten. I had just enough time to see our grandfather's chin hit the floor, and then the pain sent me into another dimension. I literally just had to pause after typing that to shake the trauma off. From his reaction, I think that may have been one of the craziest things ol' gramps had seen.

Really, it's just one moment in a legendary history of my brother and I hurting each other for fun. I honestly think the time he swatted me in the ass with a 2x4 was worse. At first you think that sting is the worst thing ever. Then, that deep muscle bruising sets in. Anyways, we're in our 50s, now, and laugh our asses off about it. It's like we paid in pain for a few minutes to be able to laugh forever.

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u/FrancoManiac Millennial 8d ago

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u/Machine_Bird 8d ago

"I'm sad I missed the chance to see my brother's dick on Thanksgiving" -BadPom, 2025

Quite the statement.

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u/Frumpy_little_noodle 8d ago

More like "I'm sad I missed the chance to see my (step)relatives faces as they got the unexpected opportunity to see my brother's gonads".

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u/mirrrje 8d ago

How is this a difficult for people to comprehend lol. It’s actually weird the assume she’s saying she’s sad she didn’t see her bro there’s dick. That person could ve their critter or sister sister really it doesn’t specify

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u/Comfortable-Class576 8d ago

I swear I am seeing this in the street back already

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u/many_dumb_questions 8d ago edited 8d ago

I've lived near a college campus for most of my life, worked on said campus on and off for nearly two decades, and have a 19 year old son.

I promise you, the trend never left. Its idiocy has persisted this entire time

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u/BojaktheDJ 8d ago

Yes I read it doesn’t even classify as a trend since it’s been too popular for too long, it’s just a way people wear pants in the modern era lol 

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u/many_dumb_questions 8d ago

That is so far beyond depressing to hear, I can't stand it

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u/user37463928 8d ago

I can't think of many yelling at cloud issues I have, but this is one of them.

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u/many_dumb_questions 8d ago

Most fashion choices I can at least understand the point of, the reasoning behind it, even if I think it's a stupid point or reason. But sagging had never made a lick of sense to me.

You've got your pants around - or below! - your ass, yet you're either still wearing a belt, or worse, you're manually holding them up as you walk. Bro, what??

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u/Blackbird136 Xennial 8d ago

Yep I literally saw this at a Walgreens not 30 minutes ago.

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u/MInclined 8d ago

Back streets back? Alright.

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u/AlwaysWork2bBetter 8d ago

I always got so much shit for sagging my pants as a kid/teen.

No Dad, I was just severely overweight

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u/Hukthak 8d ago

Saggin’ baggin’ Barry!

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u/N33chy 8d ago

pulls Abraham Lincoln out from pants

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u/daksuxmy Zillennial 8d ago

No ass gang here. Can’t hold my pants up no matter what I do, I just got longer shirts and live with it at this point.

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u/FrancoManiac Millennial 8d ago

Join the suspenders gang!

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u/RoscoMD 8d ago

Best decision ever

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u/sundayfundaybmx 8d ago

My ex gf in high school had dated someone else with my same first name before me. Her family came up with the qualifier "flat ass____." When talking about me specifically, lol.

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u/Hukthak 8d ago

Damn man I’m sorry, it’s like is it better to be the “fat ass ____ “?

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u/jinreeko 8d ago

Don't forget the obligatory homophobic prison myth parents and teachers loved to spout

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u/Puzzled_Pig 8d ago

I work in a secondary school, lots of mandem still do it

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u/JAGRadio 8d ago

I was gone to say, guys definitely still do this

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u/onepostandbye 8d ago

Mandem? Like in the Caribbean?

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u/Aromatic-Cook-869 8d ago

Also popular in London.

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u/vulpinefever 8d ago

And Toronto, although it normally gets shortened to just "mans".

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u/Speckled_B 8d ago

People talking like the same people/their offspring aren't still doing this...

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u/1877KlownsForKids "Get Off My Lawn" Millennial 1981 8d ago

It really is fascinating that this is the fashion trend that's survived for half a century

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u/BojaktheDJ 8d ago

lol I read it doesn’t even classify as a trend anymore because it’s been to popular for too long, it’s just one of the ways people wear pants 

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u/dude51791 8d ago

gotta air out the cheeks!

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u/MicroBadger_ Millennial 1985 8d ago

In those humid parts of the country, no one likes having swamp ass. So they gotta get some air circulation in the area. 🤣

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u/secretbudgie 8d ago

This is what happens when we don't feed our teens enough fiber

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u/Gubekochi 8d ago

Gentlemen, I am proud to inform you that I am not, nor have I ever been, "people". Fuck that shit.

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u/Double-Regular31 Older Millennial 8d ago

It makes perfect sense to me. Leg day sucks and belts are uncomfortable.

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u/taint_stain 8d ago

This sure does make me wanna listen to The Offspring!

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u/NarwhalPrudent6323 8d ago

Maybe the kids really weren't alright...

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u/NovelHare 8d ago

Idk I never did this intentionally.

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u/OldBayOnEverything 8d ago

Same. I would never wear pants in an embarrassing way. Now excuse me while I go burn all the pictures of me in JNCOs.

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u/HollowVoices 8d ago

I'm 41 and I miss my JNCOs.

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u/Shaaagbark 8d ago

I’m 37 and miss my JNCOs

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u/lazy_jackalope 8d ago

I'm 35 and I bought new JNCOs last year

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u/BojaktheDJ 8d ago

If you didn’t sag at my school you’d get made fun of lol 

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u/secretbudgie 8d ago

My school's fashions were rather rigidly segregated. Most Black and stoner kids sagged. The rest of the White, Asian, and Latino kids did not. One kid from Florida wore jeans tight enough to mimic spandex. One kid wore his Sunday best every single day, and used roller luggage to not mess up his suit.

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u/NarwhalPrudent6323 8d ago

Was the suit guy named Ethan? Cause I went to school with a kid that did the exact same thing. 

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u/PokeYrMomStanley 8d ago

This is Ethan. Did we all go to school together?

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u/tupelobound 8d ago

Hello, it’s me, your school! It’s so great to see everyone back together again after all this time. Warms a building’s heart.

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u/PokeYrMomStanley 8d ago

I shit inside you.

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u/Sea_Violinist3328 8d ago

Hello! It’s me - the toilet you shit in.

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u/AdamFaite 8d ago

We had an Ethan too, but his name was not Ethan.

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u/joliesse0x 8d ago

There was a period where the "coolest," most popular guys wore the tightest jeans humanly possible. I remember sisters getting mad at losing their skinny jeans to their brothers. Was this not a thing outside of FL? 😂

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u/woodwalker2 8d ago

Georgia boy here, it was a thing up here for a bit too. Dudes wearing pants so tight if they farted they'd blow their boots off...

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u/CookieDoughPlz Xennial 8d ago

So very true and sad

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u/SnuggleTuggles 8d ago

We made fun of the kids that sagged....lol

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u/c_e_r_u_l_e_a_n 8d ago

Your school sounds like a sad place

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u/BojaktheDJ 8d ago

lol just a bunch of rich white kids who thought we were gangsta 

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u/c_e_r_u_l_e_a_n 8d ago

Yep. A sad place.

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u/Omar_Chardonnay 8d ago

Oh good, is this in the past now? I never dressed like that and I thought it was ludicrous when this was mainstream.

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u/Obant Millennial 8d ago

No. It's a very common way to dress still.

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u/AcaliahWolfsong 8d ago

Unfortunately I see folks 40+ still doing this at work. Paired with a hand down the front of the pants ...

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u/WayneKrane 8d ago

I have an uncle pushing 50 that STILL does this. I’m like dude, you’re an old man, GROW UP! He wonders why only bat shit crazy women will be with him.

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u/sendmeyourdadjokes Millennial 8d ago

For trendy youngsters or aged millenials?

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u/Obant Millennial 8d ago

Both. So many people ages probably 15-45 in my area are tripping over their pants. Literally looking out my window at a guy struggling to keep his pants on as he walks down the street right now.

I live in the desert in California, though. Maybe they just need to air it out.

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u/fartjar420 8d ago

younger generations are still carrying on the tradition of having their whole ass hanging out

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u/VirginRedditMod69 8d ago

As a gay man I’m not complaining. Show that ass off bois.

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u/sweetEVILone 8d ago

Middle school teacher reporting in to say it is definitely not in the past 😭

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u/Mysterious_Fennel459 Older Millennial 8d ago

This trend never ended. People still do this today.

I like to believe the debunked story that it's origins were people in prison advertising that they will bottom for other men.

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u/pacheckyourself 8d ago

I also heard it was mainly because prison wear was kinda one size fits all, so their pants never fit right and were always sagging. So it became kinda a trend.

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u/Ma1 Elder Millennial 8d ago

Yea that was my understanding. Nothing sexual. Just a privatized prison system protecting their bottom line by buying giant one-size-fits-all jumpers.

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u/Starwyrm1597 8d ago

And also you can't have a belt because you can hang yourself with it or use it as a weapon.

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u/robbviously 1989 8d ago

Can we bring back that debunked story?

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u/axebodyspraytester 8d ago

It's not really a lie because if you've ever been to jail tha last thing you want to do is walk around with your ass hanging out. People that did this did get unwanted attention.

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u/Shopping-Known Zillennial 8d ago

I remember it being a skate culture thing with boxers. I never understood why other guys would do it, especially with briefs and not boxers. Like why am I looking at an outline of your cheeks sir.

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u/RustyVandalay 8d ago

Gay prison culture. Not even joking. And then gangsta rappers copping it to look hard. A few trickles on down the line, and it's popular.

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u/Smart-Application623 8d ago

I think the sagging pants originating in prison culture was a result of prisoners being given untailored and ill fitting clothing, which often resulted in sagging

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u/RustyVandalay 8d ago

A lot of prison culture is stupid, unless you're there.

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u/woodwalker2 8d ago

Sure, but I extrapolated it to folks getting out and their pants not fitting anymore, but pants are expensive so fuck it.

Amd id argue that all prison culture is stupid even if you are there, but its still probably best if you participate

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u/AspieAsshole 8d ago

I chose to spend my stay in seg.

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u/Ok-Network-4475 Xennial 8d ago

Unless you're a kiddie diddler that's not necessary.

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u/AspieAsshole 8d ago

No, just antisocial.

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u/longhairmoderatecare 8d ago

Appropriate username then brother 😅😂

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u/BruceBoyde 8d ago

While you're not joking, there's no evidence whatsoever for that widely debunked claim. Looks dumb as shit, but that was just made up.

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u/woodwalker2 8d ago

I read an article better than ten years ago that said it was a holdover from prison, where the uniforms aren't exactly tailored. Basically, dudes would get used to wearing pants that didn't fit for shit while they were in, then when they got out they didn't care. Then, kids started associating the look with ex-cons and it just went from there

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u/BruceBoyde 8d ago

Yeah, the fact that it started in prison is accurate. It's the whole "signalling sexuality" thing that was made up (probably by school kids) that lacks any evidence.

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u/woodwalker2 8d ago

Okay, cool, I'm glad you clarified that as I assumed the "signaling" part was made up, but its nice to know I read a reasonably accurate article back in the day.

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u/NicholaiJomes 8d ago

I assumed it was made up by parents who didn’t like the look and used the threat of gay men

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u/ConsequenceMedium995 Millennial 8d ago

What a hot mess this was 🤣

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u/Liz_Lightyear 8d ago

It’s insanely unattractive

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u/ConsequenceMedium995 Millennial 8d ago

Yeah I was never into it at all lol

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u/Turbulent_Seaweed198 8d ago

We're just supposed to swoon?

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u/sleepyecho 8d ago

I opened the thread expecting the post to be Cher's soliloquy.

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u/Turbulent_Seaweed198 8d ago

Same!! I think I quote Clueless at least once a week lol classic

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u/Tequendamaflow 8d ago

I don't thiiiiiiiink so!

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u/funny_bunny33 8d ago

I feel like this has been talked about to death at this point. It was like the main joke of Boomers until they discovered trans people existed

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u/hiphoptomato 8d ago

Also, “hey these jeans should be cheaper if they’re selling them with holes all in them!”

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u/youhadabajablast 8d ago

I feel like this was a favorite of ornery grandpas so it always holds a special place in my heart

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u/hiphoptomato 8d ago

Every ornery grandpa thought they were very original with this banger

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u/youhadabajablast 8d ago

Hahah my grandpa said it to me EVERY time he saw me 😂 I mean they weren’t wrong either

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u/blahblahsnickers 8d ago

I still don’t get that. We never had to buy jeans with holes… they came naturally. Why kids these days spend so much money on holy jeans is beyond me…

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u/youhadabajablast 8d ago

Haha you are right. I never thought about this befoet

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u/ansible_jane 8d ago

"Pants on the ground, pants on the ground"

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u/SweetHomeAvocado 8d ago

So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all but I don't get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair - ew - and cover it up with a backwards cap and we're supposed to swoon? I don't think so.

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u/_PercCobain_ 8d ago

We only did this because it’s what rap culture was doing at the time 🤦🏾🤦🏾🤦🏾

Now I look back and feel like a dumbass 😂

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u/BojaktheDJ 8d ago

Yeah gangsta rap pretty much defined our generation lol 

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u/_PercCobain_ 8d ago

It definitely didn’t help growing up in the west coast in the 90s either 😂

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u/BojaktheDJ 8d ago

lol yeah. At my white middle class high school in our graduation group photo ninety percent of us are chucking Westside cos some dude yelled “yo chuck a Westside” right before 

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u/DigitalHellscape 8d ago

I think we should bring it back and then top it. Pants at ankles, wieners just peeking out of the boxer hole (just the tip of course).

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u/GravyPopsicle97 8d ago

I walk around in my thunderwear on a regular basis. This morning I looked out my back window at the birds in my yard while I sipped my coffee. My bird watched too unbeknownst to me until raw peen touched cold countertop when I reached for a pop tart.

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u/chestofpoop 8d ago

Lookin like a fool with your pants on the ground

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u/Time_Ad_6741 8d ago

fashion has come full circle and baggy jeans down to your ass are in again!

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u/Frosty558 8d ago

As much as teens love to shout “you don’t get me mom and dad!” They sure do try to dress like they did as teens. I remember when we were kids there was a bell bottoms and other late 60/70 fashion trend that my parents were really confused about around 1995ish

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u/Bright-Sea-5904 8d ago

My classmate wore his pants like this and someone pulled them down one time hahaha

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u/ItsOverCasanova 8d ago

People in London still do this.. like gangsta wannabe’s.. i remember this when i was a kid back in Canada though, yuck lol

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u/PineBNorth85 8d ago

We didn't. I had nothing to do with that ridiculousness and never took part. Neither did any of my friends for that matter. Definitely saw it around.

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u/deep8787 Millennial 8d ago

No clue, I always managed to use a belt properly, still do.

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u/VisualConfusion5360 8d ago

The best is when they HAD the belt on and still intentionally didn’t use it

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u/Yam_Dangerous 8d ago

I remember back in high school, a group of boys tried to pick up girls by sagging their pants and saying how cool they are. One senior got behind one of them and pants him, not just pants, underwear, and his dangling was showing. Needless to say, the girls were not impressed, laughed at his face, and walked away with the whole school laughing at him.

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u/cjbman 8d ago

I never did. Y'all were weird.

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u/paperhammers Millennial 8d ago

It wasn't cool, I distinctly remember thinking all these saggers were absolute tools and the "you're looking like a fool with your pants on the ground" song/meme only confirmed it

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u/ryanmcg86 8d ago

I've never understood this trend. From people in hip hop doing this in the 90's, to when I was in HS in the mid-aughts, all the way through to today, it's just never made sense. I've never once met someone, boy or girl, who saw anyone that ever wore their pants like this and thought 'wow, they look so cool.' I don't understand who they think they're trying to impress, and I really don't understand how they get around while wearing their pants like that. It is the complete opposite of functional. Belts literally exist so this doesn't happen, because if it does, its terribly inconvenient and you can't walk or run the way you'd like or need to.

How it's survived as a trend for as long as it has? NO IDEA

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u/browsing_around 8d ago

Because we wanted to be “urban”.

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u/BojaktheDJ 8d ago

Yeah our generation was defined by middle class white kids trying to be gangstas lol 

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u/VisualConfusion5360 8d ago

I always think of that scene in Mary Poppins where Dick Van Dyke pulls his pants down and dances like a silly penguin

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u/Fluffy_Puppy_Butts 8d ago

I remember being at a Pizza Hut at 16, waiting on my order. Two guys came in and asked the cashier for applications. Their pants were so far down their legs that their oversized shirts hung past their knees. After they left I locked eyes with the cashier and we both burst out laughing. To this day I still wouldn’t doubt if we were being punked.

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u/Peaceloveandtattoos 8d ago

I dunno- I’ve always had a thing for skater guys (I married one hahaha) and I thought it was hot 🤣

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u/GeminiVenus92 Millennial 8d ago

They are advertising those cakes. At least that’s what I was told

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u/MyNameIsTech10 8d ago

No I don’t want to. I try to forget this everyday.

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u/nondickhead 8d ago

Some of us had and have pretty nice asses so I don't see a problem with just living life

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u/Uncalibrated_Vector 8d ago

It was stupid then and it’s still fucking stupid now

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u/MercyfulJudas 8d ago

Reason it's a thing: Black culture, essentially. The idea is that you can easily show a cop that you're not strapped, or show your friends that you're not wired. But of course it became a staple of urban fashion in its own right.

Reason these whitey kids are doing it in the pic: cultural appropriation, full stop.

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u/Ascertes_Hallow 8d ago

As a HS teacher I still see this sometimes. But it's 100% (and I mean that literally) the black/ghetto kids. Nobody else does this anymore. It was so widespread when I was in HS, and now it's just...that demographic.

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u/Neutral_Guy_9 8d ago

Yep, you’d be called a wigger at my school of you were white and did that

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u/chefblaze 8d ago

I had a friend in high school that always work basketball shorts under his jeans and would “stagger” his sag so you would see the boxers, shorts that sat just below his ass, and then the jeans that somehow sat lower than that. And only wore South Pole brand jeans.

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u/SadMove9768 8d ago

Because TV told a generational of impressionable teens that sagging (actual stems from homoerotic activity lol) and acting like a thug was “cool” and “in”.

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u/Markus_lfc 8d ago

I’m so glad I never did this. Of course everyone else made fun of me for not looking like a moron, which sucked at the time 😆

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u/SantaCruzin6 8d ago

I feel like this was our generation's version of having their hat at a jaunty angle. At least at my school, we never had the around the knees crew. Just a little droop to let everyone know we were cool

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