this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2025
988 points (95.7% liked)

memes

16319 readers
2685 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] aestda@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Those guys are cool and some of us men can not be like them. However, saying there is nothing sexy about wearing Nike is wrong. Nike does look good in certain situations. At a nice rap concert or at a party where people don't want to dress too edgy. Don't knock Nike. It's still cool even if some of you don't like it.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I can't say I think so, but if you do, have at it amigo.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Can you imagine just walking around in modern society looking dolled up like a member of Poison? I'm sure they didn't even go around like that every day.

[–] aestda@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Could be cool to live in a society where people do wear leather.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Some of those guys in hair metal did!

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

Too much effort to maintain a look. I would rather feel good then look good at this point in my life.

Could probably get lots of dick too. I yanked it to the Poison album cover for about a year before I learned that they were dudes, and then like maybe three more months

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

don't care gonna keep wearing my loose plain shirts and cargo shorts and tennis shoes until the day i die

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 22 points 2 days ago

The Danes, thanks to their habit to comb their hair every day, to bathe every Saturday, to change their garments often, and set off their persons by many such frivolous devices. In this manner, they laid siege to the virtue of the married women, and persuaded the daughters even of the nobles to be their concubines.”

Nike dudes even starting to get the monk haircut.

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

Internalized homophobia is a hell of a thing to overcome. Some guys think those things are gay because that's what they were told by figures of authority.

Source: was raised as one of those guys.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 70 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Of course girl with a goth profile picture and spiders in her name thinks goth style is hot.
In the meanwhile my bald head and nike sweatpants attract eastern european girls like a lamp with moths. You catch what you fish for.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine if you wore a full track suit

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 days ago

That's only for ceremonies

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Try to complete your Gopnik style with a few items more.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The problem is most average looking men, when bedecked in goth shit, look like Bluey got run over by a Spencer's truck.

The dude in everyone's imagination wearing black makeup and jewelry looks like a strung-out rockstar with don't-give-a-fuck vibes who lives for adventure and wild nights. The vast majority of ACTUAL men have the body-shape of a rectangle and have to spend most of every day waiting in lines, attending Zoom calls, explaining to customers why their wifi doesn't work (Reset the router Ethel, no that's not a router, you're holding an egg steamer.)

We gotta abandon the idea that people have "looks" at all times. Lets repopularize costume parties so guys get a chance to try to dress-up without it being some kind of shocking change to their entire persona. I had a stiff, straight-edge boss who attended a Halloween party and went goth. Completely unrecognizable, he was a legend.

[–] aestda@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, you can't wear the same thing every single day unless it blends in with everybody else.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Nah, but the Harley biker is certainly a gay look

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

thank rob halford for bringing that look to the masses

[–] HenryDorsett@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the leather daddy BDSM iconic gay "look" that these totally hetero men who go on long trips together to scenic areas without women, and with vibrations the whole way to excite the twig and berries, and a nice massage to relax the rear end.

Bigger stretch than professional wrestling, but not much.

God fearing, homosexual hating trailer park kids don't realize that watching two oiled up men in spandex is.... well, pretty fucking gay. Not meant to be disparaging, I just mean the only things missing are penetration and a money shot.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

the money shot is when they get color aka bleed. then it gets exciting

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's not gay, I'm just not goth. Also you can get quite far by not being a twat and knowing when to roll your sleeves up.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 129 points 3 days ago (25 children)

I had a goth friend who would always get laid without much trouble. At some point he got a normal job and had to "become a normie", and I learned that it wasn't because he was a goth, it was because he was a complete asshole with women, and some women, for some reason, can't resist assholes.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 77 points 3 days ago (35 children)

Being an asshole implies confidence.

Women like confidence.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 59 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Inexperience and young girls mistake being a dick with confidence

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (34 replies)
load more comments (24 replies)
[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Do you have any idea how much pussy you can get wearing this shit?

[–] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I'd say an average of two divorced house wives, one assistant school teacher, one confused undergrad and half a random barrista per year.

load more comments (11 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)
[–] Nangijala 34 points 2 days ago (10 children)

People should do what they are comfortable with, but yes, if a guy wants to attract women, this is definitely a way to get what he wants.

I was part of the alternative scene and I also thought the goth-boy aesthetic was very attractive. All the girls did. To me, the most attractive thing a man could do to his appearance was to let his hair grow long. Like past the shoulders long.

Didn't have to put on make up and jewelry. Just have long hair and you could be fat or skinny, pretty or ugly. Didn't fucking matter. I'd look. If Henry Cavill walked down the street next to a nerdy guy with long hair, I would look at the nerd everytime. If he wore band t-shirts and military boots, it was game over. Only way a guy could fuck it up for himself with me was if he started the nice guy routine or was so socially awkward he couldn't talk to a girl. I have experienced both. The latter was a full date where the guy didn't say a word to me once and I was the one who had walked 20 km to get to his place because he had social anxiety and couldn't leave his home. Poor guy. I hope he's doing better today.

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 50 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I - a bloke - sometimes paint my nails. If they're still painted when I go to work you can guarantee I'll get a few comments from guys questioning whether they "should be worried" around me*. Meanwhile, the few women who work there think it's wonderful and have offered to do them properly for me. _ *they needn't be worried. My standards aren't that low

load more comments (8 replies)
[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t know if I’ve got a big enough sample size, but the only guys I know who wear black nail polish are creepy Marilyn Manson types who mainly get laid with girls they met in their therapist’s waiting room

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Laid is laid. Also the crazy ones are objectively hotter.

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

I mean, it maybe wasn't gay, but was definitely a reference to something hellish, depraved, opposed to common morality, weak, like that.

Because back then it clearly meant protest against authority, against hierarchy, against stereotypic masculinity, against war, against evil covered by normalcy.

In some sense it's an intentional show of vulnerability, that look.

And I'd take that over Kipelov in Russia every day, that moron who doesn't fucking understand what rock music is.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 85 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Can confirm.

I've let several women do my make up and they're always super enthusiastic that I'm down for that.

load more comments (8 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›