Every generation goes through a ridiculous hair phase

I'm just glad curly hair is back in the sliding "good hair" window. Every couple generations folks seem to go on a straightening craze, and it's so much more dull and conservative looking.

Cuts kinda like that are cyclical.

This is not nearly as bad as the broccoli fuck boys although this definitely was the hairstyle of the future fuck boys I was in elementary school with back in the day.

The high and tight was good, I liked it.

It's this a crop of Ellen DeGeneres?

Imagine a haircut like this instead. It was all the rage in Brazil back in 2002:
- Why would anyone do this
  
  Flex on early balding people by leaving hair only where theirs does not grow.
  
  It's like the anti-mullet: trash in the front, nothing in the back.
- is this because of Luiz Ronaldo or was he just part of the trend?
  
  Yeah, that was Ronaldo's haircut during the 2002 world cup

That 'do is pretty slick though

Teenagers have had broccoli hair for the past 5 years. It's boring. Invent a new fad already, I want a new thing to make fun of
- How about carrot hair. Or maybe, like, mashed potato hair?
  
  Boiled 'tatos, mashed 'tatos, stuck in a stew 'tatos

That's a fucking normal ass haircut wtf
- I recognize it's not the same haircut, but it makes me think of this guy:
  
  The guy from the UK Inbetweeners has the haircut.
  
  Still a normal haircut
  
  I've seen that format and keep wondering who that guy is. But I lack terms to look it up and then I forget.
  Who's that?
- Nah, not even. That's a Flick, the minimal-effort 90's-00's version of the Greaser's pompadour.

Still a hell of a lot better than that beiber swoosh hairstyle.

When I was a teenager, the boys all had the Justin Bieber side swept kinda look
- Nothing says "I will put something in your drink" quite like that haircut.
  
  Is there a popular men's haircut that doesn't say that?

Bad hair? Lemme 'mullet' over.

Broccoli hair? (quick duckduckgo) oh, you mean an 80s perm?
- Nah the 80s perm can and did look good, imagine Bob Ross without one. They cut way too mcuh off the sides for it to look good on most folks, ya need a very specific head shape.
- I just assumed they meant the ramen do.

What’s wrong with that haircut? It’s neat and looks good and ladies like it. That broccoli cut is just atrocious.
When I was a kid it was the bowl cut, now that’s a travesty. The haircut in the picture is nice
- See, that’s what the broccoli hair kids think too. It’s all cope.

- Objectively glorious.
- culture peaked
- This picture may represent humanity at its peak.
  
  This was the time when rock stars wore heavy makeup, painted their nails, had long lucious curly hair wore pants that cut off circulation
  Nobody said they were “gay” or “trans”, they were just rock and fucking roll and whatever they wanted
  
  I hear it's better to burn out than to fade away. I think that's the anthem of 2025 America.
  
  Denim pants, shirts, jackets... jfc they had it figured out
  
  “What do ya waaaant?”
- The Era of Aquanet.
- Is this supposed to be a dig at guys with long hair? Guys with long hair are sexy. Not my fault you feel intimidated by their masculinity.
  
  Lol. Not at all.

The broccoli hair of Gen Z and alpha is a revival of the '80s broccoli hair. Ultimately, we are mocking the boomers and Gen X.

But I'm just a lazy fuck with a common ponytail because I don't want to visit a hairdresser every few months.
- I would rock the ragnar lothbrok though.
- I just do a simple fade at home. Takes about 15 min and keeps my shampoo consumption manageable.
  
  How do you knock out a fade on your own? The back of the head is a real bitch.

I've never had hair like that, but the pic seems like a pretty normal haircut I've seen from mid-90s through to now
- It's basically just a crew cut...AKA one of the most popular short haircuts of all time!
  
  Yeah but the signature of this was the propped up "wave" in the front, I remember that being huge through elementary and middle school in the 90s
  
  Isn't that a Caesar? It's combed forward which makes all the difference.

I already posted but since I had to Google what a broccoli cut is, I felt the need to link something for old people like myself.
That said, these all look the same to me. It’s 35 pics of the same thing. It needs an extended Office Pam meme that spans pages. More fascinating, the article stated this hair involves actual perms. Perms. The 80s are back.

How about we let people style their hair however the fuck they like. I see all these comments ridiculing different haircuts as if being fucking apes with hair going in slightly different ways at different lengths blabbering on about which way is better wasn’t the ridiculous part.
- I sometimes wish I had hair so I could change up my looks every now and then. I'm rocking a shiny bald head and have to change up my prescription glasses every now and then for a different look.
  But then again, I only have to shave. Nothing more involved. It's a very easy to maintain style, this genetic baldness thing.

The early 90's mushroom haircut trend was worse by far
- Once the butt cut was peak hair.
  
  Oh hi Denny
  
  Is that five different people?
- It’s back bay-bee!
  I’m just waiting for the other early 2000s hair trends to come back. Frosted tips, insane amounts of gel to spike it up, maybe some pukka shell necklaces? Maybe some Hawaiian shirts? Maybe those big ball chains? Converse? Just bring back third wave ska?
  
  I would argue Converse is pretty timeless
  
  I'd like to see 50-60 year olds doing up their hair like the Static-X guy.
  
  Well given that broccoli hair is just another word for the perms from the 80s, just give it 20 years and it'll be back in again. You could even be ahead of the curve, just give it some new name, christmas cake hair for example if it's all about frosted tips, and start wearing it in 15 years time. You'll become famous for "starting" a "new" trend!
  
  Absolutely bring back the ska! Tbf, it never really went away, just not in the mainstream anymore.

No way, broccoli hair is significantly worse than almost any other hairstyle.
You couldn't convince me broccoli hair was not started as a meme to see if people would make themselves look dumb to follow a trend.
- I don't really mind the broccoli cut. There are many far worse follicular atrocities throughout history. Beehives, flat tops, the mullets already mentioned, and many others are worse than broccoli hair IMO.
- May I remind you of the existence of the one true stupidest haircut ever invented: the mullet. The great equalizer of looking bad. Not one person on the entire planet Earth can wear it well.
- Yeah, the haircut in OPs picture is normal, if they wanted to show and idiotic haircut it should have been the manbun.
- What makes it so bad?

It is the right of younger generations to confuse older gens with their style and older ones to be confused/offended by them. A tale as old as time.

Yeah, but you didn't have to go get a perm done for that style. You just got a $15 hair cut.
- And a ton of gel.
  
  Not even a ton. A variation of this is still my hairstyle today.
  A dime sized amount of fiber paste does the job. Start by blow drying the front up into rough shape. Rub the paste between your hands using only your fingers, and work most of it into the front to hold the shape and fine tune it. Use the remainder rubbed between the entirety of your hands to pat down your crown and any flyaways. And you're done. Quick spritz of hairspray if it's windy or you're planning on being really active 🤷‍♂️
  Whole process takes 5 ish minutes. Significantly less if my hair is already in the right shape, which it usually is because I blowdry it when I get out of the shower as a matter of course.

If you can’t bully children for their terrible haircuts, why even perpetuate their creation?

Speak for yourself, I had frosted and fire tips.
- Billabong sweater, or T-shirt over long arms. Oakleys, baggy low on the hip jeans and (possibly JNCO even if I prefered other brands) DC skateboard shoes. Soundtrack - The Offspring - Conspiracy of One. I would jack back into 2000 in an instant
  
  Man I lived in DCs for years. Zero arch for my flat feet and they just slipped on. Even good for working in restaurants.
  
  Vans.
  
  Don't forget the puka shell necklace

I was born in the 70's so i just get violent flashbacks

What the fuck is broccoli hair?
- Exhibit B:
  
  I'm probably the only one but I think it looks pretty cool.
  
  What do you even ask for at the barbers to end up with that?
  Skin fade to pot noodle, please mister?
  
  Do we know if they actually perm their hair? With as many haircuts like this that I see, they can't ALL have curly hair right?
  
  Where I am, mullets made a comeback a year or so ago, and now the odd person will get one.
- No

When was this guy a kid? I'm in my 70's and only a few jocks ever wore anything like that.
- c. 2001, I wager. However, if in U.S. I wager a bit later or earlier as I live in Oz (the one with marsupials).

I used to get annoyed at the people cutting my hair when I'd ask for a crew cut, and they'd style it like this. It was everywhere in the late 90's / early 00s, and I was never a fan.

When it was zoomed out, I thought it was a pillbug

I never had that cut, and it came a generation or two after mine, but it looks fine to me.

Round our way it is still mullets and Ned Flanders moustaches.
Good for them. I could never pull that off.

Calling it a broccoli haircut is unfair to broccoli...
It's the haircut of Gen Z fuckboys. The scum of the generation, not the generation as a whole
- more like curly pube topper

Tbh I still find that haircut to be quite attractive. Cannot say the same for broccoli cuts.

This is definitely one of the more ridiculous and unattractive coifs out there, and it spans generations. Ben Affleck or Alister of Dragon Age anyone?

I just never do anything with my hair. I let it be free to be however it wants.
- I cut it short so it has limited options.
- I just gave up and now I have long hair like Charles White Jr but better taken care of.
  
  I tried that as well but the hair started getting bent over my ear in some fucked up way that even I couldn't stand

"me had hair?"

I'm only surprised it's the hair that's silly. I thought the standard for intergenerational mockery was leg fashion. And unless you want to get on these kids for treating pajama bottoms like sweatpants... eh.
- We had tight-rolled, acid-washed jeans, so much better than sweatpants /s
  
  Look, stupid as JNCOs are, they were intended for outdoor use. Possibly as a tent. That'd explain the size and all the carabiners.
- The leg fashion is joggers, but joggers are actually pretty dope so it's hard to make fun of them. Snug and out of the way down low, loose and not constraining up high, they're basically the perfect pants.
  
  They still look silly.