Every generation goes through a ridiculous hair phase

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.

The early 90's mushroom haircut trend was worse by far

Once the butt cut was peak hair.
- Is that five different people?
- Oh hi Denny
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?
- Absolutely bring back the ska! Tbf, it never really went away, just not in the mainstream anymore.
- I'd like to see 50-60 year olds doing up their hair like the Static-X guy.
- I would argue Converse is pretty timeless

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
- Denim pants, shirts, jackets... jfc they had it figured out
- “What do ya waaaant?”
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.
culture peaked
The Era of Aquanet.

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
Nah, not even. That's a Flick, the minimal-effort 90's-00's version of the Greaser's pompadour.
- Is that a member of the infamous tunnel snakes?

Imagine a haircut like this instead. It was all the rage in Brazil back in 2002:

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
Why would anyone do this

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.

Yeah, the haircut in OPs picture is normal, if they wanted to show and idiotic haircut it should have been the manbun.
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.
- Counter point the mullet looks perfectly acceptable when combined qith headware such as hats. Or if you are a snake, a bandana.
- https://aarongilbreath.substack.com/p/mulling-over-the-mullet
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.
- Well, i guess it's good that some people don't mind it.
  To me, broccoli hair is quite possibly one of the worst hairstyles to exist. The styles you mentioned are vastly superior, imo.
What makes it so bad?
- The look, mostly.

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

What the fuck is broccoli hair?

Exhibit B:
- 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.
- I'm probably the only one but I think it looks pretty cool.
- No

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.

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.

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

But I'm just a lazy fuck with a common ponytail because I don't want to visit a hairdresser every few months.

I just do a simple fade at home. Takes about 15 min and keeps my shampoo consumption manageable.
Is that viking hair cut even real or just some invention for movies and TV shows?
- That's real. Vikings did a lot of breading and added beads to beards and hair. They also sometimes shaved the sides and had asymmetric haircuts too. We know the hair styles from their graves. The length of hair varied. They let them grow out and cut them when they were long enough. You could do a lot of things with such long hair.
  The viking hair styles you see in the movies are mostly real.
  But vikings did not have dreadlocks. They probably didn't know about them.
  This is wrong:
  
  And this is wrong too:
  
  They also often wore necklaces and wristbands with runes made of silver, iron or wood. Something like this:
  
  This was to either show your wealth or as an amulet. The futhark (runes) were not just an alphabet they also were magical characters. Each rune had its own special meaning.
  For example ᚠ (fehu, engl. cattle) stood for wealth, abundance and security. You wore that rune if you wanted that. And smiths added runes to tools and weapons to add magical powers to them.

It's this a crop of Ellen DeGeneres?

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?

That 'do is pretty slick though

I just assumed they meant the ramen do.
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.

That haircut is fine. The broccoli cut and the school shooter bowl cut are not.

Why are we hating on things people like again? It doesn't look bad. You all are aging like that dude who “chose poorly”

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

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

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.

The problem with every trendy teenager haircut is that everyone that's not a teenager themselves will associate the hair cut with douchy teenagers, thus ruining it. The issue is never the haircut itself but the associations with it'

Round our way it is still mullets and Ned Flanders moustaches.

Good for them. I could never pull that off.

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

"me had hair?"

Cuts kinda like that are cyclical.

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.

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.

walter white wtf are you talking about meme

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

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?

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 hated that hairstyle when I was a kid too lol.

Not me. Fierce flowing all the way from birth and having absolutely zero regrets. Damn I was drowning in pussy in my teenage years and didn't even realize it back then. So... suck it, dumbass kids with your dumb little haircuts!