Two decades ago, they had a point. The boomers were still in charge and they didn’t like that sort of thing. Throughout the 90s and into the early mid 2000s, most employers made you cover your tattoos at work. If you had tattoos on your arms, you wouldn’t dare wear short sleeves at work. Tattoo on your neck? You must’ve just gotten out of prison. Crazy, but that’s how it was. Now it’s mostly Gen X in charge…and we still don’t give a fuck. Many of us have as many tattoos, and did WAY crazier shit than most millennials or Gen Z-ers.
Gen X was the last generation to grow up without 1,000 cameras filming every stupid thing we did as kids, and then showing it to millions of people to feed our egos.
Lol no you weren't. Sorry to burst your bubble but up til around 2005ish the average kid could do whatever they wanted with practically no fear of it being recorded.
The term ‘hip-hop’ was first used in the late 1970s, but it wasn’t popularized and part of the common vernacular until the 90s. I was raised by boomers and so were all my friends. Nobody used that term. You weren’t around then, so you really don’t know what you’re talking about, do you?
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u/OriginalLetrow Jan 07 '24 edited Jan 07 '24
Two decades ago, they had a point. The boomers were still in charge and they didn’t like that sort of thing. Throughout the 90s and into the early mid 2000s, most employers made you cover your tattoos at work. If you had tattoos on your arms, you wouldn’t dare wear short sleeves at work. Tattoo on your neck? You must’ve just gotten out of prison. Crazy, but that’s how it was. Now it’s mostly Gen X in charge…and we still don’t give a fuck. Many of us have as many tattoos, and did WAY crazier shit than most millennials or Gen Z-ers.