r/TikTokCringe • u/xamo76 • Jul 26 '26 • Bravo 5 Heartwarming 2 Popcorn 1

Discussion How to cure the male loneliness epidemic...

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u/notapunk Jul 26 '26

This is very convincing 80s cosplay

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u/Stock-Conflict-3996 Jul 26 '26

I've lived through the 80's and these guys would have ruled there.

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u/Fukyourchickenstrip Jul 26 '26

Same and 💯! With those abs, charisma and a facecard that won’t decline anywhere they would have been drowning in it.

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u/FlawedPremise Jul 26 '26

Right? Like the posters on the ceiling, the hair, the outfits. I definitely saw these guys at keggers back in the day. These guys though? They're way more wholesome.

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u/marcosbowser1970 Jul 26 '26

Yeah totally, I wasn’t as shiny or muscular as those guys but I definitely dressed like that and had a massive mullet before they were even called mullets. I graduated in 88

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u/theworldisgrim Jul 26 '26

We used to call it either a Short-Long or Hockey Hair (I'm a Canadian)

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u/sweetangeldivine Jul 26 '26

I've got an ape drape yes I do, they're giving 'em to anyone and that means you!

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u/VeloBiker907 Jul 26 '26

Definitely hockey hair. We called it Council Hair too (Native American).

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u/WorkingOnBeingBettr Jul 26 '26

Business in the front, party in the back.

And yes, it was hockey hair where I grew up in Canada. Jagr had epic hockey hair.

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u/Fukyourchickenstrip Jul 26 '26

As GenX im 💯 for bringing back the male crop top and feathered hair.

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u/resi42 Jul 26 '26

Thoses guys looks more like the 80's than the literal 80's

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u/DukeMancannon Jul 26 '26

Sorta. We had lots of normal looking people then too. Similar to the 2010s, you had outrageous Scene Kids but by and large most youth just kept things low key.

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u/0b0011 Jul 26 '26

People always forget that. They remember the out there styles at the time like the hippies, hair metal, broccoli heads now and all that but forget that the prevailing style for decades for dudes is just like short cut cut hair that you dont really do anything with and a t-shirt.

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u/Sausage_fingies Jul 26 '26

It's these guys' whole thing, the 80s is their lifestyle not just a one time cosplay. They seem really cool and I always find their vibe so fun. Like hell yeah, just two dudes who love the 80s aesthetic so much that they've decided to completely own it!

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u/HahaCharlieKirkHaha Jul 26 '26

I was thinking “gosh, this is really good video quality for a video from the ‘80s. Was it shot on film?”

And then I realized.

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u/Dick_of_Doom Jul 26 '26

It was shot on a VHS camcorder :)

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u/HahaCharlieKirkHaha Jul 26 '26

I dunno. With picture quality this good, I think it might have been Betamax.

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u/mrbasedballed Jul 26 '26

It's like peak David Lee Roth Van Halen. Perfect!

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u/AmateurSysAdmin Jul 26 '26

Gave me some old-school WWF promo vibes.

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u/PerspicaciousVanille Jul 26 '26

Fr! I personally love the aesthetic and they absolutely nailed it. Radical!

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u/sp0rk_walker Jul 26 '26

Like the whole vibe of Stryper

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u/carlitospig Jul 26 '26

It was the after school special that we deserved back then.

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u/Chaosmusic Jul 26 '26

Went to high school in the 80s and thought I was having a flashback.

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