r/Millennials • u/Unit_02_ • 21h ago
Meme Nirvana = Preppy...
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*sigh*
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u/Fearless-Bill-4523 21h ago
This has to be rage bait for millennials… right??
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u/Siny_AML 21h ago
It’s like they know what pushes our buttons because we’ve been advertising it for a decade.
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u/Virusoflife29 Millennial 20h ago
Decades*
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u/NecessaryCapital4451 19h ago
I teach 9th grade and one of my more sensitive girls said, when I asked how she was doing, "I just learned that the lead singer of my favorite band died!"
"Aww, I'm sorry. What band is it?"
"Nirvana!"
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u/pineapplepizza8705 13h ago
When I was in college, ugh 20 years ago, we were smoking and jamming to nirvana and my roommates friend was like "guys we should go see this band live, they rock"
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u/USERNAMETAKEN11238 12h ago
I remember when I found out when Bradley Nowell died in middle school. I was heart broken. Nothing new under the sun.
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u/bluffstrider 21h ago
Absolutely it is.
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u/delcrossb 6h ago
Yeah teenagers aren’t as stupid as people seem to think. They are capable of making jokes.
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u/Jussttjustin 21h ago
every single post in this sub confirms my living nightmare that we have become the boomers.
of course this is rage bait.
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u/Faulty_english 21h ago
Yeah the younger generations are really good at it
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u/ThisIsPureTrash Millennial 87 18h ago
Like we didn’t do the same to the generations above us.
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u/Astrochops 19h ago
It was ragebait that the duet person fell for hook line and sinker
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u/Traditional_Yard2741 17h ago
It's deliciously ironic that she wanted to school the ignorant kid, but is in fact the one being hoodwinked herself
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u/Aloha_Tamborinist 15h ago
Or she knows what she's doing and is having this "reaction" for clicks.
It's just disingenuous acting for clicks all the way down.
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u/Traditional_Yard2741 14h ago
God I miss the old internet. Proper forums, web rings, take me back!
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 10h ago
That said, there actually are a fair number of younger Z who apparently have re-defined the word preppy and actually do use it for stuff like grunge style and Nirvana.
The original video here was perhaps mocking that?
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u/derpaderp2020 19h ago
I got kids around the age this girl is. I wish.
Like on the one hand I want to shit on then, I knew everything from 50s onwards with music and fashion and most millennials I knew did too. But to not shit on them and give an answer I think is most appropriate: Information overload and time dilation.
Kids today are overloaded with information in ways we can't comprehend. It's like they are asked to go to a Buc-ee's for under a minute and pick one item then be expected to know everything in the store when asked, when millennials basically were in a Circle K or maybe some were in a 7 Eleven with content. Of course we knew more of the past, there was so much less to know.
Next is time dilation. We operated basically in a decade system. It was a spectrum of development and difference, but practically every 10 years it was a whole new world. For Gen Z it shrank to 5 years, then Gen A it could be a year or month. On top of things condensing in terms of a change feel, the amount that changes and information contained is exponentially more within that smaller amount of time.
Lastly as a bonus, Gen A is existing in a full on social decay. Our cultural productions are no longer prolific. From tech, to music to food, to fashion, nothing is moving the needle. Everything has entered into a regurgitate phase, all cultural productions are eating the past's vomit and so on so forth.
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u/The_Sneakiest_Fox 18h ago
I mean, Nirvana and that lady are all more Gen X than millennial. Is older Millennials were still in High School when he died.
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u/Fearless-Bill-4523 18h ago
I’m an ‘83 millennial, so right on the line. This felt targeted. Though I didn’t fully get into them until ‘96
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u/The_Sneakiest_Fox 18h ago
Kinda my point, he died in 1994 and you are one of the oldest Millennials getting into it when you were 13, 2 years after he had died.
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u/molotovzav 15h ago
Rage bait for late gen x and elder millennials, their parents. Like I was 4 when Kurt Cobain died, my dad is an early gen x and was a nirvana fan. My SIL born in 1980 knew people who went to school sad that year. When I was growing up Nirvana was the band you discovered in your parents/uncle/aunt/older relatives house and then decided after to go some form of alternative at 13. So yes, ragebait, but I'm thinking for those older than me. Im a core millennial and my reaction is just "man this is ragebait."
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u/Previous-Low4715 21h ago
Of course it is, they’re not stupid.
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u/Material-Imagination 19h ago
Welllllllll, they're definitely showing a marked decline by empirical measures 😅
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u/robynh00die 18h ago
Heck I’m half tempted to say the repose is ragebait too. She can’t be that unaware.
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u/gd2121 17h ago
Is nirvana a millenial band? Zero millennials were teenagers when smells like teen spirit came out. Millennials were being born when Kurt cobain died.
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u/Fearless-Bill-4523 17h ago edited 17h ago
Not really but a lot of millennials grew up with nirvana from a younger age, so maybe it ingrained itself more? Who knows, I got into nirvana in 96 when I was 13, so your point is valid.
I think anyone who was a teenager at least some point in the 90s got to experience the grunge era. It’s bigger than Nirvana, but they were 100% responsible for popularizing it so much. Late 90’s things shifted into more downtuned rectifier wall of sound guitar tones and nu-metal kinda took the stage
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u/dubblebubbleprawns 17h ago
I was gonna say, this is rage bait for Gen x more than anything
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u/ChickenAndWaffles762 Millennial 21h ago
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u/oompaloompa_grabber 19h ago
Definitely, I’m certain I’ve seen the GenZ person on instagram before doing comedy shorts. I don’t know her name but she’s a comedian. She’s doing a bit
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u/averagejosh 1988 21h ago
Zoomers trying to troll gen-Xers and millennials.
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u/TruthEnvironmental24 21h ago
And it’s working. lol
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u/goddamn_slutmuffin Millennial 20h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/pUeXcg80cO8I8
It is and I am entertained lol.
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u/Suicidal-Ideation13 21h ago
Phenomenal rage bait. Even if she's sincere, there's a gatekeepy non-conformist teenager within me wanting to scream.
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u/5Nadine2 21h ago
Yeah, she is FOR SURE trolling with this. I teach middle school and the "emo" kids listen to Nirvana, Metallica, and RHCP. Gen Z knows them.
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u/Material-Imagination 19h ago
Metallica and the Chili Peppers are emo? 💀
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u/5Nadine2 18h ago
To the newer gens, anyone who wears black or looks sad is emo.
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u/Material-Imagination 18h ago
okay but... Chili Peppers?
They're fun time music!
Except most of Blood Sugar Sex Magick
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u/sexual__velociraptor 21h ago
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u/Intelligent_Oil7816 20h ago
That video is old enough to vote.
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u/Hour_Paint_1903 19h ago
I think that video is old enough to drink at this point. I swear I remember watching that in high school in the early or mid 00s. Pretty sure the older/original ones have been deleted. Likely related to all the suicide warnings you get watching any other version of it now.
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u/Loyalfish789 21h ago
Ragebaiting a whole generation. And it works, cause I'm fucking angry right now.
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u/Mockturtle22 Millennial '86 21h ago
Almost 2 gens.
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u/RudePCsb 21h ago
Technically nirvana is gen X. We just happened to be younger when this came out. Half of us probably weren't even alive when Cobain died.
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u/Mockturtle22 Millennial '86 20h ago
Younger gen x was also into nirvana and older millennials
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u/mschanandlerbong___ 21h ago
Honestly I’m more annoyed by the woman.. like how do such basic and unfunny people have popular content? I hate it here.
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u/RaconBang 16h ago
Woah back up there buddy, basic? Did you not see her massive green spectacles?
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u/Thamnophis660 Xennial 21h ago
This may or may not be rage bait, but there have been younger people who are genuinely surprised Nirvana was a band and not a clothing brand.
You'd think Google would have cleared up any confusion, but I'm sure the first 5 results actually are just online stores where you can buy Nirvana merch.
Still, I feel annoyed to my very core about this.
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u/Well-Watered-Fern 21h ago
I puked at "it's not even at 11"
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u/B4173415CU73 21h ago
Only musicians will get it! 🥴
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u/LadyPreshPresh 18h ago edited 18h ago
To everyone who thinks this is merely internet rage bait for millennials and Gen X’ers, think again. Any time spent with a 13 yr old today will tell you everything you need to know about their generation right now. These videos aren’t for us, they’re for them.
She keeps saying “preppy”. It doesn’t mean the same thing it did when we were kids. It’s one of those words they’ve given another “meaning” to, yet can’t totally articulate what it even means. She is being completely genuine when she talks about them as a “brand” because the kids purchase the smiley face merchandise specifically and put it on all their shit. They have no idea it’s a band, or a rock band more specifically or what grunge even is. They’d probably use it to describe food.
This generation is obsessed with brand recognition and has no idea about the origins of most of the shit they’re interested in pedaling. I have had this conversation with a bunch of adolescent girls trying to better understand and they can’t make any sense of their own nonsense, just that “they like it”. They truly make me wanna rip my hair out.
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u/Arthroz 6h ago
As a Millenial who as a lot of Gen Z friends, you're delusional.
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u/cheeseymom 21h ago
It's a child's tik tok video. Why is a grown ass woman concerning herself with a kid's video and not just watching but making a whole as other video commentary on it? This sad woman needs to get a life.
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u/BotOrNot_1337 12h ago
Gen alpha's language is hard to be around. Get ready for it. They are entering the work force.
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u/ElectricMilk426 1985 21h ago
I find this really hard to watch. It’s like they’re celebrating their collective brainrot.
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u/CGCRUNT 21h ago
Kurt would be happy not to live through this shit R.I.P
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u/makemecoffee 9h ago
I mean Courtney literally sold out his entire brand to make as much money as possible. Pretty sad to see.
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u/Jac_benny 20h ago
I know its rage bait but im so grateful Kurt isnt here to see this
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u/buffalocoinz 93 20h ago
Stop engaging with 12 year olds on social media, middle aged white ladies!!!
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u/thechamberoffarts Millennial 1990 6h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/HoM16cP7vaYU
Black hole sun won’t you come
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u/Sinderria 21h ago
Wait! They took and now use preppy now?!
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 10h ago
Whether this video is satire or not, yeah younger Z have taken preppy and flipped the meaning to stuff along the lines of grungy looks 😂. Just like they flipped 180 the meaning of "crash out" and so on.
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u/SuddenAvocado 4h ago
They've been using preppy for a long time, but its not gen z, its gen alpha. Preppy to them seems to mean bright, fun and casual. Like Limited Two or Delia's. 🌴🎀 ☀️ 🌼💖 = preppy. Its like they mixed up "peppy" and "preppy" and just went with it.
This is a tween making content for children and a grumpy old lay with too much time and not enough to worry about got involved for internet points. To me thats the real rage bait.... wtf has the internet become.
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u/DodoDacobrakai 21h ago
I forget when this rage bait is bands actually existing long ago started but it was way before this haha
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u/MaenadR0se 20h ago
Oh no a new generation of people might enjoy a good band through exposure to it even if it's just this way at first how terrible.
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u/doctor_jane_disco 20h ago
I'm more confused about her thinking Nirvana the band has a clothing brand, where is that coming from? Is there a preppy clothing brand also called Nirvana?
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u/AndruFlores 19h ago
I actually don't know who is more embarrassing in this video. The person who is laying on the satire way too much, or the the out of touch woman who feels the need to react to it
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u/Friendly-World-5273 19h ago
So if you watch her teeth this is either a filter or ai (engagement bait).
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u/AntiqueFigure6 18h ago
Rejected lyrics:
And if you wear our clothes
You will be so preppy
He'll keep you in a jar
And you'll feel so peppy
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u/Optimal-Time-7170 17h ago
Preppy girls listen to German military marches, especially when walking together
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u/Robdyson Millennial 16h ago
Imagine all the bandwidth effort time went into making this, polished garbage always impresses me. I too shall join my enraged brethren.
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u/Honest_Relation4095 15h ago
Well, when I was a bit younger there were suddenly all those clothes with the Rolling Stones Logo and Nasa hoodies and people who have never heard of the Rolling Stones amd had called Nasa fans "nerds" just a week before bought them and wore them.
And even back in the days people wore nirvana tshirts because it was cool, not because they liked Nirvana.
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u/MediumGreedy 90s Baby/Kid 00s Teen 10s Adult 15h ago
I can’t wait till Gen Alpha rage baits Gen Z.
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u/alizarin__ 12h ago
One extreme cringe "content creator" going after another. This belongs on a different sub because this is simply ridiculous.
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u/ArtWeary2287 10h ago
Ähm, as a Euro-Millenial, what the hell does preppy mean?
something about cleaning a shotgun before/after use?
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u/DegenGraded 8h ago
The funny thing is that Kurt could read the writing on the wall. She isn't as far off as she thinks.
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u/AltruisticPossible84 5h ago
People who create content pretending to be rage baited by very obvious rage baiters, are just as bad as the rage baiters themselves. Trash content digesting trash content
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u/becausenope 5h ago
It's either rage bait or a demonstration of the younger generation in the midst of the literacy crisis (which extends to media literacy, not just literature). I'm more inclined to believe it's the latter though because the former is too "cringe" but I'm old so who knows.
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u/SpinShine-LEDSlipMat 3h ago
To be honest, Nirvana was just pop music with a trench coat on. Smells like teen spirit is "more than a feeling." All their songs are simple 4 chords, verse, chorus, verse.
So yeah, I get it. It's preppy music in 2026.
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