u/ChemicalOk1432

16f from Ireland. I could be wrong about this but it seems that Weezer are far less visible here in Europe than they are in America. I don’t really hear about them outside of the landscape of the internet. Just from an outsider's perspective of America it seems that they are pretty much a household name in the US. In my experience that’s not the case here. People do know about them but it seems to be more in alternative circles, but a lot of the time when I say 'Weezer are my favourite band' I get a lot of 'who are they?'. I’d understand if people my age didn’t know much about a 90s rock band, but I get it even from people who were young when they were at their peak popularity.

I was thinking that Weezer and Blur could be
compared. In Europe Blur are definitely a household name . I’ve seen Americans online calling them a one hit wonder and though it might seem like that to them, they have a massive, iconic catalogue . Weezer's situation seems to be like a similar story flipped maybe not to the same extent but you know what I mean.

I’m not saying they are unknown, and they get a lot of radio play and are still big it just seems like they are not as big as a deal in Europe and possibly the rest of the world

And just to add to this basically everyone I know who is a weezer fan is a teenager who found them through the internet. You think it would be the other way around with people in their 30s to 50s the only time I met an older weezer fan it was my my teacher who turned out to be a die hard fan , it was so funny because he seemed so surprised when I said I knew them and proceeded to talk about it for like 15 minutes.

love Gorillaz but I’m always confused why so many people call them a rock band? It just confuses me, and I know the definition of rock music is pretty loose, but if anything they lean far more towards pop and hip-hop. Being considered a pop band isn’t a bad thing, and they rarely feature distorted guitars or many other typical rock music styles

Gorillaz are a genre blurring (no pun intended) band at their core but honestly the one mainstream genre that they seem to take the least inspiration from is rock . Admittedly most of the time people just describe them as being a band with no prefix but it’s just confusing why a lot of the time I hear people call them a rock band when they are so much more pop than anything

Im not a drag queen but I think people on here might have some good suggestion. I’m doing a cosplay and it’s in no hurry the con is in a few months but I think my outfit would look more accurate if my waist was a lot smaller . I’ve never worn any type of waist trainer before and I tried on some corset before that literally did nothing but it was part of a costume .
I’m looking for something that would go underneath my dress and my waist is already on the smaller size at 25 inches and I would like it to go down to 23 to 22 .

I’ll be honest I don’t listen to Lana all that much I have a few songs by her on my playlist but I can say without a doubt the only thing that is stopping her from being one of my favourites is that all of her best songs seem to be unreleased. Why?
Lana has so so many unreleased tracks in comparison to most artists and do you think there’s a possibility of her maybe making a compilation album of all of the best ones .

I’ve been a fan of dojas for a long time and it’s weird to say albums like hot pink and planet her really got me through difficult times but they really did .
I have really bad adhd and I found it so difficult to relate to people in real life and I ended dropping out of school because I found focusing in class so difficult.
During that time the only celebrity who I looked up to was Doja cat because she has admitted to struggling with adhd and left school because of a similar situation to me.
I think a lot of the hate she gets in the internet is because of her personality which I think is heavily tied to her adhd and people HATE women with adhd for some reason .

But anyway I thought I would share this here because I never see anyone talk about her and I think that she is a real success story and is someone a lot of young neurodivergent girls should look up to .
She is controversial but I think the fact that she isn’t perfect and she doesn’t pretend to be perfect is honourable and she should get more recognition.

This post might seem ironic and it is but I’ve always been quite unpopular and I find it difficult to make friends and I don’t know why it took me so long to work out about how much I interrupt people and I never do this with the intention of being rude , normally when someone tells me a story I tell them something similar that happened to me , I didn’t even really know that people thought that was annoying. Does anyone else feel like this

I was thinking today about after this tour is over do you think we will finally get mcr5 or might we get another tour (I hope so I’m so jealous of everyone who got to see them) simple enough question tell me in the replies what you guys will think will happen or will we get another hiatus or is this the end .(no pun intended)

For Halloween and a few cosplay conventions I’m going to in the following year I really want to get a dress that looks the same as the one in the Helena music video . If anyone has any recommendations let me know I would appreciate it .

Why does every single new bloody makeup prof always have to be glowy . I bought the elf halo glow after so many people telling me it’s their favourite foundation and it feels like every other skin tint/ foundation that has been put on the market in the past 3 years . Oily , shiny and has the texture of rubbing chicken grease onto your face .
I understand that people want the glowy glass skin look but you can just use a normal foundation and then on top use a highlighter in the places where you need highlights.
Also the main reason why I like matte makeup a lot of the time is that it actually stays on your skin all day and doesn’t clog your pores to the extent of what is being made today .
Like how do these brands expect us to put on a moisturiser, serum, toner , sunscreen and then an oily greasy foundation to top it off???

Edit : my skin is normal to oily and I don’t really have an issue with makeup clinging to dry patches and I know that these would be ideal for people with dryer skin .
It’s not that serious it’s more of an observation than an actual issue of mine I know I can avoid it by buying matte products and I do chill out in the replies guys

The way I feel about my appearance is very up and down sometimes I feel like the ugliest girl ever and then I feel all pretty randomly. Like I swear I’ve become delusional because I see like madison beer levels of pretty in the mirror but as soon as someone takes a photo I literally do not recognise myself at all . It’s slightly better when I am the one taking the photo like in a selfie but I swear I don’t look like that in the mirror . It actually really bothers me and I used to angle to mirror together and look into them to see my “true reflection” as mirrors flip things and that is normally the explanation people give but even then I still look pretty but the second a photo is taken I look completely different

16f I just get so embarrassed really easily and I envy people who can go about the place talking about tv shows and music that they like because it’s like my biggest fear . Today my dad asked me about the shirt that I was wearing it has a spider on it that’s the logo of my chemical romance . I literally froze up and he could tell something was of but he’s to old to know who they are in the first place but then because I was acting so weird he looked it up and he didn’t really say much apart from how goth they looked but I was sooooo embarrassed like I was completely shocked and disturbed beyond normal .
I never play my music around people , I don’t watch tv shows I like infront of people and I don’t even know what I’m afraid of I just hate people knowing about my interests so much to the point where it causes me a lot of stress and I spend a lot of time trying to keep everyone out of my business even though I really don’t have anything to hide .

Weird enough I don’t mind my peers knowing all that much sometimes I get embarrassed but for some reason when it’s my family I just get so embarrassed to the point where I can’t even talk

16f . I was diagnosed with dyslexia dyspraxia and adhd when I was 12 and I think it explained a lot about how I behaved and how I struggled a lot . I really think I might also have autism since I got diagnosed with adhd so young and I am high masking with my neurodivergence in the first place . A few of the reasons why I think I might have autism is because I have very deep intense special interests surrounding certain topics borderline obsessive behaviour when it comes to certain bands or even periods of history that I like .

I have a very difficult time trying to talk to a lot of people I hear a lot of men saying they find it difficult to talk to women but I genuinely can not have a conversation with most men because they sort of intimidate me same with most of my peers and making small talk is impossible for me .
The only place where talking to people I don’t know is easy is when I’m at work I work in a chippie and I have basically no social anxiety to customers because I know exactly what to say to them but I feel like In small talk there are made up rules that I was never told about .

I hate disruptions to my routine like when my mum randomly makes me stay over at my grannies house with no notice and I don’t dislike my granny and she isn’t actually interrupting anything but I just don’t like being randomly made to go somewhere.

I feel awkward and out of place in almost all social interactions and everything is to overwhelming for me .
I feel like people don’t like me for no reason most of the time even though I said I find it difficult to talk to men a lot of girls my age seem to just not like me and most of the time they literally have no reason to.

I do have panic attacks and people always tell me I take things to heart and get really upset over unimportant things .
On the other hand I don’t really have issues with texture, some clothes are uncomfortable for me but I think it’s like that for everyone sometimes.
I’m not sensitive to temperature change and I actually like being cold a lot of the time . That’s all I can think of for now

If you’re from the UK, you’ll probably understand this story better, but I’ll try to explain it as best I can.
Me and my friend recently finished our GCSEs. She’s a straight A student, and I usually get Cs. I have dyslexia and ADHD and struggled a lot in school, and I never got any help I did try even though it may not have looked like it , I didn’t have any medication and I was always in detention and isolation for forgetting homework and I never really talked to her much about it because I knew she wouldn’t understand she finds every subject easy, no matter what.
It used to piss me off when she’d say she did “so bad” after we got our mocks back, just because she got a B in one subject, while I was sitting there getting far worse grades than her.
Today she texted me about going out on results day, and I agreed we should. Then she said, “Yeah, but if I get a B we’re not going.” I told her that she knows and I know she’s going to get straight A’s, and she’s saying this to the person who fails a lot of subjects.
I told her she was privileged, that everything comes easily to her, and that her fear of GCSE results day was honestly performative. It reminds me of when someone who’s way thinner than you starts complaining about how fat they are while you’re sitting right there.
Anyway, she told me to f off, said I never put in work at school, and basically called me slow.

This happened on Snapchat, so I don’t have all the texts most of this is from memory. I’ll add more if I remember anything else.

Is there anything I should say to her next time I see her and feel free to ask me questions

16f . I never wore the clothes I wanted when I was younger mainly because I grew up in a strictly religious environment, I didn’t hang out after school and in school and we all wore the same uniform.

Also I grew up around people who were much older than me like I spend a lot of my time taking care of family’s members in their 60s to 90s instead of hanging out with my peers .
I’m from a small town so I always felt that there was only one way I could dress . Finally literally yesterday I simply took my dog for a walk in an outfit I had been trying to wear for so long and don’t get me wrong I don’t normally dress absolutely basic and I do get some staring normally just from my eyeliner or whatever but this was on a different level

I was wearing knee high converse and a tartan mini skirt with a band shirt and a chocker . I’m not joking when I told you that every single person who was on the street that I was on was staring directly at me . This had literally been my biggest fear but I know that I will have to get over it because I can’t live a life where I can’t express myself and constantly wearing clothes that I feel don’t represent me as a person.
Does anyone have a similar experience and if so did you eventually get used to it ?

I have literally never seen anyone no matter what gender they are wearing kohl eyeliner and it looking bad . Maybe it’s just my preference because my childhood crushes were people like Rodrick in diary of a wimpy kid and Gerard from MCR but I think other people might agree with me , I think it is common practice in Arabia for everyone regardless of gender to use traditional kohl eyeliner (please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong )
I just don’t see why it’s such a taboo for men to wear makeup it looks so ridiculously good .

I used to exclusively use the cheapest makeup I could possibly find such as stuff from b&m and primark because I believed that expensive makeup is a total scam , then I started using regular makeup brands that are still on the cheaper side like elf and nyx and I realised how much better they are than what I was using.
However a habit I have held onto is still using the cheapest makeup brushes and sponges I can possibly find because it just seems like a rip of , surely all brushes are the same really?
I’m not prepared to spend over £10 on any makeup applicator but maybe I should give it a try and I will finally realise how terrible my £1 home bargains brushes are and maybe it’s not a scam.

I used to exclusively use the cheapest makeup I could possibly find such as stuff from b&m and primark because I believed that expensive makeup is a total scam , then I started using regular makeup brands that are still on the cheaper side like elf and nyx and I realised how much better they are than what I was using.
However a habit I have held onto is still using the cheapest makeup brushes and sponges I can possibly find because it just seems like a rip of , surely all brushes are the same really?
I’m not prepared to spend over £10 on any makeup applicator but maybe I should give it a try and I will finally realise how terrible my £1 home bargains brushes are and maybe it’s not a scam.

I didn’t know that this is unusual but I had a conversation with a group of people in my class a few months ago and they found this to be really unusual
I’m 16 born in 2010 and my great grandmother was born in 1893
I just happen to come from a line of women who had children later in life
Does anyone else have a similar situation ?

I’m 16 and I told a group of people in my class yesterday that my great grandmother was born in 1896 . I just come from a line of women who had children in their late 30s to mid 40s . I don’t know if this is the right subreddit but does anyone else have an experience like this

16F.
I feel so trapped in my own life. I hate the summer because I spend all day at home staring at TikTok. I have no real friends, and I don’t relate to any of my family.
I live in Belfast which is a relatively big city, but compared to places like Chicago or London, it’s tiny. I feel like I can’t really be myself here.
I was telling my dad this, and he said that I think the grass is greener on the other side and that I should just stay here.
My question is has anyone moved away from where they’re from and gone on to live a happy life? All I want to do is get away from here and never talk to these people ever again.
I feel like there is so much more to the world. I spend all of my time surrounded by the same people. Even in school, it was the same 100 people from the time I was 4 years old. I never get to meet anyone new, and I hate to sound full of myself, but I’d say I’m pretty, and I’ve never even once been approached by a boy in my life because I literally never meet anyone new.
I can’t be myself at all, and even though I left school this year because I simply couldn’t stand another day, now I just spend all of my time at home doing nothing. I got fired from my job out of nowhere, and I’ve tried to get a new one, but it’s so difficult to find one when you’re under 18.