>>10913512>>10913636>t. MillennialIMHO, it was actually millennial blog-writers who ruined gyaru. They are the ones who made all the BS Twitter and LiveJournal posts advocating a false reality, which got constantly referenced by feminist newsrags and-- I am not shitting you-- university papers online. Our youth generation was so infested with feminazis... You wouldn't understand, unless you lived it. For a short while (around 5 - 8 years or so,) EVERYTHING had to be "feminist" in some weird way, or it wasn't okay to like it. On the other hand, the zoomer approach to most millennial-era fashion rules seems to be "I'm just going to ignore all this shit and have fun," which is **exactly** what gyaru/ gyaruo is supposed to be. It gets called superficial instathot shit by haggard boomettes, but that has always been the whole fucking point... You just get together with your friends, and have a good time. It is not fucking complicated. Like with all things Eastern, which are beautiful because they are simple, the West has tried to make it complicated.
Cannot speak about Jirai-kei/ "menhera fashion" in Japan. I suspect this is more of an online thing, or else a modern update to LoliGoth or J-Punk, rather than a truly realized substyle of its own. The next time I'm over there, I'll update you guys if I see a lot of it. I'll be sure to go by the name "Menhera Safari" so that you'll know it's me.
