Avast Blog_Tips & Advices: Gen Z needs to ditch the Y2K bucket hats and do this inste

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Gen Z loves the Y2K era, but they need to get rid of the bucket hats, handkerchief tops, super low rise jeans and adopt these Y2K internet habits instead.

Gen Z loves to hate on Millennials — but they’re also low-key obsessed with dressing like we did when we were kids. And I mean, fine. I was born in 1987 and, in the early aughts, I loved to hate on Boomers while rocking full-on bell bottoms. (My eyes basically rolled down the street when my mom pointed out that she’d worn them herself in the ‘70s. Cooooool, Mom. Whatever.) It’s the right of each new generation to copy the styles of the previous one, pretending all the while that they’ve created something “new.”

But if you’re looking to the “Y2K era” for “inspiration,” Gen Z, can I offer some advice? In addition to crop tops and fuzzy jackets, there are other habits you can steal from us. Let’s talk about some “Y2K” (I’m never not putting that in quotes and also by the way do you know what Y2K actually means?) internet practices you should definitely recycle — and some that need to stay in the early aughts, right alongside super-low rise flares. 

Keep: Crop tops — and not sharing your real name online

Look, my mom told me in like 1999 that I would regret crop tops. But, SUCKS TO BE YOU, MOM, because I still wear them to this day. Granted, I wear them with overalls or very high waisted jeans and skirts now, but I’m still all about a cute crop top.

Sharing my real name online, on the other hand, is something I’ve had to accept because writing online is my job. But if I’d thought about it earlier, I might have chosen to use a fake name for my byline. Not because I don’t stand by my body of work — I absolutely do — but because I understand now just how much information is out there about me in a way that I didn’t before.

Keep: Fuzzy jackets — and switching up your usernames

I am here for a fuzzy jacket. I don’t know if it’s the baby raver hiding my 34-year-old body or what, but I will rock a fuzzy jacket of any length, forever. But honestly those cute little cropped ones that are coming back in fashion right now do it for me. 

Fuzzy purses and bucket hats and shoes, on the other hand? Pass.

And when it comes to usernames, I won’t say I have the exact same ones I had as a teenager (and I’m not sharing them, because they’re mortifying) but my username has been pretty consistent across platforms for all of my adulthood. This creates a security risk, both digitally and in the physical world. It makes it easier for malicious actors to gain access to my accounts and it makes it easier for anyone who wants to stalk me IRL (that’s “in real life” in old-speak, Zoomers) to figure out my interests — and even my location. 
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