>>18466699It's an attempt at masculinity. Alternative style is always a rejection of what came before. We went from grunge poor (rejection of 80s mall materialism and colors) to nu-metal oakleys and cargo shorts (rejection of the soft boy tryhard grunge), to argyle sweater nerd (rejection of nu metal trash look), to man bun crystal hippie (rejection of the prep), to gay wigger (rejection of the crunchy and feminizing of the negro), to white trash mullet/burnout (rejection of the negro style and re-masculinization). Shit has been progressively gayer since the early 2000s until we had the gay wigger era of perms. Now alternative styling has had to go back to masculine trash again.