The Pussification of The Moustache

[@BigIndividual]

Porn, pedos, and “ironic fashion”; the terrible trio that killed the mustache.

[@Randomlad56]

Trvke

[@Randomlad56]

The big bad three

[@IvanTube0]

hitler ruined a certain stache too

[@biblecmpvictim]

Explain

[@zaphtal]

The PPP(f) Porn, Pedos, Poor fashion

[@svesnimajmun2731]

the reason is simple, its not just about the stasche, it's even more about the head it grow out of

[@PrinceCustodian]

skiny ass necks and they always look zesty as hell.

[@nurgle-j5n]

Wise words

[@Randomlad56]

Amen brutha

[@Tree789]

Grows

[@Tree789]

@@nurgle-j5nhow💀

[@skitz-oh]

Old west moustaches were god tier

[@imto5]

you not lying

[@miguelpatino3856]

The good ol "cookie duster"

[@Evan-i4e]

Gets in your mouth while eating then the food dries in it though; but does keep stuff out of your nose and mouth, keeps your face warm, and leaves the most cosplay possibilities like a flamboyant knight king.

[@PrinceCustodian]

They still are.

[@nurgle-j5n]

We need to bring muttonchops back.

[@Rooobert0101]

we need to bring life back to when having a mustache automatically increases your strength by 10%

[@dannysummers4591]

Don Frye's moustache was a rare genetic mutation

[@ueIl]

Like Mike Mentzer

[@JRBX-09]

@@dannysummers4591 bro got that "stomping goombas and saving princesses" mutation

[@OliverOils]

Mexican boxers kinda have memorable staches

[@RexNicolaus]

@@dannysummers4591 That and Rick Rude

[@kozzy18]

I think there's an iconic moustache from the 20th century you failed to mention.

[@gordonfreeman7187]

Did this moustache happen to be popular among the working class of Germany?

[@kozzy18]

@ quite

[@KaiserFranzJosefI]

​@@gordonfreeman7187This mustache was popular in the Middle Class, not the working class

[@GeeMannn]

Oy vey

[@randomango2789]

@@kozzy18Are you referring to Mexican mustaches from the 1940s-50s?

[@enrater123]

I can see the difference, but can't quite say what differentiates the weird mustache from the cool one we used to see, I guess, like you said, it's just a weird combination of things that aren't bad on their own but end up making a fruit salad, combined with the lack of spirit to really wear a stache

[@josebrander]

I'd say old school looked like men having a mustache, while now they look like little kids/teens having a beard/mustache trying to look like grown ups. If you look like a man, a grown up man, and masculine, I'd say you can rock a mustache. Otherwise you look silly. It's the same with a full beard, imo.

[@1wa83n]

​@josebrander I agree

[@symptomofsouls]

@@enrater123 it's the people who wear it ironically, millennials (and zoomers) love irony. A little bit of irony is ok but they make their entire personality and aesthetic ironic and it's just disgusting. Hate hipster culture

[@Theboatmserfgsd]

same as fedoras or ties imo they could look great with a suit but if you are wearing them with graphic tees it just looks goofy

[@Sclopiopipio]

It’s a spite mustache, it’s grown because that’s the last vestigial remnants of their own masculinity they are scraping off the floor

[@poo5860]

the mullet+moustache combo is the manbun+skinny jeans combo of the 2020s

[@ebaythedj]

mullet mustache was a combo of the 90s and they just brought it back worse with a shitty mullet and stache

[@DonnieY23]

@@ebaythedjtbh if they didn’t try to gentrify country music I think we could’ve been saved from the second wave of shitty mullet-mustache combos

[@ebaythedj]

@ true

[@uverpro3598]

Manbuns are still around and skinny jeans are the norm.

[@softbutterfly_xoxo]

​@@uverpro3598 i think baggy jeans are becoming more popular

[@fool2740]

That Idubbbz thumbnail is diabolical 💀

[@nurgle-j5n]

not really. it's pretty fair

[@Bjix]

Yet accurate 😂

[@danstrikker6465]

But very accurate

[@OliverOils]

deserved

[@TheFunnyLookin]

After watching Bunjee's video covering his entire online history, yeah no, he 100% deserves to be on that thumbnail

[@rainypeople]

It’s not the mustache that makes the man, it’s the man that makes the mustache. If you want a great example of facial hair: Donald Glover

[@FreemanPetrowski]

He does have a good mustache

[@MaximilianonMars]

Good ol' Dong Lover.

[@OliverOils]

beards have a different reputation tho lots of people still compliment beards

[@tumultoustortellini]

Black people in general have been able to maintain the mustache the whole time, I think. Who's a black person with bad facial hair?

[@Tree789]

@@MaximilianonMarswhat😂

[@symptomofsouls]

Basically the same thing that happened with the Mullet, weak men copied it to look like strong men (and failed)

[@ABBCoffical]

If ever you find yourself with a party in the back and business in the front you are not a ‘strong man’ you are a cow.

[@ebaythedj]

yeah, if they actually want to look strong with a mullet you do not cut the sides, you never ever cut the sides for a mullet, you only tuck it behind the ear

[@mashpotatosauce3566]

The guy who posted this comment definitely thinks hes a strong man lol

[@DonnieY23]

A mullet has never looked good on a man and the only time it doesn’t seem completely out of place is when I’m watching Joe Dirt

[@enrater123]

Maybe it's just been corrupted for as long as I've been alive, but I can't find a Mullet cool on anyone

[@miguelpatino3856]

Idubbbz has single-handedly ruined the mustache-longhair combo for me (I still keep mine tho, ngl)

[@ebaythedj]

alan jackson is the only reason i want to grow my hair out and a stache

[@thelonewanderer8220]

​@ebaythedj Alan Jackson is the man lol, he was one of the reasons I decided to get a mullet. I still haven't committed to the stache yet as I dont want to look like Idubbbz

[@ebaythedj]

@ it’s just gotta be thick and below the mouth a bit

[@thelonewanderer8220]

@@ebaythedj you mean the corner of the stache has to be lower than the mouth? Or the length? I hate chewing on my stache lol

[@ebaythedj]

@ the corner i guess, not the hair going in the mouth but around

[@herrflammen6487]

My explanation relies on the mustache being paired with the mullet. The mustache and the mullet used to be the look of a sleezy guy who didn’t give a happy damn. The irony is that this look today is done with careful grooming whereas it was formed through the lack thereof.

[@Peef_Spogdar]

Yeah it’s usually combined with a shit ton of accessories like pocket chains and feather earrings now. It’s atrocious 🤮🤮🤢🤢

[@KingBuilder525]

It was never the mustache, it was the physiognomy behind the mustache

[@Tree789]

How?

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

True. Other factors as well though.

[@zacharygardner2469]

I would say Emo was the main contribution towards identity that millennials had.

[@JayJay-z4z2p]

Facial hair wasn't apart of the Emo aesthetic, right?

[@symptomofsouls]

@@JayJay-z4z2p No, but it was a key part in shaping the attitude and mentality of most millenials

[@JayJay-z4z2p]

@@symptomofsouls I see. That does make sense, especially humor wise.

[@Nyorane]

Yeah, millennials had a lot going on. This guy saying they don't is just cuz it's the gen right before his own & he doesn't know better. Millennials had emo/grunge/alternative & 90s-2010s internet culture. One specific thing isn't 'defining' them cuz there isn't as much distance as with prior gens (AKA that's how time works).

[@Theboatmserfgsd]

@@Nyorane cant forget swag era

[@Master_Of_The_Universe]

Don Frye's mustache would spit in the general direction of some of these examples.

[@yewtewbstew547]

Don Frye looks like he was born with that moustache, I couldn't even imagine him without it.

[@Master_Of_The_Universe]

@yewtewbstew547 He came into this world with a cowboy hat and a mustache

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

​@@yewtewbstew547When he was born the doctor said "Congratulations it's a Man"

[@TechJacket-rz6il]

Idubbbz is literally the butt of everyones joke now

[@theCreature773]

Kind of ironic huh

[@DolphinPain]

With good reason

[@Cinabrio-rex]

Chris Bumsted's Moustache is iconic

[@overlord3481]

No it's not. It's a very commonly shaped moustache

[@lordmogg-wright5467]

"Thinks Tame Impala is underground..." This had me rollin for some reason man, funny guy.

[@vain.a]

🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@redtsun67]

I think the main difference is that they have no style in their mustache, or their clothes. They wear the worst outfits. They wear thin mustaches when they should be thick, and thick mustaches when they should be thin. They curl their mustaches up because they want to look like old timey "gentlemen" but they are faux-gentlemen. They are masquerading as something they are not.

[@jamessmith4172]

Yes well said. Finally people are starting to critique these terrible style choices

[@LartinBeats-rg6pf]

I really see no difference between Eddie Murphy's mustache and Idubsz. It sound more like your criticism is about the fashion look instead of pure mustache. Also you failed to see how the hipster mustache was inspired by older early 20s mustaches like Theodore Roosevelt. The hipster mustache is literally people coping older fashion. Honestly this video is poorly researched and vey USA centric. You don't even go over UK and Australian mustaches

[@Fankas2000]

@@LartinBeats-rg6pf Idubsz is cringe, that's why it looks bad.

[@caleblebaron1179]

You didn't even mention Kaiser Wilhelm II.😔

[@Jack-hu4hu]

Realest shit I've heard all day. I fell for you man

[@Smackmate]

Yea nice try Kaiser we all know this is your burner account

[@SireJaxs]

he didnt mention another famous german politican..

[@AorER1613]

​@@SireJaxsIkr? The Iron Chancellor had quite the killer 'stache

[@williamkeitel3994]

Your father Fredrick III had a majestic beard

[@CarlFredrik-uo1cu]

Friedrich Nietzsche had one of the best moustaches in history

[@sirfox950]

Right so!

[@nathanstein589]

All the old german mustaches absolutely fucked

[@grandmarshallkingwolfman420]

For me it's the Vercingetorix 'stache

[@a.r.h9919]

​@@grandmarshallkingwolfman420the true real reason why Caesar wanted to conquer Gaul for he envied he could not grow such a magnificent Celtic mustache

[@specktyplays4467]

I have a mustache, but i also have wavy hair which really gives me an old school. Everyone around really likes my look.

[@Jack-hu4hu]

I think u gotta give other hipster vibes for it to be weird.

[@swinginrichard1]

"The Pussification of the Moustache" With a title like that, I'm expecting you to set an example when you reveal your own face at the end LOL

[@arthurpaes9694]

You really simplified the history of facial hair in the 20th century. From the 1920s to the mid 1960s a clean shaved face was the preferred style (pencil-thin moustaches had a moment in the 1930s but that was it). In the late 1960s moustaches and beards became a symbol of rebellion and "alternative"/hippie/rocker style... And it was in the 1970s that the moustache became trendy and associated with machismo (lacking any hippie connotations). The 2010s had a late 1960s/early 1970s rock chic revival that brought facial hair back into fashion... What I see today is machismo coming back into the zeitgeist and so are the moustaches as well

[@andrewcoates5681]

Fyi, the Gauls and Brits were known to sport moustaches during the conquiring of Gaul by the Romans. So they were in fashion there since at least 50BC

[@diedinvayne]

I thought i wouldn't agree with this video but then watched it all the way through and am actually convinced.. moustaches have been pussified

[@jacktaktical]

Same

[@alphacenturion8423]

Henry Cavill’s mustache is probably the strongest one I can think of in current pop culture.

[@kyleinnes4963]

I dunno how i feel about this take, I’ve always had one so I don’t understand the tryna stand out mentality

[@TotallyNOTmyAlt956]

Then you’re fine?

[@datnyga15]

been growing it since I was 13 😂 had classmates saying I had a pedostash

[@dylansearcy3966]

The mustache is still a symbol of masculinity. Nothing has changed. Matter of fact most men didn't wear mustaches in some points in time

[@jackshack1167]

Dude must’ve gotten bullied by someone with a mustache😭

[@wanderingfox3304]

They soft breadtubers killed the mullet mustache combo

[@creedbratton4064]

This video is so stupid, the thesis literally comes to, "Don't grow a mustache and act like you don't care what people think. Grow a mustache and act like you don't care what people think. Yes there's a difference somehow." It's always been that some people have bad looking mustaches and some people have cool mustaches, this isn't some new phenomenon. The complaint of the video is literally just the fact that this dude doesn't like certain people growing a mustache, after going on a rant about how 'it used to be' anyone could have a mustace

[@aalytoks9755]

Basically wear the mustache if it suits you or dont

[@xythrr]

Basically, this guy thinks he's the shit but after spewing his opinions out of his mouth he just kinda sounds like a loser.

[@mikee143]

I agree, this vid fails at making a coherent argument. The vid reads as this dude hating the idea of trend following but also praising past trends. It's a shame since it's pretty entertaining and would act as a great mustache retrospective otherwise.

[@aalytoks9755]

@@mikee143 Youre offended cuz you are also one of those gay mustache wearers

[@Evan-i4e]

Lol, it's a statement about maturity and how mustaches act as a physical indictor of intelligence and status through one's ability to display the goofiest goofy facial hair style and still look masculine through a display of physiognomy, it makes perfect sense you just told on yourself in multiple ways and don't understand you did.

[@noicegallagher4315]

It’s the fact that they’re having a mustache just to be “the guy with the mustache” instead of “The Guy with a mustache” idk if that makes sense but it’s true

[@crusaderforchrist]

Henry Cavill with a moustache is goated.

[@scaleitback1055]

When it is no longer palatable to define anything as good, the lines that define what is ironic are going to cease to exist.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

I’m a young man who grew up without much of a social media exposure/presence. I adopted a mustache independently before I found out about this sort of trend online, since I thought (and still think) it’s a fairly simple, elegant form of facial hair that many of my own older male relatives (mainly on the paternal/Italian-descended side of the family) have had in the past. When I found out about it, it’s made me a bit frustrated at all these other young guys ruining a good thing, but it’d be stupid to let a lot of idiots decide how I’m going to look. I think sincerity is a key part of this whole thing, and somewhere along the way a lot of people just lost the memo on that.

[@Keg_the_ytchannel]

How bold of you to assume people wear the mustache to be different

[@jebreggie4225]

Fashion is driven by the process of unattractive people copying style from attractive people to seem attractive by association, then for the attractive to abandon it to avoid that association.

[@allurared9029]

I go to an automotive trade school, and I really disagree about gen z making the mustache worse. Most of the blue collar gen z guys are bringing it back with the exact vibe that it was in the 80s and 90s.

[@couragecoachsam]

Born too late to rock a mustache. Born too early to rock a mustache 😔

[@ryanleatigaga7596]

Omni-Man and Ron Swanson are what I think are ideal mustaches. I want mustaches like theirs someday.

[@Azrael__]

My wife's boyfriend has a mustache, and she thinks he's great. He's very masculine, I think he's pretty cool.

[@BagBreakerMMA]

MMA fighters from countries like Dagestan all have full beards but shave their upper lips. No coincidence, they’re some of the toughest fighters on earth

[@uthumbandara1406]

7:45 u forgot the actor of Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) from better call saul who has a killer mustache

[@boof994]

Oof that idubbz effect

[@JabbyMayoCD]

I’ve been heavily against the ironic mullet+moustache combo for a while now. It really needs more hate.

[@gudshjrehand3739]

No way he put diddy music in the background

[@GreatMollyHatchet]

While I agree with a lot of this video there is also a MASSIVE undercurrent of projection 😂

[@mfKaval1er]

Kurt catching strays man 🙏🙏😭😭

[@Metal94head]

muscles make a huge difference on how a moustache looks

[@cosmotheor]

You forgot to mention the actor Daniel Day Lewis in the movie There Will Be Blood 👌🏻

[@dissociativealeks]

Shoutout to gun Jesus too, that’s a confident mustache

[@Wuoffan1]

Shout out to CBum for keeping classic mustaches alive today

[@viniciusevaristo8490]

Listen they will try bury many times the mustache but It Will be eternally iconic and im gonna rock it many times 🥸🥸

[@CullodenCowboy]

“Yur-OPE-ian” is killing me 😂

[@MancoDanko]

I keep mine around because I genuinely lack the need to try to groom my facial hair. It still has style but I just never cared outside of shaving it off every 3 months.

[@anavocado964]

Bro is gatekeeping facial hair 💀

[@marc-henrimeyer6428]

“Bi-curious lumberjack” 😂 touché !

[@imyugioh]

Saw the pfp and knew instantly why u made the video

[@rakkhat195]

😂

[@petruska111]

The beard was never the dominant style in western europe, after the 4th century.

[@toothhair3676]

I want what either Eggman or captain price got

[@crusaderkaiser2000]

6:39 nah, all the hate to this guy specifically.

[@MrStanFungi]

i sure hope this video is recommended to more people. it was a very clean, well made one

[@smittywerben1849]

Henry Cavill with a mustache

[@ExponentMars]

you forgot to mention a certain austrian artist with an iconic mustache from the early 20th century

[@Puffman270]

The GTA3 intro for the into is beautiful.

[@lilpitt4860]

Where tf your mustache at if you like them so much

[@nilsmadej9091]

Good callout on the horrible abuse of moustaches. But there are a lot of mistakes too that I have to point out. Moustaches (or at least not a full beard but a trimmed style) have been popular in many periods before post ww1. For example the ancient slavic Lechans wore large moustaches which carried over to their descendants, the sarmatians. Fun fact, the reason why Nietzsche wore a moustache in that particular style was because he believed himself to be of Polish descent. 16th century Valescian beard and stache combo was popular in western Europe. In the Napolenic era, the elite and wild cavalry, the hussars, wore large moustaches inspired by Hungarians. The moustache symbolised a mix of wild untamed with a suave ciilized look. Also, in ww1 more than hygiene (I mean louse were always a thing so that didn't change with the trenches) it was gas. You couldn't get a tight seal with a mask if you had a beard, for this reason soldiers had to shave. French were even known as Poilu, the bearded ones because they wore massive beards. The trend in 90s/2000s was metro sexuality. The trend of men taking care of their hygiene and body hair was seen as gender transgressive. Oh, and you pronounce Europe and Europeanize wrong. I don't think you can fix these mistakes by now, but I hope you'll do a more thorough research next time. Effort pays off. Good luck!

[@De_Futura]

Sarmatians were an Indo-Iranic people and they predate Slavs in recorded history. Moustaches were common in the Gaulish cultures that existed before the Roman conquest. From what I can tell this is the earliest time when moustaches were widespread in a particular culture.

[@nilsmadej9091]

@De_Futura you are correct. However, there is a popular academic theory that scythians and sarmatians are ancestors of celts and slavs, respectively. Furthermore, even if that isn't the case, the Polish nobility of the 16th century believed themselves to be descendants of sarmatians, hence me referring to them as such. As for Gauls... they might be, but I would suspect that there may be cases of widespread moustaches prior, however not that I know of.

[@louimmature]

are you gay ar something whay the heck

[@matt_itm3954]

I’m bringing back the mustache, in fact, mustaches are back.

[@Papopip]

How tf this isn't a massive channel genuinely shocks me

[@maxmccann5323]

The fact that it wasn't "literally hitler" is pretty freaking hilarious

[@rutgerhauser2377]

This video is rage inducing, not because I disagree but because I had to see so many of these moustaches.

[@Highrollinhunter]

The Mexican mustache is still manly af because El Mencho is a beast and has a badass Mexican mustache

[@cXms-k8y]

Mustache were always bad It was older people were manly enough to pull them off

[@redlight3932]

Without the confidence a mustache is a dead animal on your upper lip

[@charjl96]

"Like most trends that get ruined, the answer lies in Millennials" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 So true, so true. As a GenXer, I say this is totally true.

[@VRimpressions]

How does this not have 10 million views

[@cosmopreston343]

Weak men emulating strong men always fails

[@williamkarlsson785]

For me I always felt naked without atlest a moustache. Many people have told me to get rid of it many times but it is what it is. In my opinion it is not about the moustache, it is about who is the Man wearing it.

[@lukevoges]

Im ngl. Lately, I've been rocking the stache. While it may be frowned upon by some, I certainly don't care.

[@honilock577]

Bro you did not just make this whole video to in the end rock the same stache on cam..

[@miguelpatino3856]

"Entirely corrupted mustache" this one's too good 🤣😭💀

[@dannymullins4356]

Everyone i knew associated it with gays in the 90s.

[@thedigitalodometer945]

I wonder if someone has already made that video essay. “A Gay History of the Mustache” or “A Gay History of Facial Hair” lol.

[@GalahadTheSeeker]

Brandon Sklenar's 'stache drip is on point

[@willsteiner9928]

Thats why all men should rock that Vercingetorix stache

[@thedigitalodometer945]

I just looked up Vercingetorix for the first time… God willing I will be able to grow a mustache like that one day.

[@HonneTapža]

AI SLOP

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

I would consider the title of this video the greatest shitpost to ever be given a rational presentation 🔥

[@Lj_Redd]

all these weirdos with crappy beards and ironic staches pushed me to prefer the clean shaven look

[@sidharthcs2110]

Joseph Stalin had a serious moustache

[@cerveshred]

Just like tatoos, today a bunch of nerdy girly woke people use them.

[@sherman1865-t5e]

Ah, nothing as heterosexual as complaining about other men’s facial hair for 8 consecutive minutes. 7:33 LOL this is definitely who you should be taking advice from boys

[@jacobtisland7650]

lil tracy's mustache will always be iconic to me

[@ismelladragon]

I have a mustache because it's the only facial hair I'm allowed to have in my line of work.

[@thee20thdoctor18]

Just so y’all know it’s still always been gay. Freddie mercury dude?!😂

[@Tommy-bp7gs]

Yea bro half the comment section going on about " the damn gays" while one of the most iconic mustaches of all time was from a gay dude 🥸

[@thee20thdoctor18]

@ many such cases, gay people got the most swag, naively we share with all only to be cast aside like this 😭😆

[@ebaythedj]

2:47 earl j hickey from the show my name is earl. and the masculine mustache is coming back (no not the popular weak one), slowly but it is.

[@DemetriosLevi]

I absolutely dispise the whole Peaky Blinders aesthetic, but it should be cool. I honestly think it's because we Millennials are a mix of being super low-T and the most bland pretentious personalities. Most Millennials and Zoomers are low T man-children with no identity and place. My one buddy is in his early 20s and he rocks the mustache, but I think that's because it's really a part of his culture; he's owns a concrete business and lives in the middle of buttfck nowhere. Another guy who I occasionally see at my Greek monastery has the whole Peaky Blinder aesthetic. I hated it until I talked to him and found out how chill and respectful of a guy he was. Like someone commented here "it's not just about the stache, it's even more about the head it grows out of" You nailed my sentiments on this topic. Thank you. 6:39 His personality sucks as much as his aesthetic.

[@ElrondKaresh]

I mean.. Do what you want. If you can grow a sick mustache grow a sick mustache. If you want a mullet, grow a dirt nasty mullet and do burnouts in the Walmart parking lot. You're going to rot in the dirt one day, live life and have fun.

[@julianprzybysawski8543]

It's not the moustache, but the man it's attached to!

[@bear-likes-books]

My mustache is glorious and timeless.

[@tomasspace4819]

Its not bold statement, its atempt to stand out????? Those are the same things. Only difference is your atitude towards them.