From KingTutankhamen (the ancient Egyptian pharaoh) to old mate behind the counter at the servo, ears have been stretched to their limits for thousands of years.
It seems like it is becoming more common to see someone strutting beginner gauges in the Queen Street Mall, the cafe by the Tan, or the double decker trains on the Richmond line. So what has made ear stretching appealing to people in the past few years?
The 90s had Joel Sheffroth (Linkin Park) show us what a blowout looked like and the bloody way he got it scalped. The 2000’s gave us a host of music legends with sorta lengthy lobes (Incubus, Lil Wayne, Adam Lambert). But were any of these dudes that influential? Could they cause ear stretching to be so common that in 2022 a call centre employee will have larger holes than her mum? I think not.
So what was it that makes them seem so ‘everyday’? And how does it contribute to your identity to have lobes on the larger side?
Well lets cut the crap. We are at SAUCE because we are extraordinary large. We aren't talking about the starter kit kids here. We are the gems of society who stuck out the stinky ear stench and pushed through to make it big in ear town. We are the 1%. The ones who came before us were the mad cunts of the Maasai of Kneya and Mursi of Ethiopia, the Hill Tribes of Asia and Aztec and Mayans. We looked to the ancient, the wild ones and we saw something worth committing for.
So these 'starter kit kids' can keep on their Adam Lambert look, it's nothing to do with us. We are in a hole other pond altogether. We are the ones who knew the look was more than a black t-shirt, a 6 mm gauge and some black eyeliner.
And even though, unlike the Maasai and the Hill Tribes, we are disjointed, disassociated and disconnected, we are united by our look. Our lofty lobes are the tunnels that connect us. They are the thing that brings us all together here at SAUCE, and in the ether.
We are our own (disconnected and disjointed and probably dysfunctional) tribe.
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