Ryan Estrada

I've never really considered myself a style icon.

In fact, back when I was a kid, there were some very basic, uncreative bullies who told me that if I were to look in the dictionary under unfashionable, I'd see myself.

They were the ones with the basic jokes.

I just had the basic clothes.

But I do have an excuse for why I look like this.

I'm a cartoonist.

I spend most of my time sitting alone in a room staring at a desk.

So I just wear like, this is the clothes that I have.

And when I go out of the house, I still look like this.

Which made it really, I had this really weird day back in 2016.

It was the day before my 36th, or my, how old was I?

I don't know, I was getting old.

And so, I log into my computer and I see all of these alerts coming.

I'm like, oh that's nice, my friends are wishing me a happy birthday.

They were not.

Instead, it was a lot of people talking about my fashion.

So I'm like, great, I'm already feeling old and uncool, and now you're going to make fun of my clothes?

But these were not my friends.

These were complete strangers talking about the fashion trend that I invented and apparently did not know existed.

I'm trying to figure out what's going on.