we could all just rawr in peace

come on now! a rant by a 2010s scene kid

these days everyone is so frustrated with the "tietokification of xyz subculture" as if we aren't literally amidst a new generation of teens that grew up from a YOUNG age--much younger than we were online-- that weren't there for the early internet, but have access to the proof we left behind online of the cultures we were a part of in our youth-- IM STILL A YOUTH IDK HOW ANYONE LET IT GET LIKE THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE HOWEVER-- I was there for the early 2000s as a child, and I've been online for a majority of social media history (def not all of it) as I was born in 2001 and wasn't online actively til closer to 2009. 

Subcultures online evolved styles and one day some young adults like myself and some teenagers decided we all missed the styles that we grew up with. Soon enough, we had new kids in high school trying to emulate the style because its whats in fashion to them because of us now and they only have our revivals and a whole bunch on early internet inspiration, no authentic experiences from what we were trying to recreate-- just the recreation and the countless digital uploads of the captured light, editing styles, clothing and hair styles that we were captured on camera and uploaded theres kids that love to reminisce on a time they didn't experience and we all know that the camera doesn't capture the whole essence of the time. It's like a game of telephone bc these kids are learning these styles and this music via a game of DIGITAL TELEPHONE!! the images captured only go as far as the technology went. theres no video footage of my perspective as a child seeing teenagers that looked sooo freakin cool and acted cool and knew they were cooler than i was lmao. at least i got to be there. at least i got to be friends with some really cool scene teenagers before my generation grew up and became an emulation of the coolness they gate kept from us. I always thought I could grow up into their coolness but Im 24 now and still wonder when that will happen. Sigh.. 

I do appreciate that i feel the freedom to explore my favorite style that i've loved all my life-- LONG before I had a label for it-- I thought I was punk and while I do have punk political views, I don't know many--any? real PUNK music at all. I love Emo and Pop Punk music so eventually i realized I'm scene which makes sense because i was heavily inspired by youtube scene queens and emos on social media in general as a kid, i explored my sexuality and gender because of shift in scene culture into queer culture that i experienced maybe just because i realized i was queer but I ended up in the queer scene side of the internet pretty much as soon as i realized i wasn't straight and thats when i took on the label of "alternative" because i didn't think i was scene and alternative didn't have any gate-kept definition so it was a safe middle ground to exist in as a trans masc genderfluid teenager who has always liked to play with my style, hair color and self expression. Point being-- at 24 years old its been fun being scene in my 20s and having the hair and making clothes that i never could get in the 2000s or that  I had but grew out of (like literally because I had a growth spurt in like 2013) and yeahhhh I get to be as cool as I want to be and I'm a huge fan of self expression, evolution of style and kids taking inspiration from a rawwwwrsome time in fashion and music IMO-- my fav neighbor and a cousin of mine that I thought was soo pretty were scene and I wanted to be cool likee them and so idk i GET ITT<3 gn

I WROTE THIS HALF ASLEEP BUT I WANT TO START TALKING ON HERE ABT MY OPINIONS BC I THINK A LOT HAHA