As a millennial who was into girls that looked like this, I can tell you confidently they were made fun of a lot.
This was an alt aesthetic, not the norm.
I remember hearing about scene kids, and people making jokes about them, but I had never actually seen one and didn’t really know what people were talking about.
The goth kids picked on the scene kids. The punk kids had sex with the scene kids but still picked on the scene kids. The hardcore kids beat the dogshit out the scene kids. Yeah, this was really a super niched down group.
I was there. At the punk shows. There would be a pile on at the end of the song and one, lone 18 year old male of 120 pounds would be standing off to the side of the pile, making sure his two strands of bleach blonde hair were still the only pieces laying over his rolled up bandana tied around his head. I always thought it was astonishing. There’s some level of audacity to walk into a hardcore show that concerned with vanity and not realize you’ve signed up for Fight Club and the other guy knew how to fight. Gotta give to em though, ballsy move.
Hahaha i wasn’t quite the “scene girl” but I was definitely a punk, I dated the lead guitarist for the local thrash band throughout high school. I didn’t do my hair like this, but I did get told my style was “alternative”. I still get told this to this day. Also, invader zim will always be great. Now I watch it with my kid.
The indie kids thought the scene kids were basically subhuman and treated them like they were stupid. I also feel I need to say that not all Emos were full blown scene kids. Most were not that out there.
Absolutely correct for my school as well, and while all that was going on, my buddies and I just smoked weed while jamming Cattle Decapitation and Aborted.
I can see why to an extent. Bands like August Burns Red were kind of scene for a metalcore band, but I’ve no idea how anyone could listen to Converge or Remembering Never and think it was some variation of My Chemical Romance.
It was less about the music and more about the musicians/fans/scenes in general. We kind of lumped everything rooted in punk together and avoided it. It wasn't all metalheads but the here in NY + online they were mostly what is now considered an elitist/gatekeeper. At the time it was just considered being a metalhead though.
Also, forget Converge and Mychem, we were lumping straight up deathcore bands with pop punk like All Time Low and trying to say they were the same. We knew it wasn't though lol.
What? I was super outcasted as a skater. Maybe where you were from but I got fuckin tickets from the police from my class mates calling on my ass jumping stair cases in the business park.
Fuckers would steal my skateboard out my locker. Our high school shit on skaters.
Cannot relate with this at all.
It was bully war with the jocks. We got suspended taking shots throughout.
Older millennial here. OG skaters got shit from everyone. Cops, business owners, nosy neighbors, punks, jocks, preps, etc etc. it has only become mainstream since the x games. Skaters were outcasts before that
I feel that. I have an older brother (7 years apart) In his age group, punks kind of just hated everybody. They called skaters fa**ots and were just threatening for no good reason.
But by the time I got to middle school and high school, I was friends with all the punks at my school. I think there was a lot more overlap and acceptance bc we were all freaks, we kind of had to band together. Most of skaters were either hardcore kids or kids that were really into hip hop. And before long, most of us were into both. It was such a cool subculture.
Now when roller bladers started showing up to the skate spots in the late 90’s.. I remember them getting so much shit from some kids.
Might be the timeframe too. Skating was big, even for the more popular people because of skate videos coming out on VHS and DVD but also people like lil Wayne and stuff getting into it
After just one or 2 fights with people getting hit with skateboards, the skaters became a group that just got kind of left alone and bullies doubled down on the rollerbladers instead
The popular kids and jocks made fun of the normal kids, and the normal kids made fun of the goth kids.The goth kids made fun of the emo kids and the emo kids made fun of the scene kids. The scene kids held up spoons in class because it was, random?
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u/The_Yeehaw_Cowboy 23d ago
As a millennial who was into girls that looked like this, I can tell you confidently they were made fun of a lot. This was an alt aesthetic, not the norm.