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I wish this was a real subculture

>>1892 (OP) 
>were
Never grew out of being this metalhead sorta thing.
>did you get some of that easy emo pussy?
Yeah, but it wasn't easy, i'm just pussy worthy. 
>>1896
Cyberpunk is a genre of fiction that became real as technology advanced, living in a dystopia+gadgets irl isn't so romantic anymore when regular schmucks and their grandma are living it too.
When a new thing starts becoming popular, it causes waves to ripple throughout society. Identity leaches are quick to feast on that meme energy. As this new thing gets assimilated in the collective consciousness, it starts losing momentum, eventually mainstream culture becomes unable to serve as a contrasting background for the new thing, so guys like OP can no longer score by exploiting it and the carcass of a dead subculture gets laid to a well earned rest.

>>1892 (OP) 
>What subculture were you a part of, Fellow Time Travelers?
I was a metalhead who listened to older metal and punk bands and dressed like a dad. I wasn't really part of any scene but would sometimes talk with other people who were into vaguely the same stuff I was. A couple times I had guys I never met before come up to me and start talking to me because they knew what I was into. But overall I didn't really fit in anywhere. The music scene was small where I lived, and even people who liked some of the bands I did tended to be into metalcore/pop punk stuff I didn't care for.
>2000s kids, did you get some of that easy emo pussy?
No, but the weird thing is that there were seemingly a decent amount of girls who were into me I was a reclusive dork with bad fashion sense. Some of them were into the mallcore stuff that I hated, but I always thought scene girls were hot in spite of their bad taste in music.

Is neet gamer a culture?

>>1904
I was going to ask the same question.

>>1904
Being a neet gamer isn't a distinctly 90s or 2000s phenomenon

>>1907
it kinda is actually

>>1908
In the 00's it was (the MMORPG player) but in the 90's i think most gamers were too young and usually did have time to work part-time jobs for teenagers.
I recall a second-cousin who was big into Playstation stuff and he still had time to be a soda bar worker serving snacks and soft drinks. It didn't last long because he was forced to get into college but i bet it was the best 2 years of his life.

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>>1909
In the 90's you already had an entire generation who grew up playing games as kids in the late 80's and were perfectly positioned to be neets, especially with the advancing internet. You didn't really have that setup prior to the 90's because pre-NES generation, though they did have vidya, treated games more akin to board games and just general entertainment.

>>1892 (OP) 
I liked emo fashion because of how hot it was both on guys and girls, but mom was too controlling to allow me to take part in it. In fact I wasn't part of any subculture at all, didn't even have friends until I was 16. Though around that time I was able to fit in a bit with the gamers. The ones who sat around at lunch playing GBA/DS games, or messing with pokemagioh cards, or yammering about CS:S. But even then, I didn't play any of the games the others were playing just because I couldn't afford them.

I feel robbed every time I think about this. Wish there was a way to make up for the fun I missed out on growing up.

>>1911
>both on guys
fuck off faggot

>>1912
I'd have to agree with him there. I found them attractive too.

>>1913
You are a faggot too.

>>1911
As long as you were pale and skinny emo scene got laid pretty easy, much more than other sub-cultures bar niggers doing their thing.
>on guys
No wonder you picked emos you homo, your mom saved you from future shame.

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Kek this reminds me, I seriously thought this dude from a German emo band was a girl. I was shocked when I discovered he is a guy.

>>1918
Always laughed at the pasta posted on the old site about him especially because i wrote it
And in that pic he's old already, in the early days he really looked like a girl, germans had a moral problem there with him being a dude because the underage thing didn't really phase them.

I was a mid-to-late 2000s teen, but instead of getting emo/scene kid pussy I mostly hung out with my fellow "too cool to be nerds, too nerdy to be cool" dorks, which featured approximately zero girls. We did have a guy who could do Jumpstyle though, so there was that. I did occasionally hang out with the emo/scene kids (I had emo-ish hair that covered half my face so I could blend right in), but I was never really "one of them" because I didn't like the music and I thought makeup and skinny jeans on guys was "teh gay".

When did the emo/scene subculture become a thing? I can think back and remember a few people who looked could protentually be considered proto-emo, but I don't think there was any mainstream "I'm a part of this subculture" behaviour.

Forgot to add, ^ was for around 2004-2005

>>1910
>treated games more akin to board games and just general entertainment.

Remote multiplayer didn't really exist at the scale later seen in the 90s. There were a few multiplayer games where you could dial into your friends modem, but mass-multiplayer was rare. The game 'Habitat' was an exception, in not being text and turn based. Every MM game would need a bank of modems, since the common interconnected network didn't really exist for the average person. Staying connected to a long-distance modem for any length of time, would be expensive in those days.

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>>1909
>In the 00's it was (the MMORPG player) but in the 90's i think most gamers were too young and usually did have time to work part-time jobs for teenagers.
I know of a few people that got hooked on MMORPGs when they first came out, and prioritized them over other, more importaint things. This was at the very end of the 90s so it's not representative of the prior 4/5ths of the decade.

EverQuest, aka EverCrack, ruined more than a few people and broadband Internet made it possible for being ever connected.

>>1925
I don't know when exactly it started, but where I live (UK) the emo thing was huge around 2005-2006, and the "scene kid" thing (which was basically all the same people -- I think they just got bored of the color black) was big around 2007-2010. They always huddled together in groups, and you'd often see hundreds of them gathered around chatting to each other outside the clothes shops that catered to that crowd.

>>1925
I first remember hearing the term "emo" around 2006 (2007 at the latest) as an insult for a Hot Topic kid my friend knew. Where I lived, the window of time seemed really short before the "emo kid" subculture transitioned into "scene kid." I even remember seeing a person or two wearing Tripp pants in the pre-scene period. My area was far from being up to date as far as trends went, but I didn't mind.

>>1929
>I don't know when exactly it started, but where I live (UK) the emo thing was huge around 2005-2006, and the "scene kid" thing (which was basically all the same people -- I think they just got bored of the color black) was big around 2007-2010.
I sort of remember emo people around that time frame, but oddly enough, the only signs of "scene kids" I saw, were online. For me, Hipsters started entering the picture around 2007.

>>1930
>I even remember seeing a person or two wearing Tripp pants in the pre-scene period.
I had to lookup what those are. I've seen them before, but did not know they were associated with anything.

>>1935
>I had to lookup what those are. I've seen them before, but did not know they were associated with anything.
They were a mainstay of mallgoth fashion during the pre-"emo" days, and there were apparently a handful of people still wearing them a bit later on.

I associated the ammo beld always with emo subculture - talking about the punk image on english wikipedia for Tripp pants

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>>1951
I always associated them with thrash and black metal. I think it might have started with Motorhead, and they were so influential to early extreme metal that it became a trend.

>>1892 (OP) 
Phat pants, lol
I remember those.

I was in the target demographic for all those emo/scene/etc etc subcultures back in their day, I didn't like them and was never part of any of them, but now I miss them...
I mean, I would hang out with people who were part of them and I guess I was always secretly fascinated with the whole thing, their imagery and whatnot. 
On a related note, I had a crush in highschool who was deep into the whole thing and styled herself that way, the dyed and straightened hair, the makeup, the black and pink clothes, the hoodies with cat ears, the slit wrists, the whole shebang. Now I see her from time to time turned into a completely normal woman and it just makes me melancholic.
Another thing is that those cultures were innocent I guess, it was all about fashion and music and feelings, while subcultures today are all about politics.

>>1955
True they are  also part of the Metal scene. But I mean the "hanging" wearing style. Just as some sort of obviously accesior

I was just the depressed fat kid who wore all black listening to mallcore like metallica and manson while thinking it was heavy metal.

>>1979
Metallica is metal and not at all mallcore, although I guess St. Anger kind of flirted with mallcore. Marilyn Manson is both.

>>1959
>Another thing is that those cultures were innocent I guess, it was all about fashion and music and feelings, while subcultures today are all about politics.

Indeed, it must suck being a kind in school right now. I don't remember politics being all that important to kids until they went off to higher education, and even then, it was still cringe to see inexperienced youth knowing how to solve the worlds problems.

>>1981
Load, Reload and half of the Black Album are the archetypical mallmetal stuff.
>>1997
lol, edgy angry teenagers being more prone to common sense than some college students was always a naive but ironic sight to see and hear at parties or hangouts.
>Hangouts 
Now that's something that i see lost even before pandemic times, it was normal to gather 5 or even 10 people (sometimes more) and roam like a gang to anywhere and just shoot the shit telling jokes or doing stuff on the spot, recently it wasn't normal to see other than the eternal 2 or 3 close friends planning to do something.

>>1999
>Load, Reload and half of the Black Album are the archetypical mallmetal stuff.
Nah, it was more radio-friendly music than their earlier stuff but not mallcore. Being commercial isn't enough to make something mallcore.

>>1896
Dress for the dystopia you're on, anon.

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this looks pretty similar to like, 14 year old me. looking back on it, not sure if i've really changes all that much kek

I was never really part of a subculture, and my friends overlapped quite a few different ones.  I moved around the Goth, Metal, Punk, and Skater crowd without issue back in the 90s.

For me it was always gamer subculture. And for a short period from mid 2000s - late 2000s/early 2010s it was also otaku subculture.

>>2246
Also at the mid - late '90s as a teen I had a soft spot for hip hop subculture.

>>2246
I considered myself a "gamer" back in the mid 2000s when outlets like G4 were starting to push it as an identity. I'm glad I moved past that, although the path I took was still embarrassing.

>>2248
I was into gaming subculture cuz I really loved video games. You called yourself a gamer only because a popular gaming site told you so and you thought it was the cool thing to identify as. We're not the same.

>>2249
>I was into gaming subculture cuz I really loved video games.
So did I.
>You called yourself a gamer only because a popular gaming site told you so and you thought it was the cool thing to identify as.
No, it was because I already loved video games in the first place and thought "gamer" was a valid identity when it started being promoted as one. Then I realized the whole thing was stupid and that all the "nerd culture" stuff was just marketing bullshit and that having interests doesn't mean you have to base your entire self-concept around them or accept whatever's being pushed on your supposed identity group without question.

>>2250
I see. I kinda used to be like that but for anime. Which is why I stopped calling myself an otaku, I stopped going to anime parties (last time I did the mistake to go to one I cringed so hard I wanted to kill everywhere there) etc.

I kind of belonged to the "emo" subculture, but where I'm from, it really didn't propagate that much into a full-blown subculture. It was mostly listening to the same emo bands, eggy kids cutting wrists, but not cutting deep enough to bleed, just enough to scar, but not the fashion part of it. At least I didn't. Only did half the hairstyle, with the bangs and all. Transitioned to punk and metal before emo went cool. Then I became the angsty kid who liked to sulk and wish death to everyone. I watched gore just for the hell of it... but deep inside, I still had that emo side in me, lol. I listened to emo music and be sad and sappy and shit when alone, it felt like a guilty pleasure. To sum, I guess I was the hippy, who disliked having other people in my immediate vicinity like what I wanted.

>>2253
I get what you mean. I couldn't stand weebs back in the 2000s and was never really a fan of anime. I remember watching some of the usual stuff targeted toward kids like Pokemon, Digimon, Card Captors, Zoids, and Hamtaro but gradually grew to despise anime before I was finished with elementary school or before I knew how annoying weebs were. It wasn't until I was an adult that I started giving it a chance, and now I can at least appreciate '80s Miyazaki flicks or movies like Vampire Hunter D.

>>1979
>mallcore like metallica
Dude Metallica is metal. Stuff after And Justice For All was just radio rock.

>>2253
>anime parties
Anime parties were a thing?

>>2365
nta but they absolutely were 

>>1892 (OP) 
i was never part of a subculture in terms of how i dressed (best described as Visibly Mentally Ill), but i did hang around goths, punks, metalheads, and 90s stoner types. i knew a few but didn't interact much with emo or scene kids. if anything what i hate most about "modern" subcultures is that they're virtually indistinguishable instagram recolors of one another rather than styles that developed separately and the high emphasis on buying from certain brands above DIY or thrift. 

>>1959
i think you must believe older subcultures lacked politics because you weren't in them. it's true that irl subcultures have a much lower focus on ideological purity than online cultures and are less blatantly political (since people know each other more personally and are generally trying to get along/be able to organize) but politics frequently play a role and are undeniably a part of lots of subcultures.

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Hai! I'm RHad and I'm an Emo kid outta nowhere :P

>>4077
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Emo/scene thread?
RAWR!!! x3

Somethings really should stay buried, even with nostalgia. I'd like to prefer the emo thing was ever a thing-even if I did partake in mid school-high.

>>4084
*Pretend. Stupid phone keyboard.

>>4085
>phoneposting

>>4088
not much else to do on the can

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>>4077
hi thar rHAd mai name is //\\TerboDworf//\\ and i am a dworf irl, tha tmens 'in real life" , normally i doun liek teh emoz but u seem cool do u wanan be frenz?/ :O
i like 2 b a snekky dowrf who stayz in teh dark  , so maybe im a little emo maiself :PPP

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On the topic of old funposting, I was troubleshooting some Windows issues several years ago and I found pic 2 on a Windows tech forum. Truth is stranger than fiction, it seems.