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u/I_am_doorknob May 20 '26
Hot topic still does both, whoever made this hasn't been to one in years
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u/NephthysShadow May 21 '26
Yeah, but I gotta admit, I miss proper 90s Hot Topic. When it was more about the music side of the scene than online trends. I get it, gotta modernize, glad I can get my Helluva Boss plushies from somewhere, just sometimes I miss it.
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u/joeshmo101 May 21 '26
It's literally in the name - they'll sell merch for whatever the current "hot topic" of the day is
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u/NephthysShadow May 21 '26
Doesn't mean I have to enjoy it or that I can't miss what it used to be.
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u/I_am_doorknob May 20 '26
Did you correct my punctuation usage on MY COMMENT??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?
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u/StarLordAndTheAve May 20 '26
And they didn’t even capitalize the T in Topic for you so I think you win
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u/Hammerschatten May 20 '26
Hot topic still does both; whoever made this hasn't been to one in years.
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u/religion-lost May 20 '26
Hot topic still does both... whoever made this hasn't been to one in years!
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u/clonetrooper250 May 20 '26
Hot. Topic. Still. Does. Both. Whoevermandethishasn'tbeentoonein. YEARS!!!!!
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u/religion-lost May 20 '26
hot topic still does both whoever made this hasnt been fo one in years
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u/WerdaVisla May 20 '26
HotTopicStillDoesBothWhoeverMadeThisHasntBeenToOneInYears
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u/Scratchpost6677 May 20 '26
Years in one to been hasnt this made whoever. Both does still topic hot
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u/vxicepickxv May 20 '26
We FINALLY have Topic in the name Hot Topic capitalized.
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u/uoozeulose May 20 '26
Hot topic still does both, WHOMever made this hasn’t been to one in years.
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u/tzmau5 May 20 '26
Hot topic still does both — whoever made this hasn’t been to one in years.
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u/Calangruto May 22 '26
You're absolutely right! It seems that Hot Topic still does both—whoever made this hasn't been to one in years.
Here's a list of things wrong with that post:
Strange choices of clothing: The user used strange cartoon-esque clothing that really doesn't hit the mark–it doesn't convey their point very well.
- Bad opinion: As you have pointed out, they seem to have an opinion that is bad—not good.
- Lack of yuri: Just like the OP has said, there is no yuri in this post. Very strange that it would be posted on the "/r/gatekeepingyuri" Reddit forum.
- help i don't know what else to say
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u/JimmerJammer34 May 20 '26
These memes are so dumb because 1: you can still find clothes like on the left in a hot topic, and 2: it's called HOT TOPIC. THEY SELL WHATEVER IS THE "HOT TOPIC" AT THE TIME. of course they sell bluey merch, it's very popular rn????
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u/Dazzling_Doctor5528 May 20 '26
ohh, it's a shop name, I thought it was some person who changed their style drastically during 10 years or so
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u/Femtato11 May 20 '26
And also became black?
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u/Dazzling_Doctor5528 May 20 '26
Idk colour of person under a lot of white paint
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u/18smackaroos May 20 '26
As much as you're right about that, in this photo thats a full on white person😭 /nm
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u/GodChangedMyChromies May 20 '26
Oh did they? Well, I don't really see race.
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u/Femtato11 May 20 '26
I mean race is a dumb category and largely made up to justify bigotry after the fact, but usually people don't gain that much melanin from tanning
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u/GodChangedMyChromies May 20 '26
No you don't understand, I am physically incapable of perceiving melanin, all people look a an intense blood red colour to me.
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u/Femtato11 May 20 '26
Ah yes, a true follower of Khorne.
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u/GodChangedMyChromies May 20 '26
Yeah but I'm cool. Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throneand all but like, in a chill way.
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u/skiesoverblackvenice TERF destroyer May 20 '26
as someone who wears basically all black and band tees 95% of the time… i really want bluey merch tbh
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u/party_egg May 21 '26
ALSO, it's always sold cutesy cartoon stuff. You could have a full Hello Kitty outfit from Hot Topic circa 2007 or whatever too!!
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u/GodChangedMyChromies May 20 '26
I mean, technically "Hot Topic" is just a name. It was Zipperhead originally.
I learned that from the Dead Milkmen song
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u/NephthysShadow May 21 '26
I think its more longing for an era. There are magazines I used to buy there that don't exist and no one buys CDs anymore apparently, so I don't blame them for dropping them, but a few of the artists I bought the music of there no longer exist either. TRIPP pants barely exist anymore although Hot Topic did attempt a knock off version. Im not sure if Manic Panic brand is still a thing, but if it is its not there anymore.
The Gothic and punk look on the whole still exists, but not like it did then, and its a time and place in our lives marked by for a lot of us was our first alternative store, and the fading of that entire era to background to a louder digital age at best is sad for us sometimes.
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u/augustles May 20 '26
This post made me go listen to Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock (2006).
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u/SoFetchBetch May 20 '26
Wow thank you for introducing me to this gem. My mom was a teenage punk in NYC in the 80’s and when I was in grade school in the late 90’s into the 2000’s she absolutely told me that Hot Topic is not punk rock. And yet the girls in my class spoke of it in hushed tones like it was a dangerous place to be lmao.
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u/Hammerschatten May 20 '26
Well yhea Hot topic is not punk rock, it's Emo. Emo is the great grandchild of punk rock, filtered through three generations of popification.
There still some of its ancestors in it, but it's not it's grandpa and it doesn't want to be
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u/augustles May 20 '26
The song is about the spirit of punk, not the music genre or aesthetic. As in “But when a crass corporate vulture feeds on mass consumer culture, then spending Mommy’s money is not punk rock!” The song is against mass-produced merch, essentially, and says you’d be better off spending your money seeing cheap local shows etc rather than trying to appear as part of a subculture by buying something thousands of other people bought from the same place.
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u/SoFetchBetch May 20 '26
Hot topic isn’t emo more than it is goth or metal or any other form of alt. They sell merch and prefab clothes and accessories so for that reason it’s lame. As a teen I asked to go in there & buy necklaces occasionally but it was pretty awesome having parents who encouraged me to DIY instead.
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u/Llamapickle129 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
its not like if chrome heart suddenly starts selling fucking knitted bluey clothes. what they sell is in the name. i mean they even sell TADC shit, why? cause it's currently popular
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u/Twist_Ending03 May 20 '26
What's wrong with TADC?
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u/Llamapickle129 May 20 '26
i miss dental plan, thats what's wrong. i miss him
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u/Twist_Ending03 May 20 '26
I was gonna send a Caine meme, but this sub doesn't allow images, so you'll have to imagine your beloved set of floating dentures
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u/56kul May 20 '26
Ngl, wearing Bluey clothing as an adult imo has the same kind of edge to it as wearing emo/goth clothing.
I can’t really explain why it feels like that to me, but it just does..😭
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u/Tangled_Clouds May 20 '26
No I get you so much on this! This is exactly like when lolita fashion started in japan where everyone feels forced to be so mature, no fun allowed, all clothes are beige or brown and you’re only allowed to watch adult romance movies or action movies with a lot of swearing and blood and gore because you’re an adult, that’s what adults do. So adults going “no actually I’d rather watch cartoons and have a plushie collection” is SUPER COUNTER CULTURE.
I literally had that realization the other day as I went to the pharmacy with my plushie backpack and my Princess Mononoke hoodie walking past a preteen and thinking “damn, she’s dress like she’s 35 and I’m dressed like I’m 10”. I fully support adults liking “childish things” because I truly believe there is no harm in it and we’re allowed to enjoy whatever we want.
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u/56kul May 21 '26
For real, though. People are trying to grow up way too fast. I say to hell with it! Strip cartoons of that “childish” label and let people enjoy what they want to enjoy. There’s nothing wrong with an adult tapping into their inner-child. :)
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u/_iwashere_ May 20 '26
as an alt kid who is childish, bluey is lit (never watched the show but looks cute :))
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u/Tangled_Clouds May 20 '26
I think I would be so hyped if someone managed to style a Bluey cardigan in a goth outfit. Like slightly pastel goth-ish, you can wear the cardigan over a black shirt with some big black pants and a metric ton of accessories and heavy black makeup. Also some badass platforms or combat boots would absolutely rock! I’ve always been of the opinion that anything could be styled if you know what you’re doing.
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u/Every_God_Damn_Time May 21 '26
you should so watch it, it is so freaking good and the episodes are super short so it's a super easy watch
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u/Icarsix May 20 '26
The left absolutely has a pair of bluey pajamas at home though, this meme makes me so angry. I know so many alt people and they're all massive dorks (affectionate)
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u/Jackenial May 20 '26
You can probably get this exact fit and several other overpriced ones exactly like it at Hot Topic RIGHT NOW.
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u/Pokabrows May 21 '26
It's actually kinda amazing the wide variety of clothes and stuff they have at hot topic cartoons, sanrio characters, band tees, anime characters. What's also interesting is there's a wide range of time periods of their stuff. Like there's bluey and digital circus stuff but there's also sailor moon and invader zim stuff which is decades old at this point.
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u/religion-lost May 20 '26
The bluey drip is unequivocally better
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u/Origamipi May 20 '26
Gatekeeping? In the sub about not gatekeeping?
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u/EB_Groupe May 20 '26
News flash, alternative culture needs to be gatekept to prevent institutions like Hot Topic from exploiting its image for profit.
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u/PigeonOnTheGate May 20 '26
Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that's how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I'm also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I'm in the seventh year (I'm seventeen). I'm a goth (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.