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Sex Hobbit posted:You're either younger than me or went to one that was wildly different from my local one. The one I shopped at in the late 90s/early 00s didn't sell anything like that. The closest it got to pop culture was Invader Zim, Tim Burton stuff and Happy Tree Friends. They 100% didn't have any anime stuff; that was the height of my DBZ/Gundam Wing phase so I would definitely remember that. Early 30s myself. I remember my old hot topic had the exact logo that the one above did, the zig-zag neon green one. We got two NWO shirts there because it was the only place that had them and we weren't ordering them from over the phone. Early 2000s they had the nintendo stuff, as that's where i got my overworn Nintendo Power jacket from. Other than that I bought a lot of Jelly Bracelets and studded leather bracelets from there because I thought I was edgy as hell in high school.
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 the official Nintendo soundtrack featuring Roy Oribson  yee-ow
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Pastry of the Year posted:
The booklet that comes with the Jellyfish box set talks about how they were the only ones who actually submitted a song about the subject matter.
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my local hot topic definitely had sailor moon merch in the late 90s, i remember finding it and thinking it was cool to find something anime related somewhere besides the "oriental gifts" store
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I can hear this GIF. Well, both of them, but especially this one.
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Doc M posted:I can hear this GIF. Well, both of them, but especially this one. 
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I don’t know if there were any Hot Topics in NEOhio malls outside of Cleveland in the late ‘90s, so I had to go to local comic book shops for the Gundam models I was rubbish at painting. Now that I don’t care, poo poo’s loving everywhere.
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Canada didn't get any hot topics until fairly recently. I have no idea where edgy kids got their clothes growing up.
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twistedmentat posted:Canada didn't get any hot topics until fairly recently. I have no idea where edgy kids got their clothes growing up. Yeah growing up I only knew of hot topic through goth whispers on the neopets message boards. Our local bong shop, of all places?? filled the niche until Canada got its first hot topic in like 2010
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I'm pretty sure my metropolitan area had a Hot Topic in the late 90's but it was located at the "distant" mall, so I never went there when I would have been a prime target. By the time that I was going on those adventures I was squarely into True MetalTM so I wouldn't have been caught dead in a Hot Topic.
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twistedmentat posted:Canada didn't get any hot topics until fairly recently. I have no idea where edgy kids got their clothes growing up. They had to craft thir own from black jeans and chains and tire studs from the hardware store.
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Played the poo poo out of KI and definitely KI2. Spinal, Glacier, Sabrewulf. Laser etched in my brain and reflexes to this day.
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My hometown had a couple alt clothes stores where all the gothlings and punks would get their clothes, that and thrift stores. The guy I knew that ran Subterranea, which was one of the two places to get weird clothes, basiclaly shut down not long after Hot Topic finally showed up.
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Dreadwroth2 posted:My hometown had a couple alt clothes stores where all the gothlings and punks would get their clothes, that and thrift stores. The guy I knew that ran Subterranea, which was one of the two places to get weird clothes, basiclaly shut down not long after Hot Topic finally showed up. A few places popped in my home town when the 90's new-hippie fad was booming. They'd sell like bootleg Grateful Dead concerts and tie-die everything and cheap 'mystical' style jewelry; black light posters etc. Turns out operating a store in a town of like 45k people that only maybe 100 of those people shopped in, most of them high school students, wasn't going to make rent so they all closed down pretty quick. They didn't sell bongs or smoking paraphernalia due to the conservative nature of the town (Midland, Michigan is basically the suburb of Dow Chemical) but if they had they probably would still be around since even republicans secretly like weed. I remember that a giant mall was finished in the early 90s there as well but by the time I graduated in 96 half the spaces weren't occupied and it was mostly the theater/food court/anchor stores. I think it's still operating but man, finishing a big mall right before Amazon.com comes online is bad timing.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:I don’t know if there were any Hot Topics in NEOhio malls outside of Cleveland in the late ‘90s, so I had to go to local comic book shops for the Gundam models I was rubbish at painting. Now that I don’t care, poo poo’s loving everywhere. I know Canton got one by 01/02 but I'm not sure when exactly it replaced Natural Wonders at
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All these years later, this video still gets to me.
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This car has big 90's energy. https://twitter.com/ao_s2k/status/1170121447684968448?s=20
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I asked one of my goth friends and he ordered a lot out of alternative press but there were clothing stores in our hometown that did sell edgy clothing. They were mostly hole in the wall places that you'd miss.
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Anyone who lived in southern california in 1992 will remember people wearing t-shirts that said, “My wife said if I go surfing one more time, she would leave me. Gosh i’ll miss her.” Also, Big Johnson t-shirts. Which were always worn by guys who looked like they had the smallest dicks. 
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ChocNitty posted:Anyone who lived in southern california in 1992 will remember people wearing t-shirts that said, “My wife said if I go surfing one more time, she would leave me. Gosh i’ll miss her.” That and Co-Ed Naked Sport/Activity shirts. Even as a kid those shirts seemed lame to me.
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ChocNitty posted:Anyone who lived in southern california in 1992 will remember people wearing t-shirts that said, “My wife said if I go surfing one more time, she would leave me. Gosh i’ll miss her.” My school preemptively banned these and the Co-Ed Naked <whatever> shirts before anyone could even show up in one.
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The_Franz posted:My school preemptively banned these and the Co-Ed Naked <whatever> shirts before anyone could even show up in one. I don't know if my rural southern school system was naive or just didn't care because they didn't ban them. Big Johnson and Coed Naked were popular 5th and 6th grade years. The edgy T-shirt trend then turned to No Fear. Or, because middle school was so cliquish, its much less regarded (but borderline acceptable) knock-off, which I think was Fear Nothing.
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The_Franz posted:My school preemptively banned these and the Co-Ed Naked <whatever> shirts before anyone could even show up in one. I don't know if mine was oblivious or what but it took them months before Big Johnson was explicitly banned. The shirts becoming less subtle somehow over time may have been an influence. Weird how a mixture of redneck and conservative can find an equilibrium between "boys will be boys" and "that's disgusting" for so long.
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Oh man No Fear shirts and wrestling was like the pre-teen male zeitgeist at the turn of the century.
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skooma512 posted:Oh man No Fear shirts and wrestling was like the pre-teen male zeitgeist at the turn of the century. My first car had a NO FEAR windscreen sticker across the top but that was around 2002 already cause I was always late on things.
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Someone who lived near to us when I was growing up had the "No Fear" logo painted on their car. They also had one of those Christian fish things on the bumper, so my mum assumed that the logo was a Christian thing. And I suppose it wouldn't have been completely illogical if it was.
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Not really too notable, but I saw a “No Fear” sticker in Karachi, Pakistan when I went there around 2008. Same font as all the others that exist. Always struck me as kinda crazy. Sitting on a grimy little motorcycle outside the place we just had lunch. How far did that sticker travel... did it come from China to the US and then back over there? Or did it come straight from China for some reason? Or maybe they were manufactured there for a while... idk
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A girl in my class came in one day wearing a South Park "kick the baby!" T-shirt. Boy did that get a response.
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Jaguars! posted:A girl in my class came in one day wearing a South Park "kick the baby!" T-shirt. Boy did that get a response. When I was in the third grade, the teachers sat down all the third and fourth grade students for a very special lecture to not watch that filthy disgusting new show South Park. Most of us hadn't heard of South Park until they told us about it...
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Len posted:I know Canton got one by 01/02 but I'm not sure when exactly it replaced Natural Wonders at ah, Natural Wonders, you sold me so many fountains I swore I would properly maintain and ended up having to throw out
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Neddy Seagoon posted:When I was in the third grade, the teachers sat down all the third and fourth grade students for a very special lecture to not watch that filthy disgusting new show South Park. Sounds like when 1994 we got cable, and my parents decided it was a good idea to explain why we weren't allowed to watch Beavis and Butthead (and MTV as a whole) by showing us an episode of Beavis and Butthead. They recorded an episode, watched it, and then sat my brother and I down to watch it again. The episode in question was Closing Time. It's the one where they're working the late shift at Burger World and the health inspector arrives. Just about every other minute my dad would pause the tape and tell us what would happen in "the real world." The only actual one I remember is when they were throwing hamburger at the ceiling fan, my dad said "do you know what just happened? They just LOST THEIR JOBS!" Needless to say I was 13 at the time and that worked like catnip, and started me actually watching Beavis and Butthead.
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Iron Crowned posted:Just about every other minute my dad would pause the tape and tell us what would happen in "the real world." The only actual one I remember is when they were throwing hamburger at the ceiling fan, my dad said "do you know what just happened? They just LOST THEIR JOBS!" ahahahahahahaha this rules
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