Hey you know when hot topic fucking destroys something good? (Started as an idea for an "Invader Zim" thread, but you know, feel free to run with it.)

Yeah I really dig Invader Zim (esp as some sort of mole sneaking in and dirtying up nickelodeon), but jesus by the time the eighth juggalo-pantsed douche wandered in with a Gir shirt I started to keep quiet about it.

Yeah I know this is like "old dude gets sad about the kids stealing his special precious whatever" thread #infinity, but man it kinda gets me down.

there was another invader zim thread, but it only had like 7 posts and was on ilovecomics so eh

Do the Ramones count?

does hot topic do early cuyler hats yet?

hot topic doesnt destroy good things, it takes bad things you thought were good and reveals the badness in them

I wish that Psychonauts had been better marketed to Hot Topic types, just to give that game more publicity.

I thought this would be an old thread.

Invader Zim was Hot Topic as fuck from day 1, jjjusten.

eh i think if i had posted this at the beginning of the day instead of the end of a drinky evening i might have put this more elegantly (although i do dig Invader Zim, so whatever). I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that theres a pretty weird shift going on here - Hot Topic is inherently based around (obnoxiously corporatized and somewhat fake imo) youth culture. But talking about x or y and then relating it to Hot Topic is a pretty automatically dismissive critical move - which strikes me as a little odd, especially in cases where the initial intent of the thing in question certainly wasn't related to Hot Topic merchandising.

I dont know, still kinda sorting out what im getting at here and i have to leave for work, but maybe some of you kinda get where i'm going with this?>

i remember when Chess King got in some real-looking "Michael Jackson jackets" i.e. the jacket he wore in Billie Jean. as an 11-year-old i was thrilled (but i never got to wear one ;_;)

omg

if there was a Chess King in my vicinity, I would still shop there

also I am not 100% convincied I would have liked Hot Topic when I was a teen and I was a gothy nerd

(although I might have gone through with my "bleach my hair white" plan that I never did)

dan, we had oak tree, that was our lot in life xpost

I suppose there is a a word for dudes in their later 30s who run around in blousey silk shirts and it is unlikely that that word is either "awesome" or "clued-in" but at this very moment nostalgia is trumping sense

It took me a year to figure out they weren't actually saying "Hot Topping". I was wondering how an ice cream shop could be so popular.

well for starters, it's ice cream

If there was a subculture that based its identity around eating ice cream I'd sign the hell up.

there is; they're called Cathyites

This Cathy?

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/guisewite_cathy/guisewite_cathy_1991.jpg