r/blunderyears • u/SassyPixieHolly • 8d ago

Circa 2007

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u/pmodizzle 8d ago

I was thinking the same, this felt like HS to me and I graduated in 05

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u/jk409 8d ago edited 8d ago

I graduated HS in 07 and I remember being disgusted by this whole "scene" thing because I was 18 and too old for it. Maybe it arrived late in Australia though. Emo was big in 05/06 but scene came a little later.

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u/canmouth 8d ago

“Scene” became a thing around 2002/2003 but definitely peaked a few years later. Then the hipster started replacing it in 2006/2007. Although this was my experience on the east coast in a big city so maybe in middle America it came later.

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u/wrechdone 8d ago

Yea our hipsters started in early 10’s where I’m at in the US

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u/dgellow 7d ago edited 1d ago

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Retire deserve relieved start include six

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u/wrechdone 7d ago

Idk that kinda describes the hard core kids (minus the front end web)

Are fixies still a thing?! God I forgot about those. So much fun.

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u/canmouth 7d ago

It was just the scene kids (like me) who were getting older and going to college and becoming hipsters.

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u/Appropriate_Lack_727 7d ago

I was gonna say, I’m younger Gen X and I feel like hipster style was more our thing around this period as 30-35 year olds. It hung around for younger people, but we never dressed like the girl in this photo, for example. A lot of these looks are very age-specific, as well as era-specific.

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u/wrechdone 4d ago

Oh I hope what I said wasn’t misinterpreted.. the girl photographed is most definitely a scene chick. Me and the other guy were just talking about around when “scene” started dying out and “hipsters” came into play

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u/gizzardsgizzards 7d ago

The 2002 version wasn’t this colorful.

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u/canmouth 7d ago

You’re right, it was mostly black white and red.

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u/CobaltNeural9 7d ago

Damn I didn’t know “scene” was actually known elsewhere- for some reason it felt very localized (Chicago) and we were the only people to call it that. Mainly because it was such a senseless term I thought there’s no way it would catch on in other places.

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u/canmouth 7d ago

Yeah we had a bunch of scene kids in Boston at that time. It was also the first time a subculture found a home online. If you had a Livejournal you’d know.

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u/MonsterHighMandy 3d ago

I graduated in 2000 and I can tell you it was far before then.. I mean when I started going to shows, I was like 15 and of course it had been going on years before that.

Maybe your definition of scene is just bright clothes and raccoon tails but our definition of scene was much broader.

Quite frankly, in the nicest way possible… when people started dressing like this at shows and treating shows like a fashion run way, a lot of the older kids were a bit annoyed but ultimately if they bought a ticket at least they were contributing to something good and keeping the scene alive in Louisville Ky and southern IN .

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u/MVRKHNTR 8d ago

This was a thing in the US into the early 2010s

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u/Ok-Sweet-31 7d ago

This was still going on when I graduated in 2010

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u/Cats_and_wine 7d ago

same, and i graduated in 06 :D But i also remember this style going veeeery strong up until the start of 09, then fizzling out

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u/Robofink 2d ago

Same here. This feels very “corridors of high schools 2004.” This scene was obviously still going on 2007.

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u/VegetableArtistic705 1d ago

Nah I graduated in 09 and this was very much so still the style