might be a blistering hot take, but it has to be said

kandi, no matter how much a scene kid is wearing, is still scene. scene kids even back when the subculture peaked were wearing kandi and if you refuse to accept that, you're a bigger poser in my book.

another one as well, alternative fashion is about dressing however the fuck you want to. there are no rules to being alternative outside of politics. as long as you're a leftist, have a political ideology and look kinda funky to what society would expect, you're alternative.

there's literally an alternative community because we wouldn't be able to fit in by being ourselves back then, so why are we telling each other how to look and act? it's just expectations in a different font, that's all it is really