honestly i wouldn't care if they had a small section for funko, kpop, or fandom stuff if they still kept their original aesthetic and continued to cater to the emo/gothic style
as an 18 year old, it’s sad to see. i was always way to shy to wear what i wanted. i never wanted people coming up to me asking me about band tees or anything so i never wore them. now that i’m coming out of my shell a little bit everything i wanted to be is just gone.
i definitely saw the biggest change in hot topic around 2011 when they clearanced All of their cds and started sizing down the T-shirt section bit by bit 😔 miss the Invader zim hoodies
right! it was still in tact that year for my local hot topic. I didn't return until around 2017/2018 and i was surprised to see that the band tee section was just all the way at the back and so limited compared to the rest. sad day indeed. there wasn't even any screams going on in the music that was playing. that was the biggest sign to me ):
Hot topic won’t go back to “the old hot topic” because punk, goth, scene, and emo fashion isn’t as popular as it was back then. They change based on what’s popular or trending. So their stores will change once the kpop nerd thing dies down lol who knows what’s next. Future former Kpop kids 10-15 years later from now will be making videos about how they miss their “old hot topic” 😂😭
@@zimmylolz7702yes. What I mean is that the reason why Hot Topic isn’t the same as it was like 15 years ago is because they’re evolving with the trends for MONEY. I understand people’s points, but they’re acting like as if Hot Topic became a clone of Aeropostale or Hollister, when in reality it just became more of a pop culture store that still has its punk/emo roots. But if they want a store that caters to specifically scene and emo kids, they can make their own store. Like start off of an Etsy site and then go from there. It’s kinda like how goths have all of their own stores.
Hot topic at rivertown mall michigan, is still pretty alternative, it still has some pop culture stuff, but they realized how many emos/scene kids/goths/punk etc. Still shop there so they brought all the stuff back!
me seeing michigan and wondering how close it is bc that's my state to find out it's 8 hours away- if i ever am in the grand rapids area though,, will definitely check it out
I dont mind the anime stuff it's always been there but the kpop,disney anything non dark related gotta go. They're pretty much catering to the e kids and the "other" audience. The same people who called goths and emos a freak back in the day. Yeah them. And for God's sake they were playing wap on the speaker inside the store cringe. I can't find anything emo related anymore.
I have no problem with them branching out into things that aren't “alternative”, but the fact that they *removed* most of their “alternative” stuff is the thing that bugs me.
HT follows the hottest trends of the years. That's why goth, scene, and punk is no more, or well, not as prominent as it was. I just recently stepped foot in a HT and I did see punk/goth-inspired clothing but not much. I believe scene, goth, and punk will come back to HT. I remember the early 2000's when Tripp pants and trench coats adorned the walls. Displays of SLG comics and books by Voltaire, and Joseph Vargo. I would pick up change I would find around town and used it to fund my comic collections (most cost $2.95@HT). One day I walked in and NONE of that awesome stuff existed anymore. It makes sense trends change, and stores have to keep up with it. I miss the 2000's goth :( with my art I still try my best to keep it going. Goth, scene, and punk is not dead it's more underground nowadays.
I only "discovered" Hot Topic in 2019-2020 at around 27 years of age I don't live in the USA and I couldn't possibly have access to it when I was 16 since Shopping online in my country wasn't as cheap and as accessible as it is today So right now I'm reliving my teenage years! I can buy all the band shirts and fandom merch that I want from Hot Topic right to my door in Israel What a wonderful time to be alive! Shame I'm not a teenager anymore, eh? 😂
I'm 18, and i remember getting scared at hot topic back when they had living dead dolls at the back, my sisters would always tease me to get inside and i would hide behind my moms back at 7 or 6 😂, nowadays i still vist hot topic, i just miss the spooky vibes it gave me when i walked in during the 2000s (like 0:27). It just feels a bit...bland now imo
I remember going to universal city walk in Hollywood and back then the hot topic had gargoyles on top with real fire coming from behind them with the old logo and everything then around 2011 I went for universal horror nights and then saw the change and was completely saddened.. and even my dad who worked at Barneys New York met I believe someone who was up there in hot topic and asked her what happened to all the band shirts and change and she said to keep up with the latest trends and market.... but now I noticed they started bringing back the older variety of band shirts like they used to probably since vintage style band shirts are the trend.
honestly i like kpop so i had no problem with kpop stuff being there but it’s the way they changed everything and it’s not like how it used to be last time i went they played lil pump d rose... i understand they’re catering to new audiences but they should cater to ALL their audience
lol as someone who would go to HT back when 3 cheers came out and malls were these cheerful and gross places that many would attend and went to senior night at Anaheim Disney in 2012 and as a lame scenecore kid even to this day probably always will be this made me lol
I think it's called hot topic cause they stay with the "hot topics". At the time scene goth emo etc stuff was popular. Now catgirls, anime, and pop culture is "hot"... I absolutely hate it...
Exactly like who are the rich kids able to afford these? None of the kids I knew in middle-highschool back when could have paid for apparel or merch at this pricepoint. Is it because all these youngins nowadays make bank from influencing/social media, or?
I never shopped at hottopic, but there was a similar store in my country, and something similar happened to it. It started selling pop culture instead.
"I am the one cashing in on nerd crap! Harley Quinn leggings! Buy them stat! I am the one selling Deadpool hoodies! Anime shirts and Doctor Who goodies!"
as a younger ish "said teen" I wish it was like how it was before I got to love it, hot topic is the only store I actually can roam free and just kinda exist in (with spacial awareness of course), and you can obviously tell not only by the way I dress but by the way I interact with others (not my other hot topic worshipping sub culture blurry lined between goth, punk. Weeb, and 80s kid dressing best freinds) bit the other students around me, like once I was askig my slightly strange freind "trinity" (yes this is her name but it's basic enough to not tell anything about her) about how would a fuby technically be a preditor considering there forward facing eyes and I eventually got to the topic of general furby mods such as long furbys and I found and amazingly dome nodded furb with a large mouth split right through he middle with excellently replaced green fur and Long gremlin legs (I'm talkin right out of the movie gremlins like those legs) and the girl next to me whose somehow acquainted with trinity (her name is very ambiguous being simply "paradise which ...while strange is very inconspicuous) and she goes ( in a "somewhat joking but now really" tine) your weird, qhy do I sit next to you, now to this day we still sit in general proximity at lunch and I still sit next to her in class but the question gave me a bit of a different...um..feeling about her I guess,Ike thers are other in my school that I knwo are like me that I am kinda like...eering to want to be Freinds with (I love my freinds and would never want to replace them in anyway as they helped me so much emotionally and mentally) but can't quite seem to grasp like thwrs this .girl...(very common and ambiguous name so I'll just say...uh...J here I guess) "J" who shares many interests with me and I did often talk to her in art (untill seats got mives today *of course* ..justasiwastrynamakeamove) and like, yeah I have terrible trouble finding thoese obscure hot topic kids ...just liek me....gosh that's gone on for too long, sorry I k wo no one will read this far but still nice to just type out into the abyss lile this there was still gonna be alot more but I'll quit for now
So I'm not scene I guess I'm that new type alt, but I mostly wear scene kid and emo kid trends (kandi, black skinny jeans, fingerless gloves) and I own and black and white and pink and black gloves you mentioned! I got the traditional black and white from in-store, though I've never seen them in there again, and the pink and black gloves from amazon. Not to mention a black skirt and pink spiked choker from ht, but I but all my clothes online, or somebody buys them for me (I don't pay them, they get it on their own, ) S o ye
I do miss the mid-2000's HT but I do like my new Attack On Titan t-shirt. They had to change with the times and the new generations to keep up the profit, can't blame them.
I think I know what you're talking about (the hoodie's where there's a hole for your thumb) I used to have one but I couldn't find it. I haven't wear one in 3 years.
as if part of the emo subculture wasnt taken from japanese kawaii aesthetics why gt mad on k pop or generelly people enjoying things. But another important part of emo culture is feeling uniquely misunderstood so thats fine I gues And don't come at me I can say that bc I was part of it These guys probably just miss the old times
Dude... I’m a upcoming emo/scene kid (I know... sad) but I’ve always gone to Hot Topic because it was like the most emo store I know. And I’ve ALWAYS seen the emo sh¡t on there. Idk there was that weird un-emo stuff there!?!? Well... I still enjoy Hot Topic
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honestly i wouldn't care if they had a small section for funko, kpop, or fandom stuff if they still kept their original aesthetic and continued to cater to the emo/gothic style
this!!
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Same
same
They don’t even have those checkered studded belts anymore :(
I got one from there(or the vans store) probably in 2016 >< sadly it got too small so it sucks that they aren’t sold there anymore ;;
There should be some at ur local spencers! Thats where i got mine from
I get mine of ebay or amazon I'm from England so we don't even have hot topic here
my sister gave me one from there she saved and i can’t wear it cause to big
I bought one from there in like 2018
As a 14-y.o., I really want emo-gothic-scene-punk culture to return so bad.
as a 13-y.o, I agree
17 year old goth here, we definitely need to go back. There's barely any alt clubs or specialty stores anymore, it's saddening
I'm actually a metalhead but I'd love to see the other subcultures (emo, goth, punk, scene) come back as much as I want metal to come back
Same, people think it doesn't exist or something our, when we're in our 30s we'll probably see a small change at hot topic
as an 18 year old, it’s sad to see. i was always way to shy to wear what i wanted. i never wanted people coming up to me asking me about band tees or anything so i never wore them. now that i’m coming out of my shell a little bit everything i wanted to be is just gone.
i definitely saw the biggest change in hot topic around 2011 when they clearanced All of their cds and started sizing down the T-shirt section bit by bit 😔 miss the Invader zim hoodies
right! it was still in tact that year for my local hot topic. I didn't return until around 2017/2018 and i was surprised to see that the band tee section was just all the way at the back and so limited compared to the rest. sad day indeed.
there wasn't even any screams going on in the music that was playing. that was the biggest sign to me ):
same dudeee
Hot topic won’t go back to “the old hot topic” because punk, goth, scene, and emo fashion isn’t as popular as it was back then. They change based on what’s popular or trending. So their stores will change once the kpop nerd thing dies down lol who knows what’s next. Future former Kpop kids 10-15 years later from now will be making videos about how they miss their “old hot topic” 😂😭
Yeah, capitalism ruins everything.
LMFAO fr
Y’all get mad when people make fun of Emos but do it to people who like kpop. Talk about hypocrisy.
@@iLikeCok why tf would I care? I’m not a kpop fan. You guys have a much bigger following, stop bitching about some bullies.
@@iLikeCok sorry we offended you, want me to edit my comment to make you feel better?
People need to see that this is the perfect opportunity to make their own store that has the “old Hot Topic” aesthetic
Literally omg. Like we need a new store for the emo/scene kids.
@@zimmylolz7702yes. What I mean is that the reason why Hot Topic isn’t the same as it was like 15 years ago is because they’re evolving with the trends for MONEY. I understand people’s points, but they’re acting like as if Hot Topic became a clone of Aeropostale or Hollister, when in reality it just became more of a pop culture store that still has its punk/emo roots.
But if they want a store that caters to specifically scene and emo kids, they can make their own store. Like start off of an Etsy site and then go from there. It’s kinda like how goths have all of their own stores.
YES AMEN TO THIS
If scene kids come back bro im gonba dye my hair like back then
Do it bro
@@prayersonfire haha that would be fun
Hey guess what
DO IT
If that happens I'm doing my scene hair dye from last year
Hot topic at rivertown mall michigan, is still pretty alternative, it still has some pop culture stuff, but they realized how many emos/scene kids/goths/punk etc. Still shop there so they brought all the stuff back!
me seeing michigan and wondering how close it is bc that's my state to find out it's 8 hours away-
if i ever am in the grand rapids area though,, will definitely check it out
I dont mind the anime stuff it's always been there but the kpop,disney anything non dark related gotta go. They're pretty much catering to the e kids and the "other" audience. The same people who called goths and emos a freak back in the day. Yeah them. And for God's sake they were playing wap on the speaker inside the store cringe. I can't find anything emo related anymore.
i agree but then again it is called hot topic
What in the actual fuck?! Playing WAP?!
Nahh Aminé gotta go too
Kpop is catering to kpop stans who are fucking emo?! Like what tf. Kpop stans didn’t do shit to y’all
I like kpop tho-
you can feel the disappointment/confusion radiating through the video
That hair tho🔥
the thing that makes me quite heated is that they’re selling waffles and pancakes (wap) merchandise.
they're selling what now-
W H A T
H U H
O H
Oh ho ho, guess what I'm wasting money on today~
*Edit* I'm fine with them selling that in adult sizes, but why is there a child's shirt I-
Bring back the 2000s scene era to get old hot topic ig
The amount of shit they have on their site is appalling.
I have no problem with them branching out into things that aren't “alternative”, but the fact that they *removed* most of their “alternative” stuff is the thing that bugs me.
Hot topic was the sickest place back in the day , same w Spencer’s...earliest I can think back is like 2000 - 2003
Journey’s was epic too & the free samples at the food court didn’t have coronavirus
Totally agree, neither are what they use to be but I stop in now and then their wallets are pretty cool
yes! same here! i was a teen in 2003/2004/2005 those were the best hot topic days!
HT follows the hottest trends of the years. That's why goth, scene, and punk is no more, or well, not as prominent as it was. I just recently stepped foot in a HT and I did see punk/goth-inspired clothing but not much. I believe scene, goth, and punk will come back to HT. I remember the early 2000's when Tripp pants and trench coats adorned the walls. Displays of SLG comics and books by Voltaire, and Joseph Vargo. I would pick up change I would find around town and used it to fund my comic collections (most cost $2.95@HT). One day I walked in and NONE of that awesome stuff existed anymore. It makes sense trends change, and stores have to keep up with it. I miss the 2000's goth :( with my art I still try my best to keep it going. Goth, scene, and punk is not dead it's more underground nowadays.
I only "discovered" Hot Topic in 2019-2020 at around 27 years of age
I don't live in the USA and I couldn't possibly have access to it when I was 16 since Shopping online in my country wasn't as cheap and as accessible as it is today
So right now I'm reliving my teenage years! I can buy all the band shirts and fandom merch that I want from Hot Topic right to my door in Israel
What a wonderful time to be alive!
Shame I'm not a teenager anymore, eh? 😂
OHNO THE SCRUNCHIES
7:57 I actually thought about buying that shirt when i was in middle school 😶
I’m getting a Mountain Dew shirt??
Target used to sell them.
i miss the old hot topic :( it'd be cool if a store similar to old hot topic came out, mall goth fashion is kinda coming back.
TALK MY GIRL TALK!!
I'm 18, and i remember getting scared at hot topic back when they had living dead dolls at the back, my sisters would always tease me to get inside and i would hide behind my moms back at 7 or 6 😂, nowadays i still vist hot topic, i just miss the spooky vibes it gave me when i walked in during the 2000s (like 0:27). It just feels a bit...bland now imo
i wish hot topic was still like how it used to be. i was born in 2005 so i didn't get to experience the awesomeness of old hot topic
Yeah I feel you same as you
Band tees section is more normal
I've never been to hot topic and I just realized I never will
Me: Sees the word 'scene kid' in 2021
Me: INTERESTING!
I remember going to universal city walk in Hollywood and back then the hot topic had gargoyles on top with real fire coming from behind them with the old logo and everything then around 2011 I went for universal horror nights and then saw the change and was completely saddened.. and even my dad who worked at Barneys New York met I believe someone who was up there in hot topic and asked her what happened to all the band shirts and change and she said to keep up with the latest trends and market.... but now I noticed they started bringing back the older variety of band shirts like they used to probably since vintage style band shirts are the trend.
honestly i like kpop so i had no problem with kpop stuff being there but it’s the way they changed everything and it’s not like how it used to be last time i went they played lil pump d rose... i understand they’re catering to new audiences but they should cater to ALL their audience
I'm sorry but when I was a kid I genuinely thought this store was scary 😭
i thought it was abandoned 🐱🐉
Yeah i was always scared to go in too
Was a prep/academia kid back then and I hated HT stores. Found them tacky and depressing.
These prices are abysmal but this video is hilarious!
missing the old hot topic...
lol as someone who would go to HT back when 3 cheers came out and malls were these cheerful and gross places that many would attend and went to senior night at Anaheim Disney in 2012 and as a lame scenecore kid even to this day probably always will be this made me lol
Hot topic is now literally the hot topic. It’s fandom central, and it’s so overpriced.
Hot topic is called hot topic for a reason
I think it's called hot topic cause they stay with the "hot topics". At the time scene goth emo etc stuff was popular. Now catgirls, anime, and pop culture is "hot"...
I absolutely hate it...
It was a satire name-
As the comment above stated, it was supposed to be ironic considering that being emo and that stuff was not the "hot topic" back then
Only thing I’m upset with is the prices 😂💔.
Exactly like who are the rich kids able to afford these? None of the kids I knew in middle-highschool back when could have paid for apparel or merch at this pricepoint. Is it because all these youngins nowadays make bank from influencing/social media, or?
Ngl love the anime stuff specifically the Sailor Moon stuff at Hot Topic
**cries in gen Z**
i think im gen z and i remember going to the old hot topic
@@loriannpate1310 well your one of the lucky ones, I never experienced the old one
*rolls eyes in Gen Y*
I never shopped at hottopic, but there was a similar store in my country, and something similar happened to it. It started selling pop culture instead.
The moment 2013 hit 🤭 ummmm it looked crazy and it happened slowly that's how they got us
"I am the one cashing in on nerd crap!
Harley Quinn leggings! Buy them stat!
I am the one selling Deadpool hoodies!
Anime shirts and Doctor Who goodies!"
I mostly just thrift now and really only go there fir jewelry
I'm a kpop fan that is trying to get into alternative stuff and this comment section makes me feel unsafe :(
as a younger ish "said teen" I wish it was like how it was before I got to love it, hot topic is the only store I actually can roam free and just kinda exist in (with spacial awareness of course), and you can obviously tell not only by the way I dress but by the way I interact with others (not my other hot topic worshipping sub culture blurry lined between goth, punk. Weeb, and 80s kid dressing best freinds) bit the other students around me, like once I was askig my slightly strange freind "trinity" (yes this is her name but it's basic enough to not tell anything about her) about how would a fuby technically be a preditor considering there forward facing eyes and I eventually got to the topic of general furby mods such as long furbys and I found and amazingly dome nodded furb with a large mouth split right through he middle with excellently replaced green fur and Long gremlin legs (I'm talkin right out of the movie gremlins like those legs) and the girl next to me whose somehow acquainted with trinity (her name is very ambiguous being simply "paradise which ...while strange is very inconspicuous) and she goes ( in a "somewhat joking but now really" tine) your weird, qhy do I sit next to you, now to this day we still sit in general proximity at lunch and I still sit next to her in class but the question gave me a bit of a different...um..feeling about her I guess,Ike thers are other in my school that I knwo are like me that I am kinda like...eering to want to be Freinds with (I love my freinds and would never want to replace them in anyway as they helped me so much emotionally and mentally) but can't quite seem to grasp like thwrs this .girl...(very common and ambiguous name so I'll just say...uh...J here I guess) "J" who shares many interests with me and I did often talk to her in art (untill seats got mives today *of course* ..justasiwastrynamakeamove) and like, yeah I have terrible trouble finding thoese obscure hot topic kids ...just liek me....gosh that's gone on for too long, sorry I k wo no one will read this far but still nice to just type out into the abyss lile this there was still gonna be alot more but I'll quit for now
To everyone who thinks Hottopic competes with Box Lunch. It’s the same company.
So I'm not scene I guess I'm that new type alt, but I mostly wear scene kid and emo kid trends (kandi, black skinny jeans, fingerless gloves) and I own and black and white and pink and black gloves you mentioned! I got the traditional black and white from in-store, though I've never seen them in there again, and the pink and black gloves from amazon. Not to mention a black skirt and pink spiked choker from ht, but I but all my clothes online, or somebody buys them for me (I don't pay them, they get it on their own, ) S o ye
6:10 okayy yes pleaseee
Pikminjake has a sister? And DAYUM YOU’RE A HOTTIE!!1! (not sure if you’re in a relationship or not)
anime is whatever but like kpop? in hot topic?
c'mon now. would it really make sense?
I do miss the mid-2000's HT but I do like my new Attack On Titan t-shirt. They had to change with the times and the new generations to keep up the profit, can't blame them.
you are so fucking funny wtf
I've never been to Hottopic cause there arent any where i live, but damn. This is just sad.
i miss the old hot topic but y'know, the same company that owns aeropostale owns them, and they'll keep it that way.
song?
I had those fingerless hashbrown out gloves and they were covered in coloured squares like a disco floor.
I think I know what you're talking about (the hoodie's where there's a hole for your thumb) I used to have one but I couldn't find it. I haven't wear one in 3 years.
I love kpop and they barely even have much of that😭 a bit of bts merch but there’s more anime and Harry potter than anything
i went, and they don’t even sell sws or ptv anymore crazyyyy. those were my bands 😭
I went to the one at Orem Mall in Utah a couple months ago and got a ptv shirt
Hot topic is just pop culture it’s bad
this made me laugh so hard
Sinds hot topic sucks now I shop on large
as if part of the emo subculture wasnt taken from japanese kawaii aesthetics
why gt mad on k pop
or generelly people enjoying things.
But another important part of emo culture is feeling uniquely misunderstood so thats fine I gues
And don't come at me
I can say that bc I was part of it
These guys probably just miss the old times
LOL, it was always fashion victim central, and now, you've aged out. So it goes.
this is so disappointing bye I hate it here
unrelated but i like ur side profile
Funkos are so cringy. For fucks sakes, get a real figurine.
Hot topic.... got lame 😒😒😒
Dude... I’m a upcoming emo/scene kid (I know... sad) but I’ve always gone to Hot Topic because it was like the most emo store I know. And I’ve ALWAYS seen the emo sh¡t on there. Idk there was that weird un-emo stuff there!?!? Well... I still enjoy Hot Topic
:(
i like kpop but kpop in hot topic? um- no just no
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