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What is Scene Culture and how did it start?

Written by Erin Costner


Scene is a subculture that started in the early 2000s. In the US, scene culture was popularized by music bands and internet platforms like Myspace. People in scene culture are mostly known as scene queens and scene kids. 


A collection of items representing 'scene-core' from Aesthetics Wiki
Scene Fashion

Scene fashion is mostly skinny jeans, colorful clothing, graphic t-shirts, and the iconic “scene hair” with straight fringed hair covering one or both eyes.

 

Most people in scene culture wear colorful bracelets called “kandi”, these bracelets are mainly made out of brightly colored pony beads. 


Other things that are in scene fashion consist of colored hair, hair extensions, fingerlings gloves, bright colors, belts, knee high converse, and much more


Example of scene fashion
Music

Scene people listen to many bands and styles of music like, indie rock, metal core, and emo pop. There are newer genres like hyperpop. 


There are many artists that are associated with scene culture like, Millionaires, Brokencyde, Hollywood Undead, 3O!H, All Time Low, The Cab, Marianas Trench, Boy Like Girls, Cobra Starship, and Forever the Sickest Kids.


There are also many new artists like, hoshie star, Vampyx, robopup, d3r, KidSnorlax, kets4eki, Pixel Hood, siouxxie sixxsta, asteria, hubithekid, and Rebzyyx.


Popularity

Scene had became popular in the early and mid 2000s. It mostly became popular because of the internet, with websites like myspace. Scene culture had also became popular because of many music artists.


Scene culture had a major decrease in 2014 and throughout the years has had a lot of criticism. In 2020 scene culture was beginning to be popular again with sayings like “#20ninescene” and “Rawring 20s”.


Criticism 

Scene culture is still around to this day but there are many stereotypes and there is still and always be criticism toward this subculture.


Scene culture has music, fashion, some popularity, and like any other culture and community, has faced criticism.


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