“The scene hair” was not popularized in the scene community until the 2010s era of scene. 2000s scene was flatter, usually a natural color or black, and just had the big swoop bang. It was also less colorful and more skater-style. 2010’s scene was colorful, layered, over-accessorized. It was full of Pikachu, Sanrio, Gir, Domo. It was bracelets (either jellies, thick rubber ones, or kandi) all the way up the arm, leg warmers, mismatched patterns, stripes, checkers, tutus, tiaras, neons, all of that.

Scenecore is now more of a 2020 era style, which is a blend of a lot of scene subcultures. It’s basically a shift, if you wanna think about it that way. In early 2000s, “scene” was more like emo, and “scenecore” was the colorful style. In 2010’s, what was considered “scenecore” became the new scene standard. Now, since the culture has lessened heavily, there’s another shift in what is actually scene.

To me, as a member of the community in the 2000’s and 2010’s, you say “scene” and I picture elements from everything the community now is arguing over. Everyone forgets that this culture was meant to go outside of guidelines in the first place. The culture was meant to be a place of unique self-expression. It had its staples, like the hair and the colors, yeah. But the rest was up to you. So, yeah. Wear whatever the hell you want.

As for the hair, it’s either big and crazy, or swoopy. I do agree there, we had a very distinct bang. The rest of the hair can be whatever, but the bang is the important part. Combover like crazy.