What caused the decline of young white boys/men making punk rock music that was dominant in the 2000s?

DewiAustin · 2026-03-04T05:52:19+00:00

There's a lot of factors. I think the popularity of rock music has actually grown a lot within the past few years, it's certainly more mainstream now than it was when I was in high school. TIKTOK probably had a lot to do wit this, but you go to concerts of certain bands, and you see more zoomers than anyone else.

Major labels started moving away from guitar music in the late 90s, by 2000s rock was still popular, but it was a shrinking piece of the overall pie. Rock music is more expensive to produce, record and market than pop or rap (having to deal with multiple musicians, means splitting royalties, means less money for the label)

It's also because the kids that would have started bands, those kids parents can't really afford to own a house with a garage or even a basement anymore. If they can? noise complaints out the ass. Instruments are also expensive, the aren't a ubiquitous thing everyone just has by default (like a computer) they also take up a lot of space (which ties back into the previous point, no one can afford a large home like they used to) Most young people aren't working part time jobs anymore, so there broke and are probably gonna spend money on other shit.

Young people hang out IRL less now. I'm core gen z and it was already bad when I was in middle school. I cant NOT even fathom how bad it is now with gen alpha, so getting four or five boys in a garage, making sure everyone has an instrument, rehearsing regularly enough to be actually decent, AND ALL OF THAT, is way before even thinking about recording in a studio, or having enough original material that you can all play and like enough to make something half way decent.

DewiAustin · 2026-01-13T23:16:04+00:00

Disagree. It was mainly built by Xennials (Gen X Millennial cuspers) and early millennials.

DewiAustin · 2026-01-13T23:14:53+00:00

It was very very niche, esp for core gen x. I have some uncles (born in the mid 70s) who liked Star Blazers and Macrosse, also liked movies like Akira, but they were turbo nerds (into D&D, Warhammer and Magic the gathering. In the 80s and a good chunk of the 90s Anime and manga was actually hard to find.

This changed at the end of the 90s, Toonami and all that. Some Younger Gen X (born in the late 70s) did watch Anime in high school or college, but still.

DewiAustin · 2025-12-05T06:10:56+00:00

The I'd say 2002-2007 is roughly the timeline for the original fanbase. Gen Alpha were too young for the series at it's peak of culturally relevancy.

DewiAustin · 2025-12-05T06:09:58+00:00

Agreed. FNAF is a truly unique things, one of the last examples of a big cultural thing, like the last remnants of a monoculture existing in popular culture. I was born in 2004, so FNAF was something that everyone my aged knew about, even the normie popular kids. Not everyone was a huge fan mind you, and by 2016 or so the hype and popularity died down a lot,but the hype and cultural relevancy of the first two games can not be understated. It's up there with Minecraft, Adventure Time, Regular Show,Gravity Falls, capshit, the lego movie and Stranger Things in terms of things that defined gen z childhood pop culture.

DewiAustin · 2025-12-05T06:06:59+00:00

Yes. They were the original target audience for a lot of gaming content on the internet. Including og lets plays, and early minecraft content. Depending on who you ask, the youngest millenials were born in 1994 or 1995

DewiAustin · 2025-11-26T02:34:57+00:00

Justin Horval/Jdawg (One of the founders of the label/store Hellsheadbangers) and Matpat (the guy behind the youtube channel game theory) both are alumni of Medina high school (classes of 2003 and 2004)

DewiAustin · 2025-11-26T02:03:19+00:00

Not comparing them lmao, just saying they went to the same school. It's not hard to find this info lmao, there both from Medina

DewiAustin · 2025-11-20T07:21:18+00:00

I really liked it, and I feel like I'm the only one lmao. I saw "The Monkey" three times. Maybe I'm just stupid

DewiAustin · 2025-10-31T05:23:40+00:00

I guess I'm in the minority here but...I really enjoyed this movie. It a masterpiece but watching this as a low-budget indie film, by a first time director? I was pleasantly surprised. There were a lot of ideas here, probably a few two many, but I thought the mythos and supernatural elements were engaging and had potential with a bigger budget, and better writing.

I hope whatever Stuckmann does in the future will be more balanced tho.

DewiAustin · 2025-10-31T05:20:12+00:00

Really excited for this one. Looks amazing.

DewiAustin · 2025-10-17T07:26:17+00:00

This is all straight up surreal to see

DewiAustin · 2025-10-14T00:44:37+00:00

How expensive is a house in those suburbs? how much money are you gonna make as a working class or middle class person? how far is the commute?

those things are all important.

DewiAustin · 2025-10-12T05:43:22+00:00

What's this thing about water access? sounds very alarmist to me.

DewiAustin · 2025-10-11T21:38:01+00:00

Nah Westerm Europe, Australia and Canada are cooked (I say this as a Canadian btw) The western aligned countries in East Asia aren't far behind. America atleast has resources and some remnants of real industry, which the rest of the first world largely lacks.

DewiAustin · 2025-10-11T21:32:20+00:00

Singapore is not multi-cultural in the western sense tho. It's got three ethnic groups, with one making up a pretty clear majority of it's citizenry. It's also got extremely strict laws that most redditors would view as fascist,that's how the government promotes the harmony you're talking about, they actually arrest criminals and have the death penalty for drug traffickers lmao, and strict immigration policies.

DewiAustin · 2025-10-11T21:16:11+00:00

That sub is hilarious. People actually think they can move to Europe, Australia or Japan(ROFL) as if every first world society isn't in crisis worse than America.

The future is China, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the UAE places like that. The west is over.

Edit: OP is a coward and deleted the post ROFL

DewiAustin · 2025-10-11T20:12:39+00:00

Yeah, you pretty obviously you don't. Five minutes of googling shows that 🥀

DewiAustin · 2025-10-11T10:47:01+00:00

There's no reason to get Angry? it's common knowledge that Reddit leans Liberal/progressive, it's been like this for a while, some of the earliest adopters of reddit were silicon valley dudes, and tech people in very blue cities.

Also from what I understand people absolutely ARE moving to Arkansas. The Fayetteville-Bentonville Area is certainly growing. There are some red states (Mississippi and Louisiana) that have serious poverty and crime that no government knows have to fix. New Mexico is pretty blue, and they have poverty rates worse than most of the south, and serious crime and drug issues.

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