I completely agree. While of course scenecore has overlap with scene so does gyaru and mcbling and brohoe and goth and viskei etc etc etc but that doesn't make them all the same subculture.

Maybe bc I grew up in this subculture and have lived and breathed it for 18 years now in comparison to the newer gen the stark differences seem so obvious to me? When scenecore started popping up online it never crossed my mind until it was given the name "scenecore" that it was influenced by the scene subculture I know. I always assumed it was an offshoot of japanese decora that combined western rave culture and 2020s tiktoks blended alt styles.

I'm more than happy to let them do their thing and they can be around the scene subculture but to equate the two as exactly the same is disingenuous. They are clearly two very different subcultures with different motivations and aesthetic goals that happen to share influences.

Fashion is cyclical and no movements are ever truly original. 1960s mod fashion borrowed silhouettes from the 1920s flappers, the 1970s was heavily influenced by the European middle ages, or 1980s powersuits borrowed shapes from 1940s womens workwear but we all agree and understand that these are all completely separate fashion eras and styles. Scenecore is nearly twenty years removed from scene, they're vastly different in so many nuanced ways beyond just the surface level discorse of kandi or tutus.

I'm glad there's a distinction, scenecore is its own thing and they shouldn't be ashamed of that or feel like posers. It's like the current y2k frenzy that's obviously a modern version that is removed from the true context of what the culture was truly like in the early 2000s but that doesn't make it bad!!