So, You Want To Be Alternative Huh?

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   @ninatuckerschewtoy

   August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

   I like to imagine the specter of Margaret Thatcher, spinning like a top, every time someone says 'society'

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   @MarshallMathers3000

   August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

   My personality is that I love Breaking Bad

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   @Jai_Maa97

   August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

   I’m a bassist in a Thrash band, I’m also a white Hindu convert (ever met the “Hare Krishna’s”?) so I wear a distinct haircut, the baggy pyjama pants and T-shirts with some Hindu gods on instead of band shirts; Safe to say I REALLY stand out. But I did used to be “Alt” when I was teenager, cookie cutter style like you said, it gets real stale real quick, just be yourself and you’ll be even more unique than if you tried to be.

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   @DaedalusCraftsman

   August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

   most of trends are just dating market strategies. only the naive take ideology serious, then reality bites.

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   @natashio.pistachio

   August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

   I think we should get a video on the nerdy side of death metal, like Bolt Thrower (without the cringe Jo Bench simping).

   Did you know even THEY inspired OTHER Warhammer bands? Chainsword exist! Others too! It's crazy how quickly Games Workshop gobbled them (BT) up and shat them out. Capitalism at its most obscene, lol.

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   @natashio.pistachio

   August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

   To be truly alternative is to instead be a wise old cow in a world of sheep.

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   @8523wsxc

   August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

   See, I'm a individualist, just like all the other cool people.

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   @deadcaliph6414

   August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

   Reminder that much of these eboy and egirl aesthetics that misappropriate other subcultures (Kid dressed in goth/industrial but only listens to PinkPanthress rather than Diva Destruction or Chemlab) are today's equivalent of a kid wearing "I'm with Pedro" merch shirts twenty years ago, and archetypes depicted on Adam Sandler/Rob Schneider/Paulie Shore movies thirty years ago, or the character Eric Andre portrays in his show (Pizza Balllll!)

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   @J-räZëR

   August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

   Did he change the Thumbnail?

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    @sapphireeeX3

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    how to be alt: act like and look like you listen to punk and metal, listen to shitty rap music. gatekeep the music you are supposed to be listening to and complain about capitalism even though your entire costume exists due to it. dont allow people to use the label unless they 100% agree with your political views. smell like an armpit.follow trends.

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    @skylel1

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    I don’t think this is controversial but the fashion doesn’t matter nearly as much as everyone (the internet. Go outside) thinks. I don’t mean this to say go buy from shein. I’m saying if you can’t afford to get it properly, do without it. No one cares as long as you’re listening to the music, going to shows (and getting there early and staying late!), and are trying to make your scene a better place. A scene is automatically better if another person gets active in it.

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    @frankiegray2070

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    When we don't need to signal to our fellow man, that we are one in the same. And that we are having the utter piss taken…. then we can move forward ❤

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    @Explosivelobster

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    Genuine question, cause Im a metal head, and I buy a ton of shirts, always from the bands, usually at shows, if not its from their official stores and nowhere else. but thats not second hand, even if I dont throw any of these out and I wear them till I litterally cant, is that fast fashion? What is it? Id buy second hand but finding that one specific album shirt in second hand stores let alone in good condition is just such a pain in the ass.

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    @TheLunaticQueen

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    honestly i dont give a fuck about the term alt, down with the clown since 14, gg allin and black metal enthusiast since 15, primarily listened to goth music at 17-18, when i hit 19 i discovered folkpunk and, as i was homeless whenever i wasnt sleeping in dopeholes, found that street punk was a pretty fitting label for myself at that moment, now?? im an adult, and i still like every type of music i just listed off, and way more, i dont really have a single way i'd label myself, and definitely not under a nothingburger lameass label like "alternative"

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    @hellobass6540

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    If you not fucking w poll pot you a fake

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    @qwertyforwen2342

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    I've made a promise to myself that I will only ever buy physical versions of crass music, I'll never buy any crass clothing. I have an embroidered crass patch I made on my jacket, and I'm working on a stencil to bleach paint onto a shirt. Might take a couple tries but were getting there.

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    @crabe_le_rebelle

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    punk, alternative etc… it is just being honest and being youself to bring your spice to this sad world and maybe make it better whatever you do

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    @amerLeVrai

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    le rock alternatif en france existe depuis les annees 80 surtout et etait tres proche voire synonyme de punk

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    @ridleyrickmanreduz2196

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    The concept of an alt movement was basically an industry label to mix a lot of bullshit that has nothing to do within them rather than a real thing moved by people and mfs in tik tok and instagram be splashing "you are not alt if you aren't *x progressive thing"

    I'm incredibly annoyed that posers have just slapped alt like a valid thing because most of these people want to belong to the subculutures but never EVER want to listen to the music and engage with the communities so they call themselves "alt" for using oversized clothes and conpensing it with "le politics", and if you ask which politics they respond with vague leftist/progressive ideas like if ALL the subcultures in the world have the same values or ideologies

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    @papanonon1

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    jerk jerk jerk jerk jerkin off

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    @asmilingguppy

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    I've never unsubscribed so fast in my life. Jesus christ what has happened to this channel? "alt is about being a good person, subscribing the 'right ethics' and doing 'our part' to make sure a subculture survives" has me dead lmfao

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    @Horsemen4deth

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    Nah I’m a huge fan of slaughter to prevail.

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    @Canalfalidooooooooooooooo

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    Wear breaatpads and skirts, its very edge

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    @sotarkk

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    "It's about subscribing to the right ethics…"

    (Checks description)…Two Instagram links, secondary channel, Spotify, discord, etc

    "Before capitalism's greedy claws ruined such a pure scene…"

    (Checks description) …merch shop, Patreon exclusive content

    Yeah it's time to quit my job and cash in on collective stupidity like my man Coolea here

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    @MetanoiaMystery

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    I like how coolea is front and center in the thumbnail

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    @yxj9

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    community post: "To put it simply there is a chance that this channel will no longer be my main focus in the near future"
    and then bro keeps dropping banger after banger with three days delay.
    nah but fr, i really appreciate the work and hope you are doing well.
    being "out of ideas"is a understandable feeling i just hope you dont fall into the trap of setting unattainable standards for yourself that take the joy out of it.
    also the links in the video description are cut off and are not clickable.
    also also, pls drop the outro song <33

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    @Defiler24

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    "Alt" e-girls look like they smell like perfume and pussy sweat

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    @faeancestor

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    is drain an alternative subculture

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    @papanonon1

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    I love you anglo

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    @GrimMetropolis

    August 1, 2026 at 5:56 am

    Lots of posers/larpers these days..

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    @rustyshackleford735

    August 1, 2026 at 5:57 am

    Do you think a hardcore show in Vatican city would feature a band from Vatican city? I'd love to see a hardcore show with a local band in Vatican city.

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    @AliceBowie

    August 1, 2026 at 5:57 am

    "college music" was always a better term, especially to describe bands that never went to college. Actually, I just remembered that the Bevis Frond played at my school.

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    @ronaldowens5025

    August 1, 2026 at 5:57 am

    I figured this out in the early 90s, jeans a t shirt and boots ( not docs) and the right attitude got me accepted in all the underground circles ( mostly because people that were really in them didn't look like the picture). They as I were interested in the music, lifestyle, art, literature , and drugs that it revolved around. If you couldn't hold a conversation deeper than the newest drop on MTV it didn't matter how you looked you were on the outside.

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    @rustyshackleford735

    August 1, 2026 at 5:57 am

    Sick shirt, great video

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    @haroldcampos9661

    August 1, 2026 at 5:57 am

    in middle school, my friend told me this chick was into me so I asked her to be my girlfriend and she was into like piercings and tattoos and she sent me to this website 'bmezine', and within minutes I was watching people get bad tattoo art and turn their stuff into banana splits. It was horriying and pointless, people can actually be that vapid. "wow cool, some tats" grow up lol

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