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Scumbag Clique guys probably had mixed feelings about grunge

On the one hand, grunge bands had long hair, played loud, an...
Drunken puppy property
  06/07/25
They were listening to Montel Jordan and wearing baggy jerse...
electric gay wizard set
  06/07/25
Precursor to wigger nu metal imho
Drunken puppy property
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ime it depended on age. younger gen x/early millennial scum ...
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Can someone give me a primer on this "clique theory&quo...
amber charismatic background story
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https://web.archive.org/web/20180818073225im_/http://cliquet...
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I don't think it ever really caught on. Grunge was always Lo...
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Black Philosopher-king
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Older Millenials were into Nirvana and some other grunge ban...
Orange University
  07/09/26
Always a pleasure, number 5
High-end yapping pit
  07/12/26
“mocked classic rock/metal (Soundgarden)” lol...
Embarrassed to the bone rose plaza
  06/07/25
https://genius.com/Soundgarden-big-dumb-sex-lyrics
Drunken puppy property
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grunge was a retarded marketing gimmick that lasted four yea...
comical disgusting fortuitous meteor athletic conference
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"retarded marketing gimmick" that put the fashion ...
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scumbags never have mixed feelings. having mixed feelings i...
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Date: June 7th, 2025 9:11 PM
Author: Drunken puppy property

On the one hand, grunge bands had long hair, played loud, and were angry. Phenotypically they looked like Scumbags, and many if not most had real Scumbag backgrounds. But the biggest grunge bands were openly shitlib (Pearl Jam), mocked classic rock/metal (Soundgarden), and acted like college/alternative bands (Nirvana). Not to mention grunge killed off regular heavy metal, which was beloved among Scumbags. The only grunge band Scumbags could really unconditionally embrace was Alice In Chains, and you could argue they weren’t really grunge.

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Date: June 7th, 2025 9:13 PM
Author: electric gay wizard set

They were listening to Montel Jordan and wearing baggy jerseys while also professing to hate niggers.

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Date: June 7th, 2025 9:15 PM
Author: Drunken puppy property

Precursor to wigger nu metal imho

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Date: June 7th, 2025 10:25 PM
Author: massive depressive cruise ship

ime it depended on age. younger gen x/early millennial scum were really into it

older scumbags thought it was gay. so much so that they were warning their kids about it. i remember scummy kids who would listen to seal and boyz ii men but if you mentioned nirvana they’d say “i’m not into that, we listen to guns n’ roses at my house”

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Date: June 7th, 2025 10:26 PM
Author: Black Philosopher-king



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Date: June 8th, 2025 3:49 PM
Author: Drunken puppy property



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Date: June 8th, 2025 5:05 PM
Author: High-end yapping pit



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Date: July 9th, 2026 1:02 PM
Author: Drunken puppy property



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Date: July 9th, 2026 1:25 PM
Author: massive depressive cruise ship



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Date: June 7th, 2025 10:26 PM
Author: amber charismatic background story

Can someone give me a primer on this "clique theory"? I've heard about the losers and scumbags. What's the good one to be?

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Date: June 7th, 2025 10:40 PM
Author: High-end yapping pit

https://web.archive.org/web/20180818073225im_/http://cliquetheory.com/CTOutline_files/image005.jpg

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Date: June 7th, 2025 10:41 PM
Author: amber charismatic background story



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Date: June 7th, 2025 10:35 PM
Author: High-end yapping pit

I don't think it ever really caught on. Grunge was always Loser-coded basically. Classic rock is Scum coded. Gen X is a very, very Losery Gen and it must've been jarring for boomers to have been confronted by their weird Losery music....I don't think they like it at all and they don't have "mixed feelings" about it either. Boomers aren't ambivalent about this.

Grunge was like a religious experience for Gen X. It was a seminal moment in their lives for some reason. Meanwhile boomers think it sucks and millennials shrugged. 80% of millennials have more respect for Led Zepplin than every grunge band combined.

Millennials ime don't even take their own music seriously, or the contemporaneous popular music anyway. Gen Xers were kind of ridiculous with their over-the-top worship of Grunge and it was kind of a Joke. So we mock Fred Durst and Imagine Dragons and whatever else. We don't get to enjoy anything unironically because we saw how gay and retarded Gen X looked during the 2.5 years that they were relevant.

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Date: August 11th, 2025 7:29 PM
Author: Drunken puppy property



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Date: August 11th, 2025 7:30 PM
Author: Black Philosopher-king



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Date: July 9th, 2026 1:31 PM
Author: Orange University

Older Millenials were into Nirvana and some other grunge bands too IME, but probably didn't worship it the way gen x did

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734722&forum_id=2...id..#49988415)



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Date: July 12th, 2026 8:37 AM
Author: High-end yapping pit

Always a pleasure, number 5

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Date: June 7th, 2025 10:44 PM
Author: Embarrassed to the bone rose plaza

“mocked classic rock/metal (Soundgarden)”

lol what

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Date: June 7th, 2025 10:57 PM
Author: Drunken puppy property

https://genius.com/Soundgarden-big-dumb-sex-lyrics

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Date: July 9th, 2026 1:32 PM
Author: comical disgusting fortuitous meteor athletic conference

grunge was a retarded marketing gimmick that lasted four years. its legacy lives because some gay junkie blew his head off after his band released a shit album.

Soundgarden and AIC are not "grunge" they are hard rock bands closer to GNR than nirvana or the melvins or whatever.

even at its height it was in the shadow of Rock. GNR Illusion albums, Aerosmith Get a Grip and Metalica black then Load were outselling them. hell even Voodoo Lounge did bigger numbers than pearl jam.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734722&forum_id=2...id..#49988419)



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Date: July 9th, 2026 1:36 PM
Author: Drab Multi-colored Voyeur Party Of The First Part

"retarded marketing gimmick" that put the fashion world into a terror death spiral for years for being the only genuinely anti-consumerist aesthetic movement since early punk's aggressive anti-marketing (that could still be coopted anyway)

its one thing to not like (listening to) grunge music but hating the genre and its effects on the wider culture makes you extremely suspect ime

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734722&forum_id=2...id..#49988430)



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Date: July 9th, 2026 1:36 PM
Author: cobalt bateful space

scumbags never have mixed feelings. having mixed feelings is a loser trait

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Date: July 9th, 2026 4:50 PM
Author: Drunken puppy property



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Date: July 9th, 2026 4:58 PM
Author: Hateful Rigpig



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Date: July 9th, 2026 4:55 PM
Author: Stimulating citrine locus

Nirvana was pretty well representative of 90s loserdom (not as bad as pavement and shit but like a few levels higher), but it ended up taking off with Scumbags bigly and re-appropriated.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5734722&forum_id=2...id..#49988857)