“I’m not scene anymore” lifts arm up, revealing fluorescent green festival wristband

Scene survived the next 20 years, in fact, it's influence was so vast that it later inspired the scenecore aesthetic/style.

Crazy to see this nearly 20 years later when I'm just getting into scene culture

Happy to tell you, scene survived 20 years. I was never scene but I love andrespect the hell out of it. Maybe I'll turn into it at some point

i walked outside with vans on and decided i was scene LMAO best line ever

I'm going to download this video right now. Believe it or not, it documents a brief but important culture of the early 2000s. I can still recall the scene and emo era, which began in late 2005 and disappeared abruptly in early 2009. There was just something about its influence over Myspace and YouTube (pre-influencer days) that I cannot put my finger on...all I know is that it was an intriguing era filled with fun, creativity, and connection between us younger people at the time. I made some of the best friends (even though I wasn't a scene or emo kid); unfortunately, I lost contact with each and every one of them after summer of 2007 when the culture started dying out. It was the Vans Warped Tour and it was a summer I'll never forget.

“I just don’t like to label myself” the most scene thing you can ever say

Back in the day everyone was scene, but were to embarrassed to admit it.

“The Scene” was a multi-layered music and fashion scene that was primarily about independent music, art, poetry, going to local shows, falling in love, but not really, getting your heart broken, but not really and feeling self-important because you were super original and definitely not ordinary like the jocks at school.

this video came out 2 days before i was born. just a fun fact.
i am now a scene kid by the way

the funny thing is that scene kids are still up and running, just more evolved and expressive

Originality is not completely dead.  Every now and again you'll find something or someone that is somewhat new and unique.  But we have to remember that it is human nature to follow and to copy.  We can't necessarily control it..I mean if you see a look that is appealing of course you'll follow it.  People like to reinvent themselves every now and again.

2026, who's here? It trips me out so much to see "19 years ago" and it's 2007. I've spent the last 20 years on here and it seriously is trippy. I am not on the same YouTube I was on back then. YouTube after 2010 was never the same. 2006-2009 was the prime though. Take me back, man...

modern y2k alt scene kids should save this for later

I love the scene culture, but I am emo.

omg the girl who said pitiful looks like a scene kid.

wow almost 20 years later and it’s still here

I graduated from high school in 2006 and wore girl jeans, band shirts, vans, straightened my hair, went to hardcore shows in church basements/VFW halls and had a Xanga account before Myspace ;D Good times.

"so wait... there's scene kids, emo kids, hardcore kids, and punk kids? what happened to humans?"

I lol'd at that.
but it's a valid point.

this was really professional and unbiased.
i liked it (:

Just want to share my perspective of the video, from a highschooler's point of view.
The girls at 4:45 were really smart. They knew scene was just a phase that wouldn't last long. And they're right because it's now more than a decade after this video was posted and all the scence/emo kids either grew up, offed themselves (jk), or stopped dressing in that style. Now the cool thing to do is listen to rap or hiphop, smoke weed/Juul, and dress trendy ( wearing brands all the way from Vans, Nike, Adidas, and Champion to Yeezy, Bape, Supreme, Off White, Gucci, etc) yet still have high grades and a decent amount of friends with an active social life.

Although, I've observed one similarity between modern teens and teens from this past that I want to share: both groups romanticize depression/anxiety and being super edgy. My gen spreads self-depricating memes, suicide jokes, and general nihilistic humor everywhere. It's obviously considered "unique" to be a bit depressed/sad because it's aesthetic and cool to some people. I hear it all the time in class: "I wanna kill myself" and "Fuck my life" jokingly said everyday. Ironically, young people nowdays ridicule the teens of the past, but they have the same mindset! The music just switched from rock, metal, and EDM to rap, pop, and hiphop.