A store that in its heyday ('90s-'10s) had mass appeal to faggoths, "edgy" skater kids, pop punkers and other strumous tenderlings. Common items sold there in this period included ridiculous kinky parachute pants, useless Happy Bunny accessories, CDs by Korn, HIM, Avril Lavigne and shirts displaying unfunny "ironic" slogans and overplayed pop culture references. With the decline of mallgoth fad the store renovated its image to appeal to "scene" bandwagon jumpers, replacing dominatrix pants with ball-splitting skinny jeans, nu metal CDs with screechy metalcore and endless HIM paraphernalia with neon-gore t-shirts of "scene" bands like Bring Me the Horizon and Blood on the Dance Floor. With its continuing declining sales, Hot Topic has also tried to appeal to a more "preppy" crowd by peddling worthless Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj merch. The store's bankruptcy is becoming increasingly imminent, with the "scene" trend going out of style, replaced by swaggotry, a fad already catered to by Zumiez that Hot Topic could never pull off due to its "goffik" roots. The other prominent youth trend of the '10s, hipsterdom, is one Hot Topic could never take advantage of as no hipster would ever shop at such a "mnstrm" outlet (they prefer American Eagle). And old Hot Topic shoppers are butthurt they no longer have a place to pick up edgy BDSM getups, heartagram dildos and Happy Bunny thongs. Looks like an appropriately dark future for Hot Topic...
faggoth: I just spent $85 on a pair of Tripp parachute pants at hot topic because I'm liek sooo edgy and nonconformist like that
real goth: fuck off I'm trying to read Paradise Lost and your faggotry is drowning out my Nick Cave -_-
real goth: fuck off I'm trying to read Paradise Lost and your faggotry is drowning out my Nick Cave -_-
by DemiurgicGenesis October 21, 2012
um.....its a store. a store that sells overpriced stuff just like neother mall store does. u dont have to be goth or rebellious to shop there. just like u dont have to be a posing bitch to shop at norstroms.
by gunslingergirlvy_c_e June 29, 2005
Hot Topic is the epitomy of consumer culture and a massacre of the spirit of punk rock by pre-manufacturing the clothing and accutraments that used to be made by hand. If you shop at hot topic, realize that there are thousands of other kids out there with the exact same clothes as you, and you are not origianl, and you never will be. You just want to be attention-getting and have people pay attention to you even though your mommy has made you peanut butter and honey sandwiches since the time you were 5 and kisses you every night before you go to sleep in your goddamn giant-ass house in Beverley Hills!!!!!
"Mommy, will you give me money so I can buy bondage clothes at Hot Topic?"
"Of course honey. Just remember to tie your corset tight."
"I love you mom."
"I love you too sweetie"
"Of course honey. Just remember to tie your corset tight."
"I love you mom."
"I love you too sweetie"
by Rostoprovich March 01, 2007
Its a music store.. Where you buy clothes from bands and You can also find shirts and hoodies from favorite TV shows or movies.. Its NOT a "GOTH" store..
by Forsaken<3 November 27, 2007
haha you losers lets clear something up
1. Jeans do not cost $45 here, and even if they were, it's not like everyone buys jeans
2. People don't go there to be "unique" they go there because they actually like the things there, not the shirts at American Eagle that say shit like "easily distracted", and have half naked models plastering the wall
3. They have never sold sweaters...
1. Jeans do not cost $45 here, and even if they were, it's not like everyone buys jeans
2. People don't go there to be "unique" they go there because they actually like the things there, not the shirts at American Eagle that say shit like "easily distracted", and have half naked models plastering the wall
3. They have never sold sweaters...
Prep: Lyk look at that kid going into hot topic, that place is so totally over priced
"That Kid": Uh yeah...you just bought 5 shirts that make no sense at all, when I went to Hot Topic and spent the same amount of money on a hoodie and 8 shirts as well as a belt...have you ever been in hot topic before?
"That Kid": Uh yeah...you just bought 5 shirts that make no sense at all, when I went to Hot Topic and spent the same amount of money on a hoodie and 8 shirts as well as a belt...have you ever been in hot topic before?
by wouldn't you like to know that April 23, 2006
a store where you buy cloths.so wwhat if you are a prep, punk, goth, nerd, emo, metal-head, loser, whatever! if you like what they sell, you buy it! how can you saying you shop at hot topic mean you're a fuckin poser? "oh, yeah. hot topic! they have some awesome wrist bands and band tees." "you fucking poser!" <--- thats what you people sound like. you know, judgeing people by where they shop or something. god! get lives! if you're calling someone a poser cuz they shop at certain place, then you're the poser.
by chickenpantspooper March 06, 2005
gay ass dykes go here and probably have some meth, weed, crack, you name it. they probably try to act all "edgy" and "depressed" to seem all emo, when in reality they are soft as my cock. they are also probably only gay for the trend.
by hehehe_idontlikekiwi April 05, 2022