Growing up isn't easy for anyone, especially pop punk kids. While you had songs like "The Space Between" and "Dear Maria (Count Me In)," to comfort you, there was no one else in your small town who really got it, so you felt like an outcast. Luckily, there were kids just like you at the pop punk show to tell you that everything is alright, yeah everything is alright.
1. "I'm not OK. Trust me." was your go-to AIM away message, even on a good day.
2. A fresh pair of Chuck Taylors was both a blessing and a curse.
Thanks mom and dad, but everyone knows Chucks are only cool if they're dirty.
3. The feud between Taking Back Sunday and Brand New will always hit a sore spot with you.
And we'll always have the grim reminder of it in the form of song lyrics.
4. This is quite literally you when someone leaves your bedroom door open:
5. You know that pop punk music made any time after 2007 is just a knock off.
6. And that Mark, Tom, and Travis are the Holy Trinity of pop punk.
Remember Tom?7. Some of your best memories are of standing in line for seven hours, in all types of weather, with your best friends before a pop punk show.
And probably your dad too. Bless him.
8. You know that J-14 magazine has the best posters.
It's such a teenie bopper magazine, and you're soooo not a teenie bopper, but this issue has Gerard, Ryan, AND Pete posters!
9. When people ask you what your favorite book was growing up, you just have flashbacks to the hours you used to spend reading Fall Out Boy fan fiction on Xanga.
Does that count?
10. You only saw "Snakes On A Plane" because of the epic pop punk soundtrack.
Cobra Starship! Panic! The Academy Is...! Fall Out Boy! All American Rejects! Gym Class Heroes! The movie is iconic because of the soundtrack alone.
11. Your first heartbreak was when Pete Wentz married Ashlee Simpson.
12. You have a plethora of colored skinny jeans you don't know what to do with now.
13. You learned all you need to know about sex from the song "Bedroom Talk" by The Starting Line.
14. The "I Caught Fire" video still makes you feel things.
Bert makes my heart stop beating.
15. You tried so hard to keep certain bands in your back pocket.
"MAYDAY PARADE IS MY SPECIAL BAND! NOT FOR COMMERCIALIST EXPLOITATION!"
16. Whenever someone brings up Fall Out Boy now you're like:
Anything after Infinity On High doesn't exist to me.
17. When you saw Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, Valencia, and Alkaline Trio on the Warped Tour lineup, you begged your parents for tickets.
Still would tbh.
18. You'll always look twice at any guy wearing an American Apparel hoodie, skinny jeans, and vans.
19. Being called a "teenie" will forever be the worst insult.
I am not a teenie, I really relate to "The Black Parade" on an emotional level, okay?
20. The only people who understood your love for these bands were your online friends.
21. "Bodybag" by Hit The Lights made you wanna beat someone up.
22. Despite their wives and children, Gerard Way and Bert McCracken are soul mates and you know it.
23. Grown men in women's jeans will always be important to you.
Because getting into those jeans shows that they know devotion and commitment.
24. Hayley Williams will always be hair goals.
25. You know that Hot Topic is way too mainstream, but they're the only place that sells MCR shirts!
26. You secretly wear the Pop Punk Kid title with pride.
Because pop punk made you who you are.