Yes, I've seen this tweet nearly a hundred times. It's absolutely true that emo, punk, and hardcore music are white genres for white people. What other group of people wants to sit around singing about how bad things are and how it's all their fault? Only white people are capable of that kind of self-loathing introspection. Whenever I see a non-white person at a show, they're always the ones trying very hard to prove they belong there, usually at the center of the pit, singing along to every word, talking to everyone about related bands, battle vests absolutely covered in every pin possible.
It was not, remotely, even a little bit, "straight coded," however. I've talked about this before on this channel, but there was a whole "queer-baiting" thing where women were more attracted to men who pretended to be gay at the time. Perhaps it was because they were seen as less threatening in contrast to the super macho rap music (dominated by the exact opposite kind of people, of course), but it is what it is.
https://fxtwitter.com/makimapillled/status/1758683973683692015
It was not, remotely, even a little bit, "straight coded," however. I've talked about this before on this channel, but there was a whole "queer-baiting" thing where women were more attracted to men who pretended to be gay at the time. Perhaps it was because they were seen as less threatening in contrast to the super macho rap music (dominated by the exact opposite kind of people, of course), but it is what it is.
https://fxtwitter.com/makimapillled/status/1758683973683692015