Me, doing research: Oh, wow, Hot Topic was founded in 1988? That’s earlier than I expected.
Me, scrolling down a bit, doing a comical spit take:
You CANNOT be serious????
so i actually work at spencer’s and at first we were a catalog company until we got our first store in 1963, it was pretty much just gags and gross out stuff until the 70’s when it became more like, counter culture/adult oriented! kinda interesting
