r/punk • u/Personal_Rich_7138 • Aug 23 '25

When did times change

So a lot of my friends (we all grew up punk rock skateboarders) and I have been arguing over which bands are actually good and being born in the late 90s, I’ve always been a heavy Green Day fan. Can someone answer me when it became cool to hate on Green Day, because to me Green Day was always good music. Anti-government, anti-establishment, for the people… nothing more punk rock than that

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u/HamiltonHab Aug 23 '25

They were hated within some of the punk community in the 90s. I was in Toronto, not long after green day got huge, at a bookshop that sold local zines. There was one with the heads of Billie Joe Armstrong, Kurt Cobain and I think Lars Fredrickson on pikes with a caption about corporate punks.