Against hopepunk

It's difficult to articulate why I hate the entire concept of "hopepunk" and quite a lot of the works recommended under that label, because just thinking about it sends my shoulders up around my ears.

This is mostly thanks to my childhood and adolescence, and specifically my parents' friends.

( TL;DR 'hope' and 'wholesomeness' are subjective and not everything needs to be commodified and labelled )