hottopic has indead gone down hill. allow me to elaborate. 1. they used to not be so mainstream. now they are the mainstream that CLAIMES to be aginst main stream. 2. alyssa, they are original they just have trademarked most of punk fashion ideas that makes it too hard for other stores to cash in on punk fashion 3. alot of the clothing in their perpetuates the atrophy of americas youth into thinking that public sexuality and public prafanity is acceptable. ideas like women should look good for men and men should not be fashionable,just enjoy women shaking their ass in their face are too common among store and hot topic is one of he biggest offenders of these societal atrosities. 4. the workers in their are mainly high school dropouts who believe that their retail ocupation grants them the prestege of not providing assistance to the consumer. -basically all this means is hot topic sucks. as a n original goth i say their needs to be a new store to corporation to provide goth fashio...