There's no denying that the Hot Topic you can visit in your local mall today is dramatically different from the Hot Topic in your memories from the early aughts. One creator on TikTok revealed just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I haven't set foot in Hot Topic — a mall mainstay — in at least a decade. Back then, I was a little intimidated by Hot Topic's ...

Shoppers browse through a Hot Topic store in 2002 at the Serramonte mall in California. In the early 2000s, Hot Topic targeted a customer base between the ages of 12 and 22. (Photo: Getty Images) ...

Many associate the stores with goth, emo, punk, or grunge. But Hot Topic has grown to become much more than its ‘90s persona. It’s evolved into a pop culture fashion leader and one of the ...