Punk is fringe. Yup. As for the rest, sounds like you’ve got a fragile ego. Sorry for you.
Punk drove the ‘80s. But no matter what, most people didn’t dig these acts.
I don’t have anything to prove. When it comes to music so many on the net have found their pals in fringe music and feel suddenly that it’s a lot more popular and well known than it really is. Music snobs who seem to feel the need to prove how special they are listening to music no one else likes.
I do things that aren’t popular but don’t try to turn them into a superiority symbol.
And what this has to do with my ego I don’t know. It’s an observation from 20 years on the net. And some from the real-world past where talk of these Smiths and Ramones occasionally popped up but I still don’t know what the heck they ever did.