The History of Hot Topic
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2001 // Torrid is born – and it’s a girl!

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Brea, CA.

2003 // Bowling For Soup sings about us.

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Don’t be jelly.

2004, 2005, WHO KNOWS WHAT YEAR? // Someone starts a dirty rumor we’re owned by the Gap.

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Squelching those rumors.

SUMMER, 2004 // We sponsor Ozzfest. \m/

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During the madness.

2004 // The Hot Topic Foundation is established.

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Creating music and art programs for kids across the country feels real good.

2005 // Everyone falls in love with Napoleon Dynamite and buys our Vote for Pedro tee.

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The Hot Topic tee that sold like dynamite.

FEBRUARY, 2005 // Fortune magazine ranks Hot Topic #20 in their 100 Best Companies to Work For.

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We hit #20!

APRIL 10, 2005 // Shirley from Garbage brings on the feels when she thanks a couple of Hot Topic associates in the liner notes for the band’s Bleed Like Me album.

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Check it out: Friggin' awesome.

MARCH 21, 2006 // MC Lars says Hot Topic is not punk rock.

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OCTOBER 7, 2006 // Hot Topic managers fill the audience at the 2006 Spike TV Scream Awards.

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The hottest ticket in horror.

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