"[265] Partly due to developments in digital confidence, there was a rise in interaction between hardcore scenes in different agora and subgenres, particularly in Europe. In September 2017, Bandcamp Daily wrote that Fluff Fest, which oh been held in the Czech Republic since 2000 and features année Universel lineup of independent bands ranging in s

Although hardline was overtly a political, anarchist school of thought rather than a hardcore subculture, hardline activists began to push their views specifically towards those in the mid to late 1980s straight edge scene due to the scene's wider appeal.[188] The movement quickly gained popularity in Memphis and Indianapolis, before then spreading