Pop Punk is the NEXT BIG THING for 2021 - Update it's BACK !

mid 90s emo and pop punk, even earlier stuff, is about about crafting really good music you don't forget in 20 years from now, it has the grunge approach to music, and does not have such limited, cringe factors or amateur quality in many cases that mid 2000s emo has imo.

I think real mid 90s pop punk and emo,  has the flexibility to come back if not now maybe in the future, when playing authentic rock music enters the pop world or the more mainstream music industry, because amazingly good catchy riffs and the flexibility and neutrality of the style, surpasses eras and pop culture restrictions and has the potential to become lucrative again just based on alt rock approach to crafting the out of the world good music as the main focus compared to anything else. 

Even the early 2000s had really good bands with the whole post punk revival and evolving alt rock, placebo, HIM, the darkness, the hives, the vines the strokes, the killers,. It wasn't that long ago, I don't see why a real 90s emo and pop punk revival couldn't take place in a similar fashion. 

I don't think they have been brought back in a mainstream way, like grunge, so there is room. 

 emo of the 2000s if not applied through something like rap, or some kind of bizarre metal or weird post hipster micro genre, won't age well imo because of being tied to the context of mid 2000s world, outcast mall culture and myspace context, and sometimes more amateur or limited approach to music ( a lot of bands were young or figuring it out etc),  cliche teen whineyiness associated with the genre, and fashion and aesthetic that is still corny to many people. I think of it kind of like hair metal from the 80s ex motley crue type bands, its more restricted to a period of time. Then again you never know what can happen.