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Admitting to liking pop punk would get you beat up in the 1990s: Many a fan of Green Day’s classic breakout record, Dookie, found themselves under the boot of a “real punk fan” in the school hallways across America. The younger crowd has it easier, maybe too easy. The genre blew up in the late ’90s and early aughts. The Offspring drifted from its more hardcore roots into “Pretty Fly for a White Guy” territory, and Blink-182 told you about “All the Small Things.”