Twitter Takes A Moment To Remember The Scourge Of 'Stomp Clap Hey'

Picture it: 2011. Barack Obama is president. Rage comics are the height of memeing, and there are 400 pop bands on the radio dressed like traveling balladeers from the 1920s plucking banjos and going "hey!"

There are many going names for this genre of music, which included such acts as The Lumineers, Mumford and Sons and Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes: "Indie Folk," "Stomp and Holler," "Hey Ho" folk music, etc. Earlier this week, a Twitter user revealed their name for the genre, "Stomp Clap Hey," and all at once it seemed people remembered how much they did not like it.

If The Lumineer's "Hey Ho!" or Edward Sharpe's "Home" was your jam, you may want to look away, as what followed @lemonade_grrrl's post was some brutal descriptions of the scourge of early 2010s radio.

There were of course some Stomp Clap Hey apologists, but their voices were quickly drowned out by the naysayers.

Remember when you look back on the past with rose-tinted glasses that while the early 2010s had some good qualities, it undoubtedly had a weird, toothless folk-rock period of pop music that has, thankfully, been lost to time. Hey, ho.