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In 1999, William Tsitsos wrote that straight edge had gone through three eras since its founding in the early 1980s.[1] Bent edge began as a counter-movement to straight edge by members of the Washington, D.C. hardcore scene who were frustrated by the rigidity and intolerance in the scene.[2] During the youth crew era, which started in the mid-1980s, the influence of music on the straight edge scene was to at an all-time high. By the early 1990s, militant straight edge was a well-known part of the wider punk and DIY scene. In the early to mid-1990s, straight edge spread from the United States to Northern Europe,[3] Eastern Europe,[4] the Middle East,[5] and South America.[6] By the beginning of the 2000s, only small groups of militant straight edge individuals remained.[7]