Original sentence: By the late 1990s, the American chain store Hot Topic established a niche in selling what they advertised as "punk style clothing" at shopping malls
Edited sentence: By the late 1990s, the American chain store Hot Topic established a niche in selling what they advertised as "punk style clothing" at shopping malls, which has stood as an icon of stupidity for many years.Those who shop at Hot Topic are lame hypocrites who are not at all "Punk"