“ohhhh, punk has been made too widely palatable and for everyone. REAL punks are like presbyterian minister mr rogers!” there are still hardcore bands out there! you can go see them if you want! i bet this person would listen to the ramones and go “umm, he wants to sniff glue? are we glorifying drug addiction now? this is SO not punk!”
there are people in the notes going “yeah! this is so true!”
i think this is part of a broader trend of people feeling to need to justify everything they enjoy, it can’t just be a show they remember fondly from when they were a kid, it needs to be punk
I read the comment as being a critique of the recuperation of punk. This recuperation strips punk of substance and seeks to make it just aesthetic.
By identifying Mr. Rogers with punk, they are making a failed attempt to fight back against this recuperation by utilizing a figure they identify as completely lacking the aesthetic of punk but they claim possesses the substance of punk.