Frontman Jim Adkins shared in an interview with Alternative Press:

Back in the days of really early social media experiments, we had an email address. That was our first venture into the internet, before websites were a main thing. It was like an electronic version of writing the band [via] post office box. There was a girl who wrote in saying that she was not feeling like she fit in at her school, because she wasn’t punk enough. I guess [the song] is sort of directed at her. People love to argue about what “punk rock” means, but I think a basic tenet that everyone might agree on is a level of open-mindedness. I just found it funny that these people who were identifying with punk would be closed-minded towards someone for not being punk enough, and just felt like, “They don’t get it, and you shouldn’t worry about them.”

When asked in an interview with Alternative Press whether the song was a reaction to being dropped from their record label, Jim Adkins answered:

Not at all. From our perspective, it was just a continuation of what we were doing. We flew pretty low under the radar at Capitol. When were “on the label,” and when they had let us go, we didn’t notice anything [different]. There wasn’t any major shift from our perspective, in how we operated or what we were doing.