What? If you're wearing a cut you are authentic. I don't understand your logic. If you're wearing a 1% cut then you sure as hell are validated.
Nobody is emulating anybody. People have been wearing cuts since the early years of Motorcycles, I know for a fact pre WWII.
All a cut is is your ID of who you belong to. It doesn't matter if it's a christian bike club or a 1% club. Yea, guess what, a lot of people on bikes are very similar. It's probably because similar people tend to like similar things.
Now if you wanna talk about 1% clubs, let me tell you this, it's less than 1% of bikers that are 1%ers. Especially with Harleys nowadays, Most people go out and buy a new Club Style FXD and swear they're bikers. What makes them posers is not knowing how to wrench on their bikes or really ride them, not the fact that they're not 1%ers. Club Style Dynas that are all show no go, that's poser, not them wearing cuts or being a part of a lame club.
Back to 1%ers, it's very rare to see them. They don't fly their colors like everybody thinks they do. Unless they're on Club business, they don't rock their cuts. You think you know what they're doing? Wrong, you don't now and you never will. I personally know a few 1%ers that haven't seen time inside and they'd like to keep it that way. Hell, most of the 1%ers I know live in some of the nicest neighborhoods in my area and have really good jobs.
What is "real" to you?