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Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.
by https://www.nytimes.com/by/mireille-silcoff
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- People who spend a lot of time exploring these subcultures feel like they can see into the future, and for good reason. What happens online often shows up in the headlines weeks, months, or even years later. The internet has become the petri dish of culture — the soil in which new movements and novel conversations find root
from The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time by Aaron Z. Lewis
Gustavo Simas and added
- One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them. Subcultures have a predictable lifecycle, in which popularity causes death. Eventually—around 2000—everyone understood this, and gave up hoping some subculture could somehow escape this dynamic.
from Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths in Subculture Evolution by meaningness.com
sari and added
- As Mireille Silcoff noted in a piece exploring how real life subcultures have been reduced to online aesthetic trends: ‘youth culture’ comes alive when the sun goes down, and by stopping young people from hanging out in cities at night, they’re ultimately cutting off the lifeblood of these scenes: “ the youth belong at the rave, at the block party,... See more
from Idle Gaze 062: Dawn Chorus / Dusk Chorus by Alexi Gunner
Brian Wiesner added
One major benefit of subcultures is that they open up necessary space when the mainstream becomes too crowded. Now, thanks to the internet, everything is supposedly a subculture—the mainstream has supposedly broken into a thousand fragments. One would assume this creates more room for everyone to spread out, literally and figuratively, but even tha
... See morefrom The Culture of Cope by Drew Austin
Keely Adler added
One major benefit of subcultures is that they open up necessary space when the mainstream becomes too crowded. Now, thanks to the internet, everything is supposedly a subculture—the mainstream has supposedly broken into a thousand fragments. One would assume this creates more room for everyone to spread out, literally and figuratively, but even tha
... See morefrom The Culture of Cope by Drew Austin
Keely Adler and added
We even saw the rise of subcultures where the entire notion of participation is simply consumption. r/mechanicalkeyboards is the classic example, but it also applies to hypebeast culture, or to that Tumblr subculture of design heads who make their entire personality about owning Dieter Rams objects and Leica cameras.
from Life After Lifestyle by subpixel.space
Keely Adler added
- At the height of their prowess, pre-internet cultural elitists tapped into veins of esoteric knowledge via subcultural infrastructure that the mainstream could not or would not access, and then imprinted that knowledge upon themselves thoroughly enough that they could reliably transmit it to others.
from #187: A Rainbow in Curved Air by Drew Austin
Keely Adler added