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Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/mireille-silcoffnytimes.comAs 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
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Unlike the radical subcultures of yore, which had their own visual schema, language, and aesthetics, these digital scenes aren’t exactly subcultures, at least not in the traditional sense.
Terry Nguyen • Trends are dead
Kids are not failing by wanting to be cottagecore or meatcore or this new preppy. It’s the culture available to them that is failing, by no longer being able to connect any of these categories with lived experience or social meaning. Kids, in all their blowzy creativity — the same creativity that invented movements from Romanticism to hippiedom to
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1. How have the definitions and perceptions of "preppy" evolved over time, especially in the context of current teenage culture and social media platforms like TikTok?
2. In what ways has the landscape of subcultures for teenagers shifted from more tangible, immersive experiences to online, ephemeral aesthetics? How does this impact the sense of community and belonging for young people?
3. What role does technology, specifically social media and the internet, play in shaping and influencing the cultural identities and expressions of today's teenagers, as discussed in the document?
**THE CLUB AS A LIFESTYLE PLATFORM: IT’S BIGGER THAN BRAT
**Bushwick circa 2022 onward is one of the most meme’d lifestyles, identities and ‘vibes’ that New York City has produced. The growing crop of club venues even amidst record rent raises demonstrate an urgent appetite for community, connection, and escapism that has emerged from that year or t
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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.
Drew Austin • #187: A Rainbow in Curved Air
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