Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.
added by alexi gunner and · updated 7mo ago
added by alexi gunner and · updated 7mo ago
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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Gorgeous, abundant visuals are just pale imitations of what young people used to have: an actual scene.
alexi gunner added 6mo ago