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reddit.comLately I've been getting the feeling, that I came in at the end, the best is over
Millennial commenters express a desire to rewind to that era of their lives; younger posters wish that they could have lived through it in the first place.
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The decline of authentic internet subcultures due to excessive technological scale and the need for friction for new scenes.
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But it seemed like the internet was this place where like real subcultures could kind of spring from nowhere or you could find a subculture that worked for you. And it was sort of like this beautiful secret that you had with strangers. Yeah, yeah. Niche at scale in a way. Yeah, yeah. And now that doesn't exist online, right? All that exists- Or
... See moreI can't tell if all of these things are incredibly early and I live under a rock (bc I've seen and heard close to none of these things irl) or an inflation of the impact of incredibly niche new york art scene subcultures, but leaning to the latter
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