scenes and subcultures
Before, you’d be a goth and watch goth movies and listen to goth music and dress in all black. Now you just dress like that and it doesn’t matter who you are. The fashion isn’t the byproduct of the subculture: the fashion is the subculture.
Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick • Lol Fashion's Giving Me an Existential Crisis 😅
What is a scene? It is a group of people who are producing work in public but aimed at each other. The metal bands in Karlshamn, where Schuster grew up, were a scene. They performed on stage — but the audience was mainly their friends who played in other bands. If they were anything like the other local scenes I’ve seen, they challenged and sup
... See moreHenrik Karlsson • Scene creation engines and apprenticeships
It makes sense that norms are shifting in this direction as Gen Z’s influence spreads. Raised on social media, with access to once illicit bad-taste touchstones like Rocky Horror just a click away, they’ve largely replaced IRL subcultures with a constellation of aesthetics—cottagecore, dark academia, Y2K—to be performed, then discarded or demoted... See more
judy berman • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
So I will risk sounding like an old raver shaking her cane to note that subcultures, even the vapid ones, used to tie their participants to people and places. Getting into a scene could be work; it required figuring out whom to talk to, or where to go, and maybe hanging awkwardly around a record store or nightclub or street corner until you got... See more
archive.ph
Part of the inherent strangeness of belonging to any sub-culture is that you behave in ways that start to feel totally normal to you, but, understandably, seem utterly bizarre to anyone on the outside.The quirks of our obsessions aren't always glamorous. And yet these moments can still absolutely be worthy of celebration. After all, they're part of... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Several theories have been proposed, some less plausible than others. The dullness of long, dark winters is a common suggestion. The melodic nature of the language is another. It has also been pointed out that Sweden has the highest concentration of choirs in the world — eight percent of the population are active singers. Then there is the fact
... See moreHenrik Karlsson • Scene creation engines and apprenticeships
There’s power in signaling insider knowledge to outsiders, so naturally we see the memetic propagation of idiomatic lore artifacts beyond the bounds of where they actually convey meaning. But as time goes on, their density and alienation from more universal lexicons makes it hard for even the ‘in-group’ to keep track of this internal meaning. It’s... See more
Libby Marrs • How to Read the Internet
we have the sense that what we're consuming is more personalized which is a little bit at odds with consuming as a community right so the idea of the monoculture if you have a monoculture it's pretty easy to situate the counterculture in relation to that right with the monoculture is everyone watching Game of Thrones at the same time the
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