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 😅
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.
David Chapman • Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
Before there is a subculture, there is a scene. A scene is a small group of creators who invent an exciting New Thing
David Chapman • Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
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Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?
David Chapman • Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
Scenia do not start fully-formed. Instead, they evolve through three stages: communities, micro-scenia, and scenia.
Community: a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common; a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
Examples: early personal
... See morePacky McCormick • Conjuring Scenius — Packy McCormick
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