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> I enjoyed how it marked me out as a mosher and so on. "Yep, I'm not a fashion victim like you, ha". Now everyone's at it. This slap in the face of nostalgia
by dualogy 9y ago
> I enjoyed how it marked me out as a mosher and so on. "Yep, I'm not a fashion victim like you, ha". Now everyone's at it.
This slap in the face of nostalgia is part of growing up I guess. Don't get me started on all the coders nowadays and dudes sitting with laptops in cafes, why & how the heck did my beloved edgy late-90s youth-hood "non-mainstream"/decidedly-perceived-as-freakish-by-society-back-then identity become hijacked and something seemingly every jock and Chad adopts! Guess it all started with Zuck..
- dolzenko 9y agoThank you, you just made me feel so old :)
- shrimpx 9y agoIt's a cycle that keeps happening. Emergent art becomes tokenized and commercialized. The challenge is to keep staying edgy and onto new things.
- mattgreenrocks 9y agoYeah, it is weird. Coding got reappropriated as hip once it became clear th adults had ruined lots of other jobs. What I wonder is whether the people who decried it as nerdy in the past have any sense of cognitive dissonance about holding it in esteem now. My guess is no, because pop culture is ahistorical.