Really interesting article as I've seen this at a second degree level for one of my friends. She was really a "fanatic" (as the article names them) for some "g

Really interesting article as I've seen this at a second degree level for one of my friends. She was really a "fanatic" (as the article names them) for some "geeks" until the number of "mops" started getting larger and larger and at some point I guess the "sociopaths" also showed up, and the New Thing became the Lite Thing (and I'm imagining that in another 2-3 years it will be run into the ground by said "sociopaths", milked of everything that they can). It's interesting that at some point said friend was indeed offered the role of a "actual service worker" (to quote the article), presumably by one of the "sociopaths", but she refused it. At that moment I couldn't understand why ("my friend really likes this Thing! why isn't she willing to get more involved with it and even get paid for the privilege?"), but reading articles like this one I can understand why that happened and why the decision she took was for the best. Later edit: Because I've seen the subculture mentioned in the article's comments, I might as well also mention it here, that is that the New Thing for my friend was in fact a local EDM variant (if you follow ResidentAdvisor religiously you've probably heard of it by now). It would also be interesting to hear from people a little older than me and who have lived through those times how exactly the same thing happened to the punk scene back in the '80s (at least I suppose that's when punk became mainstream and the "sociopaths" took control over it). A similar history for grunge could also be interesting, even though I guess Cobain's suicide precipitated some things.