"Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire" --Charles Baudelaire (Sorry for the French quote) I think that IGC

"Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire" --Charles Baudelaire (Sorry for the French quote) I think that IGC tactics is also very common for the adepts of Dandyism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy Bourdieu also wrote a book on something tangentially related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_(book) "In a specific social field, agents are constantly caught between two contradictory intentions. To be recognized in a field, one must distinguish oneself from it, but distinguishing oneself also leads to being excluded from it. Officers therefore need to adjust the balance between distinction and compliance. To have style is to follow fashion while standing out from it with a few personal touches." (Translated from the better French version of the wikipedia page)