One of my favorite musicians is NateLikesToBattle, who makes English renditions of anime openings. Hes got a ton of views, seems to be doing fine. A couple of

One of my favorite musicians is NateLikesToBattle, who makes English renditions of anime openings. Hes got a ton of views, seems to be doing fine. A couple of video game scores too (River City Girls). I dunno if he does any traditional records, but he is certainly not mainstream. There are a ton of other YouTubers that come to mind (Wellerman / sea shanty memes for example) which became outrageously popular on YouTube, Tik Tok. How do we count these performances? ------- Video wise, more and more kids are watching YouTube channels completely alien to me. I really can't keep up with them, but apparently they have millions of views. Dude Perfect, SloMoGuys, some various science channels come up for me a lot. Are these counterculture? I've also participated in some simpler foam-based HEMA combat. As others would call it: LARPing. Is this counterculture? Cause if its considered counterculture and considered dead... I dunno, I see it all over the place. The Age of Empires community rented out a castle and streamed their championship from it. https://youtu.be/2u3HupyXyKQ https://youtu.be/2u3HupyXyKQ That's not mainstream at all. I guess Red Bull sponsored it but otherwise it felt quite natural: the long running members of the community all meeting up and honestly interacting with each other.