As an adult, teen subcultures are fundamentally obscure. It's hard as adults to say whether they're truly "fading" or whether they're simply inaccessible, which

As an adult, teen subcultures are fundamentally obscure. It's hard as adults to say whether they're truly "fading" or whether they're simply inaccessible, which is what they're meant to be. Or both. I tend to think it's both, and that these kinds of articles miss a critical piece of the puzzle: you cannot have a youth culture if the surrounding culture is hostile towards public spaces, third spaces, &c. One consequence of American suburbanization and car dependence has been the development of a fundamental apathy towards those kinds of third spaces.