Subcultures continue to exist, but they have become smaller and more focused on online communities such as Subreddits and Discord servers. Subcultures were iden

Subcultures continue to exist, but they have become smaller and more focused on online communities such as Subreddits and Discord servers. Subcultures were identified by people expressing similar aesthetic values through visible means like clothing. Now there is a greater emphasis on shared internal belief systems rather than external social performances. Newer subcultures position themselves as cultural-memetic innovators within the mainstream, which proves to be more subversive than the LARP-like performances in previous visually-oriented subcultures.