There was never one culture, but the fragmentation was far more coarse. I was into D&D, so I was exposed to anime, comics, Monty Python, Mel Brooks, and Tom Le

There was never one culture, but the fragmentation was far more coarse. I was into D&D, so I was exposed to anime, comics, Monty Python, Mel Brooks, and Tom Lehrer, because those were a certain subculture. I was never a comic-book nerd, but I could probably name a dozen different series from image comics in the 90s because I was surrounded by people who read them. I flat out dislike watching Mel Brooks movies, but I can quote about 90% of Spaceballs or Blazing Saddles because that was a part of the vocabulary of that group.