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The future of ~2000 belonged to the weird, too. We commodified all that. Anything briefly and seemingly "quirky" is fodder for branding. Or you can go a little
by Arubis 1mo ago
The future of ~2000 belonged to the weird, too. We commodified all that. Anything briefly and seemingly "quirky" is fodder for branding. Or you can go a little further than quirky, and someone like RFK will want to put you on a list.
- Lord-Jobo 1mo agoYes. Being weird now means either getting crushed into a fine paste by the machine or being squeezed into an empty crumpled husk for your valuable weirdness juices. There is no winning scenario left for weirdness
- Arubis 1mo agoThe winning move is not to play (in a capitalistic sense). My best guess at a survive-and-thrive strategy for a subculture is to stay as far away as possible from any centralizing influences or infrastructure. Money is one of those. The millennial compulsion to turn hobbies into income streams is particularly pernicious here and needs deliberate excision. Another is the majority of today’s internet. I suspect it’s not worth the risk of trying to engage in networked-but-decentralized spaces because that’s such a short leap to Instagram. Just do it offline.