are youth subcultures dead? & were you ever a mod/rocker/goth/sea-punk etc?

can genuine youth subcultures still exist given internet age blah blah blah?

do subcultures need to be oppositional to dominant culture to have any meaning?

was the idea of subculture a neo-liberal scam idea imbuing an inflated meaning into what was really just consumerism?

did you, or do you, consider yourself a member of a subculture?

oh boy.

this made me think the whole idea seems pretty bankrupt
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/12/computers-can-now-automatically-stereotype-hipsters-and-bikers/7857/

I think subcultures can and do exist around shared activities and values, and that maybe they're more real when these tribes of people are united by more than purchasing decisions. But ~internet atomization~ or whatever means anyone can throw around the signifiers of any small community they spent a few minutes reading about--it destroys lots of the barrier to entry for certain subcultures. It makes it easier to define yourself alongside or against groups of people that are now more easily gathered and speaking.

idk

oh boy.

― i like HOOS but this took the cake off my table (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, January 6, 2014 12:12 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

bronies

well there seem to be a lot of the ones now where they dress up in costumes

hoos, are you a member of the anarchist subculture?

bronies and that sort of thing seems like a self-consciously ironic absurdist parody of a subculture maybe?

bronies are for real, I don't think they get irony

ibrony

briony

hoos, are you a member of the anarchist subculture?

― Mordy , Monday, January 6, 2014 5:21 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah i would say i was "in" for a while (invites to secret meetings! generalizing misdeeds!) but not these days, what with me selling out and all. it helps when you live in a park.

wtf is this "sea-punk" shit, all Google gives me is fashion and tumblrs

yes, that is correct

yup

i think it was more or less a prank

is there such thing as an adult subculture?

did hoos quantum leap into this thread

to flag post what once went wrong

did hoos quantum leap into this thread

― r|t|c, Monday, January 6, 2014 5:36 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i actually thought about posting the gif

i'm lost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v4zCHRf8Ro

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/male-fans-made-bettie-page-a-star-but-female-fans-made-her-an-icon/282794/

“To me, Bettie was a gateway into subcultures like rockabilly and burlesque, which are very body-positive environments to women with ample curves who want to celebrate their bodies,” Pumphrey says.

oh god, the rockabilly and/or burlesque thing is definitely real

yes

no

no

no

rockabilly/burlesque seems like the retirement home of subcultures, the off-ramp to "cool" adulthood taken by generations now of former punk rock/skinhead/metalhead whatever kids

don't forget ska

A couple of times a year i walk past a queue of hundreds of white teenagers in impeccable Japanese Gothic-Lolita drag waiting to see a vis kei band in the middle of London and it reminds me that internet has opened up so many new avenues for people looking for a youth sub-culture to fit in to.

rockabilly/burlesque seems like the retirement home of subcultures, the off-ramp to "cool" adulthood taken by generations now of former punk rock/skinhead/metalhead whatever kids

This is so otm, and I want to share it on facebook, but I don't want my friends this applies to declaring war on me.

before
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8xyleiMEs1qboiado1_400.jpg

after
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/47/a9/a7/47a9a7dd9110f6af5e7d3da8a1cc5215.jpg

damn

before
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8xyleiMEs1qboiado1_400.jpg

after
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/47/a9/a7/47a9a7dd9110f6af5e7d3da8a1cc5215.jpg

in fairness, classic 50's rock n roller does age better than some other post-metal/punk etc. styles

http://images3.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/bands/m/metallica/ulrich_lars/281x211.jpg?width=281&height=211

I remember being really confused when I went to a psychobilly show at like age 18 expecting a bunch of half-fed punk snots and finding a bunch of people that looked like parents in costume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXkfsACXZq0