>>126921649No, at least not in this way.
It used to be full of contrarians who believed that anything popular was instantly bad, and who gave the highest value to the most obscure and unique stuff they could find.
Then the counter-counter-culture came in. Guys who were completely isolated to online communities like /mu/ saw the snooty hipster and thought that what people are discussing on mongolian leather tanning forums must be what's really popular in the world, so they rebelled against that. Thus, we got poptimism, LARPing neopuritan """christians""", the idiots talking about how there's nothing more punk than giving all your money to billionaires, stuff like that. They hate the boogeyman 'elite' whom they've seen on the internet and assume exists everywhere in the real world and is ruining their life, so they rebel by listening to Top40 pop, posting "christ is king" over and over after going to church exactly twice, and spamming AI slop while proudly proclaiming that they are unable to tell the difference between slop and actual art.
It's an entire wave of sad lonely angry people who've spent their entire lives online and have therefore been convinced that the coolest fucking thing you can possibly do in life is troll smart people and shit your pants.