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7/24/2025, 7:07:04 AM
>>7661641
NTA, but I think it's a bit of a symbiotic relationship, and it's important to blame both. In the late 2010s we really saw the commercialization of a lot of subcultures in a way that really hadn't happened before. Not just in broad strokes, like Hot Topic or whatever. The 'cult-hit' ceased to be a thing altogether, because anything that got even vaguely popular would be repackaged as a mass market product and resold to normies looking to be hip and cool. And they ate that shit up, destroying any and all cultural identity for pure aesthetic value. And in the end the result is that aesthetic value, whether the aesthetic of the work or the aesthetic of consuming, is really all anyone pays attention to anymore.
NTA, but I think it's a bit of a symbiotic relationship, and it's important to blame both. In the late 2010s we really saw the commercialization of a lot of subcultures in a way that really hadn't happened before. Not just in broad strokes, like Hot Topic or whatever. The 'cult-hit' ceased to be a thing altogether, because anything that got even vaguely popular would be repackaged as a mass market product and resold to normies looking to be hip and cool. And they ate that shit up, destroying any and all cultural identity for pure aesthetic value. And in the end the result is that aesthetic value, whether the aesthetic of the work or the aesthetic of consuming, is really all anyone pays attention to anymore.
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