Lul'd. Someone should do a gnome.
Are you against subcultures?
Oliver Sanders
Austin Mitchell
…which is actually why I kind of support these type of events. Of course it's commodified trash sometimes, but these things are like what Marx called opium for the people. Is an escape from alienating class society as your social background does not matter. You can be a garbage man and bang your head with a business owner, but then you leave and the guy suddenly has different interests than you and becomes your class enemy. At these type of events we can all be friends for a while.
Ryan Price
Good post
Connor Morales
I am against commercialised subcultures which de-facto becomes being against nearly all of them.
That said, there is a novelty to this because I prefer overtly commercial subcultures to "independent" ones, that it is to say that a musical subculture, even one based around buying a commercial product from a producer, is much preferable to a "horizontal" subculture like the furry fandom where the producers and the consumers have a closer direct social relationship rather than a clear hierarchy. Such open social relations inevitably lead to the commodification of these relations to a greater degree, and from there are much more disturbing than simple identity-management.
David Bailey
I just think they're natural. Subcultures is how a society that is pluralistic and diverse structures and segments itself to make cohesion easier. People have different values, preferences and lifestyles, and having to meet one by one to find out which side of the fence they're in would be painful, so we adopt a series of signs and symbols to make identification easier. It's a simple way of finding out where you belong.
Thomas Green
From the few german i know
The fuck is with punks,emos,goths and church groups
Is Stasi politics or the churche became a harbour for anti-gov people
Eli Turner
Subcultures were basically always a thing. Each religion had it's own culture even when residing under the same nation. Also each class has always had cultural differences as well.
You're looking at it the wrong way. It adds more variety to the bigger picture because people for whatever reason naturally try fit in with groups. What is more uniform one big group of all society or a larger group and multiple smaller ones? This should be obvious. Ideally to me I would rather people just stick to what they like but most aren't creative enough to make something new.
Gavin Bailey
lmao that pic is killing me. i'm too lazy to translate it all, but it's basically boomers trying to understand youth culture.
some personal faves
Jason Allen
10/10
Owen Myers
I don't really disagree with you but getting into a goth club is literally the easiest shit ever, I have tons of friends in these "alternative" subcultures despite never appropriating the aesthetic and I always got in fine wearing some black; in fact my dress would be more uniform than most other people there. You're probably also not involved enough in these cultures to recognize the difference between the kinds of people that go to these places, hence why they all seem the same to you. Tbh I personally think the dress code is bullshit but I can understand where it comes from because you actually can't get into contemporary clubs wearing the getup that a lot of goths would, so it's not actually like it's any different from mainstream culture, and having seen it first hand, the people wearing normal clothes to get into goth clubs are 99% of the time there to be cunts after their regular clubs closed (doesn't hurt that we have the best drugs either lmao). Idk where you live but I gotta say, Metal Festivals in the UK aren't like that either as well, people generally wear whatever they want even if black shirts are overrepresented.