Great take and great piece. 'ALT-Tok brings me to this thing idea I keep noticing. There has long been a through line of 'New Thing' (( Underground / Sub-Culture => Mainstream Adoption / Capitalist Absorption => lame/cringe/soy/etc. => Branching Off => Repeat )). What is changing, I feel, is the Candance. Were it once was a deep breath in and out, this "desperate bid to find something 'new'" has become a hyperventilation. A hyperventilation that does not seem sustainable.
Great take and great piece. 'ALT-Tok brings me to this thing idea I keep noticing. There has long been a through line of 'New Thing' (( Underground / Sub-Culture => Mainstream Adoption / Capitalist Absorption => lame/cringe/soy/etc. => Branching Off => Repeat )). What is changing, I feel, is the Candance. Were it once was a deep breath in and out, this "desperate bid to find something 'new'" has become a hyperventilation. A hyperventilation that does not seem sustainable.
vry true and real
so true hit the nail right on the head