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[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535900]

>mfw being mainstream will one day be counter culture

[Anonymous No.2535901]

It kind of is already, no? That's what the whole hipster thing is, innit?

[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535903]

>>2535901
Sort of, I guess. But most "hipsters" will still vehemently maintain that they are not "mainstream".

[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535907]

right now counter culture is like rebellious movements against mainstream pop culture eg hipsters, emos, grunge, punks and originally the hippies.

but one day every counter culture avenue will be exhausted and people will be ironically mainstream. Being mainstream will be counter culture. Essentially pop culture will collapse upon itself.

[Anonymous No.2535920]

If mainstream stops being mainstream it wouldn't be mainstream anymore.

[Anonymous No.2535926]

>>2535903
Yes, but arguing in such a manner is mainstream, resenting the mainstream is totally mainstream.

[Anonymous No.2535931]

With the advent of the Internet, everybody is able to become an expert in any given subculture. When everybody's an expert in something, the subculture is gentrified by the sheer number of people interested in it. Therefore there exists a flattening of culture in the Internet age, where everything is mainstream because everybody's into everything. I think Patton Oswalt talks about this a little in an essay or something.

[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535933]

>>2535920
Mainstream as we know it today would remain. It would just be known by future generations as a counter culture.

[Anonymous No.2535936]

>>2535900

Tattoos are a great example of this.

[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535937]

>>2535931
Interesting concept. Well thought.

[Anonymous No.2535938]

>>2535931
that's not what gentrified means, and you should feel bad for using it that way.

[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535942]

>>2535936
An excellent example.

[Anonymous No.2535945]

>>2535936
but tattoos are counter culture that became mainstream, not mainstream becoming counterculture.

[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535947]

>>2535945
It's all one big cycle man

[Anonymous No.2535948]

Not being mainstream is so totally mainstream already.
True hipsters go to work, dress normally, and listen to good, wholesome, music.

[Anonymous No.2535950]

Here's what I think would be brilliant. If a movie began with a fat guy wearing anime glasses while slamming the ham to a meth whore.

Oh, sorry, regarding the thread topic: no, because most people who are into counter culture aren't just poseurs.

[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535953]

>>2535948
10/10

>>2535950
3/10

[None !!22qbPSLZwrI No.2535964]

>>2535900
>mfw children still care about mainstream or not.

if you like something because it is unpopular it's just as bad as liking it because it's popular. it's all the same because you should be enjoying whatever entertainment you want.

[Anonymous No.2535966]

>>2535931
>everybody's into everything
Hardly. But I agree that everybody's into something. This creates a shortage of "alternative" somethings, and the somethings recognized at some point as most "alternative" will quickly become crowded with hipsters, scenesters, cultural critics, and other such existences who subsist on the "alternative" aura, and so will hastily lose said aura.

[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535969]

>>2535964
I understand that mainstream vs underground is all how bunch of rubbish. Don't worry. Just thought it would be an interesting topic to discuss

[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535975]

>>2535969
all a bunch of rubbish*

[Anonymous No.2535990]

lol..old nirvana

[Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw No.2535993]

>>2535948
Quite.

[Anonymous No.2536114]

this thread sucks

[Anonymous No.2536135]

>>2535966
>aura
>walter benjamin

internet brofist