Reminds me of an interesting article about the dynamics of a subculture from birth to death:
The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
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Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#12In a time where tolerance and respect for minorities is slowly becoming mainstream, you could argue that the far-right has become counterculture. The far-right is VERY prevalent on both Instagram, Twitter and other social media.
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#13The internet used to be counterculture. Now it’s the mall. Those of us who feel nostalgia for the countercultural internet … I fear we’re too old to be admitted into current counterculture. We are the culture the youths are countering.
Erm, counter culture has nothing to do with age per se.
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#14You’ll find it on 4chan.
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#15writer obviously doesn't follow any meme accounts. meme accounts get banned all the time and they just create a new account.
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#16The internet used to be counterculture. Now it’s the mall. Those of us who feel nostalgia for the countercultural internet … I fear we’re too old to be admitted into current counterculture. We are the culture the youths are countering.
Erm, counter culture has nothing to do with age per se.
Touche. But many here on HN literally helped build the mainstream web. Or at least gave it their best shot.
Hard to get more mainstream than “i work at facebook/google/whatever”
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#17> To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform which may come in the form of betraying or divesting from your public online self. Interesting enough quote, maybe obvious but maybe a nice reminder too. > Search Google Images for ‘counterculture’ and it overwhelmingly returns black-and-white photos of young people all now over 60. I just love the idea of some social…
Because the term didn't exist or was popularized by people that are now over 60.
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counterculture (n.)
also counter-culture, "way of life or collective values deliberately at variance with the prevailing norms of a time and place," 1968, from counter- + culture (n.).
Popularized by, and perhaps coined in, the book "The Making of a Counter Culture" by U.S. academic Theodore Roszak. As an adjective by 1972.
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#18Hope to see a big wave of counterculture and that's when/if masses of people get off their devices and start interacting IRL.
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#19The real counterculture right now is non-participation.
In a world where virtually everything is either designed to completely waste your time or fail and not be repairable, it's a highly radical act to stop consuming like the 95%, preferring to spend time with other humans in reality doing something that isn't technological. In spite of the popular world pushing the message that you will be fulfilled living in virtual reality and consuming soy/insect products, the radical sets their phone to "do not disturb" and plays frisbee-golf or pub trivia.
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#20Counterculture requires gatekeeping, because most people can't take it, ESPECIALLY anyone who uses Instragram
The best times I've had were having parties where we would work on cool exhibits with barely contained pyrotechnics, Tesla coils that would kill you if you touched it, and an expectation that YOU DO NOT PUT IT ON THE INTERNET and if you get hurt, YOU DID NOT GET HURT HERE.
Everyone wants a nice and curated experience of "counterculture" until they get into a scenario where they are the only person not cool with losing a finger or two from doing something fucking awesome