Still, the aesthetic and rhetorical strategies of subcultural trolling live on.
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On the other hand, a subcultural cliquishness creeps into the movie.
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But America is a big country, criss-crossed with deep subcultural seams.
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"Deradicalization" efforts need to see the root beneath each individual subcultural bush.
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"The queer characters are not portrayed as being exotic or subcultural," he said.
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I would say the entire splintering of the subcultural style started with that.
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Although it wasn't '2000, clubbing still felt like a subcultural activity in 21.
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That postmodernist, Marxist framework remains the dominant method of dissecting subcultural aesthetics today.
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The alt-right lures disaffected adolescents with subcultural signals that baffle the uninitiated.
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The structures that are in place tend to exist on an individual, subcultural, level.
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The subcultural niche beckons us, because it promises reality in an authenticity-starved landscape.
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With his signature scrawl and subcultural roots, he's easily the equal of Raymond Pettibon.
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You can also pair your business casual with subtle subcultural nods of skull-themed jewelry.
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And the faster the fashion system gobbles up subcultural style, the more so it will be.
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So it became kind of the dominant subcultural style for about two and a half decades.
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While DesignerCon (or DCon) is a subcultural cousin ComicCon, it's an artist and maker-centric affair.
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Who here today would fend off the "subcultural revolution" if it were to spread toward Hong Kong?
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Subcultural interest in manga, anime, and gaming ran through much of the art in the black market.
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The band's scrappy songs brimmed with punk attitude, but tossed out the subcultural signifiers for an everyman perspective.
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This connection can be traced to the ways subcultural trolls would gleefully deploy hateful, often explicitly racist language.
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Instead, forms of "subcultural mobilization," like racist online message boards, are playing an increasingly significant role in radicalization.
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They trace their admiration of the style to other shared subcultural interests but still, at the center, the clothes.
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Some of them had unnaturally colored hair and punk-rock piercings, signalling industry seniority as much as subcultural affiliation.
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He arrived with the weight of expectation which befitted his stature as a subcultural force of nature in Japan.
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Something which is very lightweight, very airy, with a lot of linen and cotton that has a 1950s subcultural movement.
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Russians speak Russian; English skills can't be taken for granted, especially outside the subcultural capitals of St. Petersburg and Moscow.
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Even the largest web forums felt vaguely subcultural, existing as they did in relative isolation from countless other communities online.
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When I do these projects, I'll do lots of subcultural work, and I'll trace back to who were the pioneers.
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These dark, subcultural figures–sometimes vampires–came very close together with me discovering music and what makes a pop artist.
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Pop music is accessible and available in ways that more subcultural music isn't, but this dynamic doesn't just present itself anywhere.
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Even as this luscious à la mode mag depicted the values of a budding subcultural aesthetic, it was not for sale.
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He's been defying gravity since the 1980s when he was a teenager and the sport was becoming a rising subcultural force.
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As MDMA went from being a subcultural phenomenon to a key player in the mainstream, ketamine piggy-backed on that drug's rise.
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Often referred to as the thin blue line, police officers share a subcultural bond with each other that knows no jurisdictional bounds.
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No one had thought of doing that before, coupling music and men's wear together to publicly explore their own teenage subcultural affiliations.
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It's challenging work, in its language, its stories, its subcultural references ("prince died for fem bois"), yet it offers pellucid queer intimacies.
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Only one week out from the film's wide release, it's too early to tell how the subcultural narrative on Joker will shake out.
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This isn't the first time that Germ has elevated glassblowing from its usual Pop and subcultural confines into the world of fine art.
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Though "Green Room" takes place in the smartphone-enabled present and assembles a cast of talented millennials, it explores a venerable subcultural terrain.
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I'd been charged with documenting the nightlife that revolves around Britain's many subcultural groups, and so spent roughly a weekend a month doing so.
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But music—both popular and subcultural—often wins its fans by offering dreams of an ideal life away from the mundane nine to five.
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There was rebellion there, too: His clothes were colored with subcultural undercurrents — culled from the electronic and punk music scenes — that proved widely influential.
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Unlike these documentary works, The Punk Reader is crammed with in-text citations, references to movements in subcultural studies, and charts of ethnographic research.
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That just means there's a lot of different subcultural styles that are reflective of far-right ideology and are deployed as part of the scene.
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Fascist efforts to recruit and influence often take place under shades of ambiguity within subcultural spaces, for instance at shows, parties, in magazines, and online.
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Some of these religious dissenters are seeking a tactical retreat from liberal modernity, a subcultural resilience in the style of Orthodox Jews or Mennonites or Mormons.
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But Literal Hitler was an inside joke, destabilizing by design; as with any subcultural code, from camp to hip-hop, it was crafted to confuse outsiders.
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A group of National Front members agreed on a "metapolitical" approach, intervening in subcultural milieus like punk and metal to turn them into breeding grounds for fascism.
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The setting was Gaga's idea, and it becomes an effective way of infusing the movie with the queer subcultural cachet she became famous for earlier in her career.
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"The first risk you run is inadvertently endorsing or promoting an image with a subcultural meaning that you wouldn't endorse if you know it was there," she said.
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Prior to TrumpScript's release, a number of "esoteric" languages—Arnold C and LOLCODE, to name a few—surfaced, infusing blithe humor into computer code to create subcultural inside jokes.
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Regardless of any performativity Myspace and emo encouraged, it also provided space for experimentation and acceptability that leaked out of that strange subcultural bubble in the form of dialogue.
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Part of the move appears to be due to the character's popularity as a subcultural figure of sorts — Peppa is a popular face in online memes on the mainland.
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It's what makes e-girls or e-boys different from their subcultural forebearers: You can actually spot a goth or a scene kid or a hipster on the street.
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I've worked in the academic field of what I variously call "the hell" or "everything that's terrible" since 2008, when I began researching subcultural trolls on and around 4chan.
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Science fiction, long derided for childishness and subcultural irrelevance, is now mainstream Hollywood's primary output: 14 of the top 20 grossing films of all time are science fiction or fantasy.
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Since Minassian's apparent reference to the subcultural movement emerged after the Toronto attack, some members of the incels site have hailed him as a new hero, a CNN review found.
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I'm not the only one to see Sephiroth as a transgender icon; in certain online communities, there's a subcultural discourse around the idea that he could be read as transgender.
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In 2017, however, the term has lost its clear subcultural meaning, and because of its various ethical baggage, makes very little sense to toss around as an internet catch-all.
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" While there had been pieces or collections that were influenced by subcultural style (like Yves Saint Laurent's infamous "Beat Collection"), "It didn't infect the whole system in the same way.
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Months later, here we are in the thick of another meme cycle wherein high school subcultural dynamics are explored and consumed by people a decade or more removed from them.
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Cultural scripts relate to national ideologies and expectations, subcultural to those ideologies at the local level (or according to ethnic or religious group), and interpersonal to interactions you have with others.
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It would also be a mistake to accuse those affiliated with Berkeley's "Free Speech Week," or anyone affiliated with future free speech events, of being trolls in any straightforward or subcultural sense.
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But the Beat look, with its subcultural undercurrents, was too much for the then-conservative house of Dior, which refused to contest Saint Laurent's call to compulsory army service later that year.
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I hazard to say that even subcultural queers who weren't plagued by the substance abuse issues I contended with mostly viewed kids as a potential drag on their liberties, or simply an impossibility.
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The event, the first of its kind in the world, represents the growth of the subcultural vanguard of indigenous-created media that is slowly working its way into the multibillion dollar comic industry.
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The metal scene, punk, bioregionalism, and other interlinked subcultural milieus continue to provide a sense of belonging for those who need it, but often become insular and defensive when criticized from the outside.
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Since the story's inception, millions of readers have clung onto every last panel, text conversation, Flash animation, and interactive game that made Homestuck the unique, strange, and utterly engrossing subcultural phenomenon it was.
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A good chunk of the NYC-originated cultural products you currently enjoy, from disco to hip-hop, exist because they were born and bred outside of the law, in illegal underground subcultural environments.
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Class is drag, gender is passé, offices have ball pits and nap pods, and retail is a Rorschach test, with infinitely tweakable subcultural niches waiting to be unscrambled into a look unique to you.
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The internet had altered the flows of our subcultural capital, bringing "anyone with a few hours up to speed" on things that only a dedicated fan would once have taken the time to learn.
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As I interpreted them over the years, he was the bandmember who was interested enough in other people to consistently 'hang' / think there is something worth talking to into the afterhours of subcultural nightlife.
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Subcultural trolls' traditional rhetorical strategies (honed over time within the community and passed on to new recruits through a process of socialization) are the most critical, and most enduring, of these points of continuity.
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There was just enough internet to boost economic productivity (the Facebook-Amazon era has not had a similar effect), just enough to encourage subcultural ferment, just enough to challenge cultural gatekeepers and give lonely teenagers succor.
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In recent years, academics and lawyers in mainland China have denounced a phenomenon they call a "subcultural revolution": a climate of fear that resembles, even if it hardly matches, the repression of a half-century ago.
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On any given weekend night, various subcultural groups—rebels, groovers, housers, and mods, among others—within the party scene would congregate in backyards from East and South Los Angeles to the surrounding valleys and Orange County.
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"There was nothing like it," he says of the way punk rose through the cracks in the pavement at an alarmingly rapid rate, mutating from a niche concern to a subcultural behemoth in a matter of weeks.
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In recent years, events like Asgardsrei have drawn foreign radicals to Ukraine to network with Azov-affiliated extremists, where they have documented their presence at far-right subcultural events like concerts and MMA tournaments on social media.
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I, at least, wasn't thinking critically about the radical potential of self-publishing, or the capacity for zines to spread political resources, help start movements, or create subcultural communities across long-distances before the internet made that easy.
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She was a self-described "freak," as she sings in "Bad Romance," an outsider, a "mother monster" for her fanbase, often coded as queer, which gave her a subcultural cachet that carried through her Born This Way era.
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Indeed, in 2012, SPIN placed the Moore/Ronaldo duo atop their list of the 100 greatest axe players of all time, a marked appreciation for the tectonic shift they fomented in guitar music—through subcultural streams, no less!
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"Star Wars" and other films had created a vogue for space imagery, but Mr. Lopez and Mr. Ramos seem to have found additional inspiration in a subcultural music and literary genre that would come to be called Afrofuturism.
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Similar dynamics around tolerable and intolerable behaviors played out across this early internet as fan groups, ever more accessible and visible, worked to "monitor the boundaries of a specific form of subcultural performance" on USENET forums such as alt.gothic.
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It may have made sense to talk about trolling as a specific thing during the "golden years" of subcultural formation circa 2003-2011, when participants self-identified as trolls and policed very clear boundaries of what and who qualified.
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Those who were there had made an active choice to be a part of the strange musical and subcultural lineage that Wolf Eyes positioned themselves in, rather than just heeding the call of the thunderous tracks reverberating through downtown.
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"Queer history has never had a 'canon' before, and that's part of what happens when a subcultural history attracts mainstream attention: it has to be turned into a digestible narrative that can be added to history books," wrote Ryan.
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The icons amplify its title's question while anchoring its wider issues firmly within the specific subcultural site of black male hair salons in the Midlands, a part of central England with a sizable British-Jamaican population and cultural heritage.
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For example, seemingly innocuous words like "slash" and "lemon" do not refer to a punctuation mark or a citrus fruit in fannish contexts, and tag wranglers are already well aware that machine translation can only manage the literal, not the subcultural meanings.
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Perhaps it's because Roadburn began as a humble webzine rather than an attempt at subcultural dominance, or perhaps it's because founder Walter Hoeijmakers never lost his youthful enthusiasm for loud and challenging music, but there's something pure and beautiful about the festival.
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For the subcultural trolls I studied, the goal of these efforts was to sow confusion, disrupt communication, and generate the strongest negative reactions possible, which participants somewhat jokingly quantified using the measurement of "lulz," laughter in the face of another person's distress.
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Tillman writes like a man tired of the hot-take cycle, tired of the subcultural petri dishes, tired of all the useless commentary piling up endlessly and bouncing around the echo chambers, a process the dense, imaginative overflow of his lyrics deftly simulates.
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Adam Brody is perfectly cast as the scrawny and beautiful emo frontman, Nikolai—he is, after all, a man known to viewers for being Seth Cohen, the Death Cab-loving nerd of The O.C. who was fantasized about by alternative girls of all subcultural persuasions.
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In order to stop fascists from continuing to organize, subcultures must stand against not just those wearing white polo shirts and khakis but those who are used to the cover of ambiguity often afforded by the insular subcultural dynamics of belonging and in-group formation.
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It wasn't very metal, but it was very nice, and I think the older you get, that's what matters most: not that you're conforming to some kind of subcultural expectation of what you "should" do, but that you're doing things that make you happy.
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While the rest of food and beverage writing has rapidly modernized over the past few decades—surely due to increased representation from writers and chefs of more races, ages, gender representations, socioeconomic backgrounds, and subcultural underpinnings than ever before—wine has remained left in the dust.
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Yes, they're a British doom metal institution—but they're also a celluloid wormhole, a reading list, an aberration in the fabric of space and time who have fed generations of freaks from a bubbling cauldron of cult cinema, bizarre literature, and subcultural reference points from the interzone.
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However, most of the women I talked to referenced a particular subcultural style that's come to represent "alienated" Gen X. It was a look that combined influences from third-wave feminism and queer fashion with working-class explorations of thrift stores and blue-collar functional dress.
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Given the amount of time that has passed since Anonymous first bubbled out of 4chan's cauldron, I must specify: here I am referring specifically to Anonymous circa 2007-2010, a self-styled (and highly winking) "internet hate machine" interchangeable with 4chan's /b/ board and synonymous with subcultural trolling.
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Nowhere else in the world are Instagram models, crusty burners, shitfaced frat bros, normcore daytrippers, dad rock...dads, professional ravers, doomsday preppers, suburban high schoolers, and all sorts of other niche subcultural scene dwellers shoved into such close proximity for half a week of overindulgence in the stifling heat.
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" Any vestige of weed's subcultural appeal is in sharp contrast with the air of corporate dullness hanging over the venue's carpeted hallways and fluorescent-lit conference rooms, where hour-long panels range from "The ABCs of CBD" and "Sustainable Cannabis Cultivation" to "Creative Ways to Push Through Marketing Restrictions.
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Challenging to follow even though they're seldom slurred or speeded up, his lyrics evoke without defining a humorous humanism that takes the immaturity off his subcultural jousting and erotic ups and downs—and thus firms up the stuff that preoccupies most newbies who think you could never write shit like this.
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When the documentary Beautiful Losers opened ten years ago, in 2008 at IFC Center in Greenwich Village, Rose said there was a line out the door waiting to celebrate a group of skateboarders, graffiti writers, filmmakers, and artists whose seemingly disconnected creative practices had formed a kind of subcultural movement they only recognized in hindsight.
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And many of the behaviors heralded by the alt-right—for example gaming post-debate polls or "shitposting" forums with racist pro-Trump memes—echo longstanding subcultural trolling tactics, like when trolling participants gamed the Time 100 list to favor 4chan founder Christopher "moot" Poole and cluttered more forums with more bigoted expression than can possibly be quantified.
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One of the funny-awful side effects of formerly subcultural interests, like comic books and video games, coming not just into the mainstream but into cultural dominance, is that you have all these resentful fans patrolling their borders, insisting that only a select few have the right to hold an opinion on some of the most widely consumed entertainment offerings in the world.
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Though the word "trolling" rose to prominence in the early-mid 2000s as a specific, bounded point of subcultural self-identification, the term has been applied to so many different kinds of behaviors in so many different contexts over the last ten years that big and small, damaging and harmless, progressive and reactionary, are now flattened into one slippery category vaguely suggesting disruptiveness.
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As they stand face to face in the center panel, halos floating above their heads, heavy, dark smoke floats out of a chimney and a graveyard on either side, perhaps allusions to social decay, to the Columbine victims, or even to the teenage girls who became emotionally and sexually obsessed with the shooters, a subcultural phenomenon Rogers discovered while creating the exhibitions.
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It was a time when people were able to make a good living, and young people could find regular paid work through youth services (a Party invention that allowed high school and college students to work for money in their spare time), and with their earnings they would go to the Italian border city of Trieste or to Vienna or even to London to witness the new subcultural trends and buy records.
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Within the past two years, the semi-ironic nostalgia of synthwave and vaporwave has outgrown its subcultural roots and seeped into the mainstream—a process exemplified by MTV's use of vaporwave in branding, and the popularity of the soundtrack to hit Neflix series Stranger Things, by Austin synthwave group S U R V I V E. At the same time, fascists have flipped this retromania around, collapsing the ironic distance into a vortex of nostalgia for the worst elements of the Reagan era.
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Here we find Eugene von Bruenchenhein's copious photographs of his often topless and apparently game wife; the rather creepier ballerina-doll pictures made by Morton Bartlett, after devoting laborious attention to crafting the dolls themselves; the insouciant intensities of Greer Lankton, revolving around gender reassignment and the refashioning of icons, both cultural (Jackie O.) and subcultural (Candy Darling) through dolls and photographs; and selections from the inscrutable archive of Polaroids taken of actresses on television by the anonymous photographer known as Type 42.
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Compare the first election won by Obama, in which social media devotees reproduced the iconic but official blue-and-red stylized stencil portrait of the new president with HOPE printed across the bottom, a portrait created by artist Shepard Fairey and approved by the official Obama campaign, to the bursting forth of irreverent mainstream-baffling meme culture during the last race, in which the Bernie's Dank Meme Stash Facebook page and The Donald subreddit defined the tone of the race for a young and newly politicized generation, with the mainstream media desperately trying to catch up with a subcultural in-joke style to suit two emergent anti-establishment waves of the right and left.
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