[lofatdairy]

Idk, this article seems like it's from the perspective of someone either entirely removed from subculture, or like, just failed to think clearly about the intersection of online spaces and identity.

The main point of the article seems to argue that lacking some cohesive "box" is making it harder for kids to find a community. And even if this _may_ have been a thing before (idk, maybe it was invented by John Hughes movies, it's before my time wtv), I feel like the argument is just pretty weak. It privileges clique-identity over a more diverse, less monolithic identification, and it assumes that community can only found w/in these cliques.

I'm also not sure why the author spends so much time centering on aesthetics as if that's the be-all and end-all of internet culture, and its fragmentation being that which is preventing self-identity. The lack of physical third spaces is indeed a problem, but the kids are still having fun lmfao. The internet has just exposed people to so many more interesting things.

IMO this article in general has a much better understanding and take on the internet as it relates to a older idea of subculture: https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-k...