[Exenith]

Mainstream culture doesn't exist? That's hilariously wrong. Kanye West would like you to twerk to some Hunger Games and The Hobbit, and take a selfie on Snapchat while #hashtagging about it on Twitter. Just don't take a naked one like Jennifer Lawrence. And don't forget to catch The Big Bang Theory next Sunday! Isn't the Harlem Shake so last year? And Psy, oh my God, who listens to Gangnam Style anymore?

If you think mainstream culture doesn't exist, you're probably stuck right inside it -- or so far from it that you don't even realize it's there. Oh well, back to playing some CS:GO.

[gohrt]

I've heard of most of those things (except "CS:GO"). I have directly experienced some of them. My parents

I don't think "famous" is the same as "mainstream". For one thing, anything captured in digital form can break out to "famous" from any niche, using Internet's multiplicative effect. Is Psy mainstream because one of his hundreds of songs got a billion views on YouTube? Or is "Gangnam Style" mainstream, while Psy is niche?