most of the people fretting over this didn't do anything of import in the 2000s beyond "going out" (neither did i, really) and you sound like tragically, prematurely aged whiners demanding young people take the ephemera of a long-passe nightlife culture seriously
internet-related context erasure is a real issue, especially if looking to learn the history of an era's art and culture. but if you are over 40 and arguing with a 22 year old on here about the definition of "hipster," you are not a historian, you are a loser and should stop that
@bartlebooth45 the only one that really tempts me is the ever-recurring "punk/hc is, was, and always shall be inherently leftist" bullshit, but i just have to remind myself the average user on here now is literally half my age and everyone has to be annoying about this stuff in their own time
@ChumHumCEO yeah at the time it felt more like a rebuke to former peers who were riding the post-nevermind gravy train, i think a lot of people in the touring d.i.y. underground took $5 as The Rule even though they might be drawing 50 or 100 people & splitting it between three to five bands
very goofball mistake, speaking authoritatively with a skimmed the wiki level of knowledge, but that said, as far back as the mid/late 90s i can remember bands complaining that the $5 per show economy did not work if you were not pulling fugazi numbers
@bartlebooth45 obviously goregrind and etc are their own world, but i am kinda glad that people seem to be doing war atrocity covers a lot less, especially hardcore bands. i don't need to see some poor bastard's actual real life decapitated head every time i listen to your record
thing about BOC is that for every new album since geogaddi (and there was probably even a small contingent doing it with music vs. hi scores) the response from many has always been "what is this, i don't like this, this is maybe even bad?" and then two years go by and it's fine
david lynch was out there hawking pizza hut and diet coke and god knows what else alongside bob saget and doogie howser and robin thicke's dad, i think it's probably fine if someone wears a t-shirt now
obviously there are many ways that twin peaks is unlike most (maybe all) other tv series, but the way modern viewers treat the series like some niche art project that might be sullied by commercialism is very funny, it was on the same network as america's funniest home videos
i think i preferred the "getting knifed outside a porn theater" nostalgia people had for new york in 2000 to the "once it was rainforest cafes as far as the eye could see" they apparently have for new york in 2026
@Psychic_Driving the most advanced tech in a constantine story should be a CD player and even then it's only affordable to the kind of people he mostly hates