this is an interesting video culturally, representative of a phase shift; if you’re checking the QRTs it’s all the same kind of people from non-major cities wondering why people don’t think this is a tricky and unique way for suburban white people to signal coolness anymore. hardcore aesthetics are just Mustache Overalls The Lumineers guy to zoomers and gen alpha. another two years and “Alternative” fasion will be looked at like vape mods. they are not prepared in the least for the continued mode collapse of subculture, the pendulum swinging back, and everyone being forced to not pick identities from the identity marketplace but to craft their own. terrifying to consider if you live in a place with poor cultural density like Denver or Central Florida, where this is still seen as a signifier of something because culture is still stuck behind COVID-19’s filtering firewall