What was your teenage subculture?

Not much change from now except I learned how to be a bit more social. I was very standoffish in school, as had been picked on straight through junior high and always had to answer back to bullies. Because these people start to lose their power/looks/non-pregnant status when they are 15 or so it was very satisfying to find myself getting cool/ cute at the same age.

East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures. Circa 1985. #yesreally pic.twitter.com/TXF1iFBTNT

— S. Alexander Reed (@industrial_book) November 24, 2018

Tramper ftw.

They all lead back to Punk's

obviously at 30 I'm too old to really *understand* contemporary teenage subculture, and my approach from Glasgow might be very different from an approach in London or New York etc BUT is it just me or has the goth/emo/mosher tradition evaporated significantly?

like even five years ago you would still see groups of teenagers in clothes that made it clear they were Not Mainstream but I never see them any more, young people all look like Branded Content and while I'm sure part of it is just me getting old and not being on a level with it I find it kinda weird that the obvious signifiers of distinction seem far less present

yeah there's been a big demise in subculture identities, it has become less narrow/tribal in that way

yeah, makes me sad that there's no longer a bunch of miserable teen moshers aimlessly shambling around behind the gallery of modern art every time i walk through royal exchange square :(

hot take: it's all spotify and youtube's fault

when I have to go to the office, I often take a train that has a load of schoolkids on it in the morning. Among them is 1 (one) solitary emo kid

the culture war equivalent of those japanese soldiers who refused to accept that wwii had ended and hid in the jungle for decades

My theory is that the relative ubiquity of photography among today's youth has considerably shrunken the window of time between adopting a look and realizing its inadvisability. Those of us who weren't sufficiently mortified by our teenaged sartorial decisions until, say, paging through a yearbook as an adult can barely perceive the flash-in-the-pan nature of today's fads (RIP chillcore, early November 2018-early mid-November 2018).

i feel like you're suggesting here that being a goth is somehow inadvisable, wtf

counterpoint: philadelphia flyers mascot GRUFTY

https://i.imgur.com/hmSKFFB.jpg

I only feel qualified to judge my own unfortunate decisions in that regard (the mesh top was bangin', but the sequined rooster tail was maybe a little OTT).

pics or gtfo

Guys can we move it to the correct thread

he's right folks let's take this to the Finger length may predict financial success thread

Man, that explains so much (I have no fingers).

(And I must type.)

i have no fingers and i must post, harlan ellison (1967)

jinx!

I can never remember, which of us is the sock account of the other again?

(I somehow knew it would be a race against the clock to get my second post in before yours.)

it's socks all the way down iirc

Eager for emil.y's list; meanwhile, the machines are giving me real bad suggestions for how to continue this:

Jimmy Webb - Feet in the Sunshine
Beach Boys - Take a Load Off Your Feet
Parliament - Agony of Defeet
Joanna Wang - Feet
Blind Richard Yates - Sore Bunion Blues

― mick signals

ok i can do this mick!

purple canteen - brains in my feet
bobby valentin - funky big feet
melvin van peebles - come on feet
chic - my feet keep dancing
duke ellington - hot feet
ronnie whitehead - cold feet
shakti - what need have i for this, what need have i for that, i am dancing at the feet of my lord, all is bliss, all is bliss

feet should have socks, it's cold out!

wait i'm totally in the completely wrong thread. sorry!

Rong thred rite sok