- Free Tibet - white people claiming to be 'Buddhist' (significant crossover with the above) - libertarianism - vegetarianism (not veganism) - frozen yogurt - the Urban Fantasy genre - the Coexist sticker - 3D movies - the concept of a 'poser' or 'sellout' What else can you think of?
Cultural phenomena that were everywhere but disappeared :
Anonymous :
37 days ago :
No.4991
>>5071
>>4991 (OP)
Hummel figurines. My grandparents had so many of these things, and they're basically worthless because no one wants them. The Beanie Babies of their time.
When I was in Berkeley ten years ago there were some leftover Free Tibet signs and trinkets. Nostalgic
Anti-poser aktion is well and alive in the metal community.
My thesis is that these broad cultural trends come and go by too fast, artificially sped up by aggressive market capital (while ultimately being derived or pushed by it in the first place), and this has a negative effect on the individual's ability to center themselves historically.
I'll beat it in your head as much as I want to and no moid seething will make me do otherwise
>the concept of a 'poser' or 'sellout'
made me think of a week or two ago when someone called me a hipster for liking some indie video game. I was genuinely taken aback for being called a hipster in 2025 lol
good thread before the social media runoff arrived
Pprotecting the rainforests and concern about overfishing being the main environmental causes to support. Now it's all about climate change.
Anonymous :
36 days ago :
No.5022
>>5024
>>5022
>LOTR is the only good fantasy, the rest is crap
You would love /lit/'s sci-fi and fantasy general. It's full of your peers who do no read.
I'm a white (but not because race isn't real) Vajrayana Buddhist and vegetarian not vegan. LOTR is the only good fantasy, the rest is crap. Free Tibet!
Anonymous :
36 days ago :
No.5024
>>5025
>>5024
I read enough to know what hyperbole means. My disagreement actually stems from how much mythology I've read. Tolkien is great because he's one of the few fantasy authors who respected mythology enough to do a good job creating his own. Most genre fiction is instead regurgitated tropes. I would rather reread a children's book version of the former (e.g., Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series) than a single new book of the latter.
>>5022
I'm a white (but not because race isn't real) Vajrayana Buddhist and vegetarian not vegan. LOTR is the only good fantasy, the rest is crap. Free Tibet!
>LOTR is the only good fantasy, the rest is crap
You would love /lit/'s sci-fi and fantasy general. It's full of your peers who do no read.
Anonymous :
36 days ago :
No.5025
>>5027
>>5025
If you're looking for passion then you need to shift to self-pub over traditional pub-housing crap.
>Dark is Rising
Got an example of something not hugely popular?
>>5024
>>5022
>LOTR is the only good fantasy, the rest is crap
You would love /lit/'s sci-fi and fantasy general. It's full of your peers who do no read.
I read enough to know what hyperbole means. My disagreement actually stems from how much mythology I've read. Tolkien is great because he's one of the few fantasy authors who respected mythology enough to do a good job creating his own. Most genre fiction is instead regurgitated tropes. I would rather reread a children's book version of the former (e.g., Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series) than a single new book of the latter.
>>5025
>>5024
I read enough to know what hyperbole means. My disagreement actually stems from how much mythology I've read. Tolkien is great because he's one of the few fantasy authors who respected mythology enough to do a good job creating his own. Most genre fiction is instead regurgitated tropes. I would rather reread a children's book version of the former (e.g., Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series) than a single new book of the latter.
If you're looking for passion then you need to shift to self-pub over traditional pub-housing crap.
>Dark is Rising
Got an example of something not hugely popular?
Anonymous :
36 days ago :
No.5039
>>5045
>>5039
This will be part of life in the US forever. The television set is on an immutable shortlist of universal identity/status commodities alongside cars.
Fancy televisions. I'm posting from the UK, so I'm not sure what it's like elsewhere, and I also don't watch TV anymore, so that could have something to do with it, but I do remember always seeing adverts for expensive television sets with elaborate acronyms and numbers attached. Like 2000 OLED LED FLAT SCREEN TV ONLY £1999. You'd go into department stores where they'd always have a section decked with overpriced TVs on rows like bleachers, which you don't see anymore. I assume new generations are using laptops and phones more often now.
>>5039
Fancy televisions. I'm posting from the UK, so I'm not sure what it's like elsewhere, and I also don't watch TV anymore, so that could have something to do with it, but I do remember always seeing adverts for expensive television sets with elaborate acronyms and numbers attached. Like 2000 OLED LED FLAT SCREEN TV ONLY £1999. You'd go into department stores where they'd always have a section decked with overpriced TVs on rows like bleachers, which you don't see anymore. I assume new generations are using laptops and phones more often now.
This will be part of life in the US forever. The television set is on an immutable shortlist of universal identity/status commodities alongside cars.
VR is around
Flat screen TVs float around freely in the US. I got one for $20
Anonymous :
36 days ago :
No.5071
>>5072
>>5071
First time hearing of them, just looked them up. Why are they all wearing lederhosen
>>4991 (OP)
Hummel figurines. My grandparents had so many of these things, and they're basically worthless because no one wants them. The Beanie Babies of their time.
>>5071
>>4991 (OP)
Hummel figurines. My grandparents had so many of these things, and they're basically worthless because no one wants them. The Beanie Babies of their time.
First time hearing of them, just looked them up. Why are they all wearing lederhosen
the free tibet thing is interesting. it's really interesting to watch older (80s, early 90s) movies and see what kind of random propaganda they shove in. they were really pressuring china back then
What happened to Red Scare podcast? Dasha and Anna? Used to hear about them all the time
Anonymous :
23 days ago :
No.5441
>>5449
>>5441
Like other things in this thread, I wonder if this has become so ubiquitous that it is a meaningless phrase. As in, cyber bullying among youth was once something new to be differentiated, but now since every zoom zoom has a phone, and their parents, and so on, it lacks all charge.
The phrase cyber bullying
>>5441
The phrase cyber bullying
Like other things in this thread, I wonder if this has become so ubiquitous that it is a meaningless phrase. As in, cyber bullying among youth was once something new to be differentiated, but now since every zoom zoom has a phone, and their parents, and so on, it lacks all charge.
"sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt me"
"mind your own business"
"if all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?"
"don’t air your dirty laundry in public"
"life's not fair"
Anonymous :
14 days ago :
No.5754
>>5761
>>5754
>we still see Holocaust propaganda injected to most mainstream films
Utter nonsense. Talk about forced narratives. Are you seriously claiming MOST mainstream movies reference the holocaust in some way? I’ve just looked at my city’s cinema chain and I can’t see a single holocaust film or any film that would reference the holocaust at all.
MOST mainstream films! Hate Jews all you want but you retards make yourselves look stupid with claims like this.
Sadly, we still see Holocaust propaganda injected to most mainstream films and even TV. The production companies must get subsidies or kickbacks from the ADL or similar because it always feels so tacked on to non-related narratives. Cannot wait til that forced "trend" dies.
Actual punks and goths have disappeared. I know there's the whole "goth mommy" thing that zoomers are into, but are people like that actual goths? Probably not.
>>5754
Sadly, we still see Holocaust propaganda injected to most mainstream films and even TV. The production companies must get subsidies or kickbacks from the ADL or similar because it always feels so tacked on to non-related narratives. Cannot wait til that forced "trend" dies.
>we still see Holocaust propaganda injected to most mainstream films
Utter nonsense. Talk about forced narratives. Are you seriously claiming MOST mainstream movies reference the holocaust in some way? I’ve just looked at my city’s cinema chain and I can’t see a single holocaust film or any film that would reference the holocaust at all.
MOST mainstream films! Hate Jews all you want but you retards make yourselves look stupid with claims like this.