It’s really weird for me, as a middle aged guy, that we have the same subcultures and subculture aesthetics that we did 30 years ago.
They’re tired and sputtering, have way less energy and aren’t attached to good art or good taste anymore, and for some reason they appeal to… https://t.co/hhCaqmFOdx
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 9, 2025
No matter what some people claim, culture has been remarkably static. As someone who lived through the very tail end of the 1970s, all of the 1980s, and the 1990s, culture used to change like a damn tornado had swept everything away before it.
Now it’s stuck, other than a few new slang terms and such. Someone who dressed, behaved and spoke like someone from 2005 would not be out of place at all now. Someone who dressed, spoke and acted like someone from 1975 in 1995…well, let’s just say they would’ve seemed like a hilarious and utterly-anachronistic dinosaur.
And don’t deny it. I was fucking there.