>>13682424Indeed. That's exactly what I was thinking. It's like the natural progression. Most of them end up evolving into indie rock hipsters by their late teens/early 20s. The ones who don't morph into hipsters usually have an even worse developmental trajectory, and tend to become EDM festival sluts that excessively abuse prescription drugs and MDMA.
On a slightly related point, I think it's really interesting to note that youth subculture seems to have evolved rapidly beginning in the 50s and lasting until the very end of the 90s, but since the late 90s there has been relatively little evolution in terms of youth subcultures. We had beatniks, mods, hippies, metalheads, punks, ravers, hip hop/urban youth culture, emo, hipsters, etc., but I don't think any new youth subcultures have emerged in the 21st century. The most recent developments are probably hip hop, ravers, emos, and hipsters, but all of those subculture were already forming in the late 80s and 90s. It's like the boomers and gen x set the stage for millennial and zoomers. I wonder what sociological conditions lead to rapid explosions in the proliferation and diversification of culture, and then stabilization and stasis. You see the same pattern throughout human history, not just with artistic culture, but also with governments, languages, and definitely in science and tech. I was reading a paper about the topic recently, and I think you definitely see exactly this type of phenomenon with 20th century youth subculture - something about the sociological conditions in the mid 20th century lead to rapid proliferation of youth subcultures, and now that process has stabilized, and we will probably be seeing less cultural development for the foreseeable future.
