History UsefulNotes / Subcultures

This page serves to both provide accurate info on subcultures while demonstrating the ways in which subcultures are portrayed in the media, both accurately and otherwise. Some subcultures have their own UsefulNotes topics to elaborate upon their histories, many aspects, and other things that are usually missed out on by the media. We won't list them all, because [[http://xkcd.com/1095/ human cultures nest fractally.]]

* '''UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}s'''

* {{Juggalo}}s

As Creator/JohnRogers [[http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/sdcc-07-wonderland-monkey-and-boing.html paraphrases]]: "Anyone who decides to poke their head out of the cultural world of the Creator/{{CBS}} prime-time line-up is a sad, {{basement dwell|er}}ing {{loner|sAreFreaks}} screaming into his ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' pillow as crackling dubs of the original ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 cartoon]] flicker on his television." This may be corrected or subverted on occasion, but it's safe to say that any hobby or subgroup that is not understood by the mainstream media will be butchered, [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer one way]] or [[TotallyRadical another]]. Just look at the number of news stories which cover comic book conventions, that include at least one photo of a fat man in an ill-fitting spandex costume.

As Creator/JohnRogers [[http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/sdcc-07-wonderland-monkey-and-boing.html paraphrases]]: "Anyone who decides to poke their head out of the cultural world of the Creator/{{CBS}} prime-time line-up is a sad, {{basement dwell|er}}ing {{loner|sAreFreaks}} screaming into his ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' pillow as crackling dubs of the original ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' cartoon flicker on his television." This may be corrected or subverted on occasion, but it's safe to say that any hobby or subgroup that is not understood by the mainstream media will be butchered, [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer one way]] or [[TotallyRadical another]]. Just look at the number of news stories which cover comic book conventions, that include at least one photo of a fat man in an ill-fitting spandex costume.

Perhaps the biggest irony of the above phenomena is that due to TwoDecadesBehind being the norm for many media, the "normal people" complaining about subcultures are themselves no longer in the mainstream, and thus can also be seen as [[BoomerangBigot subcultures]].

* AcceptableHobbyTargets

* NiceHat

* '''{{Nerd}}'''

On the other hand, some people ''[[IJustWantToBeNormal want]]'' [[IJustWantToBeNormal to be normal]] and won't understand why others would pursue something else. They argue the problem can't be that it just doesn't work for those people; no, there must be something weird, laughable, or even dangerous about those people. This meme then gets reused by [[MoralGuardians the media]], in the form of [[YouCanPanicNow investigative reports]] and [[SubcultureOfTheWeek special episodes]].

** [[UsefulNotes/{{Homosexual}} Lesbian/Gay]]
** UsefulNotes/{{Bisexual}}
** UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}}

* BaldOfAwesome
* BaldOfEvil

* HollywoodNerd

** UsefulNotes/{{Bosozoku}}

** UsefulNotes/Bosozoku

As Creator/JohnRogers [[http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/sdcc-07-wonderland-monkey-and-boing.html paraphrases]]: "Anyone who decides to poke their head out of the cultural world of the {{Creator/CBS}} prime-time line-up is a sad, {{basement dwell|er}}ing {{loner|sAreFreaks}} screaming into his ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' pillow as crackling dubs of the original ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' cartoon flicker on his television." This may be corrected or subverted on occasion, but it's safe to say that any hobby or subgroup that is not understood by the mainstream media will be butchered, [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer one way]] or [[TotallyRadical another]]. Just look at the number of news stories which cover comic book conventions, that include at least one photo of a fat man in an ill-fitting spandex costume.

* '''{{UsefulNotes/BDSM}}'''

* '''{{UsefulNotes/Otherkin}}'''

** [[{{UsefulNotes/Homosexual}} Lesbian/Gay]]
** {{UsefulNotes/Bisexual}}
** {{UsefulNotes/Transgender}}

* '''{{UsefulNotes/Nudism}}'''

* '''{{UsefulNotes/Punk}}s'''

* '''{{UsefulNotes/Skinheads}}'''

On the other hand, some people ''[[IJustWantToBeNormal want]]'' [[IJustWantToBeNormal to be normal]] and won't understand why others would pursue something else. They argue the problem can't be that it just doesn't work for those people; no, there must be something [[QuirkyTown weird]], [[SnarkBait laughable]], or even [[FreakyFashionMildMind dangerous]] about those people. This meme then gets reused by [[MoralGuardians the media]], in the form of [[YouCanPanicNow investigative reports]] and [[SubcultureOfTheWeek special episodes]].

* '''UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}'''

* '''UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}}'''

* {{Yuppie}}