Zoomer Cult

luka

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Dissensus has firmly resisted squad formation no matter how much I try to force them to build the compound. Corpsey flops himself onto the pavement and says he's too depressed to move. I crack the whip but we never get anywhere.
 

sus

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you need to show them the memes maybe that'll get them in line

ultimately, they have to want it, first

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luka

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We've got all the necessary ingredients but some people resist what they most desire
 

sus

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We dem bois!!!

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luka

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All it would have taken was to bombard that poor cunts Twitter with Oliver Craner then Craner would have had his job off him
 
 

Diefreien

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Not gonna lie, it's both interesting, enlightening, and entertaining watching yall discussing Zoomers and Zoomerisms. As a Zoomer myself I enjoy watching the elders here give their wisdom :p

The discussion of the "Japanifcation" of American culture is interesting, though. I think the excitement over J-pop has mostly died down here, and has been completely replaced by K-pop. I couldn't tell you specifically why Korean pop culture has overtaken Japanese culture here, particularly with Nintendo, Pokemon, Dragon Ball, and ofc the J-Pop fad 5-10ish years ago, but it has. I think the attraction to it is logical. K-pop and J-pop is pop music in the most perfect sense - sleek sounding techno-instrumentals and outfits, mini-storylines for every group, young and attractive men and women that are essentially made in a factory to look, act, talk, and sing almost the same, but each are given artificial personality quirks that they have to follow. The music videos and concerts are highly-well produced. It's all as clean and as sleek as possible.

K-pop and J-pop have even swallowed traditionally anti-capitalist and anti-corporate aesthetics and genres like rap and heavy-metal. This is a pretty good video on the "idol" and anti-idol" movements in Japan, and how the anti-idol movement has become almost as well-polished, suave, and centrally controlled and manufactured as the regular idol movements.

It's an interesting contrast to the type of mumble-rap that is now popular. Which by its nature is supposed to not be clean or sleek like K-pop is. It has that depression hedonia vibe to it. A lot of it is smooth and autotuned, but is incredibly slow and low-key, which is on purpose. It sounds like getting drowsy on Xanax.

Now the overlap between say, Post Malone and BTS fans is not gonna be that big, but I've def seen a lot of k-pop girls I know be fans of people like Frank Ocean who don't have the clean-cut corporate appeal that the k-pop groups have.
 

sus

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I'll check the video out, good to have yunguns on here, I'm 25 a borderline zoomer in some ways, but with a foot in the millennial camp. Luka and Leo and Craner are all like 55, 56 on the other hand, so they don't really "get" all this stuff

Do you see mumblerap as meaningfully connected to mumblecore? I mean Lena Dunham definitely likes xanax lol.
 

Diefreien

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I'll check the video out, good to have yunguns on here, I'm 25 a borderline zoomer in some ways, but with a foot in the millennial camp. Luka and Leo and Craner are all like 55, 56 on the other hand, so they don't really "get" all this stuff

Do you see mumblerap as meaningfully connected to mumblecore? I mean Lena Dunham definitely likes xanax lol.
Ahh yeah, my oldest brother isn't too much older than you (he's 26) so it's definitely a weird space where he's either super late millennial or super early Zoomer, while I'd be almost definitely Zoomer. Ofc every site has a different definition of when zoomer starts, but according to Pew it starts in '96, which would make me and my middle brother Zoomers, but my oldest brother just in the cusp between the two.


Whenever I read Fisher I'm always taken aback about how he was old enough to be my dad, and that he was born only a year earlier than my mom. At least in his writings, it comes out that he truly understood the internet and how it functions. But yea, it's nice to have cross-pollination between the generations on cultural theory online.

I have not watched any mumblecore movies, so I couldn't really say. If I had to take a stab at it, it'd probably be more related to the early 2000s garage rock/post-punk scene.
 

luka

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@sadmanbarty is 30 which i guess you would think of as old but his favourite music is mumble rap hes written a lot about it
 

linebaugh

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Not gonna lie, it's both interesting, enlightening, and entertaining watching yall discussing Zoomers and Zoomerisms. As a Zoomer myself I enjoy watching the elders here give their wisdom :p

The discussion of the "Japanifcation" of American culture is interesting, though. I think the excitement over J-pop has mostly died down here, and has been completely replaced by K-pop. I couldn't tell you specifically why Korean pop culture has overtaken Japanese culture here, particularly with Nintendo, Pokemon, Dragon Ball, and ofc the J-Pop fad 5-10ish years ago, but it has. I think the attraction to it is logical. K-pop and J-pop is pop music in the most perfect sense - sleek sounding techno-instrumentals and outfits, mini-storylines for every group, young and attractive men and women that are essentially made in a factory to look, act, talk, and sing almost the same, but each are given artificial personality quirks that they have to follow. The music videos and concerts are highly-well produced. It's all as clean and as sleek as possible.

K-pop and J-pop have even swallowed traditionally anti-capitalist and anti-corporate aesthetics and genres like rap and heavy-metal. This is a pretty good video on the "idol" and anti-idol" movements in Japan, and how the anti-idol movement has become almost as well-polished, suave, and centrally controlled and manufactured as the regular idol movements.

It's an interesting contrast to the type of mumble-rap that is now popular. Which by its nature is supposed to not be clean or sleek like K-pop is. It has that depression hedonia vibe to it. A lot of it is smooth and autotuned, but is incredibly slow and low-key, which is on purpose. It sounds like getting drowsy on Xanax.

Now the overlap between say, Post Malone and BTS fans is not gonna be that big, but I've def seen a lot of k-pop girls I know be fans of people like Frank Ocean who don't have the clean-cut corporate appeal that the k-pop groups have.
how old are you? we just lost our resident zoomer
 
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