A vibe shift is the catchy but sort of too-cool term Monahan uses for a relatively simple idea: In the culture, sometimes things change, and a once-dominant social wavelength starts to feel dated. Monahan, who is 35, breaks down the three vibe shifts he has survived and observed: Hipster/Indie Music (ca. 2003–9), or peak Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, high-waisted Cheap Mondays, Williamsburg, bespoke-cocktail bars; Post-Internet/Techno Revival (ca. 2010–16), or the Blood Orange era, normcore, dressing like The Matrix, Kinfolk the club, not Kinfolk the magazine; and Hypebeast/Woke (ca. 2016–20), or Drake at his Drakest, the Nike SNKRS app, sneaker flipping, virtue signaling, Donald Trump, protests not brunch.
I... don't know what that means. What is Lorecraft? Is he the one who wrote The Greenwich Horror and The Rats in the Stonewall and all that stuff?
Aspirants to insider status in a group must work to gain the subcultural literacy that allows them to access a body of lore.
Aspirants to insider status in a group must work to gain the subcultural literacy that allows them to access a body of lore.
Aspirants to insider status in a group must work to gain the subcultural literacy that allows them to access a body of lore.
this is more @Clinamenic speak from the crypto thread
Yeah this incentive is even stronger if the lore itself is tokenized as an object of speculative investment. Financial interests aside, the motivations would be things like clout, or a sense of belonging maybe.
You say that and I can tell that it kinda touched a bit of a nerve with Clinamenic. He won't admit it, he'll pretend that this is just what he was gonna say anyway, but I'm sure that he deliberately raised his game with this sentence; dug deep to really show whoever wrote that stuff about "lore" that there is only one master of that particular style of writing around here and to replace him it's gonna take some serious... verbiage.
"tokenized as an object of speculative investment" - magnificent! Really put the pretender in his place.
That poseur, thinking they know stuff about web3 cybernetic microeconomic game theory."tokenized as an object of speculative investment" - magnificent! Really put the pretender in his place.