cultural innovation cannot occur under conditions of legibility by the mainstream culture since what is legible to it will be policed by it
therefore the first task of any subculture is achieving illegibility then reconciling it with maintaining critical mass of participation
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incidentally, neopronouns are the AK-47 of cultural illegibility — cheap, simple, reliable — and boy is the mainstream culture mad about it
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in conclusion, newfags can't triforce. thanks for listening to my TED talk
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You do not know how much of an urge I had to make a triforce. I feel like the worst right now, I hope you are happy.
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delighted tbh
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Look, it fills me with an odd amount of pride to remember some memes before they drifted mainstream and lost their initial meaning.
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as well it should! being a geek rather than a mop or a sociopath is something to be proud of https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths …
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This is a fascinating article. As a writer who tried to create a splinter community for a fetish writing community and found myself>
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exhausted by gross people who would do just enough to be deemed "contributing" while making everything garbage, I washed my hands of it.
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