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Sunday 12 July 2015

Was 'Emo' the last true subculture?

"Through this technology we were hit with sound, style, meaning and a way of belonging by not belonging. Importantly, Myspace allowed you to sculpt your online identity. It was simple enough to teach yourself basic HTML and customise your profile. The selfie as we know it was born and so was filtering it to shit. Your name could be anything you wanted it to be - typically though you just added "Morphine", "Switchblade" or anything similarly hxc. (Try this scene name generator for inspiration). At an age when we were wrestling with ideas about self and identity, emo was there and so were millions of virtual friends doing exactly the same thing." 

Read the article from i-d magazine here:

http://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/emo-was-the-last-true-subculture 

Here's another article we discussed about whether, for modern youth, subcultures have died


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