Namecore is the trend that unifies all trends
So there’s a weird thing going on where there’s abundance, and yet, at the same time, we’ve become really conservative about our own styles, because people fundamentally don’t want to adopt things that feel inauthentic to them, or will be judged inauthentic.
And because culture is so ephemeral, there’s just more stuff that people are worried that —
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Humans are finding new ways to express themselves in both the digital and physical realms in order to join wider communities and reject our most physically distanced era. In other words, the rise of community through visual identifiers is a growing phenomenon. Second, these trends allow people to explore their identity through relative pseudonymity... See more
Diem • What do NFTs and "Fetish-Core" have in common?
In fact, one of the things that will not survive is novelty itself: trends, fads, fashions, scenes, vibes. We are thrown back into cyclical time; what’s growing old is the cruel demand to make things new.
Sam Kriss • The internet is already over
People no longer want the new “It” item, they want to have their own individual style and show their uniqueness