Since Juggy asked me to discuss fads and coolness, I will submit the following.
First, there's the lifecycle of the fad, and/or cool thing. As an example, I will use the experiment my brother and I tried in high school, in memes and goddamned idiots. We each wore huge safety pins on our left boot. I wore a hugeLooney Tunes diaper pin to add authenticity, he had a fucking humungous, normal wire safety pin. It was worn on the bottom eyes of the boot. There was absolutely no goddamned rationale behind it - it was just random enough to observe. We told people we saw it on MTV, as an aside, if we were asked by Stage 2 or later. We encouraged our accomplish to say she learned it from us, and by extension, MTV. For the record, and for control purposes, iGor and I were weirdly popular, despite being nerds. I guess because we sold everyone their drugs.
Stage 1: Invention. This can involve multiple people beyond the actual "inventors", but very few. It may be a celebrity, or someone with reasonable influence who's in on the joke. Our first act was to convince the popularity queen of the school, a personal friend of mine (we knew each other in "gifted" classes [WHAT A JOKE!]) to continue the trend. In this case, she was both celebrity and in on the joke. SHe convinced her most popular friends, desperate for the next best thing, which leads to...
Stage 2: Early adopters. A crew of maybe 1-5% (a few dozen in our public school of thousands) adopt the style. This group of idiots regurgitates whatever we originally said when they asked about the style. These groups added safety pins to their shoes. We condemned them and said that boots were necessary. They bought boots. They were cool kids. Most of them, when asked why the fuck they did a retarded thing like wear safety pins on the left bottom bootstring, said, "because it's cool - I saw it on MTV".
Stage 3: Early majority. Every fad hipster's nightmare. The trend spreads to a large group of "counter culture" and "hipster" people. What they regard as "posers". There were fistfights at my high school over this. The usual shunning resumes amongst the "counter culture" group, who're really just fucking idiots. Everyone argues that they were part of the scene first. The usual shit.
Stage 4: Mainstream. Our experiment didn't reach this point. But it would describe a great deal of people, the real majority of students, buying boots and wearing safety pins, the bigger the hipper, on their left bottom bootstring. Perhaps spread from there to "Early adopter" groups from other communities, until it hit a celebrity in the real mainstream, where the cycle would go as previously described. The "REAL" pinners withdraw into anger and/or new "new" trends. The pin is worn by common folk.
Such is the lifecycle of the trend. Next week, I talk about how "cool" and rebellious counter cultures are mutually exclusive, and how rebellions counter cultures actually impede real progress!
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Long post envy?BeerMakesMeSmart wrote:I hate this new fad of guys with long posts.
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Und, zo, tell me about your mozer...
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Oh greastest wise one of trend starters, at your convenience, please tell me why my cult of people who shave their nad hair into the shape of Tony Danza's face never caught on.IntoxiChrist wrote:Since Juggy asked me to discuss fads and coolness, I will submit the following.
First, there's the lifecycle of the fad, and/or cool thing. As an example, I will use the experiment my brother and I tried in high school, in memes and goddamned idiots. We each wore huge safety pins on our left boot. I wore a hugeLooney Tunes diaper pin to add authenticity, he had a fucking humungous, normal wire safety pin. It was worn on the bottom eyes of the boot. There was absolutely no goddamned rationale behind it - it was just random enough to observe. We told people we saw it on MTV, as an aside, if we were asked by Stage 2 or later. We encouraged our accomplish to say she learned it from us, and by extension, MTV. For the record, and for control purposes, iGor and I were weirdly popular, despite being nerds. I guess because we sold everyone their drugs.
Stage 1: Invention. This can involve multiple people beyond the actual "inventors", but very few. It may be a celebrity, or someone with reasonable influence who's in on the joke. Our first act was to convince the popularity queen of the school, a personal friend of mine (we knew each other in "gifted" classes [WHAT A JOKE!]) to continue the trend. In this case, she was both celebrity and in on the joke. SHe convinced her most popular friends, desperate for the next best thing, which leads to...
Stage 2: Early adopters. A crew of maybe 1-5% (a few dozen in our public school of thousands) adopt the style. This group of idiots regurgitates whatever we originally said when they asked about the style. These groups added safety pins to their shoes. We condemned them and said that boots were necessary. They bought boots. They were cool kids. Most of them, when asked why the fuck they did a retarded thing like wear safety pins on the left bottom bootstring, said, "because it's cool - I saw it on MTV".
Stage 3: Early majority. Every fad hipster's nightmare. The trend spreads to a large group of "counter culture" and "hipster" people. What they regard as "posers". There were fistfights at my high school over this. The usual shunning resumes amongst the "counter culture" group, who're really just fucking idiots. Everyone argues that they were part of the scene first. The usual shit.
Stage 4: Mainstream. Our experiment didn't reach this point. But it would describe a great deal of people, the real majority of students, buying boots and wearing safety pins, the bigger the hipper, on their left bottom bootstring. Perhaps spread from there to "Early adopter" groups from other communities, until it hit a celebrity in the real mainstream, where the cycle would go as previously described. The "REAL" pinners withdraw into anger and/or new "new" trends. The pin is worn by common folk.
Such is the lifecycle of the trend. Next week, I talk about how "cool" and rebellious counter cultures are mutually exclusive, and how rebellions counter cultures actually impede real progress!
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good analysis.
I'm gonna try harder to keep my trends unpopular.
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That's not a fad, that's good sense.
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When I was younger, tech stuff was cool but ringtones are fucking annoying or in most cases gay. Another Fad I want to attack on this beautiful drunkin afternoon is those gangster fagmasters than wear therre shorts down to mid calf or their pants up to mid calf. Cant tell.
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