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Where has all the subcultures gone?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Lying in bed recuperating from a leg op has got me bored as hell. Just watching Uncle Buck which has got some "punk" types in.

When growing up in the eighties it was customary to often see a load of Punk types running away from the local rugby lads or in bigger towns and cities you used to see them running away from all the other groups that seemed to permeate the eighties

Now I'm either sub culturally unaware or the other groups don't seem to be as in your face as much which is a shame as it was a great way of expressing yourself back in the day.

Can anybody on here identify themselves with a sub culture passed and present. (Aside from the swinging/fet ones)

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

New Romantic, complete with bleached Fringe here, then Rocker complete with ripped jeans and leather jackets with badges. I agree apart from the trousers showing the pants brigade....fuck knows.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Globalisation has killed youth subculture

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They're still there, just a lot more subtle. I'd like to think that sections of society are more tolerant of each other now than giving someone a kicking just because they wear eye liner

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was and still am into the Mod scene, love the clothes and music,especially the sixties vibe and of course Northern Soul, still have the suits/parka etc. From there got more into the ska/original skinhead (not the stereotyped neo Nazi) love the music, the scooters and the whole vibe.

Everybody seems to dress the same these days and there is no originality if you know what I mean.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

people do seem very plain these days, no one likes to stand out from the crowd it seems.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Was just thinking to myself I need to go to Whitby for the gothic weekender and experience it.

I think of my Sisters children who never seem to do anything but play on the X box or make You tube videos all day. Which I suppose isn't even a subculture as it's more or less mainstream.

I think perhaps the last bonafide one was the Brit pop era?

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville


"Was just thinking to myself I need to go to Whitby for the gothic weekender and experience it.

I think of my Sisters children who never seem to do anything but play on the X box or make You tube videos all day. Which I suppose isn't even a subculture as it's more or less mainstream.

I think perhaps the last bonafide one was the Brit pop era? "
I was just about to mention that, but don't you think that was a re hash of the mod era....? Not the music but some of the fashion especially the guys threads?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rocker as a teenager then blended into beige anonymity I agree subcultures are less obvious at the moment

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

Hipsters, emos, techno hippies they are all still there. The reason no one realises they exist is because they are completely irrelevant to anyone over 30.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I do feel that subcultures aren't as obvious these days, you still get your societal types and fashion styles but nothing extreme. A lot of people make efforts to appear different but look like they've been fed into it so end up looking mainstream too these days, or just plain attention seeking rather than individual etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep, a lot of Britpop is a re hash of the mod era...same as in 1979 with the likes of The Jam, Merton Parkas, Lambrettas and Secret Affair.

Oasis/Blur etc are a rehash of previous modernist culture in my opinion.

I suppose the other modern culture that springs to mind was the baggy era...Stone roses/Happy Mondays

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nowadays nearly everyone wants to belong to mainstream. but I suppose

with the ease of communications, sub cultures are global now. Anti globalization or maybe Anonymous might be a couple.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

My friend is into steampunk and goes to socials.

Just pop into any town centre and you'll see dozens of goths all showing how unique they are by looking exactly the same.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Hipsters, emos, techno hippies they are all still there. The reason no one realises they exist is because they are completely irrelevant to anyone over 30."

Used to have Emo's at school and I was thinking hipsters but it's more of a trend as it's hardly anti establishment and out of the norm like a good old eighties subculture. Doubt they will be having any Hipster revivals or weekenders in the years to come.

But what the hell is a techno hippie!!!? Surely the whole Techno thing is anti hippy?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My friend is into steampunk and goes to socials.

Just pop into any town centre and you'll see dozens of goths all showing how unique they are by looking exactly the same.

"

Do like the look of Steam Punk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My friend is into steampunk and goes to socials.

Just pop into any town centre and you'll see dozens of goths all showing how unique they are by looking exactly the same.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nobody goes out, everyone stays at home and communicates online. All you need for that is a hoody and baggy arsed jeans

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Walk down the street and really look at what kids are wearing... There's lots of different subtleties. Yes they're not so in your face but rockers, emos, sporties... All still there its just we tend not to notice. People also blend in, in order to work etc they tone it down for day to day. I know plenty of rockers who put clear studs in facial piercings for work so they're not so obvious and only get 'dressed up' for nights out

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

That's probably why Punks took a bit of a bashing because they looked so wonderfully different ! (Albeit wimpy)

It's nice to people stand out from the norms.

Tina your comment about the goths all looking the same made me laugh because it's so true!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As others have said the subcultures and underground scenes still exist. But things have also become a lot more diluted an obvious reference being Glastonbury, compare the line up and festival goers now to tge late 80's and it's a lot more diverse. And while some see it as negative I think it's in the main a good thing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Goths are still gathering in Newcastle... Aka the a Matrix tribute acts, long leather coat, black hair dye.

Then there's the chav tracky people outside poundstretcher.

Plenty bearded hipsters.

The geordie shore orange people.

Asian/chinese/other communities that go round in Groups.

There are definitely less music based groups.

Althoughdown the coast there's a mod gathering where they all turn up on scooters in 50's gear, to a retro cafe.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I guess there is also less of a moral panic around them now as society has moved on.

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By *afadaoMan
over a year ago

Staines

I belonged to a subculture in the eighties called "clumsy, gangly, spotty and shy"

This was not a gang that people were queuing to join

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I belonged to a subculture in the eighties called "clumsy, gangly, spotty and shy"

This was not a gang that people were queuing to join "

I joined that one in the nineties although missed out on the spots thank god.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I belonged to a subculture in the eighties called "clumsy, gangly, spotty and shy"

This was not a gang that people were queuing to join "

Sounds like a Smiths lyric!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But what difference does it make?

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By *afadaoMan
over a year ago

Staines


"I belonged to a subculture in the eighties called "clumsy, gangly, spotty and shy"

This was not a gang that people were queuing to join

Sounds like a Smiths lyric!"


"I belonged to a subculture in the eighties called "clumsy, gangly, spotty and shy"

This was not a gang that people were queuing to join

Sounds like a Smiths lyric!"

Well Wheels, if you have five seconds to spare.....?

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

I used to work with a guy really into the Ska scene. He was still rocking the look. He had Doc Martins, shirt and braces (never saw him in a hat), was 6'4 and 24 stone and in his 40s.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I used to work with a guy really into the Ska scene. He was still rocking the look. He had Doc Martins, shirt and braces (never saw him in a hat), was 6'4 and 24 stone and in his 40s. "

There's a guy i work with in the summer the same....bomber jacket, patches, braces and cherry red docs....sharp teeth too, dunno if he's had them done tbh. He comes along with a few of his mates...some of the nicest folk I get to work with

You see a lot of the subcultures round the various festivals so they're definitely all out there...folk tend to come out of their shells at these things

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By *layfull pairingCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

I think years ago there was more peer pressure and you almost had to be part of a gang or group...be it mods, skins, rockers, bikers, punks, etc etc.... I reckon youngsters today are a bit more chilled out about such things and dont feel the need to be part of a gang or collective group for support or protection... I like to think my kids and kids generally are more tolerant, worldly wise and able to mix better than my generation. Or it might be that simon cowell has made music and fashions all boring and samey these days.....

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I used to work with a guy really into the Ska scene. He was still rocking the look. He had Doc Martins, shirt and braces (never saw him in a hat), was 6'4 and 24 stone and in his 40s.

There's a guy i work with in the summer the same....bomber jacket, patches, braces and cherry red docs....sharp teeth too, dunno if he's had them done tbh. He comes along with a few of his mates...some of the nicest folk I get to work with

You see a lot of the subcultures round the various festivals so they're definitely all out there...folk tend to come out of their shells at these things

"

Think we are going to road trip to a weekender.

Sharp teeth??!? Ouch!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Lying in bed recuperating from a leg op has got me bored as hell. Just watching Uncle Buck which has got some "punk" types in.

When growing up in the eighties it was customary to often see a load of Punk types running away from the local rugby lads or in bigger towns and cities you used to see them running away from all the other groups that seemed to permeate the eighties

Now I'm either sub culturally unaware or the other groups don't seem to be as in your face as much which is a shame as it was a great way of expressing yourself back in the day.

Can anybody on here identify themselves with a sub culture passed and present. (Aside from the swinging/fet ones)

"

Go to Bolton town centre on a Saturday, and you see the different ones, in their own little groups. Goths are a constant, other cultures come and go. You might not actually be aware that those groups are a subculture. Its because we are old, and they won't let us join in.

Punks, grebos, crusties etc are still with us. But that's US!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think I stand out because I follow no scene...that makes me unique

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Yep, a lot of Britpop is a re hash of the mod era...same as in 1979 with the likes of The Jam, Merton Parkas, Lambrettas and Secret Affair.

Oasis/Blur etc are a rehash of previous modernist culture in my opinion.

I suppose the other modern culture that springs to mind was the baggy era...Stone roses/Happy Mondays"

But that's always gone on. Teddy boys took their fashions from the Edwardian era.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Goths are still gathering in Newcastle... Aka the a Matrix tribute acts, long leather coat, black hair dye.

Then there's the chav tracky people outside poundstretcher.

Plenty bearded hipsters.

The geordie shore orange people.

Asian/chinese/other communities that go round in Groups.

There are definitely less music based groups.

Althoughdown the coast there's a mod gathering where they all turn up on scooters in 50's gear, to a retro cafe. "

The orange people? Not the proddy ones but the oompah lumpahs?

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By *-4pleasureCouple
over a year ago

Belfast


"Lying in bed recuperating from a leg op has got me bored as hell. Just watching Uncle Buck which has got some "punk" types in.

When growing up in the eighties it was customary to often see a load of Punk types running away from the local rugby lads or in bigger towns and cities you used to see them running away from all the other groups that seemed to permeate the eighties

Now I'm either sub culturally unaware or the other groups don't seem to be as in your face as much which is a shame as it was a great way of expressing yourself back in the day.

Can anybody on here identify themselves with a sub culture passed and present. (Aside from the swinging/fet ones)

"

Old rude boy here - check out www.subbaculture.co.uk

Awesome site

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was a skinhead, rode around on a Lambretta and enjoyed punk, northern soul and polishing my Docs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

These days, one simply follows a page on Facebook.

Subcultures are only allowed if approved by the SJW movement and are typically approved only for minority groups.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep my initial thought is your subculture these days is defined more by what websites you hang out at, than how you dress.

Hope you get better soon OP

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By *dwalu2Couple
over a year ago

Bristol


"These days, one simply follows a page on Facebook.

Subcultures are only allowed if approved by the SJW movement and are typically approved only for minority groups. "

Using the term 'SJW' marks you clearly as being a member of a much derided subculture, of course.

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By *iss_Samantha_LovecockTV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

im always called a hippy which i hate but i know why im called it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

apart from goths, - i've only seen one subculture since the mods + NRs in the 80s.

london bridge a few years ago - about 20 young guys. all dressed in standard casuals.

but each one wearing gleaming white trainers.

definitely Millwall

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

We've got two teddy boys here, used to think they where really cool when I was at school, they must be about sixty now and still wear the outfits

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"These days, one simply follows a page on Facebook.

Subcultures are only allowed if approved by the SJW movement and are typically approved only for minority groups.

Using the term 'SJW' marks you clearly as being a member of a much derided subculture, of course."

No, it doesn't.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Nobody goes out, everyone stays at home and communicates online. All you need for that is a hoody and baggy arsed jeans"
.

Yeah we kicked bins over, there shutting down Sony for a weekend!. We had spiky hair ,they've got masks!.

The youth have and hopefully always will, revolt

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By *ipswingCouple
over a year ago

portrush

long long time ago..my hair was long ,flowers were everywhere....communal living was the rage... and then one day we realized the dream was over... so individuals ,not freaks we became....

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By *aeganaWoman
over a year ago

birmingham

goth since I was 9 and still am lol we are still about just not so in your face I guess. More toned down than years ago

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By *utzzCouple
over a year ago

wrexham

There's the rebellion festival every August in Blackpool when the whole town fills up with punks & skins. Its a great weekend!

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