Capitalism is so good at absorbing all critiques of itself into itself. Punk is rebellion. Turning punk into a fashion trend got rid of all it’s teeth.
Does not dye hair crazy colors. Not the day this photo was taken at least.
The punk and moth aren’t stereotypes; they are biologically compelled.
Slap!
Ahh yes LAMP… Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. The software bundle that every high school kid installs when embarking on their journey to web development. I doubt its as popular as it used to be back in them days. WAMP particularly made it easy to get a website going. Sure does bring me back.
Um, if you’re punk, you actually do have to rebel. It’s not about wearing jackets with band patches.
Maybe they are confusing being a punk with liking punk music? There is still a huge overlap
Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?
The commodification and commercialization of punk culture is a tragedy. BY DEFINITION if you’re punk you are rebelling, it’s not just a clothing style.
Also, the crazy colours girl has black hair
I agree, thats what being punk is all about. This ain’t a stereotype but the essence of punk, so this meme/picture template isnt even true.
It’s so bad. I hate this meme template.
btw this is a great moment to recommend chikoi the maid artist.
also punk is about expressing sadness and grief which this track manages to do for me.
Never thought about this before but in what way is she a punk if she isn’t rebelling against at least one thing?
She got confused and misspelled ‘poser’.
And you misspelt “poseur” ;)
And you misspelled ‘The’ ;)
I’ll just concile myself by saying she meant punk fashion sense. She loves punk fashion sense but also loves the government and would never ever ever rebel against it. Her dad’s a policeman and her mom’s a school principal.
edit: CONSOLE. i get so many english words wrong recently.
Yeah… ‘punk’ is an actual lifestyle, maybe you could say an ideology, or parts of an ideology, or a framework for ideology.
When you just wear it as a costume, you’re not only missing the point, you’re disposing of the meaning the style is supposed to signify… you’re gentrifying a concept, and very likely commodifying it.
Now of course I don’t expect every young person, young adult to … grasp all of that… would be very stupid to ‘well ackshually’ some kid just trying to express themselves as unique, in some way.
But maybe, hopefully, some of em will read this, and it’ll spur them to look into the actual history, the actual ideas… realize that how you live is incredibly more important than what you look like, while doing so.
Yea and I don’t even get what appeals someone to the aesthetic if they’re not rebellious.
I despise her so much.
I’m so angry at her that I can’t breathe.
I can see why Rai likes you.
Maybe she’s just rebelling against the idea of rebellion itself.
“Donate money to the machine.”
Being punk against punk is just ska.
Only if she also plays a brass instrument and/or tolerates someone doing so near her.
The math girl probably has one
She’s so punk she circled around to being conformist!
#normcore
Anacyclosis
woahhh
And I just noticed that number 3’s crazy hair color is just black.
Haha, yeah, but i guess she did that because too many people were hitting on her?
Plot twist: her natural hair color is “several”
Yeah it’s a dumb meme. 1 & 3 are clearly claiming false persecution for sympathy, because the way you present yourself is the way you wish to be perceived and obviously gaslighting. 2 is hard racism.
It only works to poke fun at the irony of a stupid premise because only one of these things is a real issue.
1 is the only one that doesn’t make sense.
3 though… I want to be perceived as someone with fantasy coloured hair, you are right. Why are you making the equivalence of crazy colours -> attention seeking person?
That’s what the image is denouncing, and you are criticising the 3rd image, so that’s the equivalence that you are supporting with your comment.
Out of curiosity, because I wish to understand your reasoning. What you’re saying that even though they wish to dye their hair in unique bright fantasy colors that they wish to remain anonymous and inconspicuous in public. Logically that seems like the opposite. If I also like having unique colored hair then I should ignore that we have something in common and not draw attention to it?
Please take no offense, I genuinely want to know your reasoning.
I think you might be confusing a few things?
It’s not that it’s done for no attention whatsoever, it’s that the phrase “they’re just doing this for attention” is a way that people dismiss each other, and ironically, over-fixate on people who just want to pay for their groceries and leave, you know?
By being fashionable in socially unapproved ways, people will assume you’re being vain as a euphemism for their relative disgust, and vanity loses you a lot of social capital—aura, basically. They’ll rather think of you as prissy than serious.
But you can comment on a person’s hair if you like it, same as you would a band t-shirt for a group you both like.
Yeah, That statement suggests I can’t do anything outside of the broadest of accepted pop culture for me, it has to be because I am desperately seeking attention to fill some sort of deficit in my life.
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I think you missed the point on 2.
In what way? Seems racist to me.
This is a very valid question.
i have no mouth and i must scream
I am a mouth and I must sing
I think that kid in the bottom left has bypassed the number of useless belts that are acceptable to wear without looking silly.
Ah yes, Lulu was the greatest work of Nomura’s belt era
Come sit with gramps by the fire and let me tell you about a little time we called the early 2000s…
“I’m a furry, so I must be a zoophile.”
i thought punk was pretty much rebel by definition
Maybe that’s what she’s rebelling about
I was going to dismiss her as a poser, but I like the idea of multiple layers of
ironypunk.punk²
Yes, but I guess people want punk version 2 now, judging by this image.
Girl at the top right is clearly French.
She eats cheese and drinks wiiiiine!
I wear a beret so I must be French
I have no beret yet I must mime
I don’t see no baguette
This meme is so funny cause moths actually don’t like lamps, they get trapped by a reflex that makes them turn their dorsal side towards the light, they think they are flying upright cause in nature the light is always up in the sky
Aaah just like my navigation software. I don’t like using it, I’m just trapped
light isn’t always up btw. it can also be down a reflection in the water, e.g. moonlight.
True but still the reflection would be dimmer than the main light Wich would still be up
But why are they flying towards the lamp? They don’t fly towards the sun. Or are they flying around the lamp? I’m confused
New high-speed camera footage shows that they basically fly around the lamp, not directly towards the lamp, they must always keep their back facing the light, that’s how they know they are flying parallel to the ground, by flying with their backs facing the sun or the moon. Now with artificial light they get confused and fly around and around occasionally bumping into the light cause they get to close, something that wouldn’t happen with the sun or the moon.
You just turned a regular moth month into moth education month.
Seriously, thank you! It makes a lot of sense now
