• FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    Cottagecore was a lesbian aesthetic about escaping heteronormative society and going off grid. It got turned into a tradwife aesthetic about neo lebensraum. Solarpunk is similar, but the way it gets coopted is via green capitalism washing away the revolutionary parts of solarpunk and replacing them with consumerism of the eco friendly variety.

    • Comp4 [she/her]
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      4 days ago

      Thank you, that makes sense. It's nice to see young people respect their elders :^)

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        4 days ago

        I think if I just continue cooking my mind with enough Brace rants I'll eventually become a good version of BMF

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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          4 days ago

          The sad part for me is that BMF was always completely legible to me, but I don't think I can cook myself enough to ever actually post like that because I despise obscure jargonism.

          Please continue your journey to become whitehat BMF.

          • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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            4 days ago

            Nah I think what set BMF apart was not so much the jargon, but assuming that the reader could keep up with immense amounts of subtext and implied meaning; usually their posts were long sequences of quotations followed by replies that imply several layers of contradicting and layered cultural criticisms, which you could only keep up with if you synchronized your mind to theirs in a fundamental way.

            • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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              4 days ago

              Meh, I always thought everything was pretty straight forward and textual, maybe I misinterpretated it.

              • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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                4 days ago

                https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1dqmbu1/when_the_heavens_gate_ufo_cult_did_a_mass_suicide/

                All 39 were dressed in identical black shirts and sweat pants, brand new black-and-white Nike Decades athletic shoes, and armband patches reading "Heaven's Gate Away Team" (one of many instances of the group's use of the nomenclature of the fictional universe of Star Trek).

                least psychotic Captain Janeway stans

                There's at least 4 layers of decoding necessary to parse this post.

                • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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                  4 days ago

                  Idk, it's mostly just knowing about Heaven's Gate and their idiosyncratic pop culture use, with abit of internet slang. It's just three layers of pop culture, and one layer of UFO death cult culture. I guess I'm so used to it I barely even register it as sub-text. Yikes.

                  But also, haven't read this one before! Yet another fascinating BMF point, though one I have heard expressed before.

    • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 days ago

      Wait the lesbians did cottagecore first? Thats cool and makes me feel better about it. There's a minecraft youtuber I like called GeminiTay who's wlw and before she came out she was doing Cottagecore builds in Minecraft and people found it unsuprising when she came out as bi because of this lol.

    • WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 days ago

      I think a really strong example of this is the fact that the most popular thing to showcase the solarpunk aesthetic is a freaking ad for a yoghurt brand that comes in disposable plastic packaging…

    • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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      4 days ago

      Tradwives really out here dressing like lesbians, except much like a heterosexual trad-douche, they really struggle with like everything aesthetically