Is it normal i hate when stuff become mainstream?

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Is it normal to hate when things become mainstream. I am not a hipster or anything but I hate mainstream. This is why. When things are unknown a small group of people will enjoy it, talk about it, discuss it and all that.

Yet when something becomes mainstream or well overly mainstream. Like "The cool kid" thing it just becomes obnoxious. They often start dishing out millions of items promoting the product, the price for the items sky rockets so only rich people can afford it($400 pair of converse), and everyone just hops the band wagon. Even when they know nothing about it.

Like someone will say "Im cool im wearing a T shirt to this band" not because they liked the band, Not because they knew anything about the band or even just appreciated the artwork of the T shirt. So I hate when things become overly mainstream since it ends up excluding the fans that actually cared about the product originally to begin with.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    For sure! When something fantastic becomes popular it's marketed to exhaustion. Something that was once special and novel becomes something nauseating.

    "Trendy is one step away from being tacky." ~K.L.

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  • Crusades
    10 years ago

    If it looks like a hipster, talks like a hipster, acts like a hipster - it is a hipster!

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  • DumBelle
    10 years ago

    Music, clothing, items; whatever you're claiming is ruined by marketing, once 'mainstream', isn't being ruined. It's just being *now* properly acknowledged for it's worth in the world. Simple economics. If you're a t-shirt distributor/aspiring clothing designer, whatever -- and you sold your t-shirts for 5 bucks on a boardwalk and suddenly a celebrity wears it and it's stock goes up and you can now sell it for $20, that's called success. Sure things can be OVERpriced and are far from what they're worth in terms of what it takes to create/actual cost vs profit margins.. And as much as you'd like things to be on the down-low and cheap just for yourself to afford it; for the person marketing, they can now enjoy their success and hard work literally paying off. Musicians also ENJOY the luxuries of becoming successful. They enjoy recognition and new found wealth too, and have no problems with it (as much as specific alternative/indie artist claim--until they make it and that's out the window) Sure things should just be free or incredibly affordable to everyone. Right? But that's not what capitalism is about, as much as it sucks for some. On the 'other side', it sure it great and a good thing, from a logical view point. When you can find success and market whatever you wish, however you wish, to enjoy a great life for your contribution and innovations in the world, that's being successful. Aim to succeed, not afford the cheapest t-shirts forever.

    Merchandise/music etc CAN be overpriced. But if you want to lament about the 'rich' vs 'poor' dynamic, steer towards health-care, housing, food, medications, insurance, the vet, dental work cost, and anything else substantial that should be more affordable. Not shoes in the mall, or iTunes songs going from 99 cents to that 30-50% increase in price overnight.
    Hipsters.

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    • regisphilbin
      8 years ago

      +1

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      No not everything jumps from 20$-200$ overnight.

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  • anti-hero
    10 years ago

    Not cool amigo.

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  • mixwell
    10 years ago

    You do sound like a hipster but I get you. I see people with vintage looking shirts of the beatles,floyd,zepplin etc and wonder if they even listen to em. Im into "underground" hip hop but what I like is i can talk to people into that music and no one tries to act like they were into it before it was cool.

    In highschool I was into punk and when I first got into the casualties i was stoked by now every newbie is into them and back then i had the hipster mentality but i could care leas now because i cant stand them.

    Maybe it's a part of understanding that no matter how differnt you try to be someone has most likely been there before.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      It has nothing to do with being different. I hate liking something that no one cares about than the price for the merchandise skyrockets and only rich people can by it. That isn't fair to us who are not rich.

      We cared about it first and than we are excluded since we are not the rich people who can afford to buy overpriced items. Such as Mac and those sort of items. Those items which if you don't have are often made fun of for and told what a losers for not having.

      This doesn't just go for stuff like bands either. It goes for all brands. If a brand is cheaper since it isn't popular and suddenly becomes more popular you cant afford it anymore. so lets say their is a car no one likes so you want to get that car and suddenly its popular so you cant afford that car or the original popular brands.

      I already went over why I care. It has nothing to do with being cool or popular. Its the fact popular items are way too expensive to buy.

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      • mixwell
        10 years ago

        Ok I see so it's like when I was into punk I used to have my jeans tightened and even wear stretch jeans because people werent wearing skinny jeans back then and it was considered gay for a guy but now it's cool.

        Or how if someone had a mohawk it wasnt cool but now its trendy.

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