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This week, response to Marvel’s new animated TV series, Your Friendly Spider-Man Quarter, He caught my eye, “I thought it was great. My greatest fear was that it would be embarrassed and wake up, and it didn’t.”
My intrigue was particularly angry with the fact that it did not come from a Burshian commentator on GB News or a free-speaking brother on X, but from a young man who voted Spider-Man himself: extravagantly named Hudson Thames, actor and singer based in Los Angeles Los Angeles , who, in 30 years, has only been over a year too old to be considered a member of the generation Z.
After a return reaction from the website – how dares say “uncomfortable and wake up”? – The producer of the show was forced to enter the actor’s defense. “He is a guy who cares deeply about the people around him and always tries to do the right thing,” Jeff Trammell said during the Q&A session on Reddit. “I believe he simply wrongly made a mistake.”
I do not believe that he is actually, unless he is “wrong”, he does not mean a violation of an unspoken rule that says you have to carry a particular line if you want to be employed in Hollywood. The fact is that it is no longer a hip or a top -notch to be “awakened” or even declared that you are. Creative young people want to be countercultural, and “waking up” feels about the main and almost middle age. This, instead, was just the latest sign of a deep “Shift Vibe”. To say what you actually think – or at least see you – now it’s cool; Adherence to the prescribed social label about what you can and what you cannot say is not.
Return extremely anti-heroicThe four -time convicted convicted criminal for the oval office is closely related to this shift. The young people swung abruptly to the right in the November elections, and Donald Trump won 56 percent of the men’s Gena Z voters, according to the Associated Press poll. AND Recent CBS Survey They found that young people were most delighted with any age of Kohort about Trump, and 67 percent from 18 to 29-year-old felt “optimistic” in the next four years, compared to only 51 percent of those at the age of 65. Remember those to catch About how Trump’s Fox News Weutching would die old voters before he chooses again? It doesn’t seem to turn out that way.
But is Trump a symptom or cause of this cultural impact of everything that has been so dominant in the last decade and a half? Politics could be downstream of the culture, but when the politician in question is a cultural icon, who is recognized in this matter – Hudson, Thames or any other fruit path – is quite more intricate.
Sean Monahan- “Treatic Prognosis” attributed first to use the term “shift vibe” 2021 and to connect “Normcore” before that he believes that Trump is a Culture shift product that started after the Coidd-19. Then she began to keep a nostalgia for less limited, more licensed time.
“Covid really pushed a lot of people over the edge,” Monahan tells me. “Young people who felt like they couldn’t say what they thought, but they could also not do what they wanted, because they went to college through zoom and it was illegal to go to parties in many places. Those things somehow connected together With a general feeling that the past was a free, hedonistic era. ”
Since then, Monahan believes that we gradually moved to a new cultural phase, the one he calls “Boom boom aesthetics ”. This refers to visible consumption, unusual wealth representations and “supervillain vibration”. It is a kind of return for the last time conservatism caught culture: the 1980s. With his The taste of the 80’s in suits and musicHis shamelessly shouting of worthless crypto tokens, his presidential portrait of Supervillain-Esque-Riff on his unconquered guilty Palm Beach’s gorgeous PalaceIs there any better to catch this new cultural epoch than 47 alone??
Edmond LauThe luxury “memeog” (yes) and cultural strategist offers a similar assessment of the cultural shift and Trump’s place in it. Lau claims that we are moving from a “easy way”, embodied by rehabilitated, discrete luxury brands like Aesop-a-what good progressive city did not have a pump of the resurrection aromatics in their bathroom at some point? – New, individualistic, “dark way.” Welcome to “Era of masking.” “This is about rejecting virtues and accepting vice,” Lau tells me. “It’s about leaving pretensions following this set of social virtues.”
Knowledge of virtue is beyond fashion; The signaling joke is inside. The right one comes back, honey, and no one or this time is ashamed of anyone.
