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I'd like to see some evidence of this. Much of culture is online today, and looking at it I don't see that at all.
I would agree with Hydro's assessment but don't know what kind of evidence to provide. It may just be the barber pole of fashion but there's a huge swing in the past year or two of people going back to 2000s fashion (Ed Hardy and Affliction for the depop ppl, Galliano deconstruction for the high end) which has a much more red tribe/straight aesthetic than the 2010s which were largely extremely gay/trans and alienating to straight people. Hydro mentioned the pop charts, the choosin' texas song has been huge and there's way less snobbery against country music today than there was even like 6 years ago. If Tiger King came out today I think the response to Joe Exotic would be less of a bourgeois dogpile, or at least a more self aware one.
However I think all of this is also playing against a massive backdrop of red tribe people largely abandoning anything they perceive as trashy from about 2004 through about 2020, basically culturally erasing itself in a way that everyone who noticed is too embarrassed to mention. It is similar to the way the 80s were remembered in the 90s, as a trashy embarrassment to be left in the past.
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