subculture
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Swing declined in the 1960s, but it resurged decades later—though more as a subculture rather than a mainstream activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
At that time, I found this subculture fascinating, peculiar, sometimes repulsive and sometimes silly.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
That image mushroomed into an entire online subculture and inspired a teenager named Kane Parsons to make a series of hugely popular videos on YouTube.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
For thousands of young fans, who swarmed the band’s outlaw concerts under blighted freeways during the pandemic, Dead City are a cathartic social phenomenon that’s reignited a riotous punk rock subculture in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
A new subculture was born, composed of the millions of people who now devoted every free moment of their lives to searching for Halliday’s egg.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Translated in 2014 by Frank Wynne as “Liveforever,” the novel is narrated by María del Carmen Huerta, a well-off young woman from Cali who is sucked into the city’s frenetic world of musical subcultures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
His content, and that of similar influencers, has brought looksmaxxing out of niche underground subcultures and made it more mainstream.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
As a kid growing up in Beverly Hills with an itch for L.A.’s subcultures, the Alchemist spent the ‘80s and ‘90s break-dancing, doing graffiti, skateboarding and rapping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
One legacy of the internet is the millions of subcultures that it helps flourish.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025
In Chicago, I told him, geeks were probably one of the least odd subcultures around.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
