When did the internet as a whole decide that steampunk was bad

Odradek · 2016-12-12 00:43:01

?

Tatterhood · 2016-12-12 00:45:56

2011

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-12 00:46:39

exactly 2011 yes

(no I don't know either)

Obā-san · 2016-12-12 00:54:45

i will say that it must have been exactly after the second or third steam powered giraffe album came out

ancillary question: when did the internet decide that it hates Wes Anderson?

Odradek · 2016-12-12 00:57:34

That's one of those crossover things where you get both SJ types who hate white male hipsters for being assumed failures at #wokeness and reactionary types who hate white male hipsters for being beta cucks

Odradek · 2016-12-12 01:00:47

Odradek said:
That's one of those crossover things where you get both SJ types who hate white male hipsters for being assumed failures at #wokeness and reactionary types who hate white male hipsters for being beta cucks

I sound dangerously close to "Actually, good things and bad things are exactly the same" and should step back a few steps just in case

Obā-san · 2016-12-12 01:03:11

well, actually good things and bad things are exactly the same

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-12 01:03:54

:hits you in the face with a fedora: horseshoe theory

Odradek · 2016-12-12 01:14:59

Horseshoe Theory is wrong but only because Stalinism and Maoism were extremely right-wing #HotTake

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-12 01:17:53

that take is lukewarm at best Odie

Imipolex G · 2016-12-12 01:19:37

the internet was a mistake

Hexartes · 2016-12-12 02:22:07

I'm not a huge fan of steampunk, because it has what I call "motif stew." In other words, steampunk is an artstyle consisting of a million different ideas with little guiding ethos and that's frustrating

Hexartes · 2016-12-12 02:22:20

I really like Wes Anderson though

Anonus · 2016-12-12 02:29:58

Imipolex G said:
the internet was a mistake

my yet-to-exist wedding ring says "nah" to that

Tre · 2016-12-12 02:35:54

Imipolex G · 2016-12-12 02:49:43

^how Will Smith became rich & famous

Section42L · 2016-12-12 06:23:21

Steam Powered Giraffe aren't any good, but it's cool that one of their members is a trans woman.

eriophora zia · 2016-12-12 20:41:14

There's actually still a decent amount of steampunk that's fairly well-received in quite a few circles? Especially book-wise. See: Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. In fairness, that's more surreal-steampunk than pure steampunk, but still.

I feel like it's just not actively hyped any more, really.

criminalscum · 2016-12-12 22:56:46

Kexruct said:
I'm not a huge fan of steampunk, because it has what I call "motif stew." In other words, steampunk is an artstyle consisting of a million different ideas with little guiding ethos and that's frustrating

This also describes vaporwave.

Backlash when

Bee · 2016-12-12 22:58:28

it...did?

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-12-12 23:01:37

Steampunk elements as part of a more diverse or unique guiding aesthetic seem more acceptable than straight steampunk, although how many *works* were ever that to begin with seems like an open question. It seems like the backlash against the aesthetic, beyond reasonable complaints about, say, incoherence or inconsistency, was just so overblown. But nearly all style backlash is overblown—rebellions of sheep, if I were to be uncharitable and a touch cliché about it, much bleating and stomping of tiny hooves...

Bee · 2016-12-12 23:28:39

seriously i was unaware steampunk was suddenly hated

Obā-san · 2016-12-12 23:41:54

one thing that's important that hasn't been brought up yet: steampunk as a whole is/was the province of, if I may be blunt, massive dweebs

which is a surefire way for something to become uncool with a quickness

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-12-12 23:44:13

Well, yeah.

Hexartes · 2016-12-13 09:03:08

criminalscum said:

Kexruct said:
I'm not a huge fan of steampunk, because it has what I call "motif stew." In other words, steampunk is an artstyle consisting of a million different ideas with little guiding ethos and that's frustrating
This also describes vaporwave.

Backlash when

Vaporwave is intentionally obnoxious, though.

Basically I see steampunk treated as a sort of... one size fits all aesthetic, I guess? Where it's just applied to e v e r y t h i n g. It gets tiring.

It also smacks of fandom culture stuff that I'm not fond of.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-13 09:22:50

Kexruct said:

criminalscum said:

Kexruct said:
I'm not a huge fan of steampunk, because it has what I call "motif stew." In other words, steampunk is an artstyle consisting of a million different ideas with little guiding ethos and that's frustrating
This also describes vaporwave.

Backlash when
Vaporwave is intentionally obnoxious, though.

??

no

Hexartes · 2016-12-13 09:26:09

Like the album covers are an utter assault on the senses and I like it a lot actually

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-13 09:41:30

eh, I guess?

some of the older stuff anyway.

all of the vaporwave records that I liked that came out this year (Noir by Luxury Elite, A Night At Your Local Multiplex by Beta 96, WMCC Weather Channel by The Morris County Meteorological Association, and Memory Garden by Staqq Overflo chiefly) had pretty normal-looking covers

that one Blank Banshee record had a really loud cover tho

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-13 09:42:21

all of those are free and 500% worth your time by the way

OH ALSO there was the new album by Hong Kong Express and Telepath's group 2418. Rain Temple I think it were called?

Alduin · 2016-12-13 14:25:30

I like vaporwave.

Yarrun XIX · 2016-12-13 15:28:02

Aliroz · 2016-12-13 17:42:59

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