That happened a while ago, with Millenials. Subcultures were GenX only.
The prior technology was Boomers' universal counterculture, where if you wanted to do one of being a hippie or join the new age or do drugs or go to concerts or have weird sex you had to do them all at once - that's why they seemed convinced that going to an outdoor concert was literally the same thing as saving the planet.
Subcultures developed after people realized that didn't make any sense, and there was just enough communication technology to find people to get into your hobby, but not enough to mix and match them, so now your hobby life was often still defined by being a goth or punk or playing D&D, but it's less universal.
The kids are capable of joining more than one group at once because they can do it all online. And nobody is in a band anymore.
I think there’s still emo and scene kids. I’ve seen a few! And if there’s still such a thing as death metal, grindcore, etc then there are kids out there in that subculture.
I'm talking about kids. Like, 12 years old. It was a common thing to dream about for kids that age, though. I personally didn't, but mostly because my wishful thinking was about game dev.
The prior technology was Boomers' universal counterculture, where if you wanted to do one of being a hippie or join the new age or do drugs or go to concerts or have weird sex you had to do them all at once - that's why they seemed convinced that going to an outdoor concert was literally the same thing as saving the planet.
Subcultures developed after people realized that didn't make any sense, and there was just enough communication technology to find people to get into your hobby, but not enough to mix and match them, so now your hobby life was often still defined by being a goth or punk or playing D&D, but it's less universal.
The kids are capable of joining more than one group at once because they can do it all online. And nobody is in a band anymore.
https://meaningness.com/meaningness-history