worst fad of the 21st century so far. it's steampunk, right?

i totally get the aesthetic delights of brass and clockwork and exposed engineering, i'm just a bit eyebrow-raisy about peeps who seem to crave to inhabit a more colonial era

I was thinking recently that there's a weird correlation between these anti-technologists and anti-social progressive Trump supporters. They should join forces and buy an island somewhere and live out their pre-industrial revolution fantasies.

burning man is also something you need to be wealthy to do.

also most of the good (or "good") steampunk books (difference engine, maaaaaybe diamond age) are pretty explicit abou viewing the victorian era/the victorian mindset as kinda pretty fucked up.

irl steampunk is more like "nostalgia for a bbc sci-fi miniseries that never actually existed."

burning man is also something you need to be wealthy to do.

yup

it didn't used to be that way but it sure is now

not if u work on a crew, based on what a bunch of my relatively poor 20-something friends are doing right now

what, you mean a crew bankrolled by a wealthy person, ie as an employee?

I dunno, whatever the garbage/recycling crew is, pretty sure that's part of the actual organization, they give crew passes in exchange for work.

those are employees not attendees

Burning Man LLC is a thing

was responding to "need to be wealthy to do", which did not specify an employee/attendee divide (which is pretty tenuous at best, the folks who are working still have a lot of fun, maybe even more fun)

well i mean you get to see babs streisand if you're a janitor at the arena

https://twitter.com/GroverNorquist/status/768988127415377924

Grover Norquist ‏@GroverNorquist 18h
18 hours ago Massachusetts, USA

There is no Trump. There is no Clinton.
Burning Man starts Monday.
All is right with the world.

if only we all could enjoy the privelege of cleaning up after Grover Norquist

We already are.

god that tweet is amazing

There is no Trump. There is no Clinton. Only Thiel.

I dunno, whatever the garbage/recycling crew is, pretty sure that's part of the actual organization, they give crew passes in exchange for work.

― vagenda of manocide (sleeve), Friday, August 26, 2016 8:12 PM (one hour ago)

those are employees not attendees

― Οὖτις, Friday, August 26, 2016 8:14 PM (one hour ago)

Nah, this is a really common thing to do to get into festivals. You volunteer for a few hours worth of shifts and then get to go to the whole thing for free.

Anyway, the answer to this question is Electroswing.

I think claiming you don't have to be rich to go there, you just have to work for no pay and free entry is a bit o_0. You used to be able to go to Burning Man for nothing (no tickets!), just the cost of your own transport and supplies (ie the cost of camping - a thing poor people do!). It is not like that anymore, and it hasn't been that way for 10+ years.

the only person i know who goes every year is ilxor d. wolk.

How'd we get this far without mentioning anti-vaxxers and/or gluten-free?

But yeah Steampunk is pretty bad.

I think claiming you don't have to be rich to go there, you just have to work for no pay and free entry is a bit o_0. You used to be able to go to Burning Man for nothing (no tickets!), just the cost of your own transport and supplies (ie the cost of camping - a thing poor people do!). It is not like that anymore, and it hasn't been that way for 10+ years.

― Οὖτις, Friday, August 26, 2016 9:22 PM (fifteen minutes ago)

My point wasn't really about Burning Man specifically (I know nobody who has been and have always thought it looked abominable). Just that 'not attendees but employees' is not entirely correct.

imagine having to clean up the CEO of Uber's toilet tank waste then being like woo this was all worth it

mra

doxxing

I shouldve said 20+ years fwiw

Damn i'm old

Xp

xxxp that's the Porta-Potty companies' job, not the people who help attendees sort their "garbage" into categories. Those folks just hang in a big tent and chill, people gotta come to them and then my friends chastise them for not sorting their shit correctly (note that I have never been to BM and am not a fan)

but yeah Shakey is correct that it changed into something else once the expensive tickets started happening

really I think Burning Man is a good nomination for the thread title

Anybody said TED talks or Amanda Palmer yet?

they can both get in the sea

RealDolls

really I think Burning Man is a good nomination for the thread title

nah BM is 20th century

The torture-porn horror phase that Saw temporarily inspired

Ironic ukelele covers of gangsta rap tunes on Youtube

9/11 trutherism

Ironic ukulele is a good call.

i do have a good friend that records enthusiastic ukelele covers of classic songs and gives them interesting arrangements and layered vocal harmonies (ie "Dead Flowers" by Rolling Stones) and hers I am into

yeah, sincere ukulele covers of gangsta rap tunes only please xp

tim from ilx does AMAZING ukelele covers, full voiced chords n shit... but i think we are talking about something different. that slowed down white person trying to sing like billie holiday style of cover song thats on every commercial.

yeah i'm talking more like the duo I saw that performed a "hilarious" stodgy-white sendup of Khia's "My Neck, My Back" on uke at a show I was dragged to a while back

steampunk AND ukelele AND that voice i can't stand that is the female version of the old man hat voice. in one video. trifecta of bad fads!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX_weRr19sQ

#45 - Napping Baby Cosplay

http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sleeping-baby-cosplay-joey-marie-laura-izumikawa-choi-41-57be9498b300b__700.jpg

http://www.boredpanda.com/sleeping-baby-cosplay-joey-marie-laura-izumikawa-choi/

Tempted to say Cosplay in general...

Before cosplayers, genre coms were packed with unkempt socially maladapted guys. They're still maladapted, but more are taking showers now.

*coms = Cons = fan conventions

the internet

xp Cosplay has been around for longer than most of us have been alive. (Unlike most of the other things mentioned here, which only date back to when most of us were kids.

Forgot the ending bracket, here: )

Rickrolling coulda been a candidate but it fortunately died quickly

WHAT'S UP CHRISTINE ??

Loads of strange things. Very strange things. Will talk about it later.

cupcakes ffs