Bandying the word "apocalypse" feels a little off after the local events of last week, but here is Kieran-Press Reynolds on The TikTokalypse - a Pitchfork piece on the drastic effects of TikTok's potential banning in the USA on the memey end of music culture.
And here's another K P-R report, this time for GQ, on hopecore - "the last gasp of a less-toxic internet?".
This kind of thing brings the homilyphobe out in me.
I'd probably get on better with the spin-off subtrend Kieran further identifies - "hopeless-core", which sounds like the spirit of slacker reanimated... Processed World as digital samizdat, spores of unproductivity and demotivation circulating.
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