Current Events > What happened to "metrosexuals"?

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I remember they were the hipsters of the early 2000's. Did they all just grow beards and start wearing flannel?
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they all realized they were gay.
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They came all the way out the closet
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Myzery posted...

they all realized they were gay.

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Maybe they got tired of being called gay and watered themselves down in order to be "acceptable" again.
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The crab people won
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Metrosexuality kind of melted into everything else. It's not gone it's just not seen as the persons personality anymore
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Hipsters are the new metrosexuals. It was just another trend, they come ans go

pogo_rabid posted...

I remember they were the hipsters of the early 2000's. Did they all just grow beards and start wearing flannel?

Kind of. There was definitely a culture shift away from ironic nihilism towards super sincere rustic Americana in the mid-2000s (think Bon Iver, Iron and wine, and Fleet Foxes). Both occupied a kind of countercultural headspace in response to something. By the end of the decade the plunderphonic movements of vaporwave and ironic consumerism had come into their own mainstream (see: Ariel Pink) consciousness manifesting as artists borrowing old pop cultural A E S T H E T I C S, experimenting with intentionally low fidelity audio production, remixing old pop songs with different production styles, or straight up digging up old classics. This is why Takeuchi's Plastic Love is in all of our YouTube recommendations. It also directly informs Carly Rae Jepsen's work since 2015 (btw listen to Dedication).
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