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Chat with Default Friend about Online Subcultures, Incels, and Generational Trends
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Chat with Default Friend about Online Subcultures, Incels, and Generational Trends

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk to Default Friend about online subcultures, incels, and generational trends. Default Friend, Katherine Deee, is a writer, cultural commentator, cultural anthropologist, internet historian, and digital native. Check out Default Friend’s Substack, Default Wisdom, her writings for the Claremont Institute’s American Mind, and follow her on Twitter.

Topics:

Thoughts on various political-spheres including the intellectual dark web

The politicization of sex and relationships

On being a proto-Femcel

The impacts of dating apps and income inequality on the “sexual market place”

New York Times article, A Manifesto Against Sex Positivity, reviewing Default Friend’s writings on the backlash against hookup culture

The rise in conservative feminism and woke puritanism

Generational differences between Millennials and Zoomers, and cultural shifts from the 00s-to the 2010s, and 2020s

The trend in the end of mass youth subcultures and the rise in fusionism of “hybrid collages” and nostalgia based upon past generations’ nostalgia

The internet as the astral plane

Prediction of a tech backlash in the 2020s

Justin Murphy’s and Alex Kaschuta’s neo-traditionalism