@twistylittlepassages @eldang ahh ok i can see how it does kind of rub the wrong way and rankle at that… but i guess my assumption was that part of the attraction to many folx _was_ the cheapness / free-ness of it.

… and … also i kind of assume the “trust fund baby in mesh ballcap” part is the slant that the nytimes editorial staff want to use, bc journalists use that a lot when talking about younger generations. and maybe there are some folx like that out there but i’ve never met them - granted i don’t really overlap with too many young folks outside of like, queer and trans spaces mostly online so i do have a biased view

i guess what i saw in that article was… they’ve noticed something interesting. and it reminds me of things in my own life. and there could be a lot going on and a lot to unpack. but i don’t want to put any stock in any of their analysis bc mostly i think they write whatever gets them clicks, which tends to be skewed and divisive

@eldang @twistylittlepassages there might be an analog (ha!) in the cassette releases world …. but i probably wouldn’t dismiss either releases to cassette or photography on 10-15yr old cameras as ‘just’ hipsterism … i don’t know, i am just remembering yashica TLRs i owned, because i loved shooting medium format but will never afford a hasselblad. and i remember shooting pentax 35mm not because they were amazing cameras but because good lenses were cheap and ubiquitous. and joy in ‘saving’ stuff from landfill

and maybe also with a camera, esp. a cast-off one, there’s also kind of a resistance ‘f you’ element, a kind of middle finger to the expectation of endless consumption that comes with a smartphone? and a f-you to parents - like, i am going to take your old shit and make it useful and make art out of it. combined with weird fun we used to get taking crappy photos with disposable cameras (stars above how do we exist in a world where ‘disposable camera’ is a real thing that existed) - this seems a little punk to me

omg this is almost June and Kind

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