Since this is the humanities board, I want to ask if you could give me some lectures about massive but invisible subcultures around the world.Things like urban gardening, board games, literature.I want to understand how some hobbies or subcultures are totally massive, like chess, which you would assume to be non existant in the public discourse to actually be comunities of hundreds of millions of people.
>>18109551Culture moves faster than technology. If all those people could contribute to technology the way they can to culture, we'd be in another solar system by now. All the things you listed had moments of extreme popularity where life seemed to revolve around them, but unlike technological advancement they didn't change the world fundamentally, and people simply moved on to something else.
>>18109551Second life was really big years ago. Peaked before 4chan and had lots and lots of crazy events and subcultures.
