27 July

Kidult culture is also name-drop culture. The death of or publicity for a legend of kidult culture has others madly sorting through even the merest contact they may have had with them, so that the post can be about the poster, not the person in the news. Status whoring, the endless battle to have and retain status, piggybacking off those who do as well. I see this with unknown musicians a lot. They met somebody famous once, or did one thing that got a bit of public attention, and then they live off the fat of that for the rest of their anonymous career. It reveals what this culture is about at its root, what all culture is about. Status. Getting it, keeping it. ‘Making it’, where ‘it’ is attention and status. In our adolescent culture era rock stars are a major fast-track to that status and attention.