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It used to be cool for nerds. When it became cool for normies is when these people joined in. The latter is what society actually considers cool.

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nerd-sniped me on this one. mainstream cool isn’t a thing. i think you mean successful. mainstream values success because it’s the vanilla proxy for a vanilla form of “value”.

so cool has always been about the “iykyk” kinda value. once too many people know there’s nothing to know anymore.

I think your cool only applies when you get quite granular. OTOH, everyone knows "teenager slang" is cool and "working in tech" is (now) cool, or "being a brain surgeon" is cool. So as I said in my original comment, those are two different "cool"s entirely.

> "working in tech" is (now) cool,

yeah, thats not the case anymore, it stopped being cool sometime in the last 2 years, unfortunately. Just fyi if someone hasnt realized yet.

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