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Micro-trends live and die within weeks; an aesthetic is declared 'dead' the moment it goes mainstream (cyberpunk, dark academia). Is loving an aesthetic before it was popular a real bond, or just a more refined status game?
— Aesthetics Wiki 'Commercialization Paradox', death of the aesthetic discourse
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