Thinking about the swing trend makes me think about how, back in the 90s, pop culture was still slow enough to allow a trend to clearly start, flourish, & end -- it had a kind of legible lifecycle we could move through together.
These days every young person is hyper media savvy before they're out of diapers. Social media is ubiquitous. Trends start, are critiqued, prompt backlash, prompt backlash-to-backlash, & lead to weary ironic over-it meta-takes ... all in a matter of hours.
It's like trying to track a giant aquarium full of fish rather than a couple of big sharks. Liking or enjoying anything comes with the looming risk that, in the 10 minutes you weren't paying attention, it got uncool or was rendered problematic.
Being young these days seems fuggin' exhausting. Yes I'm aware I sound 1000 years old.
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