The development of ANSI art became so popular that it spawned an entire BBS " artscene " subculture devoted to it.

As a result, morbid, supernatural, and occult themes became more noticeably serious in the subculture.

Starting in the mid-1960s, and partly as a result of the success of such UK musicians as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, London became a centre for the worldwide youth culture, exemplified by the Swinging London subculture which made Carnaby Street a household name of youth fashion around the world.

The existence of a public space for women to socialize in bars that were known to cater to lesbians " became the single most important public manifestation of the subculture for many decades ", according to historian Lillian Faderman.

The subculture that later became known as New Age already existed in the early 1970s, based on and adopting ideas originally present in the counterculture of the 1960s.

These youths became known as mods, a youth subculture noted for its consumerism and devotion to fashion, music and scooters.

In French Internet subculture, " Obi-Wan Kenobi " became an expression meaning " your question does not make sense ", and is said when one does not know what to answer but wants to respond in an amusing way.

Starting in the 1950s, jeans, originally designed for cowboys, became popular among teenagers, especially members of the greaser subculture.

In the late 1980s, Jughead became obsessed with the skateboarding subculture, and his interests and taste in fashion were revamped to fit this.

The leather subculture later became more mainstream in the British 1960s due to the influence of rock musicians such as The Rolling Stones and The Who, and television performers such as Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg in The Avengers, who wore full body leather catsuits and full limb-covering leather and latex gloves and boots.

The punk subculture's distinctive ( and initially shocking ) style of clothing was adopted by mass-market fashion companies once the subculture became a media interest.

Hip-hop soon became a small but eager subculture and it expanded from breakdance and graffiti culture to also rap music.

As the Jamaican diaspora grew in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, rude boy music and fashion, as well as the gang mentality, became a strong influence on the skinhead subculture.

A subculture of teenage girls in Germany began to emulate her style of dress and to hang around the Bahnhof Zoo station, which became an unlikely tourist attraction.

As Cooper moved away from the UFOlogy community in the late 1990s and towards the militia and anti-government group subculture, he became convinced he'd been personally targeted by President Bill Clinton as well as the IRS.

From the 1930s, the area around Park Street, where large numbers of flats had been built, became a popular neighbourhood for middle-class homosexuals ; at that time an illegal subculture in the state of Victoria.

The band often drove for hours out to isolated locations in the desert and plugged into generators to perform, and these events, known as " generator parties " became urban legend among rock subculture.

Dick Hebdige argues that the mod subculture lost its vitality when it became commercialised, artificial and stylised to the point that new mod clothing styles were being created " from above " by clothing companies and by TV shows like Ready Steady Go !, rather than being developed by young people customising their clothes and mixing different fashions together.

The style and subculture then became popular among other types of people, as an expression of rebellion.

Given the nature of alternative journalism as a subculture, some staff members from underground newspapers became staff on the newer alternative weeklies, even though there was seldom institutional continuity with management or ownership.

The music / fashion subculture that became a commercial alternative to the freaks was glam rock.

The skinhead subculture from the late 1960s continued into the 1970s, and some skinheads became influenced by the punk subculture.

Such references in their music and image were originally tongue-in-cheek, but as time went on, bands and members of the subculture took the connection more seriously.

The appearance of lounge subculture in the mid-1990s in the United States helped to enhance the revival and interest in the music, style, and performers of popular music prior to rock and roll, such as the Rat Pack and recording artists associated with exotica, although the latter has only a cursory connection with classic pop traditions of the past.

To articulate the connection between the young, working-class, multi-racial skinhead subculture and left-wing ideas.

Besides their connection with motorcycles and the one percenter subculture, such individuals and motorcycle clubs are seen by law enforcement agencies as being unique among groups carrying out crimes because they maintain websites, identify themselves through patches and tattoos, have written constitutions and bylaws, trademark their club names and logos, even carry out publicity campaigns aimed at cleaning up their public image.

While the self-designation of hobbyists as hackers is acknowledged by all three kinds of hackers, and the computer security hackers accept all uses of the word, people from the programmer subculture consider the computer intrusion related usage incorrect, and emphasize the difference between the two by calling security breakers “ crackers ” ( analogous to a safecracker ).

A large overlaps between hobbyist hackers and the programmer subculture hackers existed during the Homebrew Club's days, but the interests and values of both communities somewhat diverged.

The main basic difference between programmer subculture and computer security hackers is their mostly separate historical origin and development.

The computer security hacking subculture on the other hand tends not to distinguish between the two subcultures as harshly, instead acknowledging that they have much in common including many members, political and social goals, and a love of learning about technology.

As a reflection of categories of sexuality so sharply defined by the government and society at large, lesbian subculture developed extremely rigid gender roles between women, particularly among the working class in the U. S. and Canada.

American skinheads created a link between their subculture and hardcore punk music, with bands such as Warzone, Agnostic Front, and Cro-Mags.

Bands like Crass and Dead Kennedys have written songs that attack corporate co-option of the punk subculture, people who are deemed to have sold out, and the violence between punks, skinheads, B-boys and other youth subcultures and within punk itself.

Various factions of the punk subculture have different fashion styles, although there is often crossover between the subgroups.

As early as 1950, David Riesman distinguished between a majority, " which passively accepted commercially provided styles and meanings, and a ' subculture ' which actively sought a minority style ... and interpreted it in accordance with subversive values ".

Within the church, divisions exist between those members whose subculture is more Catholic-leaning and those members whose subculture is more Protestant-leaning.

The largest group fall into an area somewhere between these two opposites, as varied in the spectrum of political and social philosophy as members of any large and thriving subculture.

The Zoot-Suit Riots sharply revealed a polarization between two youth groups within wartime society: the gangs of predominantly black and Mexican youths who were at the forefront of the zoot-suit subculture, and the predominantly white American servicemen stationed along the Pacific coast.

Although there is some overlap between chubs and bears, chubs have their own distinct subculture and community.

Science fiction critic Thomas Wagner underscores the desire for meaning, or pattern recognition, using a comparison between the film clips and Cayce's search for her father after the attacks: he very randomness and ineffability of the clips flies in the face of our natural human tendency towards pattern recognition ... he subculture that surrounds " following the footage " ... an effective plot device for underscoring the novel's post-9 / 11 themes: to wit, the uncertainty of the fabric of day-to-day life people began to feel following that event … as people don't like uncertainty, don't like knowing that there's something we can't comprehend.

She was drawn especially to the Bowery's hard-drug subculture ; these photographs, taken between 1979 and 1986, form her famous work The Ballad of Sexual Dependency — a title taken from a song in Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera.

The Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz writes in the essay, " The Pachuco and Other Extremes " that the Pachuco phenomenon paralleled the zazou subculture in World War II-era Paris in style of clothing, music favored ( jazz, swing, and jump blues ), and attitudes, although there was no known link between the two subcultures.

A popular term that the swing subculture used to define itself was Lottern, roughly translated as something between " laziness " and " sleaziness ", indicating contempt for the pressure to do " useful work " and the repressive sexual mores of the time.

The book satirizes many of the elements of a particular mid-to-late 1970s subculture, also described to some degree by author Tom Wolfe in his 1976 non-fiction essay " The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening ", particularly as manifested in the lives of people then between the ages of about 30 and 45 in affluent parts of California.

They are a favoured piece of jewelry by the Gothic subculture and are worn by some BDSM lifestyle couples as a symbol of ownership between Master ( BDSM ) and Slave ( BDSM ).