Is forum activity decreasing? - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:17 PM On 2011-12-19 11:28, AlohaStation wrote: SpaceBook - happened. Same effect on Forums all over the web. Vey true. Facebook simply is the much quicker and easier reward. Whenever I post a link to a thread I did on TC on Facebook, I get 10 times more reactions than here. Popular culture is in an ever-accelerating spiral of quick rewards and fast thrills, becoming more superficial in the process. Beginning with the manic speed of cutting music videos, newer generations were raised on this diet of speedy content and visuals. It is much faster to click on "Like", or write ONE funny line, than do in-depth research and scan images and put a coherent post together. That's falling out of fashion. Plus, the Tiki Revival has already lasted a long time. After the 90s Tiki underground, the early to mid-2000s saw serious Tiki culture archeology parallel to an explosion of new Tiki art and the Tiki event scene. In the later half of the 2000s the Tiki scene was re-invigorated from the inside by the craft cocktail revival, but the awareness of the art and style aspects leveled out, or even shrank (I am excluding the hardcore followers on TC and elsewhere of course). But 10 years is a pretty long time for any fashion to last. :) On one hand it is simply not as NEW, and unique as it was when there was little of it around, on the other it takes serious interest to get into it and understand it. While the information is all out there, now more readily available than ever, it's a big heap of stuff to wade through (just take Tiki Central). And the in-availability of my books ain't helping. The lack of a coherent, in-depth context and understanding of its cultural background is leading to a two-dimensional image of Tiki nowadays, which puts it into just another category of the many pop cultures. For a pop culture to continue to exist, the Tiki revival has simply not been able to prove enough commercial expansion potential. It has established Tiki in the pantheon of popular culture (as opposed to having been completely forgotten before) and will live on for sure, but as a subculture of the ones who love and understand it...and maybe there will be another revival sometime.

On 2011-12-19 11:28, AlohaStation wrote:
SpaceBook - happened. Same effect on Forums all over the web.

Vey true. Facebook simply is the much quicker and easier reward. Whenever I post a link to a thread I did on TC on Facebook, I get 10 times more reactions than here.

Popular culture is in an ever-accelerating spiral of quick rewards and fast thrills, becoming more superficial in the process. Beginning with the manic speed of cutting music videos, newer generations were raised on this diet of speedy content and visuals. It is much faster to click on "Like", or write ONE funny line, than do in-depth research and scan images and put a coherent post together. That's falling out of fashion.

Plus, the Tiki Revival has already lasted a long time. After the 90s Tiki underground, the early to mid-2000s saw serious Tiki culture archeology parallel to an explosion of new Tiki art and the Tiki event scene. In the later half of the 2000s the Tiki scene was re-invigorated from the inside by the craft cocktail revival, but the awareness of the art and style aspects leveled out, or even shrank (I am excluding the hardcore followers on TC and elsewhere of course). But 10 years is a pretty long time for any fashion to last. :)

On one hand it is simply not as NEW, and unique as it was when there was little of it around, on the other it takes serious interest to get into it and understand it. While the information is all out there, now more readily available than ever, it's a big heap of stuff to wade through (just take Tiki Central). And the in-availability of my books ain't helping. The lack of a coherent, in-depth context and understanding of its cultural background is leading to a two-dimensional image of Tiki nowadays, which puts it into just another category of the many pop cultures.

For a pop culture to continue to exist, the Tiki revival has simply not been able to prove enough commercial expansion potential. It has established Tiki in the pantheon of popular culture (as opposed to having been completely forgotten before) and will live on for sure, but as a subculture of the ones who love and understand it...and maybe there will be another revival sometime.

Post #617819 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:17 PM