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“In sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, a subculture is a group of people with a culture (whether distinct or hidden) which differentiates them from the larger culture to which they belong.”
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So I suppose that if the larger culture is the internet as a whole, then pretty much every website with a discussion board or a chat room has its own subculture. Almost every forum I’ve been to has its own in-jokes, personal memes, significant contributors, and mythology.

Just a few off the top of my head:

-Furries
-Fanart
-Anime fandom (otaku/weeaboo)
-Webcomics

All of the 4chan boards are subculture

Scientologists.

I’m a furry, if you want to know more, ask.

Hipsters.

Touhou? Vocaloid?

Team Fortress 2?

Narutards (doesn’t seem as lively as before)
Kuso (I think)

Anonymous

Noelisme

Human Flesh Search Engine

Get this: we do mini-entries on different subcultures. We could send out dispatches who are already pretty familiar with the subculture, someone who frequents a board on 4chan for example. That dispatch will document the mini-memes and interesting memetic variations, dig up some sauce, and we’ll crank out an entry for it.

Remember that Pearltree Memechart I was working on a while back? Think along those lines. We need something detailing how memes are actually used in different environments.

Pokemon
Star Wars
Trekkies
Joss Whedon fans.

trolls,people from alternate universes, mormons

The question of the thread would probably be better as, “Can anyone name subcultures that consistently produce memes?”. Though I fail to see why this is needed, we’ve got the all the big ones covered really.

The modding community, KYM, TvTropes, gamers.

Gaming communities, fans of certain gaming companies, Hot Topic being Hipster Heaven and a place I go to for stuff.

YouTube Poopers and Roleplayers

Fetishes. Pedobears. YTMND.

I’m liking this idea, but I doubt I’d be any help… I’m only in the FiM fandom right now and I’m kinda new to everything anyway. However, I do think this would be a great place to learn about the different cultures, memes, news, ect. that’s going around the internets.

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I don’t know if this site is the best place to do that, but we could definitely get a sister site running, or at least a sub-section on here. As it is, this place is pretty bumpin’ as it is.

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the rationphile society of the kingdom of enror.

no joke.

I’m surprised noone’s mentioned any of the Garrysmodders. They have created a good many of the memes involving TF2 and the Left 4 Dead franchise. The Sourcemodders too, even. How could we ever forget things like R33MIX’s Success, or Nope.avi? Although, this could just be coming from a user with his head in the tubes.

i agree on the whole mini personal meme thing. On one of the IRC chats i used to go on they had there own memes….like cat on the laptop,(Smoke on the water parody) and THREW IT ON THE GROUND!!! meme as well that i havent seen being used any where else. I dont go to the chat anymore though. I have my own IRC chat much smaller but still we have some of our own mini memes as well:)

You guys seem to be confusing websites and memehubs with “sub-cultures”.

Transformers fans

i’d say that the rage faces is kinda a subculture…

also, lolcats and failblog… they are also could be subcultures

Speaking of this guy, spammers are a subculture.

Most memehubs only produce so many memes because they are places of widespread, communal self-expression. I’d argue that, by that definition, all memehubs are subcultures, but not all subcultures are memehubs. Subcultures are a more broad definition. Look at KYM: it could be considered a subculture too; though it doesn’t create memes so much as document them.

spammers=trolls
trolling is a subculture

Hipsters seem to beget many memes while not creating them directly. Perhaps they warrant some form of article. Whoops, Christopher already beat me to it and I missed it. But it is worth noting that this is a rather unique case as the subculture itself is not the one creating the associated memes.

I’m a furry Minecrafter! That’s a sub-subculter!

It tries to document them.

It is also part of the “paint by numbers”-type meme ‘generation’ phenomenon, whether it means to be or not.

KYM is as far as I know the source of the (funny) saying that such-and-such is “not a meme”.

Anyone else find it weird that Inception is listed as subculture?

Wikipedia
Smash bros players, (Wombo combo anybody?)
more videogame subcultures: speed runners, shoot ’em up players, online Halo subculture

Chiptune also has a really nice subculture

Although yeah most subcultures don’t produce memes that spread around(TvTropes does a good job at it)

Homestuck maybe. They’re very meme-savvy, but I guess most of their memes are too specific to the webcomic (got tiger, everyone is Lord English, buckets etc.)

Although I guess Pantskat is getting there.

May I suggest a DeviantART and an E3 Entry?

Stuff related to Valve or Valve itself?

Garry’s mod was originally made as a mod for Half-Life 2.
I also still find a lot of Portal related content on the internet.

Erm…how about cartoonists? I’m probably one. I love cartoons.

I know, it is so sad how homestuck fans have so many memes, yet are more of community memes. AND WE DON’T HAVE A NAME. Bronies, Furries, Trekkies, Gmodders, Hipsters, 4channers, what are we? Homestuckers? Homies? We need a name before we become a meme…

We can be the KYM-ites :) well not that creative of a name but nor if “4channers” its just 4chan with an “er” lol .

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Really, the only subculture with a creative name is Brony (Bro+Pony? Genious! Furry+Plural? uuuhhhh…) Maybe the KYMembers?