It implies that if you were authentic, you wouldn't be into mainstream shit; you'd be into weird obscure shit.
This reminds me! There are some cranky people on the internet who have been ranting that if you like GCS, you're not a REAL Goth. That I'm one of the signs that Goth Is Dead, and that (wait for it) I'm not authentic. Oh, how I giggled when I was reading these posts.
(And then absurdly pleased when swarms of other people commented to defend GCS, me, and to tell the cranky people that while they're entitled to their opinions, those opinions are wrong.)
The authenticity value y'all are railing against doesn't seem to have much to do with what Scola's link is talking about.
The authenticity value y'all are railing against doesn't seem to have much to do with what Scola's link is talking about.
Not so much, no. I liked that essay, though: the emphasis on the positioning of parents as immigrants made a lot of sense to me.
The authenticity value y'all are railing against doesn't seem to have much to do with what Scola's link is talking about.
I click through nothing! That is how I authentically experience this board.
I click through nothing!
I was not clicking through before not clicking through was cool.
I was never cool, but I know what I like. I'm too cool to be cool.
OK! I was authentically confused.
Congrats on being popular enough to get that kind of backlash, Jilli. Seems like a milestone of sorts.
Seems like a milestone of sorts.
It is! I'm very amused by it. Pete, of course, wants to go kick those people, but I've always known that I am not going to be universally adored, so whatevs. (At least, not until I ascend and become vampire witch queen of the universe.
Then
I will be universally adored. Clovis says so.)
Forbes' list of 15 wealthiest fictional characters
humph! they left out J.D. Robb's Roarke
