The new counterculture is a flattening of media, drama, and sex work

Evidence

In Broderick’s view, it represented “a flattening of digital media, internet drama, and sex work, where all of it just ends up as more content on our timelines.” The hard-right manosphere remained niche, but once in solidarity with the Zynternet and the canceled celebrities, the counter-counterculture had become arguably the loudest and most influential nonmainstream force in American culture. This was what “alternative” now looked like in the twenty-first century: a loosely affiliated swarm of men trying to reassemble the remnants of twentieth-century gender norms by force. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 817

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the concept of the flattened all-consuming audience central to the reading purpose’s ‘omnivore monoculture’ thesis.