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Subcultures influenced by Chicano imagery have cropped up in other parts of Asia, such as Thailand, the Philippines and most notably Japan, where a local love of lowriders emerged as early as the 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

Subcultures have always been consumer-adjacent: you buy records, safety pins, miniskirts.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2019

Subcultures are popping up all over, and clothes are part of the glue that binds them.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2019

I would refer you to Peters’ Law of Internet Subcultures: Anything that exists implies the existence of an online group of people who are obsessed with that thing.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2018

Subcultures spawn languages, and there is decorum to how those languages are used.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith