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Hopepunk, "subversion" of twee nostalgia, moralistic audience-facing broadsides about Just Being A Good Dude, therapy metaphysics, autofiction.
Troll's Remorse, New Sincerity, the use of stomping and clamping and monosyllabic ejaculations when paired with an acoustic guitar, a black character named something like "Jake" or "Dave" who wears a beanie and whose "blackness" is "incidental"
Pathological aversion to forthright depictions of sex, female characters written with r/menwritingwomen in mind, audience surrogate male characters who get told things like "You don't get to treat people like shit just because you had a shitty childhood"
The need to apologize for your own existence. To justify the decadence of Being An Artist by making the text apologize for it's own existence and thus to negate itself. The callow urge to claim the negation was really the point. Pastel bloodspray. Fandomcrafting.