>>6970264Because people picked up on the existentialist and nihilst elements in the seminal works' critiques of consumer culture. Then, like all lazy knockoffs, they created new works that imitated the aesthetic elements of the original, without understanding the significance behind those elements, using them in ways that made no sense.
Basically, if Floral Shoppe etc. were Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, Elric, and Conan, the contents of these threads are Eragon, or The Eye of Argon.
