Scroll, Steal, Repeat: The Algorithm Is Eating Your Subculture Alive
TikTok's For You Page has become both a cradle and a graveyard for alternative subcultures, birthing underground movements in one viral moment and commodifying them into oblivion the next. We talked to the artists and scene-builders watching their communities get strip-mined for aesthetics in real time. The question isn't whether your scene will get discovered — it's whether it'll survive the discovery.