by thomaspaine » Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:05 pm
If you're socially involved with other people you're probably part of a scene but don't realize it, it's usually not as glamorous as it sounds when you're in the present. The whole internet fashion thing (styleforum, superfuture, reddit, care-tags) could be considered a scene with their own little subcultures.
Real life scenes I can think of that I've been a part of...I used to be more involved in the hardcore scene in the cities I lived in but after moving to california and not having anyone to go to shows with combined with getting older and jaded I've fallen out of most of that. I was in a shitty electro band around 2000-2002 and since there were only like 10 electro bands in my city around that time it was easy to know all the other groups and the 5 regulars who came to your shows.
Living in San Francisco the past 5 years there's a huge startup and technology scene that's continuing to grow, although I've also kind of become jaded and fallen out of that too.
Basically scenes are fun when they're small and intimate, and as they grow in size they kind of get corrupted. They tend to revolve around a handful of personalities and if you're one of those personalities or at least close to them then it's more enjoyable, but this usually leads to weird egos or something happens that causes the scene to collapse or decay and most people move on to something else.