What is up with every faux-deep fags obsession with beat poetry?

It takes no skill and it was a fashion movement - it attracts pseuds who just want to be seen as avant garde instead of actually culture jamming. That being said there were good beats like Burroughs but they would've been around had the beat movement not happened, if that makes sense.

It's honestly no different than a meme subculture like vaporwave. Beatniks are the meme weed kids of the 50's and 60's (also attracts womemes)

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*what is up with amerifats thinking their fastfood version of existentialism is special

are people today still obsessed with the beats? I sure haven't met any. I think you're responding to a stereotype, one historically based in the movement's original following when the style was still edgy and underground.

but i think a better answer is that the beats appealed to a youthfulness and rebelliousness in their work akin to the punk or hippie movements. they were also new and controversial. this kind of stuff obvious appeals to kids, it's subject matter they can relate to and it looks like a cutting edge they want to be a part of. why are they faux-deep? because they're young and stupid, but they're searching for the answers.