0xen 🎩
@0xen
Austin was great when it was the only liberal and cultural oasis in TX, back when that meant something. When it was a Texas-sized college town. SXSW created a reality distortion field for tourists looking for the Good Life and since then they’ve been trying to graft a tech hub on top of a place that was never suited.
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LONO 🎩🐹
@lono.eth
Have been listening to this take since I moved here in 2005 and it was bullshit then and it's bullshit now... No disrespect meant. I've moved around and come back. Austin is still a place with chill people. It's still a place teeming with artists/musicians. It's just now the whole world knows about us.
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
Hot, expensive, sprawling. More ramen restaurants tho, much culture, very progress. What’s Austin’s greatest cultural export in the last 10 years.
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LONO 🎩🐹
@lono.eth
Why the arbitrary 10 years? ACL (est 2002) and SXSW (1987) have been growing in prominence since inception. The only thing to really set them back was the pandemic (esp sxsw). It takes a lot of time to establish institutions like this. Would rather do ACL than Coachella. Sprawl is America and less bad in ATX than HTX.
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
Because Austin has stopped creating cultural exports of meaning since the tech bros took over. They hadn't taken over in 2002, certainly not in 1987. Proving my point because you can't think of anything. No one cares about sprawl in Houston because it's always been spawling and it wasn't a cultural hub like Austin.
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downshift
@downshift.eth
we don't need exports tbh. the foundational culture of austin is still here and maybe you should listen to gary clark jr we don't make pop music bro
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LONO 🎩🐹
@lono.eth
Bro, I think you just got old. No offense because I did too. I don't know All the cool new hit things. I'm fucking almost 40. This town is Young. It's vibrant. There's a lot going on. You're crazy if you think nothing is happening here. Black Pumas are Austin's new Spoon. Est 2017. There you go. The Black Pumas.
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