The stereotype of the mild mannered skinny graphic designer in plaid working for a FAANG feels like an anachronism of the early 2010s. I've noticed a trend where male designers (at least), are: 

- committing harder to entrepreneurship while retaining a sophisticated aesthetic sensibility 
- fitness-maxxing, perhaps driven by the view that exercising the body also frees the mind, and that if aesthetics matter, then so does aesthetics of the self 
- diving into code and further blurring the already murky lines between dev and designer
- actually making bank - sometimes by arbitraging higher US remote clients but living in LCOL areas