doug coupland is a gen x piece of shit right and his similarly titled novel, generation x: tales for an accelerated culture, is about what you would expect, the book itself isn't important throughout the text, sometimes in-between chapters or at the end of pages, there are footnotes explaining these very "gen x" slang terms that appear in the book, with a lil cheeky dash of 90's satire the one that applies to this situation is called "obscurism" and i'm gonna quote it wholesale > obscurism: the practice of peppering daily life with obscure references (forgotten films, dead tv stars, unpopular books, defunct countries, etc.) as a subliminal means of showcasing both ones education and ones wish to disassociate from the world of mass culture. your problem doesn't stem from other people taking your interests and popularizing them, it comes from you never really being interested in those things to begin with  seeking to have some kind of air of authenticity, obscurity or esotericism to it in order to prove whatever to whoever isn't actually being interested in interests, it's flexing you're seeking clout get some actual interests lmfao
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