#ukrainian subculture

[24meiocardia]

✶«EXTREME» (також «Х3М») – культовий український журнал присвячений субкультурам, музиці (зокрема хіп-хопу) і неформальному життю. Заснований журнал у 1999 році в Києві О. Єременком та Д. Тімченком. Виходив раз на місяць з 1999 по 2010 роки, статті в журналі друкувалися російською, українською та англійською мовами.

Основна тематика: екстремальні види спорту, сучасна українська та світова музика, урбаністична культура. Крім самого Х3М, у «Экстрим-пресс» выходили спецвипуски «400мл» (назва походить від місткості балона з фарбою, що зазвичай використовують графіті-художники) та «Breaks» (про брейкданс), а також повноцінні журнали «К9», «Молоко» та «ПОНТ».

Дмитро Тимченко, співзасновник та перший головред:

"В середині 90-их у нас виникла ролер-ту��овка, одна з найперших в Україні. З часом на екстремальні (я їх називаю молодіжними) види спорту почали звертати увагу спонсори та рекламодавці. Ми каталися на роликах та роздавали рекламні листівки у центрі міста, агітували за певні політичні сили. Потім до нас зверталися компанії Roces та Salomon (виробники спортивного обладнання — прим. ред.) з пропозицією провести змагання, на яких рекламували б їхні бренди. І всередині цієї ролер-тусовки я та Олексій Єременко вирішили заснувати журнал про екстремальні види спорту. Авторів набрали серед друзів. Всі були без досвіду роботи в медіа, писали, як вважали за потрібне. Крім спорту, ми акцентували увагу також на музиці, частіше всього хіп-хопі, а також на вуличному мистецтві."

На обкладинках журналу було заявлено 5 тематик: «X-Sport», «Graffiti», «Breakdance», «Music» та «Life». Під час створення засновники орієнтувалися загалом на східноєвропейські видання, зокрема, на пол��ський Slizg.

«Імперія Х3М» представляла собою не тільки друковані видання. В 2000 році Дмитро організував фестиваль «Экстремизм» на честь першого дня народження журналу. На ньому виступили ТНМК, Тартак, Димна Суміш, ДНД та інші. Ця подія заклала фундамент для більш масштабних фестивалів екстремальних видів спорту та вуличного мистецтва: Х3МЬЮЗИК, SNICKERS URBANIA та RED BULL. Це були головні події року для молоді.

З 1999 по 2002 роки акцент в журналі ставився на матеріали про молодійжний спорт. Водночас в Х3М вдало співіснували статті про мейнстрімні та обскурні явища популярної культури.

Оригінальна стаття сайту Амнезія; Подивитись всі обкладинки;

[onekindredspirit]

This photo is the last remaining evidence that I once stood before the mystic portal of the O.K. Corral. Everything else except memory has been taken with time, and so I deposit this remnant here in salt and light and code. The O.K. Corral was a crumbling, condemned 5 bedroom Victorian villa that featured in my life when I was young. I rented it with a friend for, initially, $40 per week. That price was later negotiated down to 'rent free'. Mr. Fox, our landlord, was seen only once more, and on that occasion he tried to sell the place to us for $10,000. The current market value is around $1.5 million ... but money isn't everything. The O.K. Corral was a 'Dude Ranch' and the definition of that is "... an all-inclusive immersive vacation that includes lodgings, meals, horseback riding, fishing and hiking and more." Okay, there was no horseback riding, fishing or hiking but there were other things going on ... and more. Interestingly, the word 'dude' has changed meaning over the last 140 years. Today 'dude' means something like 'bro' but back in the 1880's, when 'Dude Ranches' first began, it was slang for an urbanite. As I write, things continue to fall into place.

I had known my friend since I was 6 years old. I don't think I liked him much back then. He was an extrovert and pushy when getting the painting resources at school. I didn't sit with him anyway because I was a 'foreigner' and I had to sit next to the only other foreigner in the class, Elizabeth Federinko, a Ukrainian girl who couldn't speak English and drew horses all day. I think it was the horse drawing that eventually drove me crazy or maybe it was something else ... possibly bad blood. Anyway, I'll call my friend 'Bukowski'. By the time we were 20 years old I quite liked the guy. Sure there were other arenas of male competition but I found myself better equipped to deal with those. The cool thing about pushy people is that they make thing happen and 'Bukowski' was no exception. For example, he could cook. We had a litany of weirdos and 'freaks' pass through the O.K. Corral. A note to the sensitive - to be called a freak back then was the highest form of compliment in our subculture. It was all a little crazy and you would be disappointed in me if I told you about life at the O.K. Corral, so I won't. Let's talk about something else. One day 'Bukowski' decided to move to another region of New Zealand, some place warmer that would better suit a boho gentleman with alcohol thinned blood. I have rarely lived alone but for a week I did until one morning I was woken at 1am by someone sitting on the end of my bed and talking to me. I wasn't clear as to what she was saying but I wasn't at all concerned as this was probably 'normal' when you don't lock your doors. Realising I was now awake she turned on the light.

I didn't know her but I knew who she was. I'd seen her riding around the city on a Norton Commando motorcycle which had impressed me because of her small size and once she had smiled at me as we passed each other on a city street. I remember that smile, it was powerful enough to stop and turn me around. It was a beautiful smile. The following morning she returned with her possessions and we shared my bed. I feel I had been looking for this person most of my life but when you dream someone into your life there's a danger that the results may be "... reductive and diminutive and I think basically misogynistic ..." as the writer Zoe Kazan once said in an interview when discussing the 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' trope. Clementine, in the movie 'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' warns Joel - "Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours". One thing though, I was never quite sure if she was my projection or if I was, in fact, the projection of her own desires. But I'm comfortable with that. We lived together. She taught me a lot. I gave her love in return. 'Clementine' eventually moved to Australia, a place better suited to her large personality. Years later I was sitting having an espresso at Fidel's Cafe on Cuba Street when 'Clementine' walked past the large plate-glass window. I had only a glimpse of her face but from that brief moment I sensed that she was not happy and that her health was not good. I didn't get up and rush out to catch up with her. I didn't run after her seeking some meaningful reunion. I let her go ... and watched as she disappeared into the crowd. Sometime in the not too distant past I had discovered that the person I had been looking for all through my youth and into later life was myself. I let 'Clementine' go. But the night I wrote this I dreamed of 'Clementine' and it was a beautiful dream.

- One Kindred Spirit

[dontforgetukraine]

“Burn the whole Russian subculture within yourselves. Burn all childhood memories related to the Russian-Soviet. Burn your relationships with relatives or friends on the other side, with everyone who is a carrier of the Russian subculture. Otherwise, it will burn you out.”

—Roman Ratushny, 24

At 16, Roman Ratushny was among a large group of Ukrainian students violently attacked and beaten by the Ukrainian riot police during their peaceful protest in 2013 against President Viktor Yanukovych’s pro-Kremlin government. The ensuing public outrage sparked the Euromaidan revolution. Ratushny, one of the prominent young activists who emerged there, fought illegal construction in a Kyiv park despite the threats from Ukrainian oligarchs before he volunteered to fight for Ukraine in 2022. After he was killed in battle the same year, people were galvanized by his adamant views that peace in Ukraine is impossible while Ukrainians tolerate any kind of Russian influence.

Source: The words of Ukraine’s fallen soldiers inspiring the nation to fight on

[jirairibbon]

┄ 　 intropost　 𓂂ɞ

alyona or mimi 　 　sie / her / ix

fifteen y/o 　"( – ⌓ – ) 　fem jirai

n/bpdtism did sys 　 　ukrainian

𝜗𝒞，block don’t report

┄ 　 interests　 𓂂ɞ

my current hyperfixations is reverse 1999 (@doomedfem is my r1999 sideblog)

my special interests are danny gonzalez and house md, i think (also internet history and fandom culture)

other interests include.. bandori, idolmas (gakumas and shinymas specifically), life is strange, spiderverse, persona 5 and 3, studio investigrave, brooklyn 99, yuri manga, green yuri, history, subcultures, death note, panty and stocking, i dabble in prsk, nso, las, alice in borderland, drew gooden, kurtis conner (more coming when i remeber more)

┄ 　 byf　 𓂂ɞ

i will post about the following things, likely untagged: sh, suicide, trauma and abuse

all my ed vents are tagged with tw ed ana feel free to block it

also i’m a himejoshi fellow himejoshis plsss hmu

other things you can expect to see posted here is me talking about my system, people who annoy me and jirai fashion etc

i have pretty much no dni i do have a kys list though! (homophobes, racists, transphobes, ableist, israel supporter) other than that i’ll just block you if you upset me

i have autism, npd, bpd, did, anxiety, depression, arfid and anorexia

[farasen]

I've been putting it off for too long, hoping that I'd finish at least one thing with dwk AUs, but I've lost interest and didn't come up with design for those who are left, so I'll just spill out what I have

So it's a Russian reality AU. The events are happening in the mid 2000s (like 2005-2007), and I haven't decided on the rest, but I thought they could like fight with people (aka The Ubeatables, Cool Kickers and 1FC) from other neighbourhoods, gang on gang kind of shit. Normal activities of 2000s kids. But they're pretty harmless, just being noisy teens.

Now design concepts (names are based off English dub, since this version is more common to Russians)

Peretc Rinat Sabirovich 

That's Deniz. He's tatar in this reality. Same old rich boy, who has a good computer at home and buys original clothes and not on the market square. Wears an earring in his left ear, which some people call him gay for, but it's actually for the sake of the music. Also people joke about his surname, because it literally means "pepper" and he tells them "Kit mannan Na kutak".

Butkova Vasilisa Lavrentievna

Vanessa, as you can see. Half-Ukrainian, her parents moved to Russia after USSR collapse. Unlike her original version, doesn't like to be called by full name and preferes Asya or Vasya. The meme is that Vasya is a male name.

Khazanovsky Dima Fedorovich

Jojo. Don't have much to say about him. His Би-2 (Bi-2) t-shirt is the only thing left by his father. He also wears rubber bracelets from a local shop. Likes ''classical rock'' like said Bi-2 and Kino.

Belyaev Roma Valentinovich

Raban, can't say much about him either. He's like a nerd goodie-goodie, even his clothes are more 80-90s.

From now on I don't have any reference sheets, so it's just information about the characters.

Veresov Kolyan Mikhailovich

That's Leon. Even though his name is Kolya, Vanessa calls him Nikita (an asshole name in Russia). Jokes on nefors (subcultures like punk or emo), but actually doesn't mind them.

Veresov Tolik Mikhailovich

Marlon. He and his brother are also known as Tolyan and Kolyan duo. Mostly listens to hip-hop like Detsl, but also listens to Korol i Shut, Kino and some other foreign artists. His style of clothes is more hip-hop-like so some people call him ''not true rock fan'', even though he never stated he was lol.

Temirov Kirill Timofeevich

That's Markus and I don't have any headcanons on him. Like zero. But he might be an emo.

That's all for now, maybe I'll come back to it at some point and at least finish the concepts :p

[ironspike]

Yo

Yo, I recently registered on tumblr. And I want to find friends who belong to the subcultures goth, scene, emo or those who like older brother core, emo core, scene core, goth core. who like subcultures from the 2000s to 2016. I would like to find guys who speak Russian, Polish or Ukrainian (one of these languages) fluently because I can speak these languages. I hope to find at least someone from my city.

[fortressofserenity]

Where are the Goth guys in fiction?

That's not to say there aren't any Goth guys in fiction at all, they certainly do exist and nonstereotypical ones do exist. But it seems when the latter does show up at all, it's usually either a story aimed at Goths (Writhe and Shine) or a story done by somebody who likely has a Goth phase at one point like South Park where one of its creators listened to The Cure, a seminal Goth band.

It gets complicated by things like how not a lot of women want to date or marry Goth guys the way they do with geeky guys, I think mostly because they want somebody with a knowledgeable air or a love of the whimsy, that any non-Goth guy interested in anything Goth usually tend to portray Goth girls as the love interests and the Goth guy is the rival, not the self-insert or the audience surrogate.

To the point where there is some weight to how some people fetishise Goth women a lot, but show no real interest in the Goth subculture themselves. I did do a story with a Goth guy as the protagonist and I also came up with a superhero named John Zelensky (don't blame me, I can't think of any other Ukrainian surname) who has the ability to manipulate electricity but listens to Goth and punk bands and tends to be plant-based.

As if Goth men are pretty much an afterthought, at worst a nobody when it comes to people's dating radar. Not that we should fetishise them either, but that it's real hard to come up with an authentic Goth character let alone a male one at that. You might say he's unrelatable, but for some reason romance novels often have women going after rather unattainable men.

They're fine for as long as they're not Goth, to the point where Goth guys are actually kind of overlooked in fiction.

[carnocus]

FLAYMER - What is the most widely spread myth?

FYLCHE - What kinds of body modifications are common? Are they practical or aesthetic?

and

PEFE - What was their most significant historical event?

:3

Thank you for the ask!!! I'm doing this ask game for the nation Karniv from "The Age of Carnocus" (TAOC for short).

FLAYMER - What is the most widely spread myth?

The idea that only special people are able to amalgamate, which a large part of the conflict of TAOC revolves around. Basically, humans in TAOC have the ability to manipulate dead flesh, but only if they become cannibals first. A long time ago the members Clergy (the government of Karniv) decided that they wanted to keep power over Karniv in their family lineages and began spreading the myth that Carnocus (the god they worship) only granted special people the gift. Over centuries, they eliminated all recollection of how amalgamation powers can be induced. Because cannibalism is rare, not many people have caught on... yet.

FYLCHE - What kinds of body modifications are common? Are they practical or aesthetic?

Piercings are more common in Karniv than IRL, serving an aesthetic purpose. That's about everything I can think of... I need to develop the style of Karniv more. It is supposed to be a blend of modern subculture styles (goth, metalhead, etc.) and traditional Ukrainian styles, so its a cool blend.

PEFE - What was their most significant historical event?

DEFINITLY Carnocus' ascension. Carnocus is a parasitic alien that has lived in the Earth for millennia, and in the 1990s reached the next stage of its life cycle. It expanded and started releasing creatures that serve it onto the Earth, causing an apocalyptic event that completely altered the Earth. After humans learned to communicate with Carnocus, he granted them the gift of amalgamation, and now humans in Karniv worship him as a God.

Thanks again for the ask :)

[safety-pin-punk]

I don't know if you've talked about it before, but how DID you get into punk? I'm kind of curious :o And are you into hardcore punk? Any good bands you know of? Oh also do you listen to bands in languages that aren't English? I'd love to hear about them!

Sorry, I know these are a lot of questions^^; You can tale your time with answering them. Have a nice day/night!^^♡

I love getting questions like this that dont require me to do much thinking lol I hope you have a good day/night as well anon!!

How did I get into punk? Great question! It was more of a transition though. Believe it or not, I was a redneck country kid through and through. I still own a few cowboy hats and listen to Johnny Cash occasionally. I can think of one moment in my life that kinda flipped that switch though. I was in my sisters car when I was around 15(?) (mind you she is 10 years older than I am) and a Bowling for Soup song came on. Specifically it was 1985, and I just fell in love with it. And despite my dad being a DJ, he played a lot of weddings when I was younger, so I didn’t listen to much alternative music. But from there, I started doing a lot of research on alternative subcultures. Believe it or not, but punk has a LOT in common with real redneck culture. Anti government, let people do what they want, take care of your community. And maybe its just SW PA rednecks that are like that, but it made for a pretty easy transition to punk. Honestly old country music and punk music has a lot in common too, its just a question of does it have a fiddle or an electric guitar lol

Am I into Hardcore Punk? Not really. I listen to some hardcore stuff, occasionally a bit of metal, but my heart and soul belongs to pop punk/alt rock/post punk type stuff

Good bands I know of? Im assuming you were talking about hardcore bands from the way the question was structured, but I dont listen to much outside of bigger names with hardcore when I do listen to it. However, I will certainly take this opportunity to promote an alt pop band whose songs are currently living rent free in my head: Arrows in Action (its not punk but still good music)

Bands in Languages That Arent English? YES I DO ACTUALLY

I cant find it right now, but towards the start of the war between Ukraine and Russia, I made a post with a bunch of Ukrainian punk bands. So that’s floating around somewhere

Theres also this Russian band I found on tiktok when I still had the app (dark days I know)

And this French band that I ADORE

[alightineverydarkness]

Year 2022 AD, or Something Terrible Has Happened to Everyone I Know

Now I am not a young musician from Kyiv, Ukraine. I am not poor, or subcultural, or famous. I am not single or dating, I am not in love or broken-hearted. I don't know what I am. I feel both the strongest, the most focused l've ever been, and the most fucked up inside I've ever been. I am the iPhone military salute emoji: half a head, the half that gets work done.

The war, the proximity of death, cuts off the superficial and shows you what you suspected you always were. You find whether you would do the right thing, or cheat; you see the life you lived and the life you haven't.

Now Europe is not a beacon of hope, but a gigantic bureaucrat octopus: European authorities deal with a genocide in progress in the same unwieldy manner as they do with a bus fare dodger. The collective Western Left is far too knowledgeable about the wants and needs of a person being murdered by fascists, and will happily lecture them on how to die. Shelling a sovereign country daily for a year, deporting its children, executing civilians, seems certainly frowned upon, but generally, «these things happen» — yes, the things that should never happen. And only Ukrainians are wonderful, but being wonderful is hard, hard work.

There has never been a time like this.

Nothing of my life is left. What I wouldn't give to go back to late 2021 and its hardships and joys. But the past is over, there is only now. And there may be a future where I start living again, where, in due time, I figure out what kind of music I have to make and where, maybe, I meet someone who would've waited for me to come back.

I am no longer in any kind of contact with the person I intended to marry in 2022, reasonably considering them the love of my life. Since the beginning of the year, I spent one evening with them in October, and was broken up with within the first hour. It is a loss so large it cannot be processed or grasped, but there she goes; we may never speak again, and all of my ideas about a future are useless now.

I have no reason to believe I will ever get to work on music full-time, or at least in my pre-2022 capacity ever again. The music scene has left me behind: it flourished, and I wasn't there for it, and will I ever be? At nights it seems like the people I used to talk to on Discord are all now famous and I am a soldier in a war that makes few headlines, and l'Il toil away like this until anything I was is extinguished. When I went back for a week and saw the streets of my life, I got lost quickly. And how much of my life has belonged to someone else?

There's this person holding a rifle and it's not me. There's this person sleeping with my fiancée and it's not me. Are there two or me, or zero?

I am so horny I can see through people's clothes.

Someday I will be free, in a room I've never been in, staring at a dead assortment of expensive music gear I ordered on my soldier's salary and don't know how to use. This is the light at the end of this particular tunnel. Not a train station kiss or tear-eyed hug, but nonetheless it is a life to be figured out and lived, as opposed to this. For now, I'll keep ordering whatever music equipment I may need, delivered to my mother's apartment.

I will be discharged before this war ends, and someone else will take my place, and I will not get any of the happy endings I imagined. I am tired. It feels like tonight I could sleep standing up.

There is a little part of me that is being destroyed every day.

But somewhere there's a day when nothing hurts, and a heart that's true, and a truth that is beautiful.

[la-chacha-gris]

Pornoculture: Sasha Grey, weapon of war/ Pornocultura: Sasha Grey, arma de guerra

In previous articles, and in the preview of this one, I told you how I often make the mistake of thinking that I am trying to study adult cinema per se when my goal is to understand it and learn about its specific subculture only to be able to recognize when it jumps into pop culture, the general one that we all use to a greater or lesser extent. That my beloved Grey appears to be involved, despite herself, in disinformation campaigns in a political and then military conflict on the European continent is very interesting to me in that sense. Shall we see what exactly that was? Keep reading…

En anteriores artículos, y en el adelanto de este, os contaba como encuentro a menudo el error de pensarse que intento estudiar el cine para adultos en sí cuando mi objetivo es comprenderlo y saber de su subcultura específica solo para poder reconocer cuando salta a la cultura pop, la general que todos manejamos en mayor o menor medida. Que mi adorada Grey aparezca implicada a su pesar en campañas de desinformación en un conflicto político y luego militar en el continente europeo me resulta muy interesante en ese sentido ¿Nos miramos que fue exactamente eso? Dale a seguir leyendo…

[18 feb 2015, press] "F-ck propaganda," American porn star Sasha Grey tweeted on Wednesday. "I love my Russian fans, but this propaganda takes it too far." Grey became the new face of an anti-Kiev propaganda campaign on Tuesday, when a photo of her published alongside a supposed sob story from the battlefield went viral on Russian social network VKontakte [Similar to Facebook, a very popular s. network in Russia].

[18 feb 2015, prensa] "A la mierda con la propaganda", tuiteó el miércoles la estrella porno estadounidense Sasha Grey. "Quiero a mis fans rusos, pero esta propaganda va demasiado lejos". Grey se convirtió el martes en el nuevo rostro de una campaña de propaganda contra Kiev, cuando una foto suya publicada junto con una supuesta historia triste del campo de batalla se volvió viral en la red social rusa VKontakte [Esta, en uso y prestaciones es como Facebook en Rusia e igual de popular allá].

The story says that a nurse named "Sasha Serova" was captured by Ukrainian military forces, who then filmed themselves "humiliating" her before chopping her body up with an ax. Notably, the last name "Serova" is similar to the Russian word for "gray."

La historia dice que una enfermera llamada "Sasha Serova" fue capturada por fuerzas militares ucranianas, que luego se filmaron "humillando" a la enfermera antes de cortar su cuerpo en pedazos con un hacha. Cabe destacar que el apellido "Serova" es similar a la palabra rusa para "gris".

Let me interrupt the transcription of the news. I have already checked that 'serova' is a way of saying the colour grey, but… that Sasha Serova is a way of saying Sasha Grey in Russian? What a genius! Your friend Chacha Gris tells you. If it was a hoax orchestrated by Russian intelligence services, such as the FSB (the former KGB) or the army, in 2015 they were appreciative of good porn, and were waiting for other porn fans to discover the ruse. In the end, it is not music or love that is the language between peoples as the hippies said, but porn!

Dejadme que interrumpa la transcripción de la noticia. Ya he comprobado que 'serova' es una forma de decir el color gris, pero… ¿Qué Sasha Serova es una forma en ruso de decir Sasha Grey? ¡Que ingenio! Os dice vuestra amiga Chacha Gris. Si era un bulo orquestado por servicios de información rusos, como el FSB (la antigua KGB) o el del ejército, en 2015 eran de apreciar el buen porno, y estaban esperando que descubrieran el ardid otros aficionados al porno. Al final, no es la música o el amor el lenguaje entre los pueblos como decían los hippies, sino el porno!

Sasha Serova is that you? ¿Sasha serova eres tú?:

I think they had that footage of him in mind when they drew up their plan, but no. I'm going to be serious and although the post was deleted, I have a copy and translation:

Creo que tenían en mente esa filmación suya cuando trazaron su plan, pero no. Voy a ser seria y aunque la publicación fue borrada, tengo copia y tradu:

It is possible to think that it was just a joke, and it would be very typical of me almost 10 years ago (I told you I was a troll) or of the 4Chan type of jokes. It would not matter if it was, but I want to point out two things. The Russian style of counterinformation and poisoning is famous as a military strategy since the times of the Second World War. It is not such a bad plan to sneak a fake news story into networks that, due to the rush to be the first to replicate it, ends up in the news media without being properly confirmed (it has happened many times already) so that it is quickly recognized as a hoax (someone would recognize Grey sooner or later) leaving those Western media as unreliable. Paranoid? I am, but I have been informing myself of how fine they are, and also that social network was founded by the later creator of Telegram; This is precisely what this encrypted messaging system did when the Russian government pressured it to give information about the Ukrainian activists who were there… or to sell the network to an oligarch collaborating with the Kremlin. The social network where the fake news originally appeared is used as a strategic means of espionage and counter-information.

Cabe pensar que solo fue una broma, y sería muy propia de mi hace casi 10 años (os tengo dicho que era una troll) o del tipo de bromas de 4Chan. Daría igual que lo fuera, pero quiero señalar dos cosas. El estilo ruso de contra información e intoxicación es célebre como estrategia militar desde los tiempos de la segunda guerra mundial. No es tan mal plan colar una noticia falsa en redes que por las prisas para ser los primeros en replicarla acabe en los medios de noticias sin confirmar debidamente (ha pasado muchas veces ya) para que luego rápidamente se reconozca un bulo (alguien reconocería a Grey tarde o temprano) dejando como poco fiables a esos medios occidentales. ¿Paranoica? Lo soy, pero he estado informándome de lo finos que son, y además esa red social fue fundada por el creador posterior de Telegram; que precisamente hizo este sistema de mensajería encriptada cuando el gobierno ruso le presionó para que le diera información de los activistas ucranianos que había en ella… o que vendiera la red a oligarca colaborador con el Kremlin. La red social donde aparece originalmente la falsa noticia es usada como un medio estratégico para espionaje y contra información.

To be even more paranoid, but with reasons to think badly, it turns out that in 2013 Grey supported the pro-Ukraine protesters via tweet (this is a long conflict) and Russia does not forget… It is mentioned at the end of the brief article, which is also no longer online, but which I was able to access here.

Para ser más paranoica yo, pero con razones para pensar mal, se da el caso que en 2013 Grey apoyó por tuit a los manifestantes pro Ucrania (es un conflicto largo este) y Rusia no olvida… Se menciona al final del breve artículo, que tampoco está en la red ya, pero al que he podido acceder aquí.

The Russian military or its propaganda services also love Grey:/Los militares rusos o sus servicios de propaganda tambien quieren mucho a Grey:

28 nov 2022:

Sasha in Russian army uniform in an advertisement for enlistment and going to fight in Ukraine. Russian youth must be very into porn to expect to get their attention like that, or the guys making the ads have a weird 4chan-like sense of humor (and they also jerk off a lot, of course).

Sasha con el uniforme del ejército ruso en publicidad para alistarse e ir a combatir a Ucrania. Los jóvenes rusos deben ser muy fans del porno como para esperar conseguir su atención así, o los que hacen los anuncios tienen un sentido del humor rarito tipo 4chan (y también son de hacerse muchas pajas, claro).

Well, I've already created enough excitement. Neither Sasha Grey collaborated on that campaign (it's obviously staged just by looking at it), nor does the poster using a cutout of her face exist, but it has provided a few laughs. Not for her, of course. You can read the details of the tracking down of the original poster and her statements in this news story about the denial.

Bueno, he creado ya suficiente expectación. Ni Sasha Grey colaboró para esa campaña (es obvio montaje nada más verlo), ni el cartel que usa un recorte de su cara existe, pero ha dado para unas risas. Para ella no, claro. Podéis leer los detalles del rastreo del cartel original y las declaraciones de ella en esta noticia del desmentido.

You might think I'm a little crazy, and I wouldn't say that's entirely untrue; but I'm not wrong in finding it interesting how Sasha Grey is so famous that she gets mixed up in these things, despite herself, and how a subcultural terrain that was once full of shame to expose that you knew about it is now the subject of jokes, memes and is commonplace enough for it. The phenomenon that I point out as pornoculture exists and is happening whether we like it or not. It's something similar to when the current president of the United States had no problem sharing his parody as Pepe The Frog years ago, confirming that things that were once only typical of subcultural niches and that you consumed alone at home, jump into the real and/or serious world.

Pensareis que estoy un poco loca, y yo no diría que es del todo incierto; pero no me equivoco en encontrar interesante como Sasha Grey es tan famosa como para verse mezclada a su pesar en estas cosas, y como un terreno subcultural antes lleno de vergüenza de exponer que sabias de él ahora da para bromas, memes y es lugar común como para ello. El fenómeno que señalo como pornocultura existe y está pasando queramos o no. Es algo parecido a cuando el actual presidente de EEUU no tuvo problema en compartir él mismo su parodia como Pepe The Frog hace años, confirmándose que las cosas antes solo propias de nicho subcultural y que consumías a solas en casa, saltan al mundo real y/o serio.

Sasha Grey is not as dark as the famous frog turned Alt-right or the re-elected carrot president, but I can't help but remember when back during the pandemic there were viral videos about a Spanish porn actor called 'the chicken boy' or something like that (I didn't pay much attention then) who appeared as a victim of Covid or a lauded life-saver in hospitals. These types of viral videos or jokes for social networks had an interesting way of being articulated: some knew the actors or actresses of adult films and their elders didn't recognize them, so they shared them excitedly or alarmed and provoked laughter in third parties (some Spanish politician fell for these jokes, by the way). What we've been seeing with Marina Ann Hantzis AKA Sasha Grey could simply be something similar to what I just told you, but it's still funny in hindsight (except for Grey herself, possibly) and proof of how present porn culture is in other areas of life. Right? Follow this blog for more weird stuff about these interactions or cultural transfers. The stockings photos are just the bread in the sandwich. Kisses.

Sasha Grey no es tan oscura como la dichosa rana reconvertida en Alt-right ni el presidente zanahoria re relecto, pero no puedo dejar de acordarme cuando allá por pandemia corrían virales de un actor porno español llamado 'el niño pollo' o algo así (no presté mucha atención entonces) aparecía como víctima de la Covid o laureado salvador de vidas en los hospitales. Este tipo de virales o bromas para redes tenían un modo de articularse interesante: unos conocían a los actores o actrices del cine para adultos y sus mayores no los reconocían, por tanto los compartían emocionados o alarmados y provocan la risa a terceros (cayó algún político español en estas bromas, por cierto). Lo que hemos estado viendo con Marina Ann Hantzis AKA Sasha Grey podría ser sencillamente algo parecido a lo que os acabo de contar, pero no deja de ser divertido visto esto a toro pasado (menos para la propia Grey, posiblemente) y una prueba de lo presente de la cultura del porno saltando en otros ámbitos de la vida. ¿No? Sigan este blog para más cosas extrañas de estas interacciones o traspasos culturales. Las fotos de medias son solo el pan del sandwich. Besos.

[anumacy]

Canada doesn't have a specific culture, it has many sub cultures included along its lines, same with various subcultures, and it simply has a similar culture in major to that if the US and Britain, wich are also unique in your own ways, I used to think similarly about where I lived until I researched about it

Srry if this is rude

Sub cultures

No

It doesn't

Canada has OTHER COUNTRIES cultures

Mexican

Italian

Chinese

Japanese

Korean

Ukrainian

The list goes on

CANADA DOESN'T HAVE ITS O W N

Which is what I'm talking about.

[beastblade69]

modern punks mostly are so hypocritical. lije y'all scream "WE'RE ANTIFAAA!!! FUCK FASCISTS!!!" and yet support artists from fascist countries by listening to their music or consuming their content. or I even followed a korean "punk" band some time ago and they straight up went touring in russia while the full scale war was happening for 2 years already. and russia is a straight up fascist state which has committed genocide of ukrainians (and are still committing tho). and that's why I mostly am very sus towards punks because like y'all use that label just to be edgy and without an intend of being politically active or having a political position which doesn't go against subculture's philosophy. that's exactly why I have no intend of calling myself a punk because yeah I listen to punk rock from time to time but I'm not politically active enough to be a real punk and not jist a hypocrite so like yeah that's my point

[gulyas069]

how do you think are your average ukrainian draftee feels about there being an entire internet subculture around acting like they're the ones dying in the ukrainian trenches for posting pictures of a shitty fucking meme dog

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

The "Americanization of the global internet" post and slow deterioration of local native culture gave me an idea: many users don't even know there is native language communities on this website, so if you know of a regional group/"subculture" on Tumblr, reblog/comment with the tags they use so people can find them and connect with other folks from their countries or speakers of a language they'd like to learn

I will try to update this post with every new addition to hopefully make a comprehensive list of Tumblr regional communities

Edit July 29th: the post has reached a point where Tumblr won't let me add any more links, so from now on all tags are plain text to make it fair

The list so far:

Europe

• Czech

#česky, #hezky česky - general Czech language posts, frequently featuring user-written poetry, art, sometimes politics and current events, warning: often contains vent posts

#čumblr - Czech but frequently used by Slovaks as well, primarily memes and fandom things, shipping, art, cultural things, frequently overlaps with #česky

#obrození, #obrozujeme - memes and fandoms as well but with more emphasis of maintaining and developing Czech culture, is a mostly humorous parody/self-proclaimed continuation of the Czech National Revival of the 1800s, overlaps with #čumblr and #česky

• Slovak

#slovensky - general Slovak language posts

#slumblr, #sumblr, NEW - #ťumbľr - Slovak, general posts, memes, fandom and culture things, sometimes overlaps with #čumblr

• Polish

#polska, #polish - Polish, general posts, art, politics and current events

#polblr, #polishposting, #polskie rzeczy - Polish, more humorous general posts and memes, often overlap with the above

• Ukrainian

#ukraine - general Ukrainian posts, often in English

#укртумбочка - mostly used by artists

• General Slavic

#slav, #slavic, #slavposting, #slavic stuff - mixed Slavic, usually cultural things, memes, art and photography, sometimes politics, sometimes visited by other East Europeans

• Irish

#gaeilge - Irish, general posting but especially cultural things and memes, often features posts for language learning

• Welsh

#cymraeg, #tymblr - general Welsh posting, memes

• Romanian

#romanian - general Romanian tag

#romanisme, #vlandom - Romanian, mostly memes and humor

• Hungarian

#magyar, #hungarian, #tumbli - Hungarian language, mostly quotes

• Finnish

#suomitumblr, #suomitumppu, #suomipaskaa, #suomeksi, other variations beginning with suomi - general (shit)posting

any and all swear words such as #perkele, #vittu, #saatana, #helvetti and #paska - shitposts, overlap with above

• Dutch

#dutch, #the netherlands, #netherlands, #holland, #nederland, #nederlands - general Dutch posts

#nedermemes, #dutchcore - memes, shitposting

• German

#deutsch, #german stuff - general German posting

#BundesTag - memes and humor

blogs like @official-deutschebahn, @official-german-medienlandschaft and other official-deutsche- blogs, "because THE joke of German tumblr is to act like an overly bureucratic public institution"

• Swedish

#sweblr, #swedenposting, #svea rike - memes, shitposts, fandom stuff, sometimes political

#svenskt, #sverige - general Swedish stuff

#all makt åt tengil vår befriare, #sa du sten - used mostly by @svenskjavel

#borås - posts and memes about the city, "kinda like Swedish Ohio"

#lesbisk, #bög, #bisexuell, #pansexuell, #hbtq+, #hbtq, #homosexuell, #asexuell - Swedish queer tags

• French

#upthebaguette, #french side of tumblr, #whatthefrance - general French posting but especially memes, comics, art

#bagaitte - French queer posting

• Greek

#greek tumblr, #ελληνικα, #ελλαδα, #γρεεκ, #ελληνικο ταμπλρ - general stuff

#greek memes - memes

Catalan

#coses de la terra - general stuff

Belarusian

#беларускі тамблер - general stuff, fandoms

#артшляхта - art

Italian

#itablr - general stuff, not very populated yet

#welcome to italy, #italian things, #italian stuff, #italy tag, #roba italiana

#sanremo - for the Sanremo Music Festival, also #domenica in but only after the end of the festival

Italians also frequently gather under #leonardo rai, #medici, #i medici, #montalbano and #il giovane montalbano

Estonian

#eestiblr, #eesti - general stuff

@unofficial-estonia - blog

Danish

@useless-denmarkfacts - blog

Spanish

#español - general Spanish (* I noticed some Mexicans using these too so there may be overlap with American Spanish-speaking countries as well)

#citas, #frases - quotes

#humor grafico - memes

Scottish Gaelic

#gaidhlig, #gaelposting - general, art, language

Africa

Moroccan

#المغرب, #Maroc -general, often photos

Asia

• South Asian

#desiblr, #desi, #desi tag - general South Asia posting, memes, humor, sometimes also used by Arab people

• Indian

#dabara tumblr, #தம்பிளர் - suggested tags for South India

Russian

#русский тамблер, #русский tumblr - general stuff, memes

Sri Lankan

#අරගලයට ජය, suggested tags LKA or #Lankablr if anyone's interested

Indonesian

@useless-indonesiafacts - blog

Israeli

# עברית# ,ישראבלר - general stuff (sorry if these are broken, tumblr keeps fucking with right-to-left scripts)

Arabic

#عربي - general

#كتب, #كتاب, #كتابات - books and writing

Oceania

Australian

#auscore, #straya - general stuff, culture, memes and shitposts

#auspol - politics

Aotearoa (New Zealand)

#māori, #te reo māori - Māori tags

Americas

Brazilian

#brazil, #brasil, #Come to brazil, #br posting, #meu brasil brasileiro, #tumblr br - general and memes

Turtle Island (North American) Indigenous

#ndn, #ndn tumblr - usually about culture, memes etc

"If you're looking for something specific to your tribe, try the non-English spelling of your tribe's name (Tsalagi for Cherokee, for example)"

Not location-specific

Jewish

#jumblr, #frumblr - general stuff, history, discussions, posts mostly in English

Romani

#romani, #rroma, #rrumblr - romani sides of tumblr, general stuff, history, discussions, mostly in English

Please share around wherever you're from, US American local cultures are welcome as well, especially indigenous (though that should go without saying)

Reminder that this is a post made to allow people to find others of the same culture/language, be respectful and do not use these tags to target groups and spread hate