In Everyday Life
Everyday life shows many good examples of mainstream pieces such a phrases on the Internet or songs that were once cool to a minority of people and now are known by millions of people worldwide who would have laughed at the topic originally.
Many people mostly people between 11-18 have been using the phrase "Come at me bro" and "Cool story" which became famous as a Meme many years ago however now it seems it is the answer to every insult and a reply to every story. Apparently it is considered cool but if you were to say these a few years ago when the people who knew it were considered freaks everybody would think very little of the phrases.
The term "YOLO" meaning "You only live once" have become a mainstream term in modern society and is used as an excuse to be reckless with their lives. Examples of this are jumping off a cliff for the adrenaline and risking impeding doom. It has also been used as an excuse to become a teenage parent.
Many people also began listening to music such as Gangnam Style by Korean rapper PSY (after it became popular), and is listened by people around the world despite the fact that few know his other songs or don't even know what K-pop is.
Even the way people dress can be considered "mainstream" as many young adults and teenagers are bowing down to "Hipsterism" because they believe it makes them look cool however they are just copying the trends set by others and have lost all originality. This caused an influx of "Hipsters" and thus made "Hipsterism" mainstream.
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Famous quotes containing the words everyday life, everyday and/or life:
“Nature’s law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of the everyday with its hard edges and harsh light did not have enough resonance to echo the demands I made upon experience. It was as if I never experienced experience as experience. Living never lived up to the expectations I had of it—the Bovary syndrome.”
—Angela Carter (1942–1992)
“One perceives that again and again she has destroyed her life when it was forming into shapes of happiness because of her loyalty to the early misery, her conviction that that has the sanction of ultimate reality, and that beside it all other things are trivial.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)