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Jasmine Dawda | TIMESOFINDIA.COM

Ketamine chic - an emo-culture fashion

K resurrection

Technically speaking, ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic drug, which numbs your body and makes you feel detached from your atmosphere. Each generation of partiers somewhat get defined by a drug that speaks of their trance culture. Just like the psychedelics of the ‘60s, the 3C-fueled ‘70s generation and MDMA-hued early ‘80s, blue pill-red pill millennials doing a bunch of uppers and discussing politics, and religion through the news. perhaps the end of the decade generation marks the inception of the dissociation called k-hole juveniles. There's so much chaos along with planet conflicts at stake. Next-gen of partiers offering each other escapism from the current situation, current fashion and trends going by the rules. They believe in breaking through the rules and fashion cycle, somewhat ongoing euphoria of getting away from all the mishmash and clutter. In a recent blog post by realmsofdiscordia.com, it's been stated that “ it's cool to dress like an unwashed boy, crawling out of the junkyard of consumer culture as a chatty minion, trends are dead! Long live the trends! People don't know what to wear! But wear it! TikTok trends are fake! But not indie slime! Blackcore! Barbicor! Namecore! Trend core!1!!@!!”

This is the result of spending too much time on social media, catching up on trend reporting and fashion-based websites’ frantic attempts at a new phenomenon in vogue. Kids of 2000 are finding it hard to go on with it plus on a limited budget and climate warnings on how to be exposed to high-end fashion goods and big fashion fads, which the fashion industry claims to throw every month. Next-gen from European countries have started to emerge from the trend cycle and consumer landscape by creating something out of old outdated loud grungy junk. Designers creating minion hoodies, airbrush sweatshirts, teens are dressed in Eurotrash vans, anthropomorphic plush hats, ragtag meme raging on a diet Elf bar, asserting to have a style which is meta-ironic, ketamine chic. Making conventional look hideous. Jumbling up all the web references, thrifty grunge, low-brow cartoon characters or anything loudly mismatching, imitation or improper is always good to have fun with. Born in the 2000s, these kids are resurrecting fashions that millennials would write off as shame. Having fun with an intentional cringe is becoming their new cool. Ketamine chic has turned into their epic hipness in recent times. As per the youth calculation, any trend which is hyped has ten years lifetime, first four years to become mainstream where it peaks for two years before declining or fading for another two years, breathlessness of digital media gives a fast-paced forecast of future current n past trends. So ketamine chic includes pieces from anytime zone from any culture and taste, from current time to past and future. It seems like it's always on time with radical choices of all time. There is a sense of nihilism in ketamine chic where there are no rules, all at once and odd is the most adorn factor.

Youth has come to an edge of the bar where they are declaring to see life with a kaleidoscopic view. When it comes to fashion, they buy mindless things on purpose because they chose to morbidly be mesmerized by senseless and perplexing consumer civilization. It's a drug-induced theory or rather inspired logic of choosing fashion from unlimited spectrums, being a cult coming from an emo culture where all is excluded so no one feels the need of being included.

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