Originally Posted by
BicycleBicycle
I don't think it's about being rebellious as much as it is about having something personal that you can identify with
The "rebellious" box is too easy to just throw everything that's not normcore into. Kind of a lot like how things are marketed to a mainstream audience. One or two word "themes".
Whether we say "rebellious" or choose a different word like quirky, eccentric, individualistic, non-conformist, fringe, or a dozen other words, the point is that some people deliberately try to be different from the mainstream, and some other people have more or less a total disregard for the mainstream. Once something that is non-mainstream catches hold, the mainstream appropriates it and makes it mainstream, whilst using the "non-conformist" angle to market it.