How Social Media Mythologizes Gang Lifestyle

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Bump. I'll give this a watch later.
 

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The glorification of the gang lifestyle and violence has been around since the 19th century in the USA, Billy the Kid and Jesse James stories were sold as penny novels...fast forward to the 19070s and 1980s we have further glorification via movies like Scarface and Goodfellas. Look at all the rappers naming themselves after gang members. Mythologizing street life, violence, and gang culture has been the norm in the USA for over a century and this new social media wrinkle just adds fuel to that ever burning fire to be a street legend.
 

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It's kinda crazy that the typical influencers of this lifestyle in the 2020s are mumble rappers with acronyms in their stage names and colorful dreads :dead:


Who would've though this is where we'd be back in the 2000s :mjlol:
 
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