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Originally Posted by MGlitch
The blog comes off way more as this author trying to make fetch happen rather than say grimdark which happened organically.
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That is a good analogy and does a better job than I did summing up what I was thinking when I started this thread.
Yes, there are subgenres that have evolved organically: hard SF, cyberpunk, splatterpunk, steampunk, weird western, grimdark.
But the recent proliferation of extremely narrow sub-subgenres feels like it is more about the people coining new words than any inherent need.
