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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
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.
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Very well said.
It's like people are trying to shoehorn books in to some sort of really narrow sub-sub-genre that doesn't exist so they make up these meaningless words to get these books into some classification that they don't need to be in. It's like every book needs the major classification and maybe they fit into a sub-genre but because they don't have a sub-sub-genre, we'll make one up to fit this book into. It's not something these books need. And if they go need a sub-genre, don't make it some meaningless silly sub-genre.