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The meme revolution (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Are the kids these days still doing zines? Like actual physical ones, not online? I used to love contributing to those, and reading them, back in the 90s.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Zines have just kind of become printed memes, but Food Not Bombs still keeps them at their distro tables. One group I read about was actually printing them on napkin paper and wrapping homebaked bread in them. Which is just genius, imho.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Zine culture is about as active as it's ever been in the subcultures it has always been a part of (punk, diy, activism, etc).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    That's good to hear. Zines are a part of my youth I look back on fondly. I'm glad they're still around, and surprised, I would have thought being online all the time with all the self publishing options available would have killed them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Honestly, if you consider why you were likely attracted to them, it'll probably beceome clear why they'll never die. For me it's DIY culture, something that while available online through personal websites,^[aka the indie web or small web. Which is similar to zines in both aesthetics and community, actually] within zine culture also comes with the possibility of both arts & crafts as well as meet-space level community events.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I make zines. Usually I just reprint (literally with a printer. Yea it’s super fucking annoying to use even when it works right) stuff that the PSL sends me, that stuff is all really solid, usually just history told in short, concise paragraphs.

    I am working on my own comics and my own lil character guys that I plan on making real zines with. I found an anti flock paper that had One of my work friends’ art on it credited to her and I told her I found it and she was like “???? That’s cool tho”. So yeah we’re out here making shit you just gotta find it. Free little libraries are perfect, but nothing beats handing them out to people directly.

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