I guess from middle school through college, I always wanted to be part of some subculture, to make sure people knew that I didn't subscribe to what I felt they were trying to force on me. Music is probably the biggest part of my life. I was really into punk and post hardcore in high school, got into the current pop punk/emo/etc. scene around 2010, and I guess I considered myself a part of that for a while. I just wanted the frat boys and the athletes and the preppy kids to know that I wasn't one of them. Basic teenage punk shit.

But halfway through college most of it just didn't connect with me in the same way - I just wasn't that angry or restless anymore. That music scene just started to feel like a caricature of itself as it got bigger, so I didn't want to associate myself closely with any of it.

I think my fear of being pigeonholed as a person outweighs my desire to have something definitive about my personality in terms of taste, so I don't really see myself as part of any particular subculture now. I've always wanted to be a well-rounded person, but in doing that, I've put myself in a weird transition point where I feel like I don't have an identity because I refuse to be one thing in particular. =/