A machination of the corporate world. Designed to target a creative outlet and turn it into a business model, target market, key demographic, etcetera.
How the mainstream operates:
1. The mainstream is established...
2. An alternative is established to the mainstream...
3. The mainstream targets the alternative...
4. The alternative becomes the mainstream...
And therefore the alternative loses its identity, having become absorbed by the very system it was established to rally against. Mainstream for the masses...
1. The mainstream is established...
2. An alternative is established to the mainstream...
3. The mainstream targets the alternative...
4. The alternative becomes the mainstream...
And therefore the alternative loses its identity, having become absorbed by the very system it was established to rally against. Mainstream for the masses...
by GoAskAlex1991 August 1, 2011
Get the The Mainstream mug.When a game, movie or television series gets popular all of a sudden and suddenly becomes cancerous due to the small cancerous portions of the following becoming much, much bigger. A recent example of this was the Friday the 13th film series, which recently got a video game made for it that became extremely popular.
Guy 1: Hey bro, have you ever heard of Undertale?
Guy 2: Yeah man, that game got ruined by the mainstream.
Guy 2: Yeah man, that game got ruined by the mainstream.
by laserman413 October 1, 2017
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