Quirk Is Da New Cool

An article on Macleans.ca is another article proclaiming that ‘cool’ is dead. At least in this one the journalist, Andrew Potter, looks at the popularity of BoingBoing as a suggestion of what today makes up today’s version of cool: quirk.

The prevailing aesthetic is not cool, but
quirky, dominated by unpredictable and idiosyncratic mash-ups of
cultural elements that bear no meaningful relationship to one another.

Macleans Article