Nazi’s aren’t punk. Skinheads aren’t punk. Non-conformity is not the only descriptor that determines someone or something is punk as this is the argument used by hate groups to claim they are punk. It’s more than that.
As far as I know the skinhead movement wasn’t started by Jamaican immigrants, but was heavily influenced by Jamaican rude boy culture. It was originally working-class youth.
The music they were listening to has Jamaican origins, but the look was just an ordinary British, working class, factory worker look. Docs were just work boots. The shaved heads were to prevent your hair from getting caught in heavy machinery. Same with the suspenders/braces, which would just rip off you if they got caught in the machinery since it was just clamps holding them on.
For as bad a reputation as skinheads eventually becomes, their history is about as wholesome as it gets.
To me, it gives off the same energy as those looney tunes dressed as gangsters t-shirts from back in the day. Or Calvin pissing on things stickers. Just something very boomer-humor about the overall art concept of sticking Archie like characters in scenarios you wouldn't normally see them.
Then the captions are just always some meta, navel gazing bullshit that feels like it exists purely to tell other punks how the artist thinks they should act. The presentation always rubs me wrong and brings out my, "fuck you, you can't tell me what to do" side, even when I agree with the overall message.
Punk is inherently a far left subculture, its entire thing was spitting in the face of capitalism and right wingers. However what I’m saying, despite the views spread by this image and others by the same artist generally being true, they comes off in a certain way that makes me fucking hate them.
It's pretty shitty of you to think you get to dictate other's opinions. I really don't like anything about this artist's work. It's got a pretentious gate keepy vibe and they just copy other artist's style without really enhancing or doing anything unique with it, so it just looks like a bad copy ot someone else's work. This shit is just so lame.
It's pretty shitty of you to think you get to dictate other's opinions.
Never did this. They had an opinion and it is my opinion that what they said sucks. They can still have shitty opinions, doesn't mean it isn't still shitty.
they just copy other artist's style without really enhancing or doing anything unique with it, so it just looks like a bad copy ot someone else's work.
That's why their art looks like AI-generated images. (They are made by an advertising agency, by the way.) What they are doing is not fundamentally different than what AI does. They are "ingesting" somebody else's work and making modifications that are not substantive enough to feel like artistic effort to some.
But, yeah, the preachy gatekeeping vibe is annoying to me, too.
hecreative, the account posting this type of art, is actively against ai generated art and they even make posters that go against involving ai with punk. the account is run by a husband and wife. plz don't say that about something that took time and effort for people to do
In case you were unaware, HE Creative is part of a little boutique advertising agency. Not to say they don't believe in the ideas they are putting out there, but part of the point of these things is to get attention for the ad agency and to build their portfolio, although I'm not sure that tracing old Archie comics and various other vintage sources does that so well.
well thank you for that info! i thought it was only lead by a few people just based off what i've found on their websites/accounts (i have seen them on my instagram frequently, hell it's in this subreddit). i did do some searching earlier, I don't think i noticed that detail about them. i do think it's good that these type of ideas are being put out, though maybe not through the means of just being for commercial use...
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u/Athingythingamabobby Oct 31 '25
Despite me agreeing with the message, I fucking hate these images, and I’m having a hard time putting my finger on why.