On ‘Krocha’
The last month brought a new subculture to Vienna: the Krocha. Their name derives from ‘krochen‘ (which is more or less Austro-German for ‘crash’, as in ‘to crash a party’). It seems as if Austrian media is infatuated with having an own subculture.
Alas in contrast to the ‘Kaffeehauskultur’ (coffee house culture) I feel a bit ashamed of it.
How do you define Krocha?
- Strange speak. There are a couple of words that have to be used frequently, best in each sentence. Most of those are of Viennese origin thus I had to put up with them before. Most of them are redundant and meaningless but who could deny a childish charm in using phrases as ‘oida fixx bam!’. As a bonus you can use that phrase for almost every occasion, if unsure add another ‘oida’.
- Strange taste in clothes. flash caps and neon-coloured parts. A fable for brands that do not fall into my preferred range (D&G, Ed Hardy) which counts as bad taste in my opinion.
- Massive use of youtube et&. Wow! If that is a sign of a sub culture I propose all people that are able to read and actually understand a text should claim to form a subculture. Alas they might be much smaller than the ‘Krocha’..
- Bad taste in Music (techno) and dancing style (well, I’m the last one standing on a moral high-ground here). And solarium tan is deemed to be mandatory. Did I mention that I can’t imagine myself being a Krocha.
- no political or revolutionary motto whatsoever. Sure they’ve their outfit, who needs an opinion?
Well I called people falling in the above categories by various other names, not suited for public mention. Now I just call them ‘Krocha’ and don’t have to feel bad about it.
That enough for claiming to be a whole subculture? What about all badly dressed youths from the backwoods town I’m from? They talk in a strange own language for sure.
No thin roses, no goldrush, no miner, no revolution they’d hire
And the shipyard is a graveyard, no one will be trying to find him
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