even if the aesthetics don't seem very fashy. i've seen too many new agey alternative medicine people go over to qanon. makes me worried about like cottagecore tiktok zoomers buying into the whole race replacement conspiracy or something like that
aesthetics can be part of how a community defines itself but if you want to be able to resist co-option, you really need to stand for something (for example: queer liberation)
and they're tying it to attractiveness and gender