Low culture

Low culture is content to depict traditional working class values winning out over the temptation to give in to conflicting impulses and behavior patterns.

[9]In other words, low culture is often associated with media that presents smaller-scale or individual experiences that are easier for the general public to identify with.

Wood must have been a common material, but survives for long periods only in certain climatic conditions, such as Egypt and other very arid areas, and permanently wet and slightly acidic peat bogs.

Much traditional folk music was only written down, and later mechanically recorded, in the 19th century, as growing nationalist sentiments in many countries generated interest from middle class enthusiasts.

[12] These combined traits help define folk music as an early, widespread form of low culture, for which the lower/working classes were both the largest producers and consumers.

With the explosion of tabloid journalism and sensationalistic reality television throughout the late 20th century, many modern artists such as Brett Easton Ellis would use these works as inspirations to bridge the gap between the confines of high and low culture.

This falls in line with the sociological theory known as habitus, which states that the way that people perceive and respond to the social world they inhabit is through their personal habits, skills, and disposition of character.

[22] These prints contributed to pioneering satirical content, varying portrayals of common subcultures at the time, and other subject matter that is still found in modern-day low culture media.

[22] Popular prints are also observed in Chinese society from the late 1800s to mid-1900s, in which they were intended to be readily accessible to the majority of consumers (i.e., the working or middle classes).

[23] This usage of brief, eye-catching marketing strategy allowed the prints, much like their European counterparts, to appeal to a wider audience that would be receptive to both the entertainment and political content they contained.

For this reason, toilet humor has come to be regularly viewed as juvenile, although it has continued to find success in a number of modern settings such as in the Captain Underpants[26] and South Park[27] media franchises.

[28] Many well-known examples of modern low culture are represented by online memes that can quickly spread through various social media or messaging platforms.

[32] The image, which can be traced back to a comic book character created by Matt Furie in 2005, was heavily reused and shared across various online forums in later years.

We watch for those awkward scenes that make us feel a smidge better about our own little unfilmed lives" regarding the genre succeeding from the public humiliation of others.

[35] These films are designed to have mass appeal in order to maximise profits, usually relying on formulaic storytelling and accessibility that guarantee financial success at the expense of critical reception or artistic and intellectual value.

[34] Such examples include the superhero genre, films by Michael Bay, and the Jurassic Park, Star Wars, and Fast & The Furious media franchises.

These cases exemplify another means by which media deemed low culture can still be consumed by socioeconomic classes besides those with which it is chiefly associated, or notably for which it has primarily been created.