predictably, breakcore artists transitioning into something new now that the meta has moved on are having a hard time

part of it is obviously due to the relatively low barrier to entry to making something serviceable in their home genre, but also like there were people pulling off genuinely innovative trickshots that are now just a little lost

the genre conventions just also gave a ton of guardrails and structure to innovate inside of, and without that, it’s understandably disorienting and demanding of a whole host of novel skills that they didn’t have to exercise before

not to mention the brute fact of community and collective taste-making, it’s easy to see how one might feel formless in its absence