The stigma is lessened, but not entirely gone... you can be "cool" despite playing D&D, but definitely not because of it.
It's because it's difficult to assess the quality of creative work. It requires to take a personnal stand.
But it's easy to engage emotionnaly in a demonstration of something basic like wearing a shirt or hitting a ball.
Hence most of the world can do the later, but surprisingly not that many can do the former.
In the HN bubble it's easy to forget the vast majority of the world is composed of simple people. And they are the major force driving the world, just by sheer number.
I disagree with this, because if this would be true, you would have no idea who Coco Chanel was.
She became cool in her niche. Then rich and famous. Then mondialy cool because rich and famous.
Being rich and famous makes everybody cool. Pew die pie is cool now. Me playing in my living room ? Nope.
Take chanel or jobs or jk rolling before they became rich and famous. How do you think people consider them ? At best originals. At worst loosers.
> Anything creative will never be seen as cool outside of the niche it lives in.
In my experience the exact opposite is true. The cool kids back in my school were the ones who were into music and art. It was mainly the lifestyle surrounding the "creative, don't care" type.
Even now that is still the case in my culture. People whose main profession is writing/painting/producing music are "cool". But maybe that is different in your culture.