And this is exactly why a sizeable chunk of the world - even here on HN - is cheering their demise. Being different is definitely not generally acceptable.
What do you mean, at this point there are 10+ comments here saying the exact opposite: that their demise is due to them becoming less edgy and more bland, more like everyone else.
Probably as usual, at the time I commented the most comments were the negative ones, and only later the positives started coming. There was even a discussion about this temporal trend not long time ago...