The Witcher, the Netflix show, has a bard song which became a popular earworm. I'm confident it has played a part in the popularization of Bardcore as a meme/genre.
I think the juxtaposition of modern writing and wit in Witcher with the not-really-medieval society stuck with pre-steam technology might be the catalyst for creating the Bardcore genre.
Re:Bardcore
by booleandilemma on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:23PM
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Pretty sure normies learned about bards from The Witcher and not, say, EverQuest.
Or maybe people with a regular western European education didn't wait for the Witcher to know what a bard is.
That's like... hundreds of millions of people. Most of them "normies" by your standards, certainly :)
Has Bardcore reached "normies" at all yet?
Re:Bardcore
by throwawaynothx on Thursday September 03, 2020 @12:29AM
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You're here arnt you.
Memes using the Bayeux tapestry were a reasonably active niche a few years ago, I suspect this phenomenon is derived from that.