Which is why one can't just slot in any old subculture and expect the same result.
The representations are those deeply associated with a very culturally specific (in both geography and history, yet also narrow developmental age band) dynamic of power and parochial powerlessness, reified through tropes as a right of passage that culminates in cultural dominance.
The hierarchy has been upended, or so the ludomythological accounting tells us, and even those of subsequent generations, who were not alive when the prior hierarchy was first committed to popular media as normative, even natural, seek to find their own sense of power through their association with the media of the victors of that hierarchical inversion.