At all times there have been groups of people whose values, appearance and lifestyle were contrary to public opinion. Among young people and adolescents, this manifests itself in the form of the emergence of subcultures. All subcultures have their own values, words and expressions accepted only in this group, behavior patterns, their own symbols and slogans. It used to be goths, emo, hippies and metalheads. Now more and more people are wondering who the offs are. It's time to talk about them.
What do they mean when they talk about the off-nic subculture?
Who are the offs? This is a very popular lately subculture, which has its own external manifestations and intra-group values.
Attracted by an interesting name, paraphernalia or ringing slogans, teenagers get there through communication with other teenagers who are fond of offer culture, or groups on social networks. Brave guys-offniks in the photo seem like heroes to them. Young fragile minds are taught to be strong, he althy and evil. They go to "zabiva", where they show character or defend their point of view with the help of their fists. Offers arrange fights in sparsely populated places. Everything that happens is accompaniedvideo filming. Although more often these are just groups of teenagers who can put things in order in their area. The cause of skirmishes among the offs themselves, between representatives of this subculture with other people, can be things or inappropriate behavior.
How to recognize him in a crowd?
For any teenager, appearance is very important. Clothes for off-cameras are not just elements of style, but a means of self-expression with a certain message.
They rolled up their jeans - a reason to join the fight. Therefore, ordinary people should avoid the places of gatherings of representatives of this subculture. After all, you never know what might cause a fight. What not to buy? Items with Supreme, Palace, THRASHER, Tommy Hilfiger logos. Although representatives of many other different subcultures prefer to wear things from these companies, they can be a pretext for aggression for off-players. Sputnik 1985 T-shirts, items from the famous designer Gosha Rubchinsky, camouflage pants, jackets, panama hats, jackets with a compass icon, things with the NAPAPIJRI label and The North Face, which appeared in a teenager, should also make his parents think. Clothes from Gosha Rubchinsky can cost 40, 20 and 10 thousand rubles. Where does a young non-working person get money for expensive things is a big question. Parents of young offers do not even realize that high-quality expensive clothes can become a material manifestation of some views of their child.
Officer is a football player?
Who is an offnik in behavioral terms? Behaviors popular with one particulargroups of this subculture can vary greatly. There are those who call themselves "right" (aggressors, anarchists) or "left" (anti-fascists). Sometimes an equal sign is put between the words "offnik" and "near-football player". Is this true?
It all depends on the goals of this community. For example, next to calls not to drink alcohol, go in for sports, love nature, there can be “to be a warrior means to live forever”, “no fear, no pain”, “to be, not to seem, to beat, not to touch”, and the fascist swastika will coexist with newfangled Proto-Slavic letters.
Girls in the rows of offers
In the fights that teens arrange because of the style of clothing or just for the sake of the fight itself, both boys and off-girls participate.
They are no less cruel, and sometimes even more than the guys. Ladies who call themselves Slavs love to participate in mass fights, film their fights on camera and swear. Although it was originally assumed that the offer girl is a true friend, a good comrade and a person who does not need discounts in battle.
Propaganda on the Internet
Propaganda in online communities is a powerful means of manipulating and promoting one's interests. In this regard, the subculture of offers, as they are also called, can be called the most advanced. A lot of VKontakte publics and videos of violent fights not only attract the attention of schoolchildren, but also arouse the desire to become like off-sites. There are more and more articles about the collision in the newspapers.of this or that group of schoolchildren with bats or knives, hiding their faces.
Officer subculture and teenagers
The desire for freedom and self-expression, belonging to a subculture can lead to breaking the law and eventually imprisonment. Vandalism, grievous bodily harm, beatings, hooliganism - this is only a short list of what the off-nic subculture can bring with it.
Teenagers who are fond of the culture of offers are well aware that their behavior is contrary to moral standards and laws in force in the Russian Federation. Attracted more by paraphernalia than by some spiritual values, more and more young men and women become off-line. If freedom is the ability to act at your own discretion outside the norms of customary morality, then can a person consider himself free within the framework of one subculture? Adolescents, so eager for the approval of their peers or socially significant adults, become hostages of new morality and new rules. Rules to be angry and young.
Who are offniks, and whether it is possible to put an equal sign between the words "offnik" and "hooligan", "vandal", only time will tell. Since the subculture is new and evolving, its values and slogans are also changing. People who define for themselves what offnik means are also changing. Whether these adolescents, having matured, will be able to become people who are really capable of fighting for existence in various forms of its manifestation outside of parental care, it will become clear only as the years go by.
