They were THOSE people. those people with their rolled up button-down shirts and blue jeans, who wore leather lace up shoes that were too casual for dressy, but too dressy for casual. they were those people who referenced music that was too obscure to be mainstream, but too mainstream to be obscure.
They were alternative society
It was those peoples, who thought themselves unlimited in their box of elitism.
They may have been the foam atop the espresso, but they never could taste the drink.