A shorter version of how I understood it:
There are people who love creating X.
There are people who admire X. Not being creators, their love of X manifests by supporting the creators: socially or otherwise.
Sometimes a cool community appears as a result.
There are many people who want the "cool" part, but don't intrinsically care about X. They join the group, but they complain that the X is too X. (What they really want is something 99% mainstream, with a small flavor of X, pretending to be the original X-centered community.)
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