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It’s like any genre in music … if you are ‘good’ and part of the ‘in crowd’ then you are [insert label].

Never mind that Sex Pistols were manufactured … so technically they aren’t punk at all.

And then you get someone like Beyonce (or was it another pop star?) ‘winning’ in the ‘Country music’ category, which upset the country music fans quite a bit. At which point you discover that ‘country’ is as vague a definition as ‘punk’ is.

There’s no denying that there’s a certain musical style combined with specific themes that result in the genre, but it’s not quite as fixed as the fans (and creators) think it is. Which brings me back to my argument that being part of the ‘in crowd’ is what really determines if you are making music within a specific genre …

Anyways … that’s 100% off-topic
Although … some of it applies to tabletop games as well.

At which point is something a (miniatures) wargame and when is it a boardgame ?
I’d suspect there’s games out there that blur the lines and often fit both definitions while upsetting the fans at the same time.