Warning: Old Man Rant ahead.
I suddenly get why the mechanical keyboard hobby has been sliding downhill from a niche for reclusive geeks with a genuine love for tinkering with obscure technologies to some kind of weird trend-driven fashion parade.
I took the time to really look at the landing page of r/MechanicalKeyboards/ for the first time today. It's almost entirely made up of photo posts- people colour-matching their keyboards to their cars, their cartons of milk, or other random household objects.
In the past, I end up on Reddit because that's where specific search terms led me. So I've been looking at highly targeted, fairly high quality posts on subjects like 3D printed ergo cases, frankenswitch experimentation, and decent product reviews. But taking a step back, I've realised that I've missed the forest for the trees, and the forest is really about jpegs of garishly-decorated generic keyboards.
It happened without my noticing, but at some stage, I guess that keyboards stopped being a geek thing.