Zines!!! Were they a universal thing?

They were an underground thing that the masses of regular folks weren't that aware of. If you were into niche subcultures then you were more likely aware. For example, I was a skateboarder and artist. I read comics. I was into zines. But the amount of people I knew who had zero idea what a zine was were way higher than those who knew about them. I'm still an artist and have been an art professor for 21 years. Right after COVID or of the projects I started doing with my 2D Design classes are zines. I go over the history, show examples both from my youth as well as contemporary. It's a fun project because I require the students to make enough for everyone in the class and everyone has to trade. And I get a copy of each so I'm building up A cool library of zines on all sort of topics. A few of my students clicked so well making them that they are still doing their own zines now years after my class and I've been finding zines locally at used book shops which is awesome.