Yeah, it's a big trend permeating all of western culture since several years. I've talked about it before so I'll just copy that post:
It's not just making things darker and edgier, you get zombies, vampires, Todd McFarlane comics, Chtulhu and all things morbid and putrid. England went through the exact same thing some 100 years ago, when the empire collapsed. What we're seeing is the spiritual death of our culture, which for some reason manifests consciously as a fascination with death and decay. There's no cause for alarm however, we'll figure out new things to define ourselves around. This end of the world is just another world beginning.
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