Folk is funny.
There are things things that folkies do which are ridiculous from an outside standpoint- such as wearing festival trousers, straw hats, beards, singing in funny accents, drinking ridiculously named brands of beer, etc.
Pop music and music fans are funny. The artists are useless, and the fans go to gigs and scream so loud they can't hear them.
Metal music is ridiculous- middle class boys pretending to be satanists!
Rappers try to be streetwise, but actually live on Avenues and Groves in pleasant suburbs. Rappers is funny, man. Innit?
Nobody who wants to seem normal would consider spending hours of precious time watching railway locomotives, collecting used postage stamps, singing boring old songs (Kipper family quote, not my opinion!).
What sort of freak would want to get involved in any of this when they could be out having a laugh with their mates, wearing the same clothes and trainers as everyone else, drinking the same factory lager and alcopops, terrified of seeming different and maybe smashing the odd shop window and taking home a new mobile or a nice big telly?
Cheers
Dave