oh dang sorry I didn’t even think to explain XD uh yeah it’s partially that but really it is/was a subcultural movement- so you had hippies, rockers, punks, and mods! it was big in the sixties and is basically a shortening of ‘modernists’. Ironically I never professed to being one, although I did like a lot of the stuff, but it was the fact that I liked and wore suits and black and white checkers (and at one point an old army jacket that I’d sabotaged with various music band patches) that made it stick