They consider themselves rebels when actually they are the conformists.
I’ve noticed that too, especially in the tattoos and piercings bunch. Also, they are reactionary-anything which conservatives support, their knee-jerk reaction is to oppose. Yet they still think, seeing things through a 60s prism which isn’t even their own, that they are the iconoclasts. These days, being a conservative is revolutionary-after all, who is the establishment now?