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While not in themselves a piece of critical theory on our world, they very sharply represent (and darkly satirize) the class dynamics in this society and how it's nearly fucking impossible to bring people around any unified cause, as we live through countless social strata where due to privilege and niche cultures we're led to wage war one against another, within and between even lower classes... so that before taking on the "rich", you'll have a dozen castes to go through. It also plays very well in the hands of the ultra-rich that the "little people" of all kinds are pitted in interstitial petty struggles to get more of the Power pie.

I do not doubt that a class consciousness may have been building up and converging in some social contexts, but let's get this straight: the people looking at this collective mirror image are only a portion of the total population, and hyper-localized in some neighborhoods, or at the least social settings (some poor suburbs).

I do think a revolutionary class consciousness is much needed in the less privileged milieus these days. It's either that, or just more decades of single-minded subservience to capital. But this consciousness has to translate into new ventures, tactics and infrastructures in the real world.

Also what if this class consciousness becomes something reactionary in the long run? A tribalist or racist thing?

It's really really about time revolutionaries like you read Jacques Camatte (esp On The Movement). And I mean, read it. It's not a complicated read...