“鬼畜”文化是当代中国互联网空间中一种新兴的亚文化形态。从伯明翰学派亚文化研究理论的视角来看，“鬼畜”文化作为亚文化可被视为一种“仪式抵抗”，其创作实践符合“编码/解码”模型的特征，并以“拼贴”和“同构”方式形成独特“风格”作为自身标志，最终形成独立的文化群体，折射出青年对休闲领域活动的利用和重视，由此产生同“父辈”的观念和行动差异，反映了文化群体的世代意识。
与此同时，“鬼畜”文化的发展也面临问题，包括：一是休闲时间的减少压缩“鬼畜”创作空间，二是“鬼畜”亚文化面临商品形式收编和意识形态形式收编的压力使得自身“风格”的独立性和独特性受到威胁，三是“鬼畜”等亚文化作为“想象性的解决”无法真正回应和解决青年面对的现实社会问题，对其“抵抗”效用的估计过于乐观。
“鬼畜”等亚文化既有与社会主流文化在表现特征和观念认同上的鲜明差异，又同主流文化存在根本上的从属关联，青年亚文化归根到底是社会发展进程的产物，当下应当继续深化亚文化研究，以开放心态观察和理解亚文化的迭新与发展。

"Kichiku" culture is an emerging subculture in contemporary Chinese Internet space. From the perspective of the Birmingham School's subculture research theory, "Kichiku" culture as a subculture can be regarded as a kind of "resistance through rituals". Its practice of creation conforms to the characteristics of the "Encoding/Decoding" model, and forms a unique "style" through "bricolage" and "homology" as its own symbol, and the eventually forms an independent cultural group, which shows the use and emphasis of young people on leisure activities, thus resulting in differences in concepts and actions from their "parents" and reflecting the generational awareness of the subculture group. 

At the same time, the development of "Kichiku" culture is also facing problems, including: firstly, the reduction of leisure time has reduced the space for "Kichiku" creation; secondly, "Kichiku" as a subculture is  facing the pressure of the incorporation of commodity form and ideological form, which has put the independence and uniqueness of its own "style" under threat; and thirdly, subcultures such as "Kichiku", as an "magical resolution" programme, are unable to truly respond to and solve the realistic social problems faced by young people, and the estimation of the efficacy of their resistance is over-optimistic. 

Subcultures such as "Kichiku" are not only significantly different from the mainstream culture in the performance characteristics and conceptual identity of society, but also have a fundamental subordinate relationship with the mainstream culture. Youth subcultures are ultimately a product of the social development process, and it is important to continue to deepen the study of subcultures, and to observe and understand subcultures' iterations and development with an open mind.