When I hear people say this stuff I kind of don’t know what they’re talking about, I feel like most of the actual criticism I read is very frank about how bad the bad things are?
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There’s less vicious book criticism now than there had been, but there’s a reason every Andrea Long Chu piece goes mega-viral!
aug 26, 2025, 11:49 pm • 5 0 • view
Book criticism conspicuously absent from OP!
aug 26, 2025, 11:49 pm • 6 0 • view
I even write it sometimes (though admittedly I tend to select things that are interesting rather than not-interesting to write about whenever I can because life is short and precious and so on)
aug 26, 2025, 11:21 pm • 9 0 • view
Read better criticism!!!!
aug 26, 2025, 11:22 pm • 17 0 • view
And if you don’t like my taste, my dear and smart friend Richard Brody is literally right there out on Al Gore’s Internet
aug 26, 2025, 11:33 pm • 12 0 • view
The thing is, people routinely say this stuff in one breath and then in the next tell me they saw one of my top ten movies from last year. So I don’t know what to tell you.
aug 26, 2025, 11:37 pm • 8 0 • view
Critics are either evil snobs who hate fun things, or youtubers or tik tokers with no credentials in people's minds.
aug 26, 2025, 11:39 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s almost like they’re making up a guy to be mad at
aug 26, 2025, 11:40 pm • 1 0 • view
(I mean, I have no credentials)
aug 26, 2025, 11:41 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean I used to treat Cinema Sins as an authority back in the day. It's not about credentials so much as it's about treating yourself, the reader, and the art seriously. There's something to be said about the proliferation of popular bad criticism, but good criticism exists! Read it!
aug 26, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I ran into this first around 2017 while living SoCal. A friend explained it as "any expression of negativity is taboo now." It's a go-along-to-get-along culture, especially among young LGBTQ folks. IMO, being Orwellian sheep is the new chic. It shows up right in front of us - there's a ❤️ but no 🤮
aug 27, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
My assumption is that people are mostly engaging with TikTok ‘critics’ who mostly talk about the films they love.
aug 26, 2025, 11:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Fun fact, the algorithm has never once fed these people to me, and you’d really think it would
aug 26, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Nice. I mostly scroll past. There are some people I would probably like if they wrote instead of talked bc the YT/TT house style is not for me. But then there are the influencers parading as critics and I think that’s the most visible and promoted content that’s getting encountered.
aug 26, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, that is wild to see, because for like a decade critics were accused of being paid shills for the studios and then the studios decided to just pay shills
aug 26, 2025, 11:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Or YouTube (same dif). The OP poster says ‘listen’ and I’m taking that literally bc
aug 26, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I guess that’s fair on your part, but that also seems wildly silly
aug 26, 2025, 11:30 pm • 1 0 • view
He should READ some criticism! The medium allows for nuance!
aug 26, 2025, 11:35 pm • 1 0 • view
We are living the results of an evil, sick, twisted, narcissistic, racist that lied and fooled a third of American population and another third refused to vote. Now we live and learn cause he owns every branch of government for now.
aug 27, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
All I can think is that they are seeing criticism that celebrates things they consider inherently unworthy, and assume that if someone is saying positive things about *that* type of thing, they must be afraid to share their real feelings because everyone knows it's not "real" art.
aug 27, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
The David Ehrlich Elvis pan was so viral it made it to the elevator news screen where I work.
aug 26, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s very old now, but my Emoji Movie pan apparently went so viral that for years students would show up in my classroom and tell me they enrolled in my class because they saw it on Tumblr
aug 26, 2025, 11:29 pm • 3 0 • view