shit's devolving so badly we're having the "should little Timmy be watching this" talk but for a whole society of grown ass adults
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you can have edgy and complicated protagonists back when you stop throwing things at your sibling and screaming "BATARANG"
aug 26, 2025, 1:20 am • 4 0 • view
necessary, inevitable outcome of the slow slip-n-slide into weird anti-shipper discursive modalities having absolutely taken over every fandom space at the fucking root, it's appalling :/
aug 26, 2025, 1:17 am • 12 1 • view
I actually don't disagree with her point given (*broadly gestures around at everything*), I just wish things like "the basic distinction between make-believe and reality i understood as a literal child" were still understood
aug 26, 2025, 1:22 am • 12 0 • view
i mean like i think "i am, personally, tired of anti-heroes given the pervasive and bone-deep tired cynicism that characterises every moment of conscious waking life these days" is a perfectly reasonable response, there's a reason I've jammed so hard on FFXIV
aug 26, 2025, 1:30 am • 12 1 • view
i'm a *villainfucker* through and through but straightforward stories about people being good people even when it's hard and finding strength where they thought they would find weakness are fucking catnip for me these days
aug 26, 2025, 1:30 am • 15 1 • view
but the "clearly we got here because people liked Breaking Bad too much or whatever" shit just makes me want to throw myself into a fucking volcano
aug 26, 2025, 1:30 am • 13 1 • view
i don't blame the shows themselves for it and would tell anyone proposing censorship about it to fuck off into the sun, but there's a massive fuckin' problem with media literacy in this particular point in time
aug 26, 2025, 1:39 am • 7 0 • view
like, the absolute basics, not even the nuances of the morality tale of Breaking Bad and how Walter White isn't supposed to be a role model or whatever, i mean absolute square one "this isn't real life and these people aren't actually being killed by the bye bye man" shit
aug 26, 2025, 1:39 am • 8 2 • view
we're so fucking bad at this shit that the QAnon lore is some fucked up amalgamate of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and.... the thing in Monsters Inc. where fear is a fuel source? like the cartoon movie???? i don't even know how the fuck we-
aug 26, 2025, 1:41 am • 10 1 • view
yeah it's McFucking DIRE :/
aug 26, 2025, 1:49 am • 5 0 • view
real bad time for deepfakes to suddenly get incredibly fucking good, lol
aug 26, 2025, 1:49 am • 5 0 • view
Some of this does just kind of feel like inevitable cultural backlash to what feels like an overwhelmingly dominant cultural norm, even leaving aside the everything political rn. for as long as I can remember people have been infinitely more fascinated with antiheroes and villains than anyone else
aug 26, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
but that's not really a political concern or cause for our present woes, it's bone-deep visceral cultural alienation
aug 26, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
The kind of people who are made worse by certain kind of popular fictional media already feel like doing something they just point to stuff to explain things
aug 26, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 1 • view
For decades The kind of people that pointed to dirty harry to make a point were already that kind of people before they either saw that movie or invoked it without seeing it. The movie didn't make people worse
aug 26, 2025, 2:03 am • 2 1 • view
The real reason they don't want antihero stories is because they're afraid of more people deciding it's a realistic thing to be.
aug 26, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0 • view
someday i will be able to explain how i don't think most fictional media doesn't make people worse with the fact that i really don't like certain fictional series and am suspicious of people who like them
aug 26, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
Timmy shouldn't have been watching south park and now timothy has been annoying on the internet
aug 26, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
I am putting so, so many things on a high shelf
aug 26, 2025, 1:23 am • 3 1 • view
In retrospect, it does really seem that "unrepentant assholes who hurt innocent people *cannot* be the heroes of popular media" was one of the load-being pillars of our society of adult children.
aug 26, 2025, 1:24 am • 1 0 • view