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ok i'm tired of talking about politics, can i please whine for the briefest moment about the influencers being bad at content analysis of books and tv

i will preface this by saying that @theflytrapmedia.com published a very good piece that gets at a lot of what i am about to bitch about, @judysquirrels.bsky.social wrote a banger here

I will fully say up front, I love Dungeon Crawler Carl and Pluribus, both of which are ending up on a bunch of people's EOY lists which is why this dippy discourse is happening but like the haters are not even hating properly on these properties

Because I like both of these things, the algorithm shows me haters of these things, because the algorithm is a dippy asshole. Every once in a while, I happen upon a hater who has really consumed a thing and has a good read. There are fair critiques out there! BUT

More often than not, I run into the most surface-level possible shit that essentially boils down to "this thing is bad because in < episode/chapter 1 > the < main character > did/said < a thing that wasn't the most perfect deal > and thus < this is a fascist project > and like no

Super appreciate your assessment of this "thing" I've also observed, but I've been unable to really frame clearly.

but like WOOF it is so tiresome. there actually is a lot of dippy bullshit out there in the world! ripe for the dunking! stuff that doesn't even pretend to be careful or thoughtful in its execution!

idk (and this is on me) I watched a 20-minute youtube video about how ~ Vince Gilligan is running a pro-capitalist psyop with Pluribus ~ from a person who watched 1.5 episodes and was like "i've seen enough"

Oh…boy

anyway character and narrative development is great, basically the things stories are made of, if what you are looking for are narratives where people who are already perfect do stuff where they beat irredeemable bad guys every time, i really can't even recommend children's books on this front