#Capital TV

[lalalalalalakakakak]

"Hell's Greatest Dad" but it's just Vox in June

[khruschevshoe]

You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.

[ghost-in-a-cup]

hey guys, maybe before you pirate LEARN SOME ETIQUETTE

why are these important? well, if you openly share the sites, they wil get shut down. corporations are willing to copyright strike anything. you are only going to make accessing these resources harder.

remember: LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS

if you want to share resources, don't post them on public forums like tumblr, twitter,instagram or any popular site. remember how zlibrary shut down? yall want that to happen to more sites? do you?

also like if they get shut down, people who can't access these otherwise because they don't have the means for it or its banned in their country are losing access.

Don't post links online. Only share in private conversations.

try and avoid linking the sites directly. a workaround is sharing the downloaded files via other file hosting sites similar to google drive and drop box

DON'T SHARE ON PUBLIC FORUMS. EVER. PLEASE

Use a VPN. i personally like proton vpn, it is a freemium model but the free version works fine.

These are just the basics, there are others but please keep these in mind.

[buzz-the-cat]

Reality show where we strip billionaires of their wealth and force them to get a job with ONLY their prior work experience on their resume if they can actually “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” and earn a million dollars in a year they get their money back. If not all their assets are liquidated and they are eaten

[bootleg-nessie]

Name a more iconic duo than anti-capitalist media and inevitably being co-opted by capitalists for profit

[cherry-bomble]

oh god ANOTHER piece of Kipperlily's hypocrisy and the unfairness of everything. Adaine's spell components. They get gold for adventuring, that's how/why Tiberia Runestaff was so nonchalant about expecting them to be able to afford the obscene cost.

But Adaine lost all of her gold that she would have had from cutting ties with her dogshit family AND all the gold she got from LITERALLY SAVING ELMVILLE IF NOT THE WORLD to dragon madness. It doesn't matter that she had a tragic backstory, she still was at a permanent disadvantage. It doesn't matter that she was a better, more courageous adventure, she still was at a permanent disadvantage.

And then take Oisin. You don't earn gold from killing rats in a forest for months on end. But coming from wealth meant that he didn't have to be a good hero. He didn't even have to be a hero at all. All he needed was the wealth and he'd always have a leg up on Adaine. Couple that with being a descendant of a powerful dragon (who's still alive, and therefore their hoard is unaffected by dragon madness*) and there's no way that this wealth could be ripped from him from due to factors outside of his control.

Having a normal/healthy/non-traumatic backstory actually means that you're not at a disadvantage, and if anything, you're taking a far easier path. Who could have guessed?

*I don't remember how dragon madness works verbatim but I'm guessing Oisin is immune to it no matter what

[pop-squeak]

scrap all tv shows rn we need to bring star trek tos back

[vamprisms]

it is possible to have longer & well written/produced seasons of tv shows that are made under good union conditions. you know this in your heart

[yung-and-bludy]

[ballsybarbarian]

Does anyone else who has Dropout still get a little surprised everytime they click on an episode and is not immediately bombarded by an add? Its like capitalism has trained me to expect it every time so now when I watch something on Dropout it’s like a little fun surprise

[mentally-at-home]

[ashley-of-the-abyss]

Easy 7-step plan to getting rich:

1. Come out as trans and start taking HRT.

2. Apply for Survivor. Play up how your performance in challenges would cause drama, since if you're weak you'll be a failure to men and if you're strong you'll be cheating women out of a deserved win. (Note: Big Brother and other similarly cheesy reality TV shows also work if you're not comfortable showing your chest)

3. Wait for [Reality Show] to inevitably accept you. They'll eat it up, loving the idea of showing liberals they're diverse while getting conservatives to hate-watch/watch to see how bad trans people are at being their desired gender.

4. Once you're there, play hard. Try to win challenges, especially endurance- or intelligence-based ones, since people can't make a negative view for you on those one way or the other. Don't be afraid to point out to more accepting players how sad it would be if you went first, and how it would show how backwards society really is.

5. When you're in the final 9 since nobody felt comfortable voting against you and seeming bigoted on national TV, start fully being yourself. Create alliances, make friends, and show the audience that you're more than just a trans person: you're a person.

6. You're in the final two. Great. Now it's time to remind everyone how hard your journey was. Talk about how the right-wing stereotype of the season said you'd never be a [desired gender]. But don't push it too hard. Talk about your actual merits, and explain your strategy. Finally, remind everyone how amazing it would be if a trans person won [Reality Show], because it would mean that everyone has a chance at success.

7. Win. Or don't win, that's okay too. Either way, you'll walk away from it all with money, fame, and countless brands wanting to pay you to promote their product. You broke boundaries, and showed millions of young queer people, some of whom have disapproving families that would never give them the resources to discover themselves otherwise. You're a hero, an icon, and most importantly to a capitalist society, you're rich.

I am currently stuck on the first step of this process.

[jacklikejuno]

something something i saw the tv glow uses nostalgia not only as a way to explore escapism and queer identity but also to explore how we try to cozy up in the past, specifically through constant remakes of our favourite television shows and films, because living in late-stage capitalism means we can't imagine a future for ourselves anymore, not even in fiction something something

[locuas642]

Honestly, every news about mass lay-offs sound like

"This game/tv show/movie/platform" did Record Breaking numbers and actually cured cancer. however, the CEO invested a gazillion dollars on Pumpkings and forgot to sell them before Halloween, as a result they had to mass lay-off everyone who was involved on that"

"This ability to make Tough Decisions to save the company is why they are an excellent CEO everyone should emulate"

[shutupcrime]

I love that Adam ruins everything has just slowly evolved into Adam explains how capitalism is a human meat grinder into which we are all slowly falling

[elinbean]

Pro-Palestine demonstrators disrupt the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Nov. 23 2023 (x) (photo by Brendan McDermid)