#and i still feel strongly that sans is an outlier and even though the term as it is now really ought to describe a phenomenon still | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

readymades2002 · 2 years ago

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WILL BRIEFLY SAY ABOUT CURRENT EVENTS (that one poll) ON THIS SITE: that version of cecil is bad and there were many many people who hated it even at the height of its popularity and while as i have mentioned before it wasone of the character depictions that originally defined the Tumblr Sexy Man before it became the meaningless epithet it is now it was bad and i will never accept it and if any of this revives that depiction i am going to start lighting people on fire with my mind. thanks!

#that concept--AGAIN as i have mentioned before--was when people really started to label tumblr sexymen #specifically as 'people want to project the idea of a white man in a sweatervest onto any faceless character' and get annoyed with it #im sure the criticism existed prior obviously but this was a big thing in the night vale community #there were LOTS of people who despised sweatervest+tentacles cecil. this was prior to his fashion sense being more of #a point of discussion in the podcast as well. like this was not something that was just Allowed i hope people know that #one of the biggest moments of that was kevin talking about depictions of his character in fanart as well! like #this is very much something where the final results coming down to sans and cecil is just highlighting that i do not like this site </3 #i dont know if thats the right thing. i dont know. i just think Tumblr Sexyman doesnt mean anything even though people want it to #its credibility for criticizing the phenomenon cecil went through has been destroyed #and i still feel strongly that sans is an outlier and even though the term as it is now really ought to describe a phenomenon still #its instead being treated like a character archetype which it is just not. its an abandoned term that means nothing anymore #also as you may have noticed independently i tend to take things seriously and don't joke or post very frivolously which means #this is not a conversation topic i can really participate in normally anyway because i think self-referential tumblr humor is irritating </3 #ESPECIALLY with the cecil thing. there are so many people in on this joke that were the problem and still would be. fandom people...

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