#but was absolutely dragged down by the constant useless comments about the gross content

[heroes-never-discourse]

so annoyed whenever i see a youtube video longer than 10 minutes about an extreme horror/splatterpunk book and hoping i'll get someone who's actually willing to engage with the material to talk about the themes and symbolism and stuff, and they feel the need to punctuate every third sentence with some kind of disgusted noise or a "ugh, why is this in here" "why would you write this" "who thinks of this".

even worse when they cap it with a vague comment that clearly indicates they think whoever wrote it must be a grotesque and awful person IRL because clearly only an actual depraved person could ever even conceive of writing disgusting subject matter.

like it's actually so annoying to me because like, you didn't have to read or talk about this book. you and I both already know, by virtue of knowing what extreme horror and especially splatterpunk tend to be, that this book will probably have some disgusting shit in it, so the constant reaffirming that you think the gross shit being written about is gross just always comes off to me like, "i'm continuing to remind you that i think this is gross because i need you to know i am a Good and Normal person and i Do Not Approve of These Things".

it's just annoying. i wanna know about the book and your thoughts on why the disgusting thing is being written. it's gross but it's still a scene in a story, and that doesn't mean there's always a Thematic Symbolic reason why the scene exists (the genre always has scenes and sometimes stories that solely exist to be disgusting and transgressive for the sake of it), but i'm so much more interested in you trying to piece that reason together over you just telling me what happens and going "gross" before moving on.