#culture war

[palatinewolfsblog]

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Bradbury.

[hangingfire]

Before you get all riled up, take a sec to digest this key quote:

Unnervingly rapidly, our culture has become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in. Our entertainments may be cancelled prematurely through an adverse fan reaction, and we may endure largely misogynist crusades such as Gamergate or Comicsgate from those who think “gate” means “conspiracy”, and that Nixon’s disgrace was predicated on a plot involving water, but this is hardly the full extent to which fan attitudes have toxified the world surrounding us, most obviously in our politics.

He's right and he should say it. MAGA is at its heart a spectacularly toxic fandom. People treat matters of state like they're sports games, and they treat their entertainments like they're papal bulls.

Moore can certainly be a giant crank when he wants to, but when he's right, the man is right.

("Alan Moore knows the score", indeed.)

[but-a-humble-goon]

Wait are they seriously calling Elden Ring "too woke" because the final villain of the DLC is a gay femboy who uses magic to turn multiple men into his brainwashed slave-husbands? Even doing homophobic tropes is woke now because they by necessity involve acknowledging that gay people exist. What a time to be alive.

[katameme]

[gec-tre]

holy shit just saw pronouns in starfield and I shat myself. I sharted ,while crying, so hard that my wife came into my room (she sleeps with her femboy boyfriend) and asked for a divorce. I just turned to her and said

"p-p-p-pronouns" and broke into tears. crying rn.

fuck you Todd Howard for convincing my wife to divorce me and leave me for her woke male wife.

[republicansexscandals]

[dosesofcommonsense]

We are winning the culture war. If MSFT ditched their Didn’t Earn It Crew AND Ford is going to make Direct Carbon Vehicles (instead of “hidden”, back door carbon vehicles), then we are effectively combatting the madness and slowly restoring common sense.

[tentacion3099]

RW culture war hierarchy of disagreement

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Man, I like Daily Wire in concept but Matt Walsh needs to shut the fuck up about video games. The same guy who tried to resurrect the tired old "violent video games are harmful!" crap is now acting like he's the first person to notice that video games are pushing woke nonsense (even though there are about a hundred channels and outlets that have been talking about this for years) but his solution is to, of course, for the right to stop playing video games.

No. Just, no.

This is the same "bury our head in the sand and pretend pop culture doesn't exist" mindset that got us into this situation in the first place. You can't win a war (and there is a culture war going on, no matter how many people on both sides want to pretend otherwise) by retreating from every battlefield. You win by raising awareness of a problem and then offering a real solution.

And it's especially stupid seeing this cultural retreat mindset from someone working for DW because DW actually knows exactly how to fight this battle. They created their own media company to fight against woke Hollywood. Are all their movies and shows good? No, not at all. But they still did the right thing. They put their money where their mouth is, and created an alternative.

A much better example is Angel Studios, which is probably the only Christian movie studio I've ever seen that puts out top quality content with great acting, writing, and production values. They're raking in money and getting their content onto mainstream streaming services as well as theaters. In other words, they're taking their message to the people who need it the most. The ones who aren't already in the echo chamber. Unlike Daily Wire, which only offers its content on its own website through a subscription service to its own audience, and never advertises anywhere.

Another successful example outside of movies is Eric July's Rippaverse. He's been killing it with his comics, with every single one of his campaigns raking in over a million dollars, every cent of which is reinvested back into his business, helping it grow, creating more content, and expanding his already impressive roster of writers and artists. Mainstream writers and artists, by the way. Like Chuck Dixon, the guy who co-created Bane and wrote the seminal Tim Drake Robin comics, among many other credits, and Mike Baron, who wrote some of the best early Punisher comics. Eric had a following before he started the Rippaverse. He runs a successful YouTube channel and he's a regular contributor to The Blaze. He could have walled himself off with his fanbase, wrote comics about ancaps saving the world from the evils of government, and made some money while pandering to the people who already agreed with him. Instead, he went big. He invested his own money, runs his own distribution center, owns his own business with zero outside investors, hires the best talent he can, and offers a product that focuses on story and characters over messaging. His work isn't even "anti-woke". It's just not woke.

And that's what we need in video games. We need alternatives. We need to roll up our sleeves and wade into the deep waters and actually contribute our ideas and our talents. Offer an alternative. Hire people who know what they're doing, who care about quality content first and social engineering never. There is a huge untapped audience who would pay hand over fist for good video games free from microtransactions and woke nonsense.

But retreating is not an option. It's not brave or moral to hide in our echo chambers and scoff at anything fun. Entertainment is necessary. And maybe more importantly, it's not going anywhere. We will never live in a world where people go to work and spend time with their families at home and do nothing else. We need to engage with the world as it is. Not wait around for whatever our idea of a perfect world is to magically form so we can finally interact with it. You can't change society if you keep pretending large swaths of it don't exist.

[animentality]

[misty-slays-blog]

I'm going to be honest, I find that the toxicity surrounding RoP is slowly getting to me 😔 I quit reddit recently because I cannot deal with all the comments. They were really beginning to affect my mental health. Everything I post has some people looking for drama, they're either insulting the show or insulting me for liking it, and everywhere I go there is just people mocking the show, the actors (gosh the hate some of them receive... I really hope they manage to steer clear from that because that can really get to a person), the people who watch it... literally everything and everyone. And most of them know jack shit of what they're talking about. It's all part of this strange culture war where some people decided to take black elves and female leads as a personal attack on them, and the rest is just an echo chamber of hatred. But the algorithm obviously knows I'm interested in RoP and therefore it gets suggested to me everywhere.

Not even an exaggeration, I have blocked hundreds of accounts on all platforms, but they just keep popping up like a hydra's head.

This here is the latest example. There are 11k people who reacted, 11k people who are openly racist and no one seems to give a fuck or even bat an eye. My feed is filled with things like this. It really makes me lose faith in humanity (and frankly, I didn't have much left anyway). Tumblr and AO3 feel like the only safe spaces left.

[autisticexpression2]

Conservative zoomers are so fucking funny because they haven't been alive long enough to have a nostalgic past so they just pretend with currently popular stuff. They'll be like "traditional femininity," and it's a bunch of pictures of women in crop tops and bikinis. Girl.

[but-a-humble-goon]

By about half the internet's definition, videogame women being allowed to wear clothes is censorship but Disney pulling an episode of Moon Girl for having the word trans in it isn't.

[whereserpentswalk]

"They couldn't make blazing saddles today." My brother in Christ you'd be the one calling it woke blm propaganda.

[queerism1969]

[vtuberconfessions]

Culture War shit is exhausting, and I wish it never sunk its claws into Vtubing.

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