#i stand by “incorrect quotes blogs are worse than shipping” re: fandom practices making people worse at thinking abt media

[larnax]

i will say incorrect quotes blogs are Just annoying more often than they are racist. just like statistically bc most of them only acknowledge white characters exist. but it is KIND of inevitable that if you literally just have the same list of quotes that have had their punchline reduced to the most basic possible character archetype, at some point you will manage to make an in-context totally harmless joke extremely racist by making the wrong nonwhite character the punchline, even aside from all the "incorrect quotes" that are from ORIGINALLY dogshit sources. same as the "what do you fucking mean you didnt think that the 'this is a ____ neighborhood keep moving' meme might be racist" problem, incorrect quotes blogs encourage you to divorce a Funny Template from its original source so hard you don't often think "hang on when was the last time i actually read the novel this quotes. do i fully understand the context this is being said in and who it's being said by". and like on a more general scale this impulse to divorce things from their context is what lets you unironically argue that the pale king is a communist in supposedly serious media analysis