#like the scummy creep guy version of it lol. he loved to oscillate between getting all confrontational and like

[unproduciblesmackdown]

i'd like to hear about your resentment and distrust of tom hanks

i’ve been trying to think of how i could answer in a funny enough way lmfao i’m always too close to [getting genuinely annoyed] and just not good at writing anything, i am here to use too many words and go off on tangents.........you’d think it’d be slightly easier to be Humorous about it b/c tom hanks is really on the low-tier of my celebrity [haters list]......i don’t know much about him and i’m not that serious about my ire for him. low stakes. sort of like alex trebek.

probably the primary factors here are “i never see a lot of shit and like [whatever actor or franchise or anything else] is rarely like, oh this is Longtime Beloved Whatever to me,” also i’m easily annoyed, and also god knows i’m always like so averse to Wholesomeness lmfaooo

you know how tom hanks has the whole brand as like, the safely likeable hero by now lol, well the first time i really remember ever taking specific note of tom hanks was eons ago when whatever film got thrown out where he’s our hero and those nefarious Somalian Pirates push him around and i’m seeing these trailers like, our marketing strategy is just racism huh????? like prior to this i dont know that id ever actually watched anything w/ tom hanks but say toy story a couple times, im neutral on him but now my first like particular association makes his “america’s wholesome dad” image totally un-neutral lmao like get out of here with that, every time i’m just made to remember the shittiest use of it. for another thing i’m not gonna enjoy anyone’s Dad energy lol 9/10 dads line up to get beat up in a parking lot please! or get out of here. plus he’s an actual dad? cringe af

i resent all that and i distrust like, Universally Beloved Perfectly Harmless lmao.......there’s this nuance where like. if you someone who Acts Nice to people that’s whatevs. but when it’s like, oh this is So Genuine, this is Not An Act, this person just isn’t even choosing to be kind and likeable b/c they simply Are so inherently purely wholesome and i’m like, fuck off with that lmfao!!! i don’t know much about tom hanks and would choose to keep it that way and i know he’s Known for being nice but i feel like he is also reasonably in the Acting Nice As A Choice And You’re Not Really Meant to Think He’s Just Pure And Wholesome category, but like, i Can and Will start to pettily dislike people when Everyone Else starts to construct this concept of this like soft bean celeb who is pure and so objectively likeable and that’s all totally Genuine.......afaik there’s no big Tom Hanks Stans content activity that any of us would have to try to evade. ooh here we go the tldr feels like i don’t like whenever the concept of some person being [genuinely harmless] is out there lmfao. it’s a lot worse when someone’s trying to put it out there Themself and i at least get the idea that this is more of the Persona that other people have put uponst tom the hanks engine but i will still slightly distrust it. 

total sidenote but the other way that [wholesomeness] really rankles me, essentially unrelated here, is when it’s got that ~juxtaposition~ where it’s like oh check out this cute soft content BUT WAIT.......what if there was the f-word also, or talking about Sex, or otherwise ~edgier~ or Mature content!!!! sure would be a shame if this was like 90% of the shtick.............like don’t try to tell me how to react to your content. don’t put the painfully cutesy music over an Playing-Around Animal vid, i will be the judge of whether it’s adorable or not, i don’t need you to cue me in with a xylophone or something. just like i don’t need you attempting to blow my mind by dropping “fuck” or “penis” in the next-to-last line of the first verse of your song even though you are entirely gently playing the ukulele, holy fucking shit right.......no [comic w/ like pbs-kids-esque character design but for grown up people who aa] will go like two strips without starting to grate on me like hell lmao i Will be a killjoy and a hater.....not on my watch. not today. not in my content feeds. that’s a tangential gripe

and as a postscript the podcast that i thought was going to be ironically anti-hanks but which instead disappoints me with regular disclaimers that it’s not anti-hanks at all is called dead eyes. i mention it because ive continued to listen anyways b/c i thought the host was kinda funny and i’m biased now towards nasal-voiced not-super-Known actors, which he is. except then also in the weeks since it debuted i started to see a good handful of disparate sources recommending it also. i feel like i don’t 100% *get* what the show is even now lol, but i do like, enjoy listening to it enough that i still listened to an ep just two days ago, so idk. it’s Out There. and i guess if you *like* tom hanks it’s also like, got some indirect content for all the hankies of the world? or something.