#okbuddyfresca

[pleasant-plant-x]

"I hope they quit it with the Hughie abuse next season."

Tell me you did'nt read the manga without telling me you didnt read the manga, you are NOT ready for the next arc.

[digitalbath1988]

Stupid Boys meme on Reddit, too many slides to repost here but worth the click.

[colajuiced]

they're always pitting bad bitches against each other

[seekingred]

I’m really done with The Boys and the fandom.

There’s a post on r/OkBuddyFresca basically saying that if Frenchie was in Hughie’s place it would not have been sexual assault because Frenchie would have enjoyed participating in sexual acts with Tek Knight and Ashley.

That’s not how that fucking works.

Apparently being kinky means you can’t be assaulted???

I knew that the outcry over Hughie’s SA in this episode was only because the favorite character of the misogynists on Reddit was being attacked, and not because any of those people care about SA, but that pretty much confirmed it for me.

[gothicprep]

this bizarre take pops up around online pretty often whenever new season of the boys drops. it’s not just the boys, it’s also applicable to breaking bad, fight club, other things. “there are SO MANY people who think the VILLAIN of this show is actually meant to be the HERO 😱😱😱”

and to be honest, I don’t buy it. maybe there are a handful of people who do, but I see more people complaining about this than I do engaging in the behavior being complained about. it sounds like a rumor. or seeing irony posting on a fan circlejerk subforum that’s meant to mock people who say this and thinking to themselves, case closed everyone.

with breaking bad, it makes a little bit more sense to me why this conclusion would be drawn. anna gunn did get a lot of really nasty backlash for her portrayal of skyler. so it follows from that how someone could assume that they saw her character as a villain that they didn’t like. but with the boys, it’s like… how? homelander eye-lasers a plan in half in, like, the second episode. for no reason. nobody without a severe vendetta against aviation and airline passengers is going to see this and think, “that’s the role model I didn’t know I wanted”.

and if it’s so prevalent, you should be able to provide me with at least one screenshot that isn’t from r/okbuddyfresca. but no one ever does. it’s almost as if this is making up a guy and getting mad at him.

as for complaining about the trump stuff, bear in mind that we’ve had to endure nearly a decade of trump being in the headlines constantly. it gets exhausting after awhile. not to mention, the “homelander is trump” thing came at the expense of a lot of the tension built up around him from the first season.

think of how this show is initially set up. vought is this universe’s AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's, that’s trying to justify getting defense contracts from the us military. homelander ships out compound v to terror cells around the world to justify this as a necessity. the supes enjoy a lot of public approval, in spite of how reckless and dangerous they are. it’s set up as a military industrial complex critique. and it’s all thrown out in service of more of the same covfefe commander in cheeto laziness. you threw out a perfectly good allegory! you don’t need a maga hat to find this irritating.

[antpalmer]

kinda interesting to think about how people would have discussed TV shows 20 years ago.

Finished watching the boys season 4 and there's a lot to talk about, but I'll leave that to people smarter than me. The ending was great, but you can tell where a lot of the discourse is - here on Tumblr, reddit and mixed with the mild unhingedness of okbuddyfresca, we have something you really can't describe to people 20 years from now. How would shitposts even function then?

a show that has a special place in my heart is the wire. How would people have talked about this show back in its heyday? News articles? Word of mouth? What would they have talked about? How would fan theories have disseminated? How did people react to certain seasons?

I love this show but I have no one to talk about it with

I'm kinda new to this app and don't know if anyone understands this 1 am ramble but I hope it makes someone think better than I can

[cleverchaoslight]

join the okbuddyfresca subreddit its the only other safe place </3

being a the boys fan is such a wild experience, one side is full of intelligent people who understand the purpose of the characters being the way they are in a satiric light and talking about the complexity of each one of them

in the other side we have homelander fanatics just like the ones portrayed in the show, people who hate annie for no understandable reason, and those who just don't realize the critics behind the whole series

[theloudestdumbass]

It really is odd, I think the only person I even knew back in 196 was Anarcho and that’s only because I talked with her a few times on OkBuddyFresca. It all feels so… personal now, first G+, now this.

Ironically, even as r/196 is shutting down, I feel more connected to the community than ever. Imposter syndrome is real easy to get over when everyone else is thrust into the same mess as you are.