#this game is doing cocomelon shit to me

[birdpaladin]

god isnt watching

[omorinintendoswitchedition]

okay time to go to work (play papas bakeria for two hours)

[lesbiansurge]

yeah man i dont even like brawl stars anymore *continues to talk about brawl stars*

[astro-b-o-y-d]

I am apparently not immune to funny water pour mobile game

[sleepknoot]

Man. . .House Flipper kinda dangerous.

[coldbrewpup]

i'm so balatro pilled now

[butchdykekondraki]

THE COMIC SANS FONT ???

[sephirothmon]

i need guilty gear art books or i think i might die5 billion different ways

[genericpuff]

I've come to the stunning realization-

-that Lore Olympus is basically to the webtoons industry what Youtube Kids is to Youtube.

And I'm not talking about the general "Youtube Kids" label, I'm talking about those videos - Elsagate, Johny Johny, Cocomelon, Mickey Mouse tattooing Spongebob or whatever other weird example you can think of - which are explicitly designed to game the algorithm, turn views into money, and most of all, gain and keep the attention of the one demographic that won't question what they're consuming - children.

!!!!THIS POST HAS FAST PASS SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

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I mean, this is undoubtedly just a tinfoil hat theory, but think about it:

Bright oversaturated colors that are attention-grabbing.

Meme faces and 'lol rAnDoM' humor even when it doesn't suit the situation at all.

Art that's all around ugly and cheap on a technical level but still stands out due to its color design and prioritized advertising.

Vapid surface level scene-to-scene writing that doesn't connect or have any meaning in any coherent way.

One-dimensional projection characters who are easy to manipulate and sway for audience sympathy or anger even if those opinions change on a dime based on actions in the moment.

Cliffhangers that are less like true cliffhangers and more like clickbait. Episodes nowadays tend to be filled with drawn out plotlines, vague hints that can be applied to just about any school of thought, and non-sequitur memes to fill the time until they can hook the reader with another cliffhanger to keep them coming back next week.

Coin prices have gone up but episode length, substance, and quality have noticeably gone down. Even if they reach the same panel count they usually have, dialogue is minimal and pacing is brutally inconsistent to the point that plot progression is often non-existent.

Banner ads that run constantly, often in the first or second (or both) slots, with push notifications and pop-up ads also becoming more frequent whether you're subscribed to the comic or not.

And underneath ALL of that, we've got blatant objectifying and sexualization of female characters regardless of context, misogyny that claims to be progressive, racist undertones, borderline fetish content that constantly toes the Terms of Services line, normalization of problematic/toxic relationship dynamics, a creator who's more interested in 'getting back' at critics than writing an actual story, and underlying messaging both from the characters' and the creator's behavior that encourage witch-hunting, rejection of accountability, and blind devotion.

All this is essentially why I've given up consuming LO entirely, beyond just on a critical level as of late. There was a time long ago when I stuck around in the hopes it was going to get better, that maybe it was just going through a "rough patch" as some stories do. After that I stuck around because I wanted to see how it could possibly pull off its ending. And then after that, I simply stuck around for the laughs and community banter. But now I don't even find it funny anymore, the punchline of how bad it is has gotten incredibly old. And at this rate, as much as we'd like to believe it's going to end in its third season as it's been mentioned in the past, we also were told it was going to end between 100-200 episodes prior to that - the way it's going, I can't even stick around "for the ending" because LO is going to be around for as long as WT tries to milk it, despite it no longer having a heartbeat.

As much as I've loved talking shit about this comic and it's undoubtedly the main reason so many of you followed me here in the first place, I'm not going to lock myself in some kind of purgatory hell just to be proven what I already know is going to happen - either the comic continues on forever, doomed to be a lifeless mascot for the zombie corporation that is WT, or RS eats shit while trying to stick the landing with a plane that has no functional parts.

There's a quote from Caddicarus that I couldn't help but think of as I typed this up, from his nearly-decade-old review of Dalmations 3 (oh god, it's nearly been a decade since that video came out what the actual fuck-)

"And this is where I officially lost all fucking care. I realized it wasn't going to end anytime soon. It's one of those rare instances where the novelty of how awful everything is actually gets really tiresome and unfunny." - Caddicarus

[r0zeclawz]

this is really nitpicky but huge pet peeve of mine is roguelike type games where youre killing things and then you level up or whatever and the whole game automatically pauses and makes you pick one of like three upgrades it annoys me so much like jesus bro chill out im trynna play my game youre doing some cocomelon shit to me brother!!!

[lonelyroommp3]

the only thing i’ll say on the YA/kidlit discourse is that i do think there Are demographics of people that are basically only catered to (commonly) in YA. like i’m a trans girl and i actually don’t like YA basically at all, but it legitimately is hard to find other books like detransition baby or manhunt (already two completely different genres) that feature openly transfeminine characters in interesting stories. like i said i pretty much avoid YA like the plague unless i’ve had a specific recommendation so this really isn’t me being like “ummm but the only good books for queer people are teenybopper books” but i am legitimately sympathetic to other trans girls struggling to break into a market of books that barely ever acknowledge us beyond being a weird sex thing or a joke. the market is dire rn. btw do you have any recs

also just additionally for context: to clarify i am not talking about “representation” which is something i care very little about, but i do think it’s yknow nice to read books that factor transness & transition (totally unavoidable parts of my life) into their worlds and stories, or at least stories written by people who Dont Hate Me etc

i honestly can't say i have any recs because with the exception of a few frenzied months here and there i have, generally speaking, been in a reading slump since about the age of eighteen so i just have not read enough as of late to even begin to build up any sort of rec list. but what i will say is pretty similar to the post i already made which is - in most cases things are out there if you take the time to look. that is not meant to diminish the comparative lack of books by & about & for trans girls and women or express a lack of sympathy for your plight, and it sucks that whatever options i give you will not give anywhere near the same volume of results as they would if i was telling you how to search for books about straight cis women falling in love with hockey players or whatever (fr, i think everybody deserves to have a shitty hockey romance that represents them. this is what progress is really about), and you will probably have to search for longer to find something you really like or connect with, which objectively is a crap situation and gives you added work you didn't ask for.

with that said: one good place to start is lgbt specific bookshops - i'm uk and specifically london based so of course my frame of reference is going to be gay's the word, which i believe delivers at least within the uk and also has the option to filter search results specifically by identity (it's not perfect - there looks to be just one "trans" result so you'll have to actually manually dig to find books specifically focused on trans women). but you're always going to find books there that don't make it into the lgbt+ fiction sections at other bookshops bc, yknow, specifically queer bookshops have the space to specialise and go into much more depth. there's also the chance that if you contact these shops directly (i know gay's the word has a contact/enquiry form that you could probably use even if you're not uk based) the people working there will be happy to give you more specific recommendations

additionally, it is easy to shit on booktok, but i do think once you filter your way past the hundreds of identical accounts all reccing the same 3 romance novels it's honestly really democratised the book rec game, both in terms of reader recommendations and, as i said in my post (albeit in a snarky way that does not really do justice to the range of material of all levels of quality being plugged on social media nowadays), indie authors being able to plug their own material. i literally cannot even download tiktok on my phone bc it does some insane cocomelon shit to the adhd part of my brain, but i'm sure by searching general hashtags related to trans lit, transfem authors, etc you should be able to find accounts or at least one off videos dedicated to those specific recs (and that goes for, honestly, any category of identity be it gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, etc etc etc). plus, yknow, it's all about The Algorithm, so engaging with content made by transfem authors or writers otherwise including trans women positively in their stories (or content about those works) is just going to boost those stories to more potential readers and show authors, publishers, bookshops etc that there is a keen market for good stories about trans women

basically all that was a very roundabout way of saying like. 100% it's shit and annoying that as soon as you're looking for books about any marginalised groups you end up having to do increasingly elaborate google-fu just to find something halfway decent to read, while some other people can just walk into a chain bookshop and immediately find 50 books For And About Them on the very first table. but at the same time "having to do slightly more work to find these books because they're not in the immediate mainstream" is not the same as those books not existing, especially when we are in the goodreads booktok international delivery at the click of a mouse era, and so i tend to be wary of subscribing to any train of thought that mistakes the former for the latter

[aquato-family-circus]

had an absolutely wild Dream that DLC came out and it was abt going into oleander's mind, which was framed by my mind as totally new and never before done in PN history and I believed it immediately esp bc the wack shit of "he turned into a mutant rabbit/whale swimming around in an ocean of his tears" happened first and foremost.

locations in his brain included a lush jungle w/a pikmin cameo, a wood carved recreation of shaky claim before itd be flooded, and a winding easy to get lost in office building i needed a map for. there was also some game altering screen closing ui messing with stuff going on esp as i got closer to coach himself it was really doing some cocomelon shit to me

also even tho in the dream i never got to the boss fight i knew somehow in my heart that this was gonna be it lads # lobotoly # confirmed. people will be screaming in the streets. i remember thinking In My Dream playthru of the DLC "oh my tumblr friends are gonna freak the fuck out (positive) abt this development."

[euclydya]

📌 how did you find your hyperfixation? -Pokemon

✨ what draws you towards your hyperfixation? what is interesting about it? -mouthwashing

💎 are there any fun facts or trivia that you would like to share? -mouthwashing

🎥 do you have any favorite scenes from your hyperfixation? -gravity falls

🏳‍🌈 do you have any headcanons (lgbt, race, neuro, etc) that are important to you? -Pokemon

💢 what do you NOT like about your hyperfixation? is there something you would want to change about it? -gravity falls

-🐀🌊

we got into Pokemon to impress a boy. it changed our life for the better i shit you not. we did not really impress said boy (we had the biggest crush on him as a lil kid I'm talkin like 3 years of age and he did Not like us like that) but getting into Pokemon was one of the best things we ever did i think. we would Not be who we are without Pokemon in our life JDJDJDJFFJ and we gOT INTO IT SOLELY TO IMPRESS SOMEONE!!! FJDJDJDJDJDJDDJDJF

So what initially drew us towards Mouthwashing was Curly. Like... We saw his face post crash and it scared the shit out of us because it touched on a huge trigger of ours and we were like WHAT IS THAT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK AAAAAAAA!! AAAAAA!!!!!! and we saw this game was suddenly EVERYWHEREEEEE but people were saying it's REALLY FUCKING GOOD so we were like. Well shit gotta sit down n see what all the fuss is about huh. Fuck. And let me tell you getting into this game has helped with getting over said trigger a bit!!!! As for what's interesting about it I'd have to say just. Everything??? The whole... Watching everything fall apart tbh. Seeing things through the eyes of an absolutely horrid person like Jimmy also. It's just. it's very Advanced Cocomelon. But *shakes Jimmy like a fucking maraca* THIS FUCKING GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANNA STUDY HIM UNDER A MICROSCOPE!!!!!!!!!!!! HE'S SUCH A NEAT VILLAIN TO US??????? he has So Many Issues. I'm just fucking Intrigued. ajakdjfjfjsjdjffjdjfj

DID YOU KNOW EVERYONE HAS A CANONICAL FAVOURITE POKEMON?????? curly's is pikachu, jimmy's is mega rayquaza, anya's is glaceon, swansea's is herdier, and. daisuke's is fucking weregarurumon??????? HELP????!! THAT'S SO FUNNY HI

we honestly don't remember many scenes from the show shdhdjsjdjfjdd bbut the scene where Mabel hesitates on shutting down the portal and trusts stan and Doesn't.... Good lird. v impactful

NONE THAT COME TO MIND TBH!!! we do like the hc that Ash is aro/ace though!

also nothing that comes to mind!!!

-Bill

[darklight-owl]

Game doing some cocomelon shit to me HUH?

[annie-of-the-arts]

If you're still interested in doing the zelda palettes game, could you do "crimson loftwing" or "majora"? [for any character(s) you want to draw]

this is literally so late because various things were doing some cocomelon shit to me but!! i really like how these both turned out a ton <33

[reblogs > likes + reblog my art!!!!! now!!! | use they/them for enki please!!]

[moonrpg]

this game is doing some cocomelon shit to me. SPOT THE HOLLOW KNIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!