#woke culture is toxic

[romitritrashswiftie]

Just 👏 because 👏 you’re 👏 a 👏 celebrity👏 it 👏 does 👏 not 👏 mean 👏 you 👏 have 👏 to 👏 be 👏 a 👏 role 👏 model 👏 or 👏 “woke” 👏 all 👏 the 👏 time 👏

!!!!!!

[isawthismeme]

[disinhume]

It's a Terrible Life if the costume department loved me

[paperlunamoth]

I'm so sick of this relentless insistence on positivity that seems to have taken over internet culture, it is legitimately exhausting and ironically depressing. Let people be negative. Let people complain about shit and talk about how much they don't like things. Let people be haters. Let people express their worry or sadness or dread without making them listen to your shpiel about how actually they're just overthinking things and the world isn't such a bad place and they just need some sunshine and water and everything's going to be okay. Let people brood. Let people be cringe in a way that isn't silly and fun and doesn't provide entertainment value.

Expressing negative thoughts and feelings is so normal and so important for mental health. It is not healthy and normal to self censor any and all negative thoughts, or for community censoring to take place where people are shamed and treated as immoral or defective or unreasonable for expressing those thoughts. Not every expression of discontent or dislike or disapproval is automatically "toxic" or "hate speech" or "violence" or some other hyperbolic shit, and acting like it is just generates people who are bottling everything up and constantly policing themselves, and that is actually worse for our mental health on both an individual and collective scale in the long run. People need some amount of negativity in their lives. Being negative sometimes is a natural part of being a whole real actual person and not a carefully manicured advertiser friendly social media brand, which it honestly seems like most people are striving to be at this point.

[stra-tek]

Half the Internet right now:

The other half of the Internet right now:

Whatever your opinion, the Internet Content Machine is here to validate your worldview.

By ChatGPT (with whom I had to negotiate in order for it to say anything negative about Discovery, bless)

[kilowogcore]

I made this meme a full year ago, an' I really thought I wuz gonna have ta' update it, but nah, it still tracks. That's sad.

Let's cheer up with a game! What ridiculous thing do ya' think the douchebro "fans" will be mad at next year? Whoever I like most will win 10,000 quatloos (assumin' they can get to Oa to pick them up).

(Art sampled from "Peacemaker Tries Hard!" Vol. 1 #2 by Kyle Starks, Steve Pugh, Jordie Bellaire, Becca Carey, Matthew Levine, and Chris Conroy, Edits: Dialogue)

[usarmytrooper]

More and more we don’t play it here anymore, either. People are starting to wake up (if you’ll pardon the expression) and speak out.

[lavender---sunshine]

in all seriousness i 90% sure im going to quit my job tomorrow and for a while i will have just enough money to live on and will have to spruce up my resume and job hunt and stress but MY GOD i need to do something else because this is making me suicidal

[www-dot-worldsgreatest-dot-info]

Not banning me today . . #lmao #funny #secret #cia #watching #this #meme #lol #joke #agent #police #toxic #cancel #culture #fake #woke #fbi #government #silly https://www.instagram.com/p/CpOk5U2u0Ae/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kelpieice]

I was really, really, really wanted an innocent fun story. But I don't support misandry any more than I don't support misogyny. I know Barbie is considered a female toy and a lot of girls played with Barbie growing up. I know I did. Barbie IS A DOLL and she is meant to be a good role model and or positive toy. Possibly because children play with dolls. Mainly little girls. I would NEVER considered Barbie to not love her significant other. I would never expected them to turn her SIGNIFICANT OTHER into a villain. I don't think this film is pushing positivity by pushing supremacy of one sex over another. NO SEX WANTS TO BE AN ACCESSORY. However, these are dolls...

Want positive Barbie? Want Ken to be treated with respect and for her to CARE about him? Perhaps watch Barbie in the Dreamhouse series. Ken is not supposed to be a villain. He is a positive love interest to the main toy Barbie. Showing positive relationships is important. Particularly to kids. Leave politics out...

[fabuloustrash05]

The world would be a better place if Twitter and TikTok no longer existed.

[isawthismeme]

[tominnepics]

[wilwheaton]

I want to underscore that these two descriptors — “weird” and “nerd” — are not synonymous. As a card-carrying nerd myself, I would have to say that Vance’s love of stereotypically geeky interests has nothing to do with his creepy tendencies. If anything, he has shown himself to be the worst kind of nerd, one who reinforces the toxic masculinity that was at one point inseparable from overarching geekdom. It is to Vance’s discredit that he will likely be unable to see how deeply his rejection of all things “woke” isolates him from a community that has come to embrace the “good weird” that doesn’t fit into his homogenized vision of America. [...] Along with this purposeful blindness comes the lack of recognition from Vance and those like him that the nerds have won. Geek culture has become a pop culture Goliath. The most popular franchises in the world have realized that it matters that everyone gets to see themselves in the stories being told. For Vance and others, it’s not their interests in comic books or sci-fi that sets them apart now. What’s weird is their refusal to share that win with anyone who doesn’t fit the outdated stereotype of who and what a nerd is.

JD Vance has shown himself to be the worst kind of nerd, one who reinforces the toxic masculinity that was at one point inseparable from overarching geekdom.

The most popular franchises in the world have realized that it matters that everyone gets to see themselves in the stories being told. For Vance and others, it’s not their interests in comic books or sci-fi that sets them apart now. What’s weird is their refusal to share that win with anyone who doesn’t fit the outdated stereotype of who and what a nerd is.