i absolutely agree with her. i really hate irony poisoning, i hate everyone trying to be smarter than the art they're consuming, i hate how everything is a joke or blase. take shit seriously, actually have some deep thinking and sincerity!!
I was having a tearjerker binge (don't ask) with films like Field of Dreams, Shawshank, Return of the King recently, and I genuinely believe you couldn't make films like that anymore because people are too self aware or unable to give in to their emotions. I haven't cried at the end of a film (well, maybe Madame Web for wasting my precious time) for so long. I think the last film was probably 12 years a slave. Most media lacks sincerity nowadays or tries so hard to achieve it that they miss the mark completely.
I think people use humor because the world is already depressing. But also, we make jokes because we're afraid to get too deep or emotional. There are so many reasons behind it.
Also, I misread her second message and thought she wrote, "our cultural affinity for bed rotting."
no i get what she means, i even find myself wanting to make a witty comment or joke when reviewing stuff i watch on letterboxd and then i have to ask myself who am i performing to? but i guess that’s a lot of social media in general, the one liner gets the like, the interaction, the response, and no one wants to be the one whose comment gets ignored
yeah i do the same thing when i read a post on here and i've started to take a second to think about making a snarky comment. the subject will probably never see it but my community of friends here will and i wonder am i making anything better with what i have to say? like will my comment lead to someone responding and not just getting react notifications?
tbh i would rather get one person responding with something that made them think or happy or disagree than 20 react notifications. and that's just one comment made my me, a nobody, on a dying website. i can't imagine how deadening it must be to pour yourself out into your work and get thousands of stale quips from people who think they're so clever to make a punchline out of something that required you to be extremely vulnerable not just to make, but to share.
she's right! I hope she posts a full video, I'm so curious to hear her thoughts about anti-intellectualism. I was in my home country when the debate broke out on booktok so I missed the discourse 🥲
Also another thing to note is that a lot of her fans are gen z (and so is she), and that's just how they engage with fandom on the internet 🤷🏾♀️
But I can see how she would find it frustrating if she wants to see what people really think, but the majority of the comments have reduced the entire album to "teehee cannibalism"
the booktok discourse started because this girl read six of crows and hated it. She posted a very heated review of it and because she was a romance/smut reader people really started attacking her and it led to a discussion on anti-intellectualism on booktok specifically
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i need to read more about what the Debate™ is about, I also don't follow Booktok things or read the type of books they're usually into, but I instantly am irritated by the "let people just like things" argument, especially when the actual problem is about an industry (the fact that easy to read, easy to digest booktok books dominate the market doesn't benefit literature or the publishing field, quite the opposite) or just the quality of a work.
Also not all reading is beneficial but that's a whole other rant lol
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I was having a tearjerker binge (don't ask) with films like Field of Dreams, Shawshank, Return of the King recently, and I genuinely believe you couldn't make films like that anymore because people are too self aware or unable to give in to their emotions. I haven't cried at the end of a film (well, maybe Madame Web for wasting my precious time) for so long. I think the last film was probably 12 years a slave. Most media lacks sincerity nowadays or tries so hard to achieve it that they miss the mark completely.
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Also, I misread her second message and thought she wrote, "our cultural affinity for bed rotting."
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yeah i do the same thing when i read a post on here and i've started to take a second to think about making a snarky comment. the subject will probably never see it but my community of friends here will and i wonder am i making anything better with what i have to say? like will my comment lead to someone responding and not just getting react notifications?
tbh i would rather get one person responding with something that made them think or happy or disagree than 20 react notifications. and that's just one comment made my me, a nobody, on a dying website. i can't imagine how deadening it must be to pour yourself out into your work and get thousands of stale quips from people who think they're so clever to make a punchline out of something that required you to be extremely vulnerable not just to make, but to share.
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I think people need to start asking themselves this question a lot, especially when it comes to posting online.
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Also another thing to note is that a lot of her fans are gen z (and so is she), and that's just how they engage with fandom on the internet 🤷🏾♀️
But I can see how she would find it frustrating if she wants to see what people really think, but the majority of the comments have reduced the entire album to "teehee cannibalism"
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Also not all reading is beneficial but that's a whole other rant lol
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