Culture Bait and Woke Media.

Curved_Sw0rd

Just Like That Bluebird
So I stumbled on a tweet by one Auron MacIntyre that got the gears in my head turning. This isn't an original thought, there's other in the Dissident Right echoing such sentiments. In a nutshell, the brains behind Woke Media and "The Message" as Critical Drinker puts it, is at this point aware and eagerly awaiting the scathing criticism. They have the outline for response articles ready and waiting, itching for the slightest criticism if they don't outright engineer it. From here a sort of feedback loop forms, the Woke get more and more irrefutable proof that they share a country with deranged bigots who can't handle diverse casting, and the opposition wastes its energy on repeating the same tired slogans of "Get Woke, Go Broke, making 40 minute video essays that carry the same criticisms the last batch did, just pointed at a new captured IP.

Maybe this is just my own neurosis acting up, but this feels like doomscrolling. This feels like a bizarre version of "Consoom product, get excited for new product" only it's "Consoom outrage, get excited for new outrage." Everyone and their mother who's vaguely right of center knows the score, how many times must it be repeated? And to repeat myself a bit, is this playing into the Left's frame? It certainly feels like the loudest voices are in a holding pattern.

And all the while there's no shortage of money to burn on these projects. This isn't going anywhere.
 

Cherico

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I think a reason why this keeps happening is loneliness.

We currently live in one of the most lonely periods in human history, we live in a time period where a solid chunk of the human population doesn't have a single friend. People are having less sex now then in any time period on record. The freaking victorians got laid more then we did and they were noted prudes.

Relgion has more of less been pushed out of the public square (This was a bad idea) so you got a bunch of lonely sexually frustrated people with very little hope.

This is I think a good portion for why things have gotten so insane, and I think its going to explode with in our life times in horrific ways.

Our current civilization is very anti human and we will reap the whir wind for it.
 

Bear Ribs

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I think Cherico covered part of it.

Another issue is that the consumer is no longer the customer. We're in a post-purchaser world where most people are passive watchers and money comes from manipulating them and gathering their data, not getting them to buy products. People complain about how, with every update, YouTube manages to become even more unwieldy, the interface gets more terrible, and choices and options users like decrease or vanish. This is because those persons are not actually the customers and their enjoyment is not part of the business plan. Once a company has locked in cartel/monopoly conditions they pretty much have free reign to do as they like and can abuse users with impunity so long as it gets money from others, because where else are they going to go? Some Nazi-filled malware-infested alternative? That's why the dislike counter vanished when big companies wanted it gone, even though a supermajority of users liked that feature.

We live in a world where half the world's wealth belongs to the top 1%. 85% of the wealth belongs to the top 10%. This is not a world where the common person actually matters anymore, the poor no longer have any real purchasing power. As a result, money is no longer made by getting the poor to buy things, but by getting the poor to click a button so their data can be mined. Consequently, their enjoyment is irrelevant as long as they click the button, and low-effort poor-quality rage-inducement is far easier and cheaper to generate responses with than well-thought-out crafted products.

The reason companies do this is the same reason internet trolls rarely show up with twenty-thousand-word essays filled with deep thought-provoking prose.
 
the first thing that comes to my mind is Velma reactionaries knew it was bad from the first two episodes and yet not only did we watch it all the way through but did video essays on nearly every episode. Honestly, with how jaded we are with pop culture in general to the point we have a "Guilty until proven innocent (and even then probably still guilty) I'm honestly wondering why energy is being wasted on pop culture at all. it's like @Curved_Sw0rd said. At this point it's just "Consoom outrage, get excited for new outrage."

I've finally gotten to the point where I've stopped listening to the likes of even Razorfist for this very reason.
 

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