2025 media thread
(always meant to do one of these because I'm bad at remembering what've watched)
I became donghua pilled last year so my goal is to watch as many Chinese animated movies as I can. Also want to recover some attention span so I wanna go back to reading books.
It's been an open secret Glitch folks hang out on 4chan
Lol I don't remember exactly who but multiple show runners/story boarders from the Adventure Time/Gravity Falls/Steven Universe era also posted on the comics and cartoons board. It's not that deep.
@1ncredibleMarz There's allegations of misogyny within Glitch as a workplace
It's been an open secret Glitch folks hang out on 4chan and Kiwifarms
They overwhelmingly hire white men, especially in higher positions
Most of their top brass is friends with Shadman
If there's smoke, there's fire.
There’s a specific register of “otaku politics” where people attempt to compensate for being ineffectual in creating real life social change by endlessly litigating and relitigating the political valence of fiction and its worlds
Superman has an ongoing animated show and is leading the new DCU and batman has an ongoing animated show and is leading the elseworlds movies and if you pitch a wonder woman project they send one of tom kings cia buddies to torture your loved ones
Evil Jax: Hey pomni there’s something you should know about Jax…. Here’s a doc about them.
Pomni: Uhhh… this is just 30 pages about her opinions on cartoons and then at the end you said she attacked her mom.
Evil Jax: Look, I’m just saying that they’re problematic is all!
Have you seen that new show? It's on Zooble. It's literally on Gangle. It's on Pomni with ads. It's literally on Kinger. You can probably find it on Caine. Dude it's on Jax. It's a Ragatha original.
Funniest joke ever is too long for Twitter, but it's about a duck that walks into a bar day after day, asking, "Got any grapes?" If someone knows it, tell someone else.
These people are actually correct because what they all mean by "fan" has nothing to do with the content of a work itself. It's 100% about libidinal investment in "characters" (made static, abstracted from any plot) and participation in discursive fandom/"headcanon" economies
ppl engage with aesthetic objects like they have a unique, privileged relationship with them as things to be consumed as 'theirs'. commodity-texts offer themselves up 'exclusively' to be annihilated into the vacuity of their existing views, no capacity for disinterested judgment
There’s a part in the book White Noise where the characters talk about losing their identity once they’ve aged out of being the primary demo for advertisements and marketing.I think about that every time I see nostalgia porn videos because they’re always just ads for old products