@lonelyfag15 It's true. Tim says something dumb that sort of rhymes on Home Improvement and his wife calls him a "motor saw Maupassant", they expected the audience of that show to roughly know who or what that is.
@DillardsEternal Those 3rd wave mall emo bands are all in that cohort too, it's easy to forget bc their main audience was kids, but you can hear it, it's the last generation where the link between loud guitars and being a fuck up burnout outcast is hardwired in everyone's brain.
The trads on here are slowly reinventing being a libtard from first principles, like those math camps where you use basic math to derive advanced calculus
@lonelyfag15 Huh. I always thought it was about his childhood crush becoming famous and inaccessible, a common adult rock theme in the early 1990s, e.g. Name by the Goo Goo Dolls
Hunt for Red October is about wise superiors deferring to talented underlings in a strict military hierarchy for the greater good, if they made it today it'd the Latinx CIA woman from the Cumtown skit going "we cant do that its agains the rules" and end in nuclear war
@lonelyfag15 Kids traditionally played with and ruined toys (comics, baseball cards, etc.), the assumption was that was going to happen again. But we had just entered a new paradigm of endless childhood which brought a grown up way of thinking to stuff like that.
@lotus__point That stuff is only "mainstream" on social media, the irl mainstream, that is, the vast majority of just normal people, is pretty much what it's always been. Uninteresting, that is.
@lonelyfag15 The professional PR core of it, yes, but generation of older millennials and gen xers that really propped it up last time with sheer numbers is now going through a mid-life crisis and seems pretty indifferent to it all