People enjoy a collective, cultural, emotional celebration, but upon returning without the wave of excitement and encouragement, you see it for what it always was...
Shallow, ugly, empty, manipulative, noisy slop.
The cycle isn't just common enough that there's an obvious and concerning pattern, it practically defines this era and its relationship with media.
Each of the Slopbusters run the same life cycle on social media.
- Day 1: Near unmitigated hype and celebration
- Day 30: "It was terrible, actually"
- Day 150: "People were too harsh, actually"
- Day 365: It's forgotten except for contextless scenes chewed up and reposted by dead internet A.I. with shitty aspect ratios, complete with titles like...
"This TV Show was GOOD. NEED. 🙀☠️🤖"
"I am... the law!"
"The what?"
"Th— the law."
"Oh, I thought you said blob."
"Why would I call myself the blob?"
[Bit goes on like that for a tediously long time.]