Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve uncovered the shocking truth, and I have to tell you about it right now! Tumblr, that bastion of degeneracy, they used to be all about yaoi – everywhere you looked, yaoi this, yaoi that, everything was dudes kissing. But now, it’s all yuri! Everything is yuri! Yuri as far as the eye can see! And do you know why this is happening? It’s because of the plastics in the water! That’s right, folks, the globalists have been poisoning our water supply with plastics, and it’s turning our precious internet culture upside down!
Someone was moaning about it the other day but you know it’s true, I have noticed an increase in depictions of drunk driving as antiauthoritarianism lately
“i think some people are basically coming around to this, like, greater comfort in owning up to being a pervert about something. shout out domino club “being sickos about X” sort of thing, where sickos is the meme of a pervert looking in on something that excites him. the author is sickos about a subject, and indulges himself; the audience are sickos about his indulgence, self recognition via the other - yeah haha sweat really IS that hot, thanks for putting it into disgustingly indulgent words so i can see what you see. i think when writers are afraid to be perverts that they make bad work. they make the work that can’t stand by itself, collapsing on interrorgation or challenge; or too many contrasting and unconfident voices have averaged out to a sort of perversion of the commons, indulging only the safest and most unoffensive fetishes to render on the screen. because when art displays the common fetishes of heterosexual matrimony, fast cars and big guns and big-but-not-gargantuan breasts, labouring under capitalism, even such apparently inoffensive things as such as sexless wholesome romanticism, perfect bodies that refuse to fuck, a prioritising of soft uwu safety over any kind of flavour - these absolutely are fetishes. every day you are smothered in the common perversions of so much of society, endless generic creators indulging their endless generic fetishes while denying that they are in any sort of way perverts.”
— —“Good Writers are Perverts,”
typed up in a fugue by Average Urotsukidōji Enjoyer for Domino Club on itch.io
“I’m getting to the point with fashion where I want to wear things that make no sense,” said Sophia Attie, 24, a paralegal in Brooklyn who owns a pair of light-up Crocs released in collaboration with 7-Eleven.
Ms. Attie said that she would not pay the boots’ $350 retail price, but that she liked the idea. “I want someone to look at my feet and go, ‘That’s dumb,’” she said.
Man younger than me trying to establish himself as an authority for people even younger by recounting Sopranos episodes I realize yeah, would have been before their times
Never had any firsthand exposure to Andrew Tate but from what I hear regarding his popularity among today’s teen boys I’m reminded of how Andrew Dice Clay’s vulgar, misogynistic, misanthropic 1980s comedy was part of shaking off the ‘70s on the way to the '90s
I’ve seen stuff around her recieved as some try-hard “pick me” (I never really parsed that phrase) thing for… cusper millennial men? And like no, the thing is the cycles line up for that
It’s like how when I went to high school in the ‘90s you saw my early '80s-born peers wearing Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin shirts
Admittedly, part of that is that their automotive-repair parents and older brothers listened to the classic rock station, but like no, the stuff that meant a lot to you at 20 is just what the next wave of 20-year-old girls are into.
Even the upper midwit thermostatic types on Twitter haven’t internalized or even first-order realized the vibe shift yet, all still carping over the eternal inevitability of things that’ve already had their warrants signed
Growing up, the Philly white-flighters didn’t even realize to drop their guards until the second Clinton term
Okay, I’ve been saying for a while that the next turn of the culture will involve a revalorization of 70s-esque intergenerational sex with teenagers. And you’ve been like “konty, but how? we’ve so strongly stigmatized that!” and I just shrugged
Well, as time passes it becomes clear that is the mechanism, that we’ve encoded it with such stigma that people who came by after those 70s find it irresistible to appropriate for their own ends, try to pull too much weight with it, and have it all fall through.
Like, at this point in almost-2023, what is your first impression if I tell you someone is going off about pedophiles and groomers? Is it of “antis” saying something dumb and philistine, or is it of rightists saying something incredibly dumb intended to license violence in service of making society worse? Or just straight QAnon?
As that keeps up the reaction by anyone sensible will be to tune that out and take it as a mark of foul idiocy, which will come to include concern with things even 1998 might accept as constituting pedophilia or grooming.
When I get anons like this I just roll my eyes these days,
“Nice go-to smear. Would be a shame if someone were to… encode it with low-status valences”
every time a fag is born she is cosmically linked to at least one dyke out there. when they find each other they will have the most beautiful friendship
This generation is too comfortable with casually dropping slurs
Bunch of Twitter users in different areas of focus who spent the last decade furious that things were going their way but not as far or as fast as they wanted and performed that fury as a way to whip things on harder dealing with the new situation that things are going to be going against them for the next 15 years at least and they no longer have any traction on the situation about as well as you’d expect
So yeah, that phase is over, we’ve cleared Charybdis, now we gotta try and slingshot off past Scylla, shift our stance to defend rightward. I mean, my circle on here is disproportionately trans Jews.
If you've any specific examples of the meltdowns and those characters taking the vibe shift badly, please share. It's hard to believe after so long that tides would turn and they'd acknowledge it, but sounds delicious to witness.
Oh I’m not sure they’ve even noticed it yet, it’s still at the scrabbling even more feveredly stage
Bunch of Twitter users in different areas of focus who spent the last decade furious that things were going their way but not as far or as fast as they wanted and performed that fury as a way to whip things on harder dealing with the new situation that things are going to be going against them for the next 15 years at least and they no longer have any traction on the situation about as well as you’d expect
So looking at Twitter and active fronts of combat now include Covid-worriers vs. normie libs and… young unionization fans? While Mastodon is apparently schisming – and given its federated architecture that’s not hyperbole –between bluecheck journalists and… trans activists?
Like, I know I had predicted this year would see the online left start to fracture solidarity and fall into infighting, but that’s some Mad Libs shit right there
Just saw someone reblog some Goncharov post tagged #unreality and hoo boy, are the people who wanted warning tags for that stuff probably having a suddenly weird week on here
