wetorturedsomefolks:

i think a little bit of elitism is good for your mental health sometimes. like at some point in the 2010s it became accepted that condescension towards pop culture enjoyers was psuedointellectual and cringe, and sometimes it certainly is. but if you just regard everyone who seriously cares about like johnny depp or whoever as kind of a dumbass with bad taste whose ideas aren’t worth taking too seriously you will save yourself a lot of time and energy. like what if instead of constantly dunking on and arguing with the marvel movie harry potter disney adults you just said “that’s fucking stupid” and thought about something else. im just saying! let yourself experience a little unselfconscious contempt towards contemptible shit, as a treat

Like, I guess this is one of the hobbyhorses I’m riding now, but we are really getting rewarded so hard for gutting out the ‘10s rn it’s absurd. Like, “Elon Musk buys Twitter and the users who left Tumblr chasing clout come crawling back while the remaining userbase bonds over plans to haze them.” That’s comical. That really happened.

And now,

we resume the ‘90s where we last left off, only with all the spies and booby traps revealed

Elon Musk’s Twitter Revolution

Like seriously, imagine going back a few years to show them, as the outcome of the ‘10s, that Moldbug was getting commissioned for articles on how reorganization towards autocratic freedom in service of capitalowners will help Twitter

vibe shift

Elon Musk to buy Twitter in $44 billion deal

vibe shift

I like how through the idiom of “vibe shift” the cultural apparatus has realized “well, we’re not building any more on that”

Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets

When last decade got really bad I took comfort in the fact that everyone I hated teaming up to push things the exact wrong way meant that the next zeitgeist to follow in reaction would necessarily be in my favor.

So now when they’re like “Guess what’s hot in the Manhattan downtown scene and poised to be the next thing nationwide? Jaded online cultural critics who’ve read Moldbug!” I’m just like “Sure.”

nonsenseplayercharacter:

As the new Tumblr feature has rolled out, everyone’s been having a lot of fun seeing ad pvp, gay hobbits, random people’s pets, and even the limited time weed discount. But uh. I’ve discovered something potentially really bad about Blaze.

Blaze does not filter blocked tags.

Luckily I don’t have any tags blocked for serious reasons–I block the furry tag because blocking nsfw wasn’t enough to keep sketch art off what the algorithm wanted for my dash, and I block homestuck because. Well I don’t even know why; I click every post with it but like. it’s there as a warning or something I don’t know.

ANYWAYS I’ve gotten ads for both of these tags, one a furry artist with open commissions (their art was great, good on them for advertising an actual product /gen) and the other an ad for the Homestuck Discord server. Neither of them were blocked on my dashboard.

This is an important issue because of the way Tumblr is filtering Blaze posts. While Blaze posts are put through a screening process, it’s not very vigorous. One post tagged ‘sex’ and another containing the entire Bee Movie script were allowed past the filters. As with the previous ads, these ads in particular are fine. However, Tumblr’s leniency with this can cause issues to people blocking tags for serious reasons. For example, a post tagged unreality and boosted using Blaze would still show up on somebody’s dash who needs it filtered.

So, what do we do? Let me be clear, I am escatic for Blaze to roll out for all users. I think it’s a fantastic idea. In addition, I don’t want the solution to be “better” screening for Blaze posts. Tumblr has always been the website that lets you say die. I want to keep it as such. However, I think it’s very important that @staff try to please implement a feature within Blaze that allows ads to be filtered by blocked tags. Either by checking if a user is blocking a tag before selecting them to see it, or by blocking it on their dash. Clearly the first is ideal but I’m not a web developer (I’m barely a developer at all), so whatever can be done to make sure this feature can be implemented safely is important to me.

Thanks for reading this if you did, I’m not sure how to get the word out but I want people to be informed before anything bad potentially happens.

vibe shift

megapope-deactivated20220531:

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Can someone explain to me how we got to gamer being a sexual archetype of male golden-hearted innocence , ala “golden retriever gamer boy”( the new stereotypical man for a bi woman to date according to tik-tok) , like we went from gamers being childish in a violent mean spirited way to being synonymous with misogynistic nerds to this? How do streamers factor in? Are video games such a ubiquitous hobby now that all it signals is “ introverted and sorta masc?“ as oppose to sporty and extroverted?, is then an indirect autistic fetishization thing? Like manic pixie dream girl? I feel like I’m out of the loop , I feel like I missed a couple steps.

@kontextmaschine this seems like a you thing,

Thru some combination of just getting old and not making the jump to the post-text internet I’m not in touch with the youth anymore enough to be picking up on this

natalieironside:

natalieironside:

Xena: Warrior Princess wouldn’t make it on tv today because y'all would be all excited about the gay swordswoman show at first and then y'all would be like “But Xena killed people :( Bad representation”

There’s some confusion in the notes so I want to make it abundantly clear that I love it when women are unhinged and commit atrocities

Bears pointing out this is basically exactly what the second wave radfems “TERF” gets the “RF” from were terrified of

“You get all the trans shit you can carry in exchange for no one talking about ‘grooming’ ever gets taken seriously again” is like the funniest possible 2020s resolution of the 2010s

kontextmaschine:

Hm. I mean literary fiction made a thing of being “adult”, anything that trended youthful was going to be “genre”.

R.L. Stine was pretty thoroughly serving this audience from a horror angle, before either Harry Potter, Hunger Games, or Twilight, back when “YA” mostly conjured up Newbery and Caldecott-bait problem books

Actually now that I think of it it is just about time now with the YA publishers all tying themselves up with drama for SF publishers to win the demo back with a neo-70s “wow I was how old when I read this?” romantic fantasy vogue starting with a blockbuster series about a girl who rises to power in a complex, highly political world with the aid of her fluid bonding-based psionic powers

See the really funny thing is now we get to refer to Will Smith as a violent rapper

decayalectical-materialist:

They’re just getting old and soft, the vibe shift’s gonna make bullying cool again

steveyockey:

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Lover, cont.

She’s always done densely referential stuff but this is another fucking level entirely, within four bars she’ll reference five of her own different songs, separately in phrasing, meter, vocal affect, beat, and instrumental sound, and ALL THE CROSS-REFERENCES ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE AND ADD DEPTH, it’s fucking insane, she’ll have reference chains that bounce across 5 albums and a decade as if she was planning it all along, and then while you’re absorbing that you’ll get to another track and learn you were being set up for an entirely different reference chain the whole time

A bit ago I was like “why is she riffing off Katy Perry 2012” but that’s a definite decision. On one hand Lover “sounds” like 1989 or Reputation in the same way that Red progressed from the country sounds of Fearless or Speak Now, but on the other there is nothing on the album that would be out of place when Red first came out in 2012

Like her duet guests are the Dixie Chicks and the lead of Panic! At the Disco, there are points where she’s referencing Rilo Kiley, CHVRCHES, Annie and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She uses one of her “I’ll rip off and caricature a rival singer’s style to count coup on her” slots on Lily fucking Allen

After Reputation added “getting drunk” to the Tayswift universe, this album’s vice theme seems to be “gambling”.

It is the most political album she’s ever done yes but of course the endorsing Democrats and You Need To Calm Down videos were a headfake, it’s more “country” in subject matter and style than anything since Red, it directly references Jesus for I believe the only time apart from the 2007 Christmas album

There’s a lot of color imagery with red, blue, and purple (the album’s color scheme, but pastel so it also kinda looks like the trans flag), she is offering herself as the one capable of reuniting the American tribe. There’s an entirely viable reading of the album, from I Forgot That You Existed (if you take that “one magical night” as Election Day) through to Daylight (as the promise of the coming civic peace) as “well gosh, we’ve been going overboard into Too Much Politics and it’s been crap, time to put that behind us”. Though along the way, at several points, if you want to, you can read her as speaking directly to red OR blue tribe and validating them.

We just need to take several seats and then try to restore the peace and control our urges to scream about all the people we hate. Time to be what we love.