I recently realized that the vast majority of content that this crowd whines about isn’t very good on its own merits. For example, The Acolyte, which was middling at best from what I watched, got it hard from the Star Wars reactionary fans while Andor, which has an only slightly less diverse cast, did not. This indicates to me that while these people are sincere racists and probably really do believe that diverse casting signals a conspiracy against the white race, they also lack conviction and will fall silent if the treats are tasty enough.
They can’t get mainstream approval for their absurd whining if they target actually good stuff, unless they manage to get a huge amount of right-wing unified action on the subject, which is difficult with their lack of actual organization.
So you see a bunch of slightly shitty to very shitty media being broadcasted as part of this whole “woke ruined my vibeo game!!” thing because they need the normal people complaining about normal things like how shit the media is to amplify their weird anti-pronoun “criticisms”
Edit: This is why you only ever hear about these shit games that are also “woke”. Genuinely good stuff that’s “woke” can’t be a target of the woke scaremongering without going against general consensus reality, and bad stuff that’s “not woke” is stuff people forget in a week because relatively normal people aren’t that obsessed with hating things they haven’t heard of before that look kinda bad.
These “criticism trains” need the right wing culture warriors to keep them going.
what makes it even worse is that hollywood execs know when their movies/tv shows are shaping up to be total shit, and they purposefully lean into the culture war stuff to try and cause controversy and get free marketing. They also love using diverse casts as a shield, when they know they have a total stinker they think to themselves “well let’s at least make it filled with didactic liberal moralism” to shield themselves from criticism. That way when they get negative reviews for their absolute trash movie they can blame it on the reactionary review bombers, when it would have gotten bad reviews anyway
I recently realized that the vast majority of content that this crowd whines about isn’t very good on its own merits. For example, The Acolyte, which was middling at best from what I watched, got it hard from the Star Wars reactionary fans while Andor, which has an only slightly less diverse cast, did not. This indicates to me that while these people are sincere racists and probably really do believe that diverse casting signals a conspiracy against the white race, they also lack conviction and will fall silent if the treats are tasty enough.
If it’s absolute hog slop trash they’ll oink and gobble it up, sometimes just for the performative gesture of “THIS IS NOT WOKE SO IT MUST BE GREAT!”
That Harry Potter pogrom game where you play a magic SS officer cracking down on “goblins”
comes to mind.
They can’t get mainstream approval for their absurd whining if they target actually good stuff, unless they manage to get a huge amount of right-wing unified action on the subject, which is difficult with their lack of actual organization.
So you see a bunch of slightly shitty to very shitty media being broadcasted as part of this whole “woke ruined my vibeo game!!” thing because they need the normal people complaining about normal things like how shit the media is to amplify their weird anti-pronoun “criticisms”
Edit: This is why you only ever hear about these shit games that are also “woke”. Genuinely good stuff that’s “woke” can’t be a target of the woke scaremongering without going against general consensus reality, and bad stuff that’s “not woke” is stuff people forget in a week because relatively normal people aren’t that obsessed with hating things they haven’t heard of before that look kinda bad. These “criticism trains” need the right wing culture warriors to keep them going.
what makes it even worse is that hollywood execs know when their movies/tv shows are shaping up to be total shit, and they purposefully lean into the culture war stuff to try and cause controversy and get free marketing. They also love using diverse casts as a shield, when they know they have a total stinker they think to themselves “well let’s at least make it filled with didactic liberal moralism” to shield themselves from criticism. That way when they get negative reviews for their absolute trash movie they can blame it on the reactionary review bombers, when it would have gotten bad reviews anyway
It’s always been like this. I remember YouTube Skeptiks losing their mind when the all-female Ghostbusters was a flop.