Generation Loss is a comedic tragedy in every sense of the word. Every character we see exemplifies this fact, but no one other than The Austin Show proves its truth.
We begin at the carousel. Austin, Gay, takes his turn by pleading for himself to live because he has a wife and children back home. The rest of the cast interrogates him about his “wife and kids,” clearly suspicious of his truthfulness without even knowing his dubbed “title.” Everyone in the room treats Austin like a joke.
In turn, so do we.
Next, we reach the closet and shortly after the failed drag show, Austin remarks, “Look, I uh… I didn’t expect to die here.” It’s a moment of pure honesty, whether we like it or not. It happens again when the Puzzler tries to party with them, and Austin has to angrily remind him that they are his captives and are actively trying to kill them.
Austin: “What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? We're trying to get out of here. I have children and wives— wife. One wife! What is this some sort of game? I’ve been stuck in hear for hours it seems. We’re trying to get out. Why is nobody else freaking out? We’ve got C4 strapped to our neck…”
It isn’t until Ethan’s death, his blood pooling out from underneath the door, Austin screaming at the others, begging them to have a reaction, to care about their circumstances, to care about death, that we finally understand Austin’s role in Generation Loss.
After all, in every great comedy, someone always has to play the straight man.
thinking about how since showfall already had a token gay they could make fun of they probably just programmed any queerness out of niki and ranboo entirely so they’d be more palatable to their family friendly audience. thinking about how ethan came up with the drag idea then was immediately murdered.
Generation loss: the social experiments is amazing. I loved the twist ending where frank comes in and says “it’s Frankin’ time” before kicking Hetch in the balls with the force of a thousand suns and then they live happily ever after and Charlie slimecicle and sneeg and the puzzler and Ethan Nestor and Austin show and niki niachu are all alive and they all go to chilis together
eensy thing i made when episode 2 first came out because brain goes WAOWOUGHOW when i think about how sneeg was kind of just trying to keep austin from taking the spot so that ran could live instead of trying to get it for himself. i love themb
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Fear& is such a sitcom ass group of friends. the hot socialist guy, the wacky actor/director guy, the selfish top gay guy or whatever the hell austinshow has going on idek how to describe it, and league of legends playing pastry chef girl and they are all mentally ill.
no cus if the characters being the real streamers is real then holy shit AUSTIN. every time he opened his mouth showfall made him talk about a fictional wife and kids. then showfall mocks him with his subtitle. they made his identity into a cruel joke and we ate it up
he was so much more aware than everyone else he was probably well aware of showfall doing This to him too