#media criticism is dead

[iamafanofcartoons]

It never stops.

MoistCr1TiKaL decided to watch the “out of context homophobic Ruby” clip because he apparently frequents 4Chan...

As a result, another person with a massive follower base on youtube has spread lies and misinformation about RWBY while not only admitting he never watches the show?

He literally insulted Monty Oum’s friends and family. WHILE using “Monty’s vision”.

Media criticism is dead. Media Literacy is dead. Willful Ignorance is all that remains.

https://twitter.com/hyp3rviolet/status/1645566220987518976

#Greenlightvolume10 

#MoistCr1TiKaL #rwby #rwby is good #rwby is enjoyable #rwby is a good show #Mel Sternum #crwby #GREENLIGHTVOLUME10 #media literacy is dead #media criticism is dead #yes I watch rwby #willful ignorance

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[serenado-exe]

So anyway -

The point is that Pizza Tower still has a racist, outdated stereotype of Indigenous people in the Oregano Desert level.

It even has a achievement for rain dancing around a totem pole (totem poles are a Pacific Northwest thing, not a Plains Tribe thing). They war cry at you and they throw tomahawks (because it's always tomahawks or spears).

Bellyache about the screencaps being 5 years old if you want, but the stereotype made it into the game, so he hasn't changed that much. He didn't change enough to have a shred of awareness about using a racist stereotype. And before anyone tries: that trope isn't a hallmark of Wario games or 90s animation, it's a hallmark of racism.

Even if he "doesn't" make bigoted jokes anymore (though I would consider the Tribe Cheese one such joke), he made an entire level based around that trope.

And like every other time there's an anti-Indigenous caricature in videogames or popular media, it doesn't get mentioned, or it gets glossed over because the creator went "Oopsie! That was cringe."

The exclusion of the Tribe Cheese from that salvo of screenshots undermines the entirety of it, because it's a solid example of him not having changed enough to be conscious beyond "that was unfunny," and everyone just focuses on what he said and when - without the connection to how that mindset still lingers in the final product of the game.

#mcpig #pizza tower #tribe cheese #indigenous people play games! we exist in modern society! we are not dead! #like not to be the mean indigenous person but i LIKE the game and it felt like shit to get to that level and that #and no i wasn't going to be able to move on until i said something about it #creators make western levels without being fucking racist challenge #also if you are american and played through this game and didn't even blink an eye at that but still went #''hm. gotta be critical of my media.'' like HOW critical are we talking #like you saw cheese indians and said ''yeah that's so normal.''

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

watching Liam O'Brien do a spectacular fantasy!German for dozens of episodes has impressed me so much and yet nothing could have possibly prepared me for the man starting to sing, of all the songs, "Laurentia, liebe Laurentia mein"

the immersion! if you reached to the very back of my memory there'd be like ten folk songs there and this one, which we used to have to sing at 7:00 in the morning on choir retreats while doing squats for all the weekdays, would definitely be there. it's a silly ditty you've heard somehow exclusively in childhood, it's a little game song for children. If all else was tainted by your later life that song would probably survive, it's perfect

#it's also a really dumb song that you can use to make people learn the days of the week and probably the only one he knew but still!!! #like yeah the accent work is great #he's basically dead on on everything EXCEPT 'Scheiße' which is hilarious to me #but the overall mannerisms and stuff like the song is outstanding #and yeah the bar for foreigners doing a good german is... low #the bar for actual germans getting to play people that *feel* authentically german in foreign media is also low #but even outside of that i'm just delighted with caleb #critical role #liam o'brien #caleb widogast #the mighty nein #german

[fantasygerard2000]

What are Wish takes you heard that just makes you wanna

#like everytime i hear someone say maginifico is the noble hero and asha is a selfish bad person #my brain just shuts off by how dead their media literacy is #no disrespecting to people having a take you don't like #i understand the criticisms this movie has #i flat out dislike the ones that judged it for what it isn't #disney wish #wish 2023 #wish movie #wish

[rem308420]

being a fan of berserk or evangelion (or I would dare to add any piece of media that talks about "dark" themes) is hell cuz both haters and fans think that the authors endorse that stuff just cuz they wrote about it

#berserk #neon genesis evangelion #media literacy is dead #thats how they try to justify r*pe jokes #not saying that the authors cant be criticized thou

[jollyempathpersonllama]

if the show wasn't queer and written by a women it wouldn't get this much hate

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel critical #helluva boss #vivziepop #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin hotel critique #vivzipop critical #vivzie critical #vivziepop criticism #vivziepop critique #helluva boss critical #helluva boss criticism #helluva boss critique #media literacy is dead #hazbin hotel season 1

[no-glasses--just-murder]

#queen elizabeth #queen elizabeth ii #england #critical role cast #cr memes #the queen is finally dead #bring in the dancing crabs #talisen jaffe #liam o'brien #marisha ray #social media #courtesy of me

[time-is-restored]

btw this might be me swinging a bat at a hornets nest but like. absolutely none of my disappointment from the tl finale comes from ship baiting or any relationships that didn’t happen (though to be clear, i think the tedbecca fake outs were meanspirited and served no narrative purpose - in noted contrast to the season's earlier jamiekeeley fakeouts, for example, which were explicitly there to demonstrate jamie's growth + maturity)

tedpendant is a really fun concept for me, and i LOVE the characterisation + thematic potential there!

but as someone who personally resonated with a lot of ted’s struggles, the idea that ted could leave richmond so… seamlessly, for lack of a better word, really doesn’t sit right with me. the thesis of the shows entire first season - assuming it can be said to have only one - was about how everyone needs the love and support of a community, whether that comes in the flavour of someone who hypes u tf up or someone who will relentlessly call u on ur shit (or, as happened quite frequently, both!).

rebecca, roy, jamie are the clearest examples as the characters with the most screentime: they were all deeply isolated and disconnected from the people around them, and that was making them miserable. the connections they made with the team, the vulnerability they finally allowed themselves to express (the ghost banishing ceremony comes to mind!), and them going on to want *more* out of their life are what made their arcs about *progression* rather than *regression*. without that clear theme of compassion + community inspiring positive growth in everyone who encounters it, there is, frankly, no season one.

my personal favourite scene from season one comes right after michelle walks away from ted, when they’ve agreed to get divorced. ted sits down on the bench looking gutted, and a little shell shocked - and beard sits down with him. hands him the drink, and they sit there together. silent, but together. to me, that scene is an implicit promise from the episode, to the audience: ‘it’ll be okay. it’s going to be hard, but ted isn’t alone, and his friends won’t leave him behind.’

it also makes it clear to the audience that ted isn’t the saintly-giver-of-grace who needs nothing in return, as one might assume on first brush, but rather that he’s Also struggling with his own shit (as is everyone, always, in real life!) and he has something he needs from the people around him too.

and looking at the text of s3, and the conclusion to his arc in the finale, i just don’t believe that he got it. he wasn’t just sad that he was leaving (which would be understandable!), he was completely closed off. unresponsive to the people around him reaching out, borderline confused as to why they were trying so hard!

(side note, while i completely respect the read of ted and trents last interaction being rather rude + ooc on ted’s part, i personally read a different motive into it. for me, it was more like… he didn’t understand where trents enthusiasm was coming from? like, he read that as trent being too invested in what other people think of him, and responded in a way that he hoped would emphasise that ted doesn’t *need* to laugh at everything trent wrote, bc trent Already Knows that he’s done something really cool and kickass, and he shouldn’t value anyone else’s reactions above that. basically, based on his demeanour in the episode, i genuinely don’t think it would’ve even occurred to him that trent was more invested in HIS reaction than he would’ve been with anyone else.)

again, looking purely at the text, the show had already established that ted has really strong depressive + avoidant tendencies, as well as panic attacks (largely triggered by his fear of not being ‘good enough’ in various roles, ie: a father). we saw one area he was able to calm HIMSELF abt these fears (worry for henry, which is a Hell of a choice considering the ending…), but in literally every other heightened moment, he had to rely on his support system to help him make the choices that he WANTED to make, rather than ones inspired by avoidance and fear (ie: confronting michelle abt jake, talking to his mum abt why she was visiting + his dads death).

and to be clear, this is a GOOD THING! we’re not supposed to go through life alone, no matter how bad OR well we’re doing. rebecca and keeleys friendship isn’t worth less for all the scenes where they’re both in good places. if anything, the opposite is true - it’s lovely that they both have someone who want to celebrate the achievements in their life!

and fuck it, we’re sure as hell not supposed to go through life with exactly one (1) person whom we expect to fulfill ALL of our emotional needs at all times either! like, im sure i don’t need to labour my point here, but tying everything to one (1) person in ur life doesn’t make u any less isolated than if u were going it completely alone, whether it’s a family member, a friend, or a partner. i won’t pretend to know the first thing abt what it’s like to be a parent, but i don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that no parent would be at their best if they had absolutely no support/camaraderie/general love provided to them from Anyone other than their child.

so when ted is SPECIFICALLY shown to be in a bad place, over and over again (did he come to terms w his fear to be close to henry overnight???????), and then removed from his community? of COURSE the audience is left feeling unsettled, and like the rug has been pulled out from under them. there was no time in this finale dedicated to how ted would still be in contact with anyone from richmond. no promises of visits, or phone calls - fuck, nothing about emails!! according to the text, we might as well assume this is a clean break (and the maybe-dream-sequence does Fuck All to assure us otherwise. if ted doesn’t go to beards wedding, what WOULD he go to????). and since the show has ALSO completely failed to give us even an IMPLICATION of who/what ted’s support system would be in kansas, there’s… a reasonable argument to be made that this is It for ted. that, after two seasons doing NOTHING but attesting otherwise, the audience is supposed to suddenly believe that ted can (and SHOULD!) pull himself up by his bootstraps, and cope entirely on his own.

that, to me, is a betrayal of the show’s premise. we were promised a show about how, no matter how dark things may get, none of the characters would be left to struggle alone. and then they ended the show with ted alone.

i don’t know. i guess if i had to give this post a tldr; if anyone has any gen fic/meta/Literally Anything in the pipeline, i would absolutely love to be tagged/directed towards it. i’ll be endeavouring to write something myself, as well, but it might take a while before i can return to my WIP, lol.

#this is the most measured version of this post i was capable of fghjskdjhgfdgjhsfd #the least measured one is just the aromantic flag with the ‘we are going to beat u to death’ meme overlaid #look ik this is hardly impartial wrt very small + insular communities like nuclear families #but its fucking impossible to go into media analysis and not bring Anything from ur real life in there w u #so im trying to forgive myself for being a little hashtag Vulnerable + Opinionated on main #in the spirit of what this show could’ve been lol #if not here then where etc etc #Ted lasso spoilers #Ted lasso meta #Ted lasso critical #also just to be clear here im being dead serious abt that last point #im spiritually doing the jamie run to demonstrate to u all how badly i want gen shit #please. p l e a s e . #okay wait last ramble here but. this is also why the lack of information we got on trent was so crushing to me #like ur telling me this man went through the incredibly painful + harrowing process of breaking out of his (comfortable! safe) shell + #cynical journalist persona. came out to someone VERY important in his life. and has done nothing but face the music wrt acknowleding #his past mistakes + endeavouring to be better and kinder. and we never get to know if he has ANY support through all that? at all? #is he dating? what's his family situation like? does he have full custody? any friends from work? any friends period????? #like i can should must and will die on the beard + roy + higgins + colins are trents best friends hill but #its like the premise of the show stopped mattering just in time for him to be left in a legitimately depressing limbo #like 'yes everyone needs love + support bc life is rlly hard. but we're tired of making a show abt that so This Is All Ur Getting #+ screw anyone's personal life that u didn't already see in s1. You Know Enough.' #anyway i love u all this is a very silly show and im gonna go play t.o.t.k for a few hours o/ <3

[bowlinggwithmargo]

Rarely do I feel like I've written something that speaks to the current landscape of my life and, by that metric, our lives. But the genocide occurring in Palestine and the multiple other humanitarian crises happening around the world have left me in a state of such deep mourning that all I could do was write. While writing this piece, I've realized how I want to live my life politically, socially, and physically. The conclusions I've come to have given me peace of mind in these trying times. I wanted to share this essay, hoping they help others along their journey of trying to understand the world around us. I've included some great educational sources and charitable organizations you can donate to and help those in Palestine, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and West Paupa. Honestly, I'd rather you scroll past every sentence I've written and skip to the resources, but I'll leave that decision to you. Peace ✌🏿

#red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #static #essay #media analysis #gaza #analysis #art criticism #dr congo #drc #tigray #sudan #free sudan #west papua #congo genocide #democratic republic of congo #resources #charity #racism #oppression #white habitus #white supremacy

[iamafanofcartoons]

This was by Barbara Dunkelman in response to RWDE, aka the RWBY Haters who call themselves “Critics” but launch bad-faith criticism and nothing else.

People have forgotten what criticism is. People have forgotten what media literacy is. People have forgotten what it means to “criticize from a place of love” If you don’t have something nice to say? You’re not being a fan, You’re just hate-watching. If you’re willing to defend a show against bad-faith criticism?  That’s NOT toxic positivity. That’s called being a fan. Because what type of fan trash-talks a show, bad-mouths it, trashes the defenders of it, and tries to tell people to stop watching a 9-season show after the 3rd season?

#barbara dunkelman #crwby #rwby yang #yang xiao long #rwby #rwby is enjoyable #i mean for sure rwby is one of them #rwby is a good show #but please give the fandom just this one thing #give rwby a chance #media literacy is dead #media criticism is dead #hatred is not criticism #rwbytwt #rwby twt

[jacenbren]

“This character is a victim whose reprehensible actions and behavior can be linked back to life-altering trauma that they experienced” and “this character is a shitty person who should never be seen as aspirational and should not be redeemed” are sentiments that can and should coexist

#y’all don’t know how to think critically about fiction and it SHOWS #media literacy is dead

[medicallymercury]

the Holby rewatch has devolved into a drunk Holby rewatch but am I reading into it too much or did they really foreshadow the stuff with Roxanna and Henrik and John quite a lot in earlier series 20?

#i feel like i maybe missed a lot of holby because of how hyperfocused i was on flac and i am still in this for them #but i feel like im appreciating the stuff that isn't them a lot more now too #plus ive developed like media literacy and the ability for critical analysis in the past 5 years #theyre still my favourite stupid idiots stuck in a year long will they wont they but wow what a show... #and like ollie's dream where the person he's operating on is a dead roxanna? #roxanna waking up with a jacket draped over her after working into the night? and gaskell is there?? #bbc holby city #holby city #buckle fandom #roxanna macmillan #henrik hanssen #john gaskell

[sherbertclown]

A shocking amount other students in my creative writing class admitted to spoiling themselves on a movie because, and I quote, "Don't like not knowing what happens, it makes me so anxious!"

I repeat, MULTIPLE PEOPLE thought this way. I cannot believe this.

These people are NOT real.

#help #please #i hate this #so much #media literacy is dead #just fuck watching a movie to get immersed in a story #JUST SPOIL URSELR #WHAT IS THE FUN #WHERE IS THE CRITICAL THINKING #AND CONSUMPTION OF MEDIA #HELP MEEEE

[lamaenthel]

torn between glee at finally getting an action episode and exasperation, because besides what I'm calling the asked-and-answered trope (aka the trope where the writers want something to happen even if it causes a giant plot hole and they "resolve" the conflict by having one character ask the other why X happened and they answer it with a single sentence and never revisit it ["why did i never see you on kamino?" "I was needed elsewhere" {what the fuck}]) my second least favorite trope is "well, that's not exactly true" followed by a character admitting they kept information vital to the plot secret for flimsy ass reasons. Because ykw, even if Cross was deadset about never going back to Tantiss to help the clones still being mercilessly tortured and experimented on by Dr Demagol Space Mengele (and I thought we resolved the reg prejudice during the Mayday arc?? but what do I know I guess) there's no reason to not pass that information onto Rex and Echo??? Bro you want to retire with your baby daughtersis in Space Hawaii then do it, you don't need to hold this information close to your chest. Literally just don't tell Omega if you're worried about her involving herself. She's like 14 it's fine you can lie to teenagers

#tbb spoilers #tbb critical #im tagging it as critical even though im not trying to criticize it just express my frustrations #im... not vibing with the writing this season ngl #at least tech is still dead thank fuck #*manifesting x2 isn't tech because if i can't have thoughtful writing i need to at least have a main character death mean something* #it feels like they wrote the first two seasons for the actual demographic watching (adults) #and now the final season is taking a weird turn towards writing for a 12 year old's media literacy #except with more torture #still bitter about how impersonal rex's appeal to wolffe was tbh #he could have been talking to anyone #bring up a fucking anecdote for god's sake #ep4 was the best so far #lamaenthel.txt

[echoesofdusk]

I don't know how to tell you guys this, but concurrent player numbers dropping a few weeks after a game's release is actually, a very normal thing

#you guys would lose your shit if you saw concurrent player number graphs for fighting games and jump to calling them dead #this is absolutely normal #there are fighting games over 20+ years old that still have dedicated fans playing them all this time later #when blazblue centralfiction got rollback the concurrent player number shot up #and it's dropped significantly since #like please i'm begging you to look at the statistics for any game on steamdb #you'll see this is COMPLETELY NORMAL #ofc video game journo websites will sensationalize it bc they want those clicks and clicks translate to ad revenue #like how are you not putting two and two together #christ has media literacy dropped and critical thinking dropped off a fucking cliff #hazy rambles