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can we please make this go viral

can we make this thing go viral

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spiteyote-resurrected

tapping the sign preemptively

we're starting to see revisionism on tumblr's response to dream daddy, which is funny because there was genuinely a contingent of gays who disliked it a lot from the beginning, but they were mostly the vn gays

I don't count people who just hated game grumps because that was more of a preexisting grudge seeping in. it's the romance and principle of it all

the reason I clarify this isn't because I'm going to bat for it. I think it's a cynical game, made cynically, and designed specifically to be popular on tumblr

the issue with implying everyone hated it out of the gates is that it's gonna create a backlash where people start fighting in its corner again. you've gotta explain the specific and real issues that made so many people actually dislike it in a way that's more helpful than "it sucked"

it's handy that the devs did a whole conference talk that explains what's so cynical about it better than I could ever hope to

dream daddy wasn't bad for misunderstanding what tumblr wanted, but for understanding exactly what it wanted and using that to create a minimum-risk-maximum-reward cashout. one that informed the industry and is likely directly responsible for the wave of safe "dating sims" we saw immediately after

Holy shit this talk is incredible. It's basically a step-by-step guide on how to sand off all the sharp edges of your art and create something tailor-made for fandoms out of the box. All fluff, no substance.

regarding your comment that non-propaganda art is pretty low impact, my first reaction was to disregard it because I'm an artist, but I know that's not a good way to engage with stuff and I'm genuinely curious as to your reasoning. I haven't been able to form a coherent rebuttal but I'd like to think about it more.

By 'low-impact' do you mean impact on the material reality of people's lives, of politics, of marxism? Do you think that someone can make art that is effective propaganda without meaning to?

I agree that people especially on the 'art appreciation' website will have strong reactions to that statement as did I when reading it, I think it would be silly to expect otherwise, but I think it's something worth thinking about. I'm not super well-read even though I'm trying to fix that and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter if you have a moment.

i mean, like, any individual media object just has an extremely low impact on the world, materially and politically. when art or even specifically directed propaganda has influence on the world, it is in aggregate, as the manifestation of a cultural trend or the characteristics of mass media production--for instance, i don't think gears of war or top gun are individually very influential on the world in a vacuum, they are simply individual examples of the very influential billion-dollar mass culture imperialist propaganda industry.

and like, in case where a particular work or piece of propaganda can be singlehandedly influential, the properties of the work itself are secondary to the material factors propagating it and the political factions adopting and appropriating it. like, to take a very extreme example, the protocols of the elders of zion became a hugely important pillar of global antisemitism because of its usage by the black hundreds and later by white russian emigres, not because of some remarkably convincing element of its own rhetoric

and yknow, artists like to flatter themselves that they can change the world with their art, and it is a nice story, but it's just not true. it's a liberal conception of history, where it's driven by ideas, and if the right Ideas are simply released into the world they will drive history on the correct path. but history is not driven by ideas. at best, a piece of art or propaganda can contribute to a broader cultural context which shapes and is in turn shaped by the material basis of society. but if you are not attached to any actual material movement, if you are just throwing helium balloons up into the superstructure, i simply don't think it matters a lot at the end of the day. you can't heal the world with comedy

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and like, if individual pieces of art aren't materially impactful on the world, is capital a Art capital I Important in some big metaphyiscal way? i don't really think so either honestly. i mean i love art and creating art and thinking about art. that's like half of what this blog is about, the fact that i need somewhere to put all my thoughts about works of art. art is hugely important to me and has shaped my life. but ultimately art is just a particular set of social and intellectual activities, and many people live perfectly happy and fufilling lives without ever particularly thinking about it. i think "art is a deep metaphysical need of the soul", "art is what makes us human" etc is just more artist self-flattery

markovchaingang

the media literacy on this website may be piss poor but still when i see someone handwringing about media literacy ~70% of the time they're just complaining about the fact that other people disagree with them

Television producers who find their message ‘failing to get across’ are frequently concerned to straighten out the kinks in the communication chain, thus facilitating the ‘effectiveness’ of their communication. Much research which claims the objectivity of ‘policy-oriented analysis’ reproduces this administrative goal by attempting to discover how much of a message the audience recalls and to improve the extent of understanding. No doubt misunderstandings of a literal kind do exist. The viewer does not know the terms employed, cannot follow the complex logic of argument or exposition, is unfamiliar with the language, finds the concepts too alien or difficult or is foxed by the expository narrative. But more often broadcasters are concerned that the audience has failed to take the meaning as they — the broadcasters — intended. What they really mean to say is that viewers are not operating within the ‘dominant’ or ‘preferred’ code.

Stuart Hall, Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse.

there’s a more than zero percent chance that tgirl in your life has never, EVER, ONCE in her LIFE received a bouquet of flowers. this is a tragedy and it’s YOUR responsibility to change this

Khyle•Fern_01

i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that

Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that companies are still trying to stomp out.

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dragongirlsweetie

it's so fucked up if you're a trans woman (especially if you're not white) and some random stranger doesn't like you they can just say some stupid bullshit about you and make you lose several of your friends on a whim. and it always works

From The Dark Knight Strikes Again, text and art by Frank Miller

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justsomeguycore

i think everyone in the whole world forgot that mystery doesn’t have to equal crime

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sometimes it’s just like. what happent ?

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Hey, Bandcamp users. You have probably already heard, but Bandcamp was bought by a music licensing firm, and laid off half its staff "as a cost cutting measure."

I will be downloading everything I purchased from Bandcamp and keeping an eye on it.

In a significant shift of ownership, Bandcamp, the renowned digital music marketplace, has officially transitioned from its previous owner,

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