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Mine mother, appalled: child you are alergic to apples, what were you thinking!!

I'm gonna keep it vague because the artist is still alive and I don't want to hurt any feelings, but it was two abstract paintings of peonies and the titles were related to a method of pottery. I don't know why you would name a painting after something that is very much not related to what the painting is of.

Here is an incomplete list of ways people are affected by the illiteracy crisis that keeps being mentioned:

Viewer is unable to find a way to relate to the main character due to the character being from a different background than their own, and because of this, thinks that the piece of media is not worth anything to anyone anywhere. Even the people who CAN relate to the main character. (Example: men who thought Turning Red 2022 was a bad movie because it was about tween girls and not Mid Thirties Wite Men Who Do Stonks)

Viewer does not understand why a character would make the decision they made, and also doesn't understand that the character is driven by the genre the author chose because the character is not a real person and this is a work of fiction. Example: People who complain about the victim in a horror going into the basement, being all like, "uh why does she go into the basement, don't you know you're not supposed to go into basements if you hear a creepy noise?" like I don't know man, maybe they thought the water heater was broken and simply thought they were going to go down and fix it, people go into basements for normal reasons all the time.

Viewer does not understand why a mysoginistic author would make badly written female characters. Also, Viewer does not understand that the author writes the book and makes the characters move, the characters cannot think for themselves. You cannot mentally will the character into become a strong independant woman by the power of parasocialism.

Viewer does not know that different countries have different social rules, and assumes that every book/movie/etc about different countries and cultures is inherently a bad book.

Viewer does not understand that different genres can have different rules when it comes to plot progression and how the subtext is used (see: every person who didn't understand why Iron Lung 2026 would have long pauses between jumpscares and gave it a bad review. That's a classic horror trope that was correctly used. As opposed to action movies, that can be just non-stop movement and progression)

Now, here is a list of things that are NOT EVEN REMOTELY related to this illiteracy crisis:

dyslexia.

visual impairment.