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There's a genre of media that I'm calling "Millennial Rage", where the story is overtly funny as a way to cope with a horrifically traumatic narrative. And the metaphors for our late stage capitalist reality are not subtle at all.
So far Murderbot, The Locked Tomb, and Dungeon Crawler Carl are the examples of the genre that stick out at me. The Magicians gets an honorary mention, though it's not about capitalism as much. Any others that I should know about?
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i just saw this post with a poll about why people decided to watch heated rivalry and fun story i didn't even know that was a book until the show came out. i just saw a youtube ad for it sometimes i watch youtube ads cuz they mention something that piques my interest and in this case it was that hr was canadian and since i am canadian i was like ooh what is this?then i found out it was a queer show so i decided i wanted to watch it
i know coming out storylines are important but how far do we have to progress as a society before i can have a queer show/movie that has nothing to do with that?
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i wonder whatever happened to that piece of media(i think it was a show)called timeframed where ian somerhalder was playing a guy named truman black and he was an agent of some evil organization because i really wanted to watch that
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The Jerry Springer documentary on Netflix was really fascinating honestly... like I think I can almost pinpoint exactly why what Elle Reeve calls the new establishment...ie the Rogansphere and Breadtube, and the general attitude of that type of content creator...came to dominate mainstream media... I think what's really interesting is the three men responsible for the show had completely different prerogatives. Jerry Springer was a completely normal midwesterner who pretty obviously just used his law degree to become a social climber in whatever way he could...be it through a mayoral or newscasting job or whatever else...right after he had a daughter with severe disabilities. Tobias Yoshimura had an oedipus complex and a dad in late night comedy and wanted to outdo him. He was the most important character to me because obviously the catalyst for pushing the envelope in that way was Oprah... ie, if you're going to outdo your dad you need a mother figure to shock, not just entertain. What I couldn't figure out initially though was what Richard Dominick's motive was...it wasn't money from my perspective, because he lived the least lavishly among the three of them for one thing but also, it's just not normal to say that if you could execute someone on television, you would. That's someone I can't fundamentally intuitively understand. The other thing that confused me was like, why Oprah... like she can't have been the first woman to have been successful on television so why did she arouse this sense of hateful competition in men...
So with the first question I asked myself what element of what makes modern day uber male dominated frat bro media am I missing... I had the leftist-adjacent dark family story down, the oedipus complex, now what... and what came to mind for me was the parasocial relationship with the male audience. I think that's where the whole formula really becomes sociopathic in nature... it's something more primitive than material concerns, it's that deep genetic desire after centuries of oppressing women to earn the respect of males that leads frat bros to gang rape women just for the thrill of feeling male, of bonding with males. It's why when men are at their most violent they use the word "we" instead of "I" to dish out threats to women... they crave to feel a part of something bigger than themselves and that something is belonging to the ultimate oppressor class. So you take one person desperate to provide for his family, another with an oedipus complex due to a father in successful late night television and it's easy to take your show that started out mimicking 90s SNL to boost ratings...real life Mango characters on at 2 in the morning, which I would have enjoyed watching because for the mother figure you're trying to shock, not just entertain, preserving decorum by day and enjoying comic relief at night is entertaining...to the daytime slot and destroy daytime decorum not just with real life strange characters but by cajoling them psychologically backstage into trying to kill each other onstage.
So that part I could understand but I still didn't get the Oprah factor... I mean I was thinking she can't have been the first successful woman in TV... I don't remember men having any strong feelings about like, Barbara Walters or Diane Sawyer. My first thought was her show was way more emotionally charged so maybe they were afraid she'd pull them in and make them cry but that didn't seem to work because I've seen male psychologists like James Hollis and Harville Hendrix go on women's shows and practically turn to putty when the women got empathetic with men's struggles... I think what it really was was she created a kind of Beatlemania on her own. Like there's a reason men hate Taylor Swift... it's the swifties. Or the "I'm with her" slogan for that matter. Men hate that you don't need them to even be hot entertainers to arouse that kind of response... if they're smart and emotionally charged wrt issues women face enough a single woman can create a cult following of other women. The creators wanted to top Oprah in ratings for the same reason they wanted to get Amy Schumer and Ellen canceled basically, and did. But they can never stop getting more sociopathic and misogynistic and basically fundamentally empty because it always comes back to that they can't compete with creation on their own; they can only compete against creation with destruction.
How I enjoy adaptations!
Hey you! Yeah, you! Have you ever been afraid to watch, listen or read an adaptation of a media you are familiar with? Say, maybe, the Great Gatsby musical for fans of the book? Or perhaps the One Piece live action? Well don't worry cause I struggle with that too!
