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you know what people can talk all they like about covid lockdown media and art like bo burnham's inside as truly generational work that couldve only been made during lockdowns and is emblematic of the time period it was created in but truly no one has the guts to say that the real actual insanely influential work that meets this criteria was dsmp and i will fully stand by that forever

not ONLY did it completely redefine what you could do with the medium of minecraft as a narrative story telling device and expand the opportunities for what you can do with minecraft smps, streaming, and long form content, it also brought to mainstream attention the creator-audience struggle for narrative control to the forefront including the term "parasocial" as a popularized term, changed creator-audience intimacy in general and the belief of what creators owe to audiences as well as blurring the lines between real life person and fictional persona, changed the way audiences interact with each other, create new and innovative ways to completely fuck all that shit up, oh and also changed the general landscape of rpf as a side hustle. howww can you not say iconic

going up to a couple (of best friends) and asking so who's the wile e coyote and whos the road runner in this relationship