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IE, in how that mode of criticism is closer to the STEM values of trying to create a full-on working model of reality via its picking apart of a work’s “failures” to do so, rather than the critical values of trying to understand themes and what the work says about the author/audience, if you get me.

The fact that the Cinema Sins guys got their as part of what was essentially a social media/advertising agency company hybrid, and have outright said they built their channel based on their theories about how to capitalize on the growing online video trends, also adds a bit of evidence in favor of the “arts through the eyes of STEM majors” hypothesis.

Although I think it goes a bit farther - a STEM approach to analysis wouldn’t be quite as sloppy as Cinema Sins is.  We’re not dealing with a pure facts and figures approach to analysis here - it’s in a similar vein, sure, in that it thrives on finding data points to support its claims, but it also goes out of its way to ignore and obscure counter evidence.  I would posit that Cinema Sins and its ilk isn’t the result of STEM being valued over Arts, but rather of the only subject more valued than STEM, and a subject that produces more evil in the world than any other philosophy mankind has devised:

Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”

“They have guns, wear badges and patrol Michigan’s streets.

They’re even in uniform. But they’re not real cops.

Across Michigan, police departments have enlisted civilians to work alongside licensed officers to patrol communities and even assist real cops with arrests. But unlike the regular officers licensed by the state, these armed civilians are unregulated.

This whole bankruptcy thing was a money making scam by the suits who bought out the company back in the 2000s and ran it into the ground. 

Not only is the toy store brand not dead, but 30,000 people are now angry as this scheme blocked them out of severance pay and they are now unemployed and unable to return to work when they start up again.

Many toy companies including Hasbro are raising eyebrows at this, as the initial bankruptcy cost them millions of dollars in sales revenue and their stocks took a nasty hit (Mattel being the worst off from it, as Toys R Us closing compounded with steadily falling sales of their products). Advocates are calling this a “bad PR stunt” since the suits want the company to make sales for the holidays.