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This is very well said. And I agree with this post 100 percent.
a short collections on my rantings about “Media criticism” channels online that can’t shut up about the problems of modern media * if you see a movie or show, that you don’t enjoy but other people do, maybe that doesn’t mean the other people are wrong, but that there is something about the movie that subjectively doesn’t work for you, but does for others. * Your opinions are not objective fact. people disagreeing with you are not wrong. Yes, even if you “elimate all bias” in your analysis, it’s still an opinion. * “all these POC characters are only cast for diversity points” when they are legit the best actors in the show/movie and all the bad lines are performed by the white characters… * “All these modern big corporations, keep going too woke” my little fucknugget, a lot of the media you probably like, would be considered woke if it came out nowadays. Like, read an interview with the directors of the time about their views and reasons for making the movie, artists have a big history of putting their politics in their art, and movies are no exception. * Like, if anything, Big corporations like Disney and Netflix are TERRIFIED to put politics in their shows, even when their directors want to put in anything that may be considered “political” they are constantly hit with censorship, and told they aren’t allowed. What corporations do permit in their big budget movies and shows is ONLY what is considered so default and neutral, that the majority audiences won’t find a problem with it. * And no, Disney or whoever you think is the Devil Incarnate, is not pushing an agenda with this, the actual media properties that are trying to push their political views, in every existing direction, are largely independant filmmakers who tend not to get super popular or succesful, even when they have large financial backing. * Also, a black person does not make a movie political. Nor does a gay, disabled, trans, whatever character. People will be cast in their roles based on who plays the role best, or sometimes by personally knowing directors (and having a good working relationship beforehand) or nepotism. * media corporations do not care about what the “woke twitter mobs” think. litterally every time an LGBTQ show gets cancelled, calls to revive it are trending on Twitter for months, and the corporations don’t care, because it means nothing to them. * specifically for the star wars nerds… Kathleen Kennedy had more creative oversight on the projects you like, than she did the sequel trilogy. if you think “The Mandalorian” is what Star Wars should have been, you can thank Kathleen Kennedy for that. * If you continue to have a moral panic over the direction of “modern media” and keep pearl clutching about how your childhood is being ruined by “overrepresentation” you will actually give yourself testicular torsion. There are serious, important, good critiques to be made about the way media is going, like how a lot of the media coming out now is under the control of just a few large corporations, like how the digital effects divisions are being overworked constantly. Like how streaming services like Netflix promote binging a show within the first few weeks because then they don’t need to pay as much for the residuals. But if you ignore all of those points, to focus on “WOKE MEDIA” you have a stick so far up your ass, all your shit is spewing out from the mouth instead.