xavier was the last good animated, MDE was the last good real

There's the paradox about getting old and suddenly thinking everything new sucks, but the 'everything new' actually legit sucks by rule

It's diluted and softened while disavowing the better shit its derived from

looking backward about anything ever is racist

it's what happens when you don't gatekeep

The tastemakers have no taste

They don't make anything

their company tells them they made it here because they do have taste

that's the function of the company

the originals just had an idea and wanted to fucking do something

then every shithead art student who thinks they're clever because they studied the greats and got an ass pat from a college they paid to do so tries to emulate it in their own stupid quirky way

like i said, adult swim got to a point where nobody involved understood or bothered trying to understand what it was that made certain shows on their channel a hit and instead just rode the momentum of the hit

they don't get what's happening when a show does well and just presuppose that it did well because it's on adult swim

and they're also on adult swim

ergo they also deserve to do well

adult swim became basically an ego-laundering scheme

> their own stupid quirky way
200% the inspiration of negative xp lyrics

@PCENGINEDUO the worst part about *that point* is its lack of originality as the music, movie, tv, comic, video game, tabletop, pro and college sports, motorsports and x-games industries all seem to be serving up the same dish. All sizzle no steak

It's like everywhere I look I see a billboard for the same thing

insularity will always result in curdling

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I see a lot of people complain how fractured society is but have you ever seen such sameness?

culture's a different kettle of fish

when the culture has systems in place to disallow anything that reflects the society it's woven into, the culture has failed

You can say that again

but now we have one that explicitly gets its funding wearing the clothes of the exception

the entirety of your culture can't be "outsiders"

your entire culture can't be predicated on the idea of 'rebellion'

you can't have 100% exception and no rule

without being disingenuous

Yes

Nothing in the natural world operates like that

The exception becomes the rule and not long until a new challenging exception emerges; revolution and on and on

Yeah America truly is the cultural "Melting Pot". we place a lot of emphasis on the racial component of the melting pot but the cultural melting is there too

The entire experience of being "American" is to have an identity crisis imo

All of our media is trying to reinforce various cultures or stereotypes or whatever but none of them last longer than about a decade

@PCENGINEDUO your post made me think of the book The Outsiders which is a good example of creating subcultures imo

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