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Ben Pounds
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Reporter for Courier News. Co-author of Wildly Strolling Along
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I am marginally cheering for my beloved Dodgers, but whatever happens, I'm glad this Series will end with a game where, conservatively, 500 of the weirdest fucking things you've ever seen in your life happen.
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The question of “do you like this?” and “how does it reflect its society?” are often two separate questions and we do both of them a disservice by pretending they’re the same. You can take the second question to pretty dark places while still answering “yes” to the first.
Actually I almost suggested making it include a friendly debate between FD Signifier (anti) and Emily St. James (pro) given I think you’re on good terms with both, but I realize their points of view on the subject don’t directly contradict each other.
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See also: Seinfeld, The Office, The Big Bang Theory, the MCU.
My advice: 1. Don’t panic. 2. When you do your inevitable video essay on the subject, including interview segments could present multiple angles and given your connections you could do a lot with that. @fdsignifier.bsky.social could contribute a lot given he covered this issue in depth.
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Once something gets popular and time passes, it’s fairly easy to find people complaining about it, making people think it’s unpopular.
I disagree with both you and often her in that media analysis isn’t about “defending” or “attacking” works but rather analyzing them as products of their society. See my other comments.
Once something gets popular and time passes, it’s fairly easy to find people complaining about it, making people think it’s unpopular.
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Family Guy was TikTok before there was TikTok. A lot of the parts people like best are isolated moments that might as well be shorter videos.
See also: Seinfeld, The Office, The Big Bang Theory, the MCU.
Family Guy was TikTok before there was TikTok. A lot of the parts people like best are isolated moments that might as well be shorter videos.
I think what confuses people is that now they’re fairly vocal outliers.
Related, although I know praising other social networks here is taboo. bsky.app/profile/wild...
Going on Threads especially in the early days when it was mostly Facebook and Insta people there was eye opening. I kept running into film and television takes that seemed unaware of all the Twitter factions that had cemented those discourses elsewhere. Rather refreshing tbh.
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Going on Threads especially in the early days when it was mostly Facebook and Insta people there was eye opening. I kept running into film and television takes that seemed unaware of all the Twitter factions that had cemented those discourses elsewhere. Rather refreshing tbh.
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It depends on what you mean by “people.” There are people who like it and people who don’t and people who change their minds about it. Like with anything. Do we have actual ways to measure this? (1/2)
Going on Threads especially in the early days when it was mostly Facebook and Insta people there was eye opening. I kept running into film and television takes that seemed unaware of all the Twitter factions that had cemented those discourses elsewhere. Rather refreshing tbh.
It depends on what you mean by “people.” There are people who like it and people who don’t and people who change their minds about it. Like with anything. Do we have actual ways to measure this? (1/2)
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Guy who’s watched 100 TV series: Succession is perhaps the finest TV drama since the Sopranos.
Guy who’s watched 1,000 TV series: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs’ series finale was based on a story by Harlan Ellison and written by the defining 1987 Ninja Turtles writer David Wise,
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I'm not going to share the screenshots, but apparently Twitter/X is full of racism this morning. Meanwhile, my Bluesky TL is full of awe and gratitude for rail staff and emergency services
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How every history and science textbook should start
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My view is that kind of combing CAN be helpful but it’s about analyzing culture more broadly. Hamilton is a fascinating window into Obama era culture, including its flaws, like Shakespeare’s Richard III is for Tudor England. That’s a separate question from “can I like this?”
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I actually take the apparently hard to explain point of view that analyzing something for its problematic aspects can be a way more interesting question when divorced from “am I allowed to like it?” See below: youtu.be/oG5EpzGmAtA?...
How “This Didn’t Age Well” Destroyed Media Literacy
YouTube video by Olurinatti
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I actually take the apparently hard to explain point of view that analyzing something for its problematic aspects can be a way more interesting question when divorced from “am I allowed to like it?” See below: youtu.be/oG5EpzGmAtA?...
How “This Didn’t Age Well” Destroyed Media Literacy
YouTube video by Olurinatti
youtu.be
My view is that kind of combing CAN be helpful but it’s about analyzing culture more broadly. Hamilton is a fascinating window into Obama era culture, including its flaws, like Shakespeare’s Richard III is for Tudor England. That’s a separate question from “can I like this?”