The RW rise was in response to ISIS and the migrant crisis and was entirely Gen-X/Boomer led until 2022! Most of the zoomers who became wignats were literally too young for GG and the largest RW push came from the manosphere.

Honestly think a lot of people want their internet spats to be bigger and more important than they actually are.

I do often wonder how battle city megaroad would’ve turned out if it kept the tone that was initially intended cause there’s a lot of stuff in sdf that (naturally) lends itself to that

This isn't to say that it's not good to have wide breadth of knowledge and experience, but 'the youth are wrong, they need to look at the real classics' like I saw some people posting to this is absolutely off.

Which would have gotten you laughed out of the room if you said they'd be what would create some of the most impressive works of the 20th century in terms of mass media pop culture.

Because 'those weren't the classy things real artists read'

Or to put it another way, it's staggering how many things people hold up as as absolute classics where made because the creator was really into some 'low culture creation' from their childhood. Pulp novels and radio serials that were never meant to be more than disposable.

If you want to talk about why media landscapes keep regurgitating nostalgia so blatantly, it's not the fault of artists not looking 'outside' (whatever that means when anything can be outside for someone depending on their own experience).

It's because various media companies own the rights to certain properties and want them (or things very similar to them) to be made into perpetuity for the sake of profit.

i think looking at a video game as "too videogamey" is reductive to the medium and no different from what people make fun of last of us fans for lol