Vic, Brennan, and Jacob. (Seriously, all these seasons in and not ONE Vic and Brennan pairing)

Jess Mckenna, Ross Bryant, Jiavani

Echo Kellum, Vic, Victoria Longwell

Devin Field, Vic, Josh Ruben

Zac, Jiavani, Anna

I could go on forever here...

...but the right's emotional immaturity poisons the well. Instead of discovering new media that excites them and branches off from what they grew up on, they stagnate into a lost time and scold people for daring to update and adapt. Like a child.

The Right doesn't get this. They may claim to, but the way the hold onto nostalgic impulses and try to secure these properties under the "Won't someone PLEASE think of the children" guise betrays that. They yearn for the days that everything was created for them...

When I wrote reviews for the @brockpress.bsky.social years ago, I approached criticism with the intended audience front and centre. This is, IMO, the most important aspect of criticism. You can set some standards, but don't judge Happy Gilmore like you would a Wes Anderson film.

The criticisms for the Minecraft Movie were baffling because they seemed to heap criticisms on them - that they're using, god forbid, meme terms that relate to Gen Z - that simply exposed them as out of touch. My kiddos loved the movie, same with Mario, and they didn't care that Peach wore pants.

Right wing vitriol from Gen Z to middle-aged targets media that, ostensibly, ISN'T for them anymore. Look, I get that people may feel nostalgic for these properties, and that doesn't mean they can't watch and enjoy them, but did we forget that the target audience for these are kids? 8-12 yr olds

But they never talk about media for mature audiences. Part of that is because the market is oversaturated with nostalgic content - I would loop 'The Last of Us' in here, and wouldn't consider it the same as, say, a film from A24, or a Scorcese film, etc..., because IP acts differently here...

The most viral of their outrage has centred on Star Wars, Mario, Disney LA remakes, How To Train Your Dragon. They take a lot of "ownership" over these properties, especially when they deviate from their perception of them; when the "correct" version of this is violated, that's when they speak up.

Que? (The French one, not the Spanish one)

They're really grasping at straws for this imperialist narrative of theirs, aren't they

Yeah because that sort of monolithic thinking has ALWAYS held true.

Jesus, the right are simpletons.

It further opens a door for predators, those little men, to continue their abuse knowing that the winds can change so quickly and they can stoke retaliation. All it takes now is one man to say, "well, Naomi lied, so this other woman could be lying, too."

Nothing good'll come from this

Daniel Greene is one of many men out there who took what he wanted. Who taught him this? Who teaches other men that this is okay? Ask yourselves this - why was it so easy to come to Naomi's side and yet, knowing all we did about Trump and Musk's behaviour, they're now in charge?

I have little sympathy for the Trump voters who are getting screwed by Trump Admin's decisions right now and their delayed calls for unity (they missed the boat) - resistance is needed. Their continued refusal to self-educate and think critically is why the world is digging deeper into this mess...

Greene's a symptom of powerful men's rebuke against the world for calling their power out. Weak men. Small men. Trump. Musk. Gaiman. Cosby. Weinstein. This list doesn't end. Entitled, small men who want power and to shape the world for them, and fuck the rest of us.

Part of me is sympathetic that they were conned, but also I can't help but be frustrated by the US institutions that failed to prepare these people to spot a guy like Trump and say "hey, maybe he doesn't have our best interests at hand." Too many are doubling-down now, and look like fools.

The level of transparency this time around needs mentioning: if you broke away from FOX news you'd see all of this being advertised by the Trump team. NONE of this is a fucking surprise. This is why Trump loves the uneducated, because even a shitty con-man can get by them.