Millennial Writing 

Respect. ✌

Gonna talk about the incredibly believable grooming allegations next?

Dang it

that's not why he ended up canceled because he's a groomer

Justin roiland could be a groomer but why only cancel him why not also cancel all the trans kids activist and drag queen that read books to children while showing off their balls

Yes, they should starve to prove a point I guess.

@@yavvivvay If they starved outside of their own 'wellness induced choice' they wouldn't be writing stuff like this because they'd have at least some lived context of suffering. They have none, so microgressions become a human rights violation.

@@vladthedragon8250 there is no hierarchy to suffering. Of course given that, there is a certain hierarchy of needs blocking each other. If you have issues in the lower needs you will think the level above is silly and ridiculous... until you get there.

@@yavvivvay There definitely is a hierarchy of suffering. It's the very definition between a need and a want and the consequence of being deprived of it. Contrast is what gives things their definition, without a low end contrast and with the high end being so stable it's invisible you get progressives.

@@vladthedragon8250 well I don't think there is as i mostly agree with Edith Eger who spoke about her suffering in the concentration camps not being more worth or worse than the suffering her patients experienced. Moreover, people who literally have issues with getting food are sometimes the most optimistic and content individuals you can imagine - as suffering is complex and escapes easy definitions. But to each their own I guess. IMHO the problem is the writers write about percieved suffering of others, not their own. There are many well written stories about depression or discrimination out there. There are also books about experience of others that work really well - you just need to let them speak and pull your ego out. What I see in modern writing is mostly the unicorn upbringing of "you can be whatever you want" morphed into ego of "I never make mistakes" and "any criticismy of my writing is attack on the people who my agenda supports". The criticism then becomes an attack on your tribe, as you setup defenses of class/minority/identity around your work, unwilling to accept it might just be bad. Because when your work is good (Dead space remake) nothing of that matters that much, only fringe haters from both sides will blow up over it.

I'm a Millenial but I don't claim these and Mindy Kaling

And there has to be a character with the shaved side swept to the other side style. For some reason it has to be included as if its something very important

@@MollyHJohns she is gen x

@@cold_static she's a gen x

@@redwaytoo Found the fragile millenial xD

Snowplows and colon cancer have been a savior to the film industry

I miss old marvel movies man, they were better.

@@MarkMightBeBetter Same. Superhero movies should've never evolved from being a cheesy, aesthetically charming package filled with action for an hour and a half. Now you get this POG MULTIVERSE 🤓😲 crap with REFERENCES and MEMES and a lot of shitty lore that only exists to bait into sequels and spin-offs.

There are so many marvel movies they’ve told every single type of bad joke once. It’s just new cringe, simpsons did it frist kind of argument said by people who don’t know how to write.

@@TNDTKDTTDTIDWhat’s the context for this?

I think everyone did, before Gen Z was old enough to pin the problem on millennials.

soy writting

I call it Twittard writing

tumblr writing

@@Warwipf Theyre barely old enough to vote.

i forgot to add, i am younger than 36 and when i was a teen, i already avoided games like borderlands for having dialogue like this. i think mentioning even high school in the above sentence is too much of a compliment

Being younger than 28, I can also attest these millennials talk like this too. Untalkative aspies like me stick out

Because they peaked in high-school.

An average millennial

@@EplusNis4ever you missed out, BL2 was so much fun

funniest comment

hey peeder

As annoying as Brian Griffin is, I do believe he is one of the most relatable family guy characters. Not bc we should relate to him, but bc he reminds everyone of someone they know irl and somehow every joke they make about him further solidifies that comparison

​@@kmajorleagueearlier seasons he was the voice of reason of the family, later seasons he became the liberal douche.

Lets not forget giving a baby fucking HIV. ​@Thefifthloko

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" -Qui Gon Jinn See, an ACTUAL wise pop reference.

in high school i had a friend who dealt with autism and i noticed he was starting to think the same way. had to let him know that not everything that happens online needs your opinion to be put out there. if you dont have anything to say, dont force it because youre "obligated" to talk about issues, youre not obligated

Exactly! That’s exactly it! Cause that’s how School tells you to write.

@@makutas-v261 "You are made of stupid." - that one guy from command and conquer

Plato: “Wise man talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”

Every generation is pulling this crap. Don't let the old fucks and young dorks off the hook.

It's not even "politicians bad" it's "your politicians are bad but I will willfully ignore or no-true-scotsman the flaws of my side!" It's disingenuous. There's no introspection or _genuine_ self doubt allowed.

5. Jokes that are unfunny and excessively drawn out

It's extra annoying when I am millennial, and also quite left-leaning and they turn the whole ideology into a cringy farce. How do they expect people to take them seriously if they don't take themselves seriosly in the first place.

​​@@dungeonmaster217 don't complain, you are a big part of the problem, leftoid

GTA IV was something else.

The American Millenial conception of poverty seems to be “has some form of stress or mental burden due to lack of infinite resources”.

@@deriznohappehquite I mean, not really, I think it’s just more so just stress. And what do you mean not having infinite resources?

@@BlueTyphoon2017 like "having to get a job to affort living" as opposed to just having essentially unlimited funds to live and do whatever you feel like, like when you live at your parents place. Thats what a lot of the, quite frankly really retarded, "anti-capitalism" thing boils down to for these people "i have to work but i dont want to work"

Modern poverty for americans seems to be that they can't afford the last iPhone Pro Max or whatever.

As A millennial I agree, that is what some of the most loudest Millennials in the America think.

i like bocchi too :) AND your mockery of milenials as well 6.everything is toxo/phobic/blematic/soginistic and the author's massive ego si the solution 7.criticism toward the author's ego is rape-speech and toxoblematic and you shoud DO BETTER 8.any form of criticism is "acktualley *snort*🤓🤓🤓" bc you're speaking from your internalized ______phobia/giny/ism therefore your opinion is invalid (proceeds to seek validation in redditwitter...and to dogpile the critic)

Millennial writers are chronically afraid of silence and letting people come to their own conclusions

My millennial sibling mentioned there’s also a “millennial stare” scene a lot

Reminds me of yiik

Its almost depressing what some people consider "left wing" or "right wing" these days.

@@Don-ds3dy to me it’s even more depressing that people consider these terms insults in and of themselves. They are two sides of the political coin. There is evil on both sides but most people on either spectrum of belief are not extremists at all

@Antonio Gramsci yes because societies on the right are the only societies to utilize segregation…are you kidding me? And America invented slavery too, right?

@Antonio Gramsci Jesus Christ, shut up.

@Antonio Gramsci >Guy who has never had a genuine conversation with a conservative in their life.

stay in school kid

​could be in his late 20s@@MGrey-qb5xz

​@@MGrey-qb5xzeven the youngest zoomers are in their mid-teens now, so I'd assume he is in his 20s.

​@@dejanjakobovic9803 Youngest Zoomers have between 9-12 years old

​@@TakonumeroII 2012 was 12 years ago as of writing this reply. Gen Alpha started in 2010. This makes the youngest Zoomers around 14-15 years old.

Pure irony.

Ong bruh. These peoples consumerims makes andrew tate look like Confucius.

I knew this guy, who kept doing the same twitter-speak shit about capitalism almost all the time after watching Hasan. I said the military kinda has its own socialist economy going if u think abt it with their own in house barber shops and hospitals and stuff. This motherfucker deadass said (copypasted): "Thats not socialism. Socialism is classless, money-less society! Capitalism isn't when you use money! Capitalism is low pay, exploitative labor, and no unions!!!!!" Idk if this brainlet realizes that his description of capitalism applies to the USSR. Ion hate the dude, but he was a massive Elon Musk meatrider before Elon Musk started talking bad about democrats. Then he immediately switched his tone, and called him a capitalist grifter lmfao.

Pretty much. It makes me groan every time.

You see if you make jabs at a vague system, you are free to make unethical consumption choices to your hearts content

Rick and Morty was better at it though. The thing is you can't just imitate things. You've gotta actually do something original.

I realize I often talk like that...... I feel like such a douche

@@Sorrowdusk Rick and Morty isn't exactly the pinnacle of comedy either. It is the millennial humor before it got out of hand and spilled over everywhere.

High on Life basically encapsulates everything wrong with Millenial writing in the worst way possible

@@Skelterbane69 you’re not a douche you just consume too much similar content by these writers or online in comments/twitter

Hey possum didn’t expect to see u here

@@JesusChrist-ey9qt It's almost like RU-vidrs are people who watch youtube videos as well.

@@StephonZeno yeah but it’s never RU-vidr that I watch or care about

Unexpected Possum cameo

Holy smokes it's Possum!

i raise you: "yeah, because *that's* not totally creepy."

Or: "NAILED it!"

Mine is “As an xxx” or “Speaking as a xxx.” It’s as if they’re too timid to just come out with it and say “I’m (whatever). Here’s what I think.”

Or making the most obvious pun imaginable and then saying "I'll see myself out..." 🤮🤮

@@jpdawinna1 This! So much this!

lol

Then I dread the time when Gen Z humor is prévalant

Yeah all the old writers who tossed out that advice presumed people would live lives of struggle and meaning, not basically do nothing but look at social media all day. They really could not have foreseen just how dark the future ended up.

@@MidlifeCrisisJoe Another "social media bad" comment 😒

I genuinely loathe these hack writers.

Well articulated and incredibly accurate.

Privaledged?

Yeah, i just think that the majority of public is from these metropolis, like video games doesn't target Nigerian Radish Farmers

Not just that, but maybe more specifically, "Hollywood" writing, written from one bubble of California

@@grandevirtude9830 It might not target Nigerian Radish Farmers but the majority of people in general terms, do not reside in high-society suburban homes on the outskirts of San Francisco. They live amongst celebrities and things of that nature and are heavily influenced by that culture, which basically means they are detached from reality as far as the "common person" is concerned.

The person who wrote that probably believes that United States accents are “normal accents.”

And they call people who oppose their views "racist". You cannot make this up.

The “straight fire” joke made my skin crawl.

​@@flowerbloom5782IMO that one is even worse because it was supposed to be a joke. Like, I imagine the team of writers all together laughing because how "funny" the joke was.

I just heard that part. My heart just stopped

@@whatev2453or that the lack of any immediate message is a sign that you support the status quo

It’s fat shaming duh, and it’s highly problematic

uhmmm the yellow pikachu actually represents the hyperinflation experienced in western montenegro around the turn of the 90's. but i would expect a FASCIST like you to know about it

If it doesn't have a political message then it's not art. Pretty simple, huh

It is a deep introspective look into the modern american life style and their over consumpsion of sugar and alcohol while living a sedentary life style causing most of the health problems, mental and physical, for everyone big and small. Yet it is being pushed under the rug as to not shame anyone... or something like that.

And indies, don't forget about those!

Yeah, and don't think foreign games are safe. The translators are doing the same shit. No end in sight either.

@@drunkencowboyagni Me: enjoying an online game cause it's kinda fun and both my child and I can play it together. My child: Xinyan should've been more darker skinned Even casual foreign games with a half way decent plot are getting the nu-American writing style treatment

@@ChangedWinds What the hell is the "un-American writing style treatment"?

you might be on to something, remember ad's that would target teen that tried to relate? those ads are cringe because it use millennial writing

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." -Plato

Because talking about politics makes them feel smart. Just like violence and swearing makes them feel mature.

The funniest thing about it that they often pick "capitalism" to be the political boogie man. But they don't really understand what capitalism is so half the time they defend it half the time they oppose it. They just throw in some post-modern political terms to hope people will be too confused to understand that they don't know what they're talking about, because it works on them on twitter.

It comes from schooling. Along with intersectionality, they started teaching that saying nothing is agreeing with the status quo. So unless you wanna be the bad guy, you have to actively talk about how much you hate them and want progress. 's pretty fucked if you think about it.

@@End3rDJgaming I've always resented that notion and think people who follow it are unintelligent.

Considering that you can already find loot in toilets, you might be onto something there.

No way, too funny for these people. Skibidi Toilet is problematic and racist.

That'd be gen alpha writing. And I'm not sure they'd be able to make a game more complex than the mobile hypercasual slop of "character runs through gates with numbers written on them".

@@da_purple_lizard Still better than what we have now

Let the kids have their skibidi toilet, man. It’s just a dumb joke. We had our own dumb shit we liked as well. Let them be kids

Yiik comes to mind. Especially when the writer for that game called the many MANY people who criticized his writing as children who want toys, not art.

@@grimgrahamch.4157 Sounds like he was totally Yiiking out

I don’t care about real people why would I care about your fake ones ya know

​@@Krustyplayboythat's unironically what a millenial writer would say

Good point!

is what you said Millennial speak or Gen-Z speak?

*dies*

@@jonsnow9659it’s millennial, cause the writers in question are in they early 40’s most of the time. It’s their awful attempt at appealing to zoomers.

@@jonsnow9659 millennials ruined SM. I was born in the in-between stage of them so I got to watch all their BS unfold. They are a stain on this planet and ultimately can't do shit until they bitch or moan enough. That's just a fact, I've yet to meet a millennial that is emotionally stable or able to critically think about situations separating thought from feeling. It's disgusting and disturbing how up their own ass they can be

@@mightquinnable I think he meant the meme, unless you mean the meme too?

The kids raised on that grew up.

Good point. Thank God I never watched those shows. Even me as a kid thought they looked weird.

These people probably never learned that that wasn't how other people actually talked in real life, they themselves being "keyboard warriors" and all...

@@alrightsquinky7798 I was forced to watch it cause of my sister ive always hated it lol

glad i grew up on south park and gta lmao (never thought i'd say this)

We need more media that showcases hope and showing people who, even as their struggles drag them down, they still do it because either it's the right thing, or because they know someone is counting on them. We need more heroes who do things for others, not just themselves. Nowadays, we're getting nihilistic, narcissistic jerks who can't shut up and are more interested in their own self-interests.

it’s because they see themselves as more sophisticated and less simpleminded than their boomer parents, but exactly like those parents they just regurgitate the consensus of their generation… boomers are always saying some bs about “the new generation is soft” and millenials are always saying some bs about late stage capitalism and developmental trauma

Born from their lack of goodwill, I assume.

@@foxboy6145 We need Superman

God I don’t know why so many commentary streamers sound like this. They do the burping too and it sounds so braindead.

They learned how to "write" from watching Marvel movies lol. They have probably never studied the craft in any depth and are hired based on a diversity standard...

@@PaladinHD given how the new dnd movie is literally marvel with a coat of fantasy paint I agree

It's mostly people in their mid to late thirties that either don't read at all or exclusively read YA

@@coboby3347 we're in the post hunger games and twilight years

DUDE i just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big city, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favourite TV SHOWS. you should totally come on down to my studio apartment, it’s got EXPOSED RED BRICK walls and everything, we can crack open a nice hoppy ipa or three and get crazy watching some cartoons on adult swim! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the barcade- listen here, right, it’s a BAR where us ADULTS who do ADULTING can go DRINK. BUT!!!! it’s also an ARCADE like when we were kids, so we can play awesome VIDEO GAMES, without dumb kids bothering us. speaking of which megan and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re both getting snipped tomorrow at the hospital, that way we can save money to spent more on ourselves and our FURBABIES. i’m fuckin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this craft beer and pop open another one!!!

Oldest millennials are in their 40s now. Statistically there have to be at least some good writers among them.

I think it's both. Mostly because of shitty culture that millennials grew up on unlike their predecessors.

That’s changing as we speak. This strike is the culling

Statement accurate asf

@@andrewarbeit5393the industry is just replacing them with ai machines who are programmed to steal the writing styles from the bad writers 🙃 we're still going to get millennial writing but its just written by a robot

Holy shit, lmaoooo!

Made me lol

Pretty sure that actually happened. That's what John "Hugs Not Drugs!" Lasseter was warning us about in _Monsters, Inc.._ But we didn't listen, and now we're paying the price.

"This one's not giving us any juice!" "Don't destroy the door, get him a twitter account!"

If they had to harness cringe then the Monsters Inc universe would be a utopia.

sweetbabyinc just called you for a job interview

do you just want the enemies in videogames to start being racist out of nowhere? What does that even mean?

"and now my masterplan comes to fruition and I will cause global extinction! also its just a word! if they can say it why cant I say it?"

Lmfao true, a lot of writers genuinely think racism is an irredeemable character trait in a story then 5 seconds later redeem the murderous villain for example.

​@jasperjackson8842 yes that would be awesome

That's the best way to explain it, bro

Evil can also be quirky, the problem is that these writers equate quirkiness with minorities and victims because they see themselves as anything but the bad guy.

@@lasarousibingo. Too many people obsess over skin color/gender/orientation when personality and character is what actually matters and should be focused on

Yes!! Well said!

​​​@@S_F_SThis!!!! This!!!! This!!!! Shut up man Jesus christ

Yes, blame an actually funny character for society's bad humour now.

What's funny about that association is that laugh tracks have actually declined in popularity. I think Deadpool-style meta humor is closer to a current generation replacement for what would once have been a laugh track.

@@aidanandreasen2611 yeah I was mostly critiquing Big Bang theory which I think is one of the more recent shows that beat the laugh track to death and back

@@B_C1109 dead pool is a great film but I think too many people thought they could finesse the deadpool humour in their own content and it falls really flat

​@Mirage Funny the first time, maybe.

Same goes for the second game, with Dane Vogel. Not exactly subtle, but still manages to say so much more without ever having to explicitly call it out.

@@vinegar4556 Saints 2 is literally a game about gentrification and a ton of other shit and handles it with significantly more nuance than nu saints ever could

@Antonio Gramsci I agree it should've been taught to blue collar workers instead. That's kind of the people who benefit from it the most and really the backbone to any meaningful change when it comes to working people being treated better. Which is also why its the most important group to keep uninterested in it because the only people talking about it are the complete opposite of them. People who want to sound smart more than they want to talk to a person like a person. No mechanic, no landscaper, no framer, no electrician I've ever met is going to be convinced by: "No you don't understand. Grasping the inherently exploitative nature of late stage capitalism and the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is vital to achieving class consciousness and retaking the means of production for the working class. You need to look at the imperialist cultural hegemony with a critical lens to free yourself from the WAGE SLAVERY INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM." "Cool thanks I am wildly not fucking interested in anything you said" "BUT DIACLECTIC MATERIALISM. LABOR THEORY OF VALUE. P R A X I S." It would be super helpful if people stopped talking about this shit entirely by smelling their own farts and hoping the other guy digs the smell too.

@@Pragabond That's the issue though. The entire idea was made by lazy educated people who believed they were part of the lower classes because they weren't successful. This is why it always devolves into bloody chaos. Because it isn't about the poor being treated better, it's about causing enough discontent to get people to overthrow the existing structure so the upper middle class revolutionaries can seize power and promptly push their pawns back into their places.

@@Pragabond There are ways to critique capitalism (which is just the communist scare word for the free market, but let's not get bogged down in that) without being anti-capitalist. I'm from the blue collar background you're referencing and I have plenty of critiques of our system, wealth inequality being a serious issue for instance, but that doesn't make me an anti-capitalist. Anti-capitalism isn't ever going to appeal to people like me because it's inherently a white collar ideology created by ivory tower freaks who've never done an honest day's work in their life. Pseudo-intellectualism isn't a bug of the ideology, it's a feature, and not even that we don't understand what terms like Praxis or Materialism mean either. We just don't care. We're not revolutionaries nor do we want to be. We just want to be fairly compensated for our work and left alone, that's it.

@Elemental627 Definitely, I skipped baldur’s gate. Chained Echoes, Sea of Stars, eiyuden chronicles, I skipped all of them because of the weird modern dialogue. It doesn’t work in a fantasy setting and comes off as annoying.

I hate that fucking "wholesome" term

I cannot wait for the day zoomerspeak and zoomer culture is mocked just like millennial shit is.

Yikes 100 Keanu Chungus Le Heckin Cuckolderino

"lets unpack this" "hope this helps" "that's gonna be a big yikes from me dawg" "ok sweetie"

Six months? Try six years.

''jesse what the hell are you talking about''

What being childless does to a MF.

I'm honestly more sick of these people whining about me writing full sentences than anything else that comes out of their mouths. I can pass off everything else as much of my generation being social media & grass-addicted morons with no sense of sophistication or integrity whatsoever.

literally i just cant. i dunno what yall problem is. yall be trippin LOL. i cant with this rn my sides my dude.

It sickens me and makes my hatred for society flourish, I'm glad I'm a recluse, it's better this way..

@Elijah Boyd ^^^ This SO much ! Hot take bruh. Yall be impressin me wit dat literal cabbage vibez. Low key FIRE yall yall.

By monopolizing its critique they're free to abuse it without fear of retribution. It's an old trick. This is why all the major criticism of government comes from secretly government-backed sources. In America, this is Daily Wire, MSNBC, etc. It bounds the narrative within controllable limits and ensure nothing effective is ever done (or realized).

It's kinda brilliant, they sell merch about "capitalism" to fund the capitalism , and the folk keep buying it xd

@@ShowerCurtain1 Same I love it when they lecture about the importance of charity whilst sitting on more money a person could fathom 😍

@@pedrotbird5426I’m getting vague notions of a certain Turk streamer… Basan, Kazan…? Hmmm 🤔

Marx actually made this point. Capitalism is so all powerful as a social system that it commodifies literally everything, even the movements that oppose it like Religion and Anti-Capitalist political movements. People are tricked into thinking consuming anti-capitalist products, is anti-capitalism instead of supporting it.

I am so sick of the "post ironic humor" era of memes and internet culture. I am so glad 2024 has started to show the signs of this era dying for good. its been years of this shit.

​@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 I'm a Millennial, and it seems to me that Gen Z are a more sincere generation than we were, both online and in real life. It's great to see. I'm also sick of everything being ironic.

It's not just fear of sincerity. It's complete mockery of sincerity. Every potentially emotional moment must be ruined by a stupid joke. Everything in the story has to be slathered by a layer of metatextual "comedy" that ruins immersion. Heroism, family and basic human ideals must be mocked.

@@fattiger6957yeah sincerity would create stakes, which means these writers would need to take risks.

@@Thetallguy_zz Yeah that is true. That's why so many movies written by these types feel so toothless. The hero (usually a women, "POC" or both) is flawless from the start and the villain is a one dimensional pushover. The conflict always seems to be, not the hero becoming better, but the world realizing how great the hero always was.

*laughs in the byproduct of iterative design*

"The fourth stage is pure simulacrum, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers' lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, "hyperreal" terms. Any naïve pretension to reality as such is perceived as bereft of critical self-awareness, and thus as oversentimental."

Meh

No, this is 100% Joss Whedons fault.

this quote is about anime but it sums up your statement "The problem with the anime industry is that it's full of anime fans" ~hayao miyazaki

truly a mindfuck

It’s like Diet Coke or Coke Zero, it’s marketed to be “better” than regular Coca-Cola but in reality they are worse than regular Coca-Cola

It's almost like they're being hypocrites on purpose and don't care when people "call them out" on it anymore.

i fucking love the corporate aestheticization of resistance. they simply just pick up the ideologies of people who never really grew up, horrifically mutilate them, and then fucking SELL it back to them for extortionate amounts of money. and the fuckers they sell it to eat it up like it's fried chicken. we wouldn't have half the number of soyjaks we do without this.

It's pretty simple, honestly: communism is the best way to consolidate wealth and power while trapping everyone else in poverty and enslavement. These corporations are pushing communism not because they think it's a good system for their viewers, but because it's the best system for the wealthy to always remain in power: they're the Party leaders.

I-I... yikes, you sweet summer child there's a lot to unpack here. Who hurt you baby?

i hate it as well, thats why i dont watch any current shows on tv nor have i for years....but its also in commercials and music channels and that makes it even worse....

Meta jokes aren't bad it's just people forget the "subvert expectations" part of comedy like if u took 2 seconds to think of what the punchline is then you've figured it out it's only good when done properly... Shame it never is

GTA San Andreas and IV were great though

I don't hate this types of jokes normaly, Animaniacs(the original show) has all of this yet its Still Just as funny as silent cartoons.

To be fair, Mr Beast studied youtube (like dream studied reddit lmao) and is able to utilize his knowledge about youtube to be successful.

Yes Undertale did do something wrong. The moment a medium becomes about itself it fails to fulfill its purpose and disappears up it's own backside. Also its big takeaway is that players play games wrong. Completely insufferable. Really good soundtrack though.

​@@andrewsherman8574 What do you mean, if you don't mind me asking?

@@TheRealChrisHansen777 I'm sorry, you'll have to be more specific. Not sure which part you want elaboration on.

@@andrewsherman8574 A medium becoming about itself, as well as a medium's purpose.

Exactly my gripe with "modern" games.

Perfectly said.👍

There’s a good tumblr post about Kojima that he created a brilliant series to comment on the horrors of war but ended up making everything look super cool as well because he has the mind of a 12 year old boy who thinks guns are cool

@@Dogy0909 That's the cognitive dissonance of the videogame media. It's fun to virtually point and shoot, unfortunately. I wouldn't put too much blame on that, however the symbolic/subconscious effect it has on people who play games is a bad thing - that's why the military industrial complex loves CoD. If I were a gamedev like him I think I simply wouldn't make games that involve shooting people, but that's not a way to solve the issue.

Hot take: Kojima is a bad writer. There are certainly parts of each MGS where the writing really shines, but if you step back from the highlights and look at the games as a whole they are a needlessly convoluted mess filled with hours of exposition dumping. Kojima is certainly creative, no one can deny that, but the man is in desperate need of an editor and may be the victim of his own success in that regard.

Me fail English? That’s unpossible.

An F in English? Bobby, you speak English.

Probably got that degree from a box of gluten-free Cereal(tm).

What do you think modern English degrees teach? Not how to use English, but rather that any way of using English is equally correct. Except the correct way, because that implies you are better than others.

@Brutus the Bear I imagine it teaches rhetoric or newspeak if I might make a tasteless reference to Orwell.

I find that Tolkien's definition of applicability is so important for the audience or reader to feel investment or engagement with any given material instead of being bombarded with "propaganda" or just flat out flatulent noise. The former is how build a story and express themes while the latter is how you self-suck into hysteria.

I think it's just the lack of structural teaching of writing. Milleanils get so many inspirations and tips and tricks from the internet that range from good to objectively wrong. Like what you're talking about: Allegory. While I do think there are allegories in Tolkien's work (in general the conflict between good & evil is an allegory), but Millenials make the connections to what the allegories are by the lowest commmon denominator a.k.a. the most lazily and generally applicable themes that you can say are "sorta similar".

That's a really cool idea. I'll have to find that quote.

This.

Ironic that Tolkiens work is now used in that very way

The 'not taking seriously' is far and away my biggest pet peeve. Literally everything HAS to be sarcastic, because emotions are scary and we need you to have positive association with our product so you'll think it's good.

@@axiss5840 so much this. It's truly a cultural cancer to have the irony throttle to the max all the fucking time. There needs to be poignant moments especially for characters or events the writer would least expect.

What makes this worse is that all it does is pull you out of the fictional world they're trying to present. A glorified SNL sketch is what the story and its world become.

Taking anything seriously is boring these days apparently I mean seriously try and get a streamer to take a story based game seriously. It's a sad truth that most gamers want dopamine rather that something thought-provoking But it's been that way forever You better get over it

@@NgaMarsters people should still always try to be better. It's harder to be unironic while maintaining a certain tone. Yes there's the real trap of being pretentious etc, but avoiding that's the skill of it.

ThIs PosT RiGht HerE OffIcER

@Cheese Greater it wasn't me. It was the one armed man.

Pretty self righteous to think humor needs to be in short supply. It's not like a superpower which the original quote you referenced from The Incredibles is talking about (which btw is extremely redditor of you). I'm sure a ton of people can make you laugh, they're just not good writers. Conveying a humorous situation is what makes a comedian different from your hilarious friend. Reddit is terrible because there's no originality. I'm sure the first "this post right here officer" or "THIS SO MUCH THIS" was infinitely less cringe than the 5 trillionth time it was posted.

@Goobles I wasn't saying reddit is a good place. I'm saying that's where you can find a lot of this cringe humor

@@goobles3991 Quoting The Incredibles is as far from Reddit-friendly as can be. That movie was inspired by Ayn Rand's books, and she's like the Antichrist for redditors.

That was the worse line in the video

Italians are problematic now

I'm sorry, but could you refrain from using language that may insult victims of beingbornwithoutabladderitis in the future? Saying 'pissed off' is like the N-word for the Non-Bladdered People.

AY PWAULIE LOOK AT THIS FOCKEN GUY!!!!!

​@@lonemaster9290 wassup pissed off

Millennials are all 30+ now.

That would be 30-40. Millennials are old now.

20 year olds do not talk like that

@@wizajn in their own mind they're not

20-somethings are zoomers you clown

No you're completely right. Everyone is so scared of being themselves or offensive that nothing has weight anymore. It's like that uncanny 'camp' feeling you get from bad acting. How are we supposed to enjoy a story when the writers themselves can't genuinely say that they do?

wheres herbert moon when you need him

Redditors

I think it's got more to do with the type of people being churned out of these universities and cities (neoliberals). I don't think they can be authentic because most can't think for themselves, and those that can won't be authentic because of political peer-pressure. But some have very clear agendas that they follow in-tandem with other forms of media - and that's because of political activists and NGO's used by billionaires like the Rockefellers (and others) to force their politics into society.

Yeah. Seeing this video essay devolve into "It's the FBI, man!" was weird, although the initial points made sense. And yours is a fair extra factor. It's like how the MCU can't have emotional, vulnerable moments without undermining them immediately with a joke. Like they don't have the confidence to let the audience connect emotionally.

People are starved for talent

A drop of water for the thirsty masses...

Sometimes all it needs are good graphic representations tbh, that's what happens often for movies or animated shows. Writing might be dogshit and generic but as long as it looks cool 20 iq amebas will love it, and they are millions

like Billy Joel said: "I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

Much worse than tiktok.

​@@youngc570both are just as bad as each other IMO. Reddit encourages mob mentality and circlejerking while TikTok fries your dopamine receptors.

Reddit should just be abolished.

It’s just a forum for hobbies.

Reddit was one-half of proto-TikTok, pre-exodus Tumblr was the other. Reddit only really became insufferable in the late 2010s though.

The fact that there is an option to disable the quips at all is funny. They know it would be a problem.

yeah, sadly. Sucks since the gameplay looks pretty cool.

It will be "Forgotten" in a month

@@unknownwill4th549 It'll be unspoken because nobody's talking about it

Modern Sony games in general all suffer from this problem.

I saw another comment talking about how the old "write what you know" saying was cooked up during a time when people still actually had a decent chance at living varied lives of struggle and drive. It's very true, "write what you know" is actually more of a detriment when applied to people who basically just lounge around smoking weed and scrolling around Twitter and watching generic Marvel film 447.

I agree 100%. I think that is why most new content is just a bad copy of something that was already popular. It would be like writing a time travel movie and only using Back to the Future as your reference point. Sure you could piece something passable together but you would be missing out on the countless other science fiction works on the subject.

mIyazaki often talked about this in regards of anime. All the golden age animators came from a wide background, were being inspired by other mediums, studied real life, were reading a lot of literature and then made up all the innovation in the anime industry with what they gathered. The new generation only consumes anime and only studies anime, it doesn't are about the real world or other art that isnt anime so the result as he puts it is inhuman, is regurgitating the same things in an incestual cicle but with less soul each time.

@@bake-io1cf It even applies to the anime industry? Damn. It's gotta be true though, I remember a lot of the most influential ones usually had creators with some pretty interesting backgrounds (or pretty horrific, depending on, you know... how old they are...)

@@SnibsnBibs Anime is not at all what it was when i was younger. Moe slice of life took over everything since. I'd say the golden age was late 80s to late 90s, most of the greatest creators from that time have died or retired (R.I.P Satoshi Kon and Kentaro Miura) . Expect all anime from now on to be rotoscoped/ motion captured CG and AI bullshit.

I was born and i still live in a third world country and it actually inspire me to make stories.

You nailed it

Lmao first world people talking about struggle

Exactly. It's all just friend humor internet culture.

yeah it rlly seems like a bunch of sheltered golden boys just decided to become “writers” for whatever reason.

@@texanarchy666 it objectively was , as an actual communist , stop with the bullcrap ''it wasnt real communism''

@@ΣτέφανοςΔημόπουλος-η7τ it objectively wasn’t a stateless, classless, moneyless society, which is what communism is.

@@texanarchy666 - Yes. You ARE asking for it, but you are too brainwashed by childish idealism and too ignorant of history to know that you are asking for it.

​@@ΣτέφανοςΔημόπουλος-η7τthe cccp definitely wasn't really communist since it had people in command and gerarchies, but still communism is plain and simple utopia.

​@@asellandrofacchio7263 utopia is a new religion to replace God for atheists. You can't reach it, ever, because humans are flawed

Insecurities and resentment

What watching too much Rick and morty does to one’s brain

In my experience it is indeed insecurity. There's this mental block of writing dialogue that's just straight to the point or genuine feelings/expressions because writing non-serious quips helps shield against the fear of mockery. This style of writing is like a bandaid for your ego from the inevitable criticism. "if these characters aren't serious, if i don't put any effort, then it won't matter when people don't like it." And then add an overdose of corporate cynicism and you get these.

I used to love meta humor, I still do in some ways, but it's been beat to death now.

@@Dhips. Thats not the real problem. Like most comedy, its when a concept is reduced to its most superficial elements, stagnates due to a lack of understanding by those who use it as a substitute for creativity, that you end up with something becoming stagnant. Meta humor and deconstruction require a strong understanding of mechanics behind a given trope, as thats needed to twist it into a joke. Meta humor as its referred to today "self awareness", is just calling out a trope and never executing it. Or worse.... calling out the trope, and executing it anyway. Its the lack of creativity to do something with the idea that makes it grating. Another thing to consider is irreverence. Despite what the name might imply, its entirely possible to mock something in good humor/nature, while still firmly critiquing something about it. A reoccurring issue I'm noticing with the current generation of writers and commenters is tendency to take things very superficially, if not out right literally. Its hard to tell if this is lack of understanding of the subject matter, or a lack of consideration of deeper concepts, and stopping the first emotional reaction.

The weird thing is that writers who lack real-life experience don't have to fall into this trap. H.P. Lovecraft was a shut-in who got his entire worldview from his family library and his works invented a genre.

@@ingold1470 Sometimes I feel like there was some special ingredient to Lovecraft for all that though given the craziness of the genre. Inventing a new genre, like damn.

@@arc5015 the special ingredient was not talking about it, as this ingredient was host to a litany of horrors whose very being induced a sort of spine-chilling itching that crawled across the body in waves at the mere suggestion of its thought. One can only shudder to imagine (and I feel sick even placing these words upon this letter) of what would happen should the secrets of this vile, contemptuous additive- I've said too much, they shall come for me now. I must make haste to the laboratory to find a panacea to this ill fortune.... Lovecraft's secret ingredient is his writing style directly reflects the fact that he grew up around high brow writing, but injects a very descriptive emotiveness to his work, uncommon at the time.

@@arc5015 The ingredient is called xenophobia (and I mean that in a medical sense, so irrational fear of everything that is different and everything that you dont understand). Which is exactly the basis lovecraftian horror works on.

remember Portal 2 and the whole "this is the part where he kills you"? But that was the only time they used that gag.

Yeah. Like Marvel films worked when Iron Man was making quips and jokes but almost everyone else took things relatively seriously. But because he was so popular, and his scenes were considered the best of the Avengers films everyone had to start doing it.

@@bob1986 it worked for iron man because tony did actually go through some serious shit was nearly killed multiple times. was kidnapped in a cave and forced to make weapons or be killed then eventually died by paying the ultimate price. So in alot of ways tony earned that right to be snarky and snappy, millenial side haircut character with nose ring however did not.

Marvel movies are indeed to blame for the trend, but I also think Diablo Cody and her Juno scriptwriting were probably one of the first instances to popularise this. A lot of self inserts, cursing for nothing and everybody just has to be witty and sarcastic to cringe levels all the time.

@@Daniel__Nobre Diablo Cody, that's a name I haven't heard in a while. I agree with you, and I would like to point that both her and MCU started around the same time, around 2007-2008.

@@amadeusagripino6862 Oh that makes sense. I don't know why I thought the successful Marvel movies/universe came later, thanks for pointing it out. So it can well be a kind of generational thing/trend :D

Always loved that quote, it's spot on.

lmao, wise quote but that guy still contradicted himself

@@spoovyfrog3393 in this context, "critics" is not the creator itself, but it is for the part of the video which describes the millennials, twitter users etc. in the need to feel like they're grown up. I may have misunderstood your point but that is my answer to the statement if any. did you mean that C.S Lewis contradicted himself? shreddednerd or I?

@@spoovyfrog3393Uh how? There wasn’t anything contradictory in what he was saying. If you constantly act like something being “adult” is cool then you reveal yourself to be rather childish. It’s along the same lines of logic as: “If a man must say I am king, then he is no king at all.”

​@The Duke of Chutney I think the contradiction would be that the purpose of the statement is to criticise the critics for being childish. Which, by his own logic, implies his childishness.

Well there you go, lol

I enjoyed High on Life. I thought the gameplay was fun but the writing got really old, really quick. I would actively avoid using Sweezy, the vulgar woman gun, because she was so over-the-top crass and swearing nonstop. That really isn't funny or endearing if you're not being self-aware about it. I don't mind swearing in the proper context, but it reminds me of middle school when I think someone is cursing just to look cool or tough.

Yeah, I think the issue is while it would have been subversive, say, twenty years ago, now it's so common that it's bland, tiring, and uninspired. The subversion has become the norm.

@@Crime_Mime and the people doing it still think they’re being smart and subversion, somehow

My peanut sized mind = *Blown*

bravo vince, hire this guy to write on all of our productions

Fax.

Nerd and punk have been appropriated by bullies and bootlickers.

Turns out things were better when nerds were losers, and I say that to my own detriment

I remember the days when nerds and anime fans were bullied relentlessly, and I yearn for the day we can go back. And I say this as someone who really used to be into anime and was a social outcast, maybe that’s just me being a masochist though.

@@therealspeedwagon1451 I'm more of a hipster and hate seeing things I felt like was niche become popular

That should be the plot of the next Back to The Future movie

imagine a world where Seth MacFarlane didn't miss his flight 🥰

Where everything doesn’t need to have swearing every five lines to be edgy and cool for the audience, but it all sounds really stupid.

​@@IvanVKlik even better

It sucks too because as far as I can see, Whedon is good at writing, it's just he gets imitated by people who aren't so good.

that and "just be a good human". ugh

Yes. I am so sick and tired of seeing grown men who still get hyped about shit that is intended for children. A group of guys in their 30s: "Dude, that new Mario game looks sick!" "Yeah, but what about that new Sonic game? That looks good." "Speaking of Sonic, I wish they'd put him in Smash Bros!" "Well, Pikachu is in Smash Bros. That's cool." "Dude, I LOVE Pikachu! I can't wait to play that new Pokemon game!!!" "DUDE! I KNOW! I'M SOOOO HYPED!!!" It's so fucking weird. I know I shouldn't judge people, but this is simply pathetic. When I grew into my teens, I naturally stopped caring about the shit I was into as a little kid. I didn't force myself to stop liking children's entertainment. I just naturally grew out of that stuff. But grown men these days. I don't know what happened to their minds. They're stuck in this state of mental childishness. It's so weird.

The question to as is why they become man-children. The answer I believe is that modern life has no real meaning. No weight. Fight club pointed it out. "“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. " This is why so many men see no reason to become adults. It's just empty.

@@DeadPixel1105 what do you do for fun then?

@@DeadPixel1105 But games liek Mario, Sonic and Pokemon are childhood classic for many, i dont get hyped for any of them even though i played them when i was a child, some people will get hyped because its a part of their childhood, from time to time my dad still pops a cartoon he used to watch with me in my childhood because he genuinly likes them and finds them more interesting than his repetitive cop show he watches to fall asleep. This idea that adults need to like adults thing aka live a miserable life is retarded, if more adults would actually play games to pass their time instead of sitting there in a sofa and spending 6 hours a day just watching mind numbing boring TV shows, they could have been playing a more engaging and fun game, because video games have surpassed TV shows and blockbusters in terms of quality for about 20 years.

@@quademasters249 That itself is a bit of an immature take. I'm not sure how you think that life isn't worth living unless you are a rock star, movie god, or millionaire.

Agreed

Arcane does this perfectly. Plenty of winks and nods for LoL gamers, but if you're not a LoL gamer, then the winks and nods just seem like real good world building and it doesn't detract from their enjoyment of the show.

Show, don’t tell

To me the pop culture references in Fallout 2 are excessive. That being said, Fallout 2 is much more restrained compared to modern games.

This is how WoW did it too

Make white man bad, make woman/POC good = social media claps

Good point. That might be why so many people just regurgitate memes. It is much easier to accept crickets when the joke wasn't a product of your actual wit

Daaamn, reminds me of Sam Hyde when he actually spoke about the very same thing, about a teen rapper that 'joke-rapped half the way because he was afraid of being authentic and be mocked, so it's easier to produce parody gargabe that you can excuse of any criticism'

As an unpublished writer, that is an honest fear of mine. Not the kind that stops me dead in my tracks, mind, but it's definitely caused some real anxiety. "What if this thing I've poured my heart and soul into just goes completely unnoticed," says the voice in my head that makes me lock up at my keyboard. "Or worse, what if it's just reviled? What if I become the next fodder dummy for the Rant-sona hordes and the video essayists? What if my first failure is so catastrophic that it's also my last?" It's kind of scary, watching the critic world tear apart people like E.L. James and Stephanie Meyer and the like, and all too easy to think, "well surely MY work is better than that". But is it really? Would I recognize if it wasn't? I'd like to think so, but I imagine so did the ones that got tossed into the wood chipper before me, and it sure didn't save them. I'm not opposed at all to criticism; it's a necessary tool for the improvement of any art, but social media is in a place right now where a creator's reputation of quality can vacillate between champion of their craft and incompetent, untouchable wretch at the drop of a hat. I guess what I'm saying is that the peanut gallery isn't throwing peanuts anymore, they're chucking white phosphorus grenades that burn the words "fell off" out of your fucking ashes, and it makes amateurs like me and mine that much more anxious to step into the spotlight with anything we don't know will please the crowd or not.

@@joeyberg5765 You're speaking my mind perfectly. On the internet, the worst, most vile crime you can commit is, apparently, being cringe. And people will gang up on you for sharing a cool idea/art that people see as that.

As someone who's drowning in watching anime for reference, I see no problem yet

A writer has no fear. Make what you think is good and fuck anyone else's opinions.

I’ve noticed culture catering more and more to the infantilization of people. Most mainstream media is so safe and feels like it’s made for literal children. This goes for AAA video games, movies/shows, even music has become simple as hell.

yeah 100%

It's the kind of humour that DSMP and HLVRAI fans have and I can't express how much I despise it. The aesthetic artists too, yk the ones. The ones who tween at 5FPS with a super desaturated pastel colour palette. Every one of these people talks and acts the exact fucking same there is absolutely no individuality. The neopronoun TikTok people, too. I don't understand how these people can all act the exact same and not feel ashamed. YOU don't have a damn identity. You're just mimicking what others say. How do you not feel embarrassed? All the same opinions and tastes. These people consume the same exact media too and love the same RU-vidrs. They latch onto trends and immediately adopt new bullshit lingo. "I'm a blurry fragment with somewhat of a name and personality /pos" "i'm stimming so hard rn,,," "WAAAAA EATZ !!! /pos /th" "omg ur stinky /hj" THEY ALL ACT QND TALK TH3 3XACT SAME I HWTE THEM I DONT CARE TAHT THIS IS OFF TOPIC NOW I HATE THESE QUIRKY ASS KIDS WHO ACT THE EXACT SAME AND REPEATEDLY SPEW THE SAME TIRED QUIRKY BULLSHIT

The tumblr exodus is what caused this, if tumblr didn’t ban adult content this would have never happened or happened on a smaller scale

Tumblrs death was a disaster and you can't tell me otherwise

But, is that bad exactly? Like I think it’s human nature too some extent too not want to be judged. Is the only real difference that the internet has put it on steroids?

@@BlueTyphoon2017 I would say it does because you’re not just an outcast by your local group, you’re an outcast to potentially thousands, which makes it feel more serious. At least, that’s how I view it.

That just makes me intentionally want to be "that guy with a bad opinion" more, no matter how much the oof/um/yikes "people" get mad about it

@@Damian_1989 Que no implique decir que el bicho es mejor que Messi o que Pelé es mejor que Maradona por favor

As someone who is gen z, from what I've seen, in general gen z likes that type of humor and writing but not when everything has that. Then it becomes too much and we get fed up. It ends up getting stale so many people from my generation end up playing older games or multiplayer games/games with multiplayer modes. The people from gen z that eats this type of writing up every single time have been people that follow Millennials that have influenced them on social media. The same Millennials who are also on Twitter for what seems like 24/7.

Sincerity requires vulnerability and openness, which is why it's scary to some people. Irony is easy.

You also can expect the men to be incompetent fuck ups who often die(abs if they're competent quality leaders that get shit done they absolutely die) and either don't get shit done or just fuck everything up/make it worse. While you can expect the opposite of the women, always get shit done, training, experience, odds of actually winning against whatever challenge they face? All irrelevant you bigot, we've got a patriarchy to smash.

Also, I'll add that zoomer writing is basically just millennial writing on turbo mode thanks to their tiktok 10 second long attention spans.

@@probablynotdad6553 Exactly. The worst part is I have seen zoomers think that suddenly when a previously established female character is transformed into generic "strong indepent woman" it suddenly makes them a good character now and fixes there flaws. They just removed all the flaws of the character and made all the male characters around them dumbed down. But then they just straw man it as "Gamers when woman are actual characters now" Its sad we used to laugh at people who where pushing this non sense and now people are just accepting it as it is. There aren't any good female characters anymore because they are all the same templates overused again. I am surprised women aren't offended by these characters considering its pretty much saying that they are so weak that everything has to be dumbed down for them so that they can look good.

@@probablynotdad6553 frfr ong no cap

Ya male charecters are never known for being one dimensional. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Exactly, People used to make fun of these people for a good reason. Now look at the state of everything since they have gotten power over the internet. The quality of everything has gone down and people just want to lie and say that it hasn't Nowadays making fun of those types of people is seen as "cringe" When they deserve it for the hypocritical and horrible things they want to do. its tragic to see almost every youtuber who used to stand against this shit suddenly change and promote the ideology of the people who they used to make fun of. They say its "maturity" But their is nothing mature about being a professional victim and treating everyone around you like shit.

I'm convinced the porn ban and resulting Tumblr exodus was done for the express purpose of spreading that hivemind across the internet. Looking back now it felt way too calculated of an event. 5 years ago nobody except the most echo chambered and terminally online weirdos cared about pronouns. Now it's suddenly mainstream to the point where people have their lives ruined for not getting some manchild's made up gender identity correct? When NOBODY gave a crap about this sort of thing in human history before? Nah, something is up

@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778it certainly doesn’t help that a lot of the people calling each other out are functionally the same, as in: equally full of it in their own way.

Just like the "revolutionary" boomer hippies have gotten into managerial positions of every aspect of our society after them done being edgy. Their losers kids, the millennials, now have to take the baton.

I believe tumblr is also where the whole MAP/NoMAP bullshit started where a bunch of p3dos started forming communities and gave themselves a new branding to appear harmless and sane

I think "twitter speak" and "Millennial Writing" has been very much been something people are talking about a lot, it's just that the term people use for it is called "Marvel humor/writing".

Um, yikes sweetie. Baby I literally cant believe you said this. On god fr

"Twitter speak" is just aave. If you know what this is and hate on it, then your racism is showing. Yall dont know because you prolly dont hear it irl, so its whatever.

@@lawfulgoodnun1646 What are you talking about? AAVE and twitter speak are two whole different things. Did we watch the same video, did we see the exact same example of tweets the video presents? Because from the tweets the video shows, that was not AAVE. How can you conflate the two?

@@taddonddat2217 im not not talking about the examples in the video specifically, those arent aave. However most people who complain about "twitter speak" are really just talking about aave specifically since thats the most prevelant dialect in the context of twitter. Like the the guy above my first comment is literally mocking aave.

Not anymore 😼 and that's a rare dub for 2024

Makes you think, doesn't it?

You can tell that Tom makes a lot of terrible puns followed by "I'll see myself out"

Me needy to be tommy.

Took years off my life

I haven't finished watching the video yet, and that line sounds like something from Rugrats. Please tell me it's from Rugrats Edit: It's not

@@hungrycrab3297 just take a peak at reddit comment sections. They always make up the cringiest ways to swear.

amazing post, i am gonna say something a bit off topic, i saw sargon on twitter saying that the reason leftists argue that black cops killing a black guy is white supremacy is because they dont see the police as something that could be created outside a western place, someone said this is crazy and reading too much into it and a few moments later a popular black activist blue checkmark literally said that the police is a european institution that did not exist in africa therefore having it and imposing it on cultures is white supremacy. The reason i am saying this is because i followed the guy before he had 100k subs and i have paid so much attention to wokeness that i can now predict how things will go Eg the new thing, say its a popular franchise is always gonna star a stunning and brave woman and replace the main character, all the men will be stupid weak or evil and all the women will be smart tough and no one would understand them because they are just so great and special. The new last of us tv show dedicated an episode to a minor gay charater. Here is my prediction, they gonna kill joel and replace him with this gay character in order to make the cast more diverse. New james bond movie is gonna be about a diverse group of agents, so its like the new witcher show, this is the agenda they are heading. Of course none of it will be serious, it will be full of critiques and quips and mockery and people like the critical drinker and mauler will praise games that are woke but they dont have cringe eg horizon, god of war while bashing the she hulks. This of course guarantees that tolerating lite wokeness is gonna grant you more wokeness. Everything these days is made to be diverse and has checkboxes of said diversity its a very corporate style of doing things but hey they are woke so they are the good guys and they get more money through ESG scores and checking diverse checkboxes. But the people who write this game either take it a bit seriously, in which case you get woke games with minimal cringe or dont take it seriously so you get games that dont take themselves seriously with maximum cringe. Sargon said to watch the latest matrix movie because its an admission and a documentary of how these people live. They sit there in a corporate boardroom trying to analyze the matrix which in the movie is a videogame so they can make a sequel. This is how the writer of the movie lives and who they surround themselves with, this is why everything is bad. This will not change until people reject the whole thing and the media defending them and not the laziest extreme cases, they must be rejected as talentless hacks or they will keep doing it forever regardless of not being profitable, it will become a habit and how to do things. In order for things to change we have to get better ideas from a foreign culture unaffected from these things, which is becoming harder and harder every day.

It's truly ironic that the people who most often use ironic observation and decry the 1%. Are the wealthy 1% shielded in a protective metropolitan bubble. It'd be good for 'em to put their phone down and look around at the real world.

@@arkgaharandan5881 I agree. I love the fiction manosphere but by giving attention to this shit we are only perpetuating it, by congratulating "what they do right", it's just fence sitting and scrapping for crumbs, like Thor_Skywalker for example he is a swell dude but being nice isn't going to get us anywhere, we should just stop paying attention yes everyone will lose subs and views but it's for the better.

I mean I kind of agree but honestly characters tend to act that way in most video games. The only ones where they don't is survival horror games where you're SUPPOSED to feel scared whereas this is a power fantasy. Games like this have always handled the switch from powerless to powerful about the same way. Haha funny quip you are STRONG NOW FEEL POWERFUL. I think you might be delving a bit too deep into that in particular. That and a LOT of characters in movies and games have ended up coming across as psychopaths for entertainments sake its been par for the course mostly always. If you stop and think about a lot of 90s action movies the characters murder some rando and then Arnie delivers a one liner to some nameless mook he just threw into a meat grinder and murdered horrifically. And that was just EVERY action movie from that time even if Arnie was the most prolific for it. I think we've definitely gotten better on the front of not making character's in movies and games come across as complete sociopaths overall even on the antagonist side since I see more writing where they're shown as actual people who've lost their way instead of inhuman monsters that don't really teach you anything beyond......don't be cartoonishly evil I guess? All that teaches you is that as long as you're not absurdly black and white monstrous you're not a Nazi, you're not a villain, you're not the bag guy because bad guys kick dogs, and beat women, and betray their friends. I've definitely seen a trend of much more human antagonists with actual lessons to learn from them instead of TERRORIST EVIL SHOOT THE EVIL Also funny enough there's another top comment in this section that complains the problem is people putting their life experiences in the writing whereas you agree good writing comes from sincere life experiences not from just making a character that's ironic for irony's sake or literally just a series of quips put together

Indeed. But it's not only that they lack personal experience and therefore just reference the media they consume. Because another part of the problem is the media they consume. These writers are not searching for non fiction books, they are not looking for stories that challenge their worldview, they are not looking for novels written by third world authors. They just read whatever authority have told them it's good. They will cite and apply Terry Pratchett's writing philosophy not because they agree with it but because they think it's good and as good writers they must do what good writers do like joss whedon does. Same as Ryan Johnson when it appears that he writes subversions because only good writers do subversions.

As if they realize their writing is the problem

unfortunately, the general public probably won't

Fallout 2 is a masterpiece of writing. Anything from Chris avellone is.

Ted Lasso might be the most unbearable character ever written. Every character in that show communicates through pop culture references and virtue signaling and its supposed to pass as a personality

Oh yeah, you're right. "Enclave maincomm" guy was good writing. I always just thought of it as funny. Writing like that requires being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes, mentally, which I don't think the subjects of this video are capable of. They'd have thought, "durr, patriot American soldier man? He dumb! Make him speak dumb, and racist too."

“Enclave here why isn’t your video feed working?”

And there you go old fashioned writing that's not what this is It's new stuff that just came out get with the times bro

Zach Hadel, one of the creators, is an old breed of liberal. The ones who actually hate or just make fun of the new generation of the left. He's also very edgy and just funny, having his humor inspired mainly by Norm McDonald.

You were so close but you just had to use "bruh," which is another extremely obnoxious millennial "word." But yes, Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel are fantastic at making anti-millennial humor

@@RavenStation711 kool

@@Strato_Casterrr9898 He's also a jew, so he strangely has a fascination with collecting memorabilia from the third reich

@@pieterwillembotha6719 he's not a jew lmao, I think you are referring to Tomar. There's a running gag in oneyplays that they make references to tomar being a jew, in an edgy but ultimately harmless way.

To be fair, you’re allowed to benefit from something while still recognizing its faults and seeing how other people don’t reap the rewards that you do.

Aren't you still a bad person though?

My favorite is listening to someone complain about capitalism with a background full of funkopops and nendoroids.

​@@nathanwagner6535 you're right with your statement, but i don't think it's applicable here. they don't criticise it in a way that respects the fact they them self actually benefit from it. but they rather make it seem like they're one of the many victims of capitalism whilste they're actually one of the problems of capitalism. it's like if McDonalds would complain about unhealthy food and it's effects on obesity.

@@nathanwagner6535 No you're not. I (blonde hair blue eyes) would benefit under National Socialism but I would still be openly against it because I know that it hurts other people. Don't try to lecture me about how bad Capitalism is when you yourself are the evil Capitalist.

It just hibernates. Spring will come soon after the Millennial Winter.

@@DoctorInk20 zoomies are much worse

@@tomaszpawlik5091 we'll see

As time goes on, the good pieces of writing will be remembered while the bad pieces won’t, and if the bad pieces are remembered, they’ll be used as an example of what not to do

It's not getting rare, it was always rare. Writers have been pointing this out since at least the 1800's.

Twitter allows people who are bullied to have a voice. Unfortunately, all those people were bullied for a reason, and then you add in celebrities.

@@Beowulf__ Honestly, since musk took over those people have been losing their power. They all came from tumblr, but since musks takeover they haven't been able to really start any cancellations anymore.

I blame this partially on the tumblr migration of 2018. A lot of the stupid stuff you see on Twitter really originated or at least spread on tumblr. when all of those people left Tumblr because of the NSFW ban, it impacted the anglophone Internet landscape more than you would imagine. Twitter is a “normie” platform compared to Tumblr so more people were being exposed to those ideas.

dude wtf. look at their employees. they are the people on twitter. you live in fiction.

It's the check box nature of things now. We got the black guy, check! And the asian woman, check! The gay character, check!

“wise man talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” -Plato

@@cmdrfunk Don’t forget that all of them are stereotypical and only represent a small part of the group

The only time politics work in fiction is when it doesn't promote a sole party or ideology, but rather observes passively and allows the viewer/reader/player to make their own choices and develop their own thoughts.

it's like the humor from the 2000s but worse in every way and not funny at all

Culture, especially in the US, pretty much flatlined in the mid 2000s. For close to 20 years now, music, fashion and "Most" Comedy has either stagnated or is so bereft of any originality, its cringeworthy. In my opinion anyways...

@@kevinkusman9137 Idk. I was in my early teens in the mid 2000's and I would say it was still a pretty fun time to be alive. Personally, I feel like the 2010's (but specifically from 2012 onwards) is when everything went to sh!t. That's when the popular fashion, music, movies, games, etc, started feeling completely alien to me. The late 2010's were especially bad. It was to the point where nothing even felt real to me anymore.

Hopefully the humor in 20 years from now will just be threatening. Which is pretty funny. It's like the IP address meme thing but on steroids

@@dongorleone8322 cry about it or something lmfao

Why do i feel like they're two opposites "Safe and edgy"

​​@@mohannadalshamrani199gmailIts people who are fine with making fun of white nationalities but not brown people basically

Those, don't even go together. How does that work???

@@BLKKNGofficial I.. don't really know. I'd say it means only being moderately edgy?

@@mhmtakeyatime9000 so like...Shrek maybe? Or shadow the hedgehog

This is what it is, being an asshole, regardless of all other aspects of a person, is what's considered "cool" now. Being sarcastic, cynical, and above it all are all now considered commendable traits by pretty much all sects of society. Some people will point to the other side of whatever political side they fall on and pin the blame squarely on "the opposition" but it's literally everywhere in all groups. Nobody can show weakness or vulnerability or even a willingness to grow and change, everyone has to be the big tough guy who's so big and smart that they don't have to take anything seriously because everything is below them. And the irony, nobody is allowed to genuinely feel anything about anything, it all has to be wrapped in 10 layers of irony because having a genuine feeling about something is "cringe" or whatever.

@@GANONdork123 Very true. When movies, games, etc. feel the need to shove "self-aware" jokes into their emotionally charged moments, it kills the impact. I get that some humor can relieve tension, but it's like audiences aren't allowed to feel anymore.

I wonder if the sarcasm is meant to be some kind of "response" to the "parents", in an almost psychoanalyst way. Like "Don't you fucking get it boomer????" mindset that has been so aggressively reinforced over years of this that it just flows without realizing.

It's nihilism. Everything is a joke, because nothing matters. Because the people who write this stuff now haven't ever lost something they cared about, or gone through a hardship, or built ANY sense of character beyond consuming media, which is why they became writers. ALL of their writing, and dialogue, and stories, are detached and meaningless rollercoaster rides with 0 stakes, because that's what it's like for them to do nothing but consume media their whole lives.

@@axiss5840 I wouldn't go that far. Saying "X person hasn't had a hardship" is pretty fucked regardless of who it's against. But that nihilism bit? I could see that. I've known a few in my personal life who would use the phrase "I don't care" about a political topic as a defense mechanism, and they'd get pretty mad about being called out on it.

It's worse than that. Its people who try to gauge other's moral worth by the products they consume.

"Star wars" I fucking hate Disney for what they did to that IP.

i was a watered down infantilized version of the DUNE saga from the start anyways. @@silverprimus321boi9

Then they bring up the usual strawman of "you want to change society yet you live in one".

conflating consoomer soyboys with far leftists is like conflating maga boomers with groypers. most marxists i know can't afford merch outside of pride flags and posters for an anime that ended 30 years ago

the end result of liberalism is always an oligopoly. Liberalism is self defeating, it erradicates itself once the monopolies can form cartels and manipulate the free market. Right now the oligarchs are so succesful they can do social engineering and make a system much like the soviet technocracy but through international private conglomerates. In the most ironic twist libertarians are defending private companies right to exercise censorship and deplatforming while the state is the one who still guarantess in the constitution the right to free speech.

No common sense, no self awareness, and a sense of virtue that is falsely clouding morality. Yep that's a red flag.

​@realProVail funny enough your comment is the same millennial writing this video talks about. " Yup that's a red flag" is that condescending sarcastic language he's talking about. And "red flag" is one of those terms that's picked up popularity on sites like reddit in recent years.

@@pennyprince you can't just make zingers off-limits because some people use them shittily

That's some of it. But even if you haven't lived through certain things, you can at least do research, or bring in a consultant. Writers used to work hard to figure out how to make things real. I've seen sci-fi authors talk about the countless hours they spent trying to learn about bleeding-edge tech or even just theoretical stuff, getting a feel for how it does or could work, and then implementing that into the story. And then there's the example of Tolkien; he wrote about 10 books worth of notes of backstory and history of his fictional world, and then wrote his novels, which made it feel very grounded. Entirely fantastical, but Rohan felt like an actual place and not just some guys over there somewhere.

@@billjacobs521 I never said it was the entire problem. Obviously, I think a ton of factors play into this. I was just throwing this out as something that's probably having an effect. Especially in industries like Hollywood, I don't think writers in the top positions get there entirely on merit. A lot of it comes down to nepotism. Also, I'm not saying people need real life experiences for realism or anything like that. Genres like fantasy or sci-fi have nothing to do with my point. I've known aspiring writers that take too much inspirtion from existing media and almost nothing else. It's to the point I can usually tell what they're taking ideas from. Old writers seemed to like taking inspiration from their own lives and the lives of others. A lot of characters were also based off of people they knew. When a writer writes a story and characters that way, it's no wonder it feels more believable and authentic than when a writer basically xeroxes a previous work(s)... Then another writer xeroxes that... and another... until the quality deteriorates too much.

exactly. They are boring and chronically online. They are web-dwellers who think that reddit or Uni made them into "writers". But unlike real writers who can share life experience, knowledge, ideas and their observations, these guys can only share with you the same beat-up dictionary and "jokes", that you have seen thousands of times.

This is right, writers took inspiration from their lives to write, while nowadays it seems that writers take inspiration from pop-culture and other books. It's a derivative of a derivative, there's no lived experience and they all seem the same because they take the inspiration from the same pool of information as every other writer instead of from their own perspective

The consuming media 24/7 is the problem. They're writing abstractions of abstractions of reality. It's just far less grounded.

man classy British lady protagonist sounds far better than the generic protagonist whose vocabulary only involves "fuck"

This, absolutely this People making stuff dont really want to take risks nowadays since your ego is the most important thing and failure is the enemy of """being perfect""" So instead of actually learning on what they did wrong and hence improving, they simply slap the "irony" mark on their "art" and thus being immune to the "enemy of progress" that is genuine critique. And therefore never going any further

bingo.

Funny you bring up sonic, its the reason why despite sonic 06 and Shadow the hedgehog being bad games they are more talked about and remembered then forces, worlds or colors is because the people who wrote sonic 06 put their actual heart into the games story and tried.

@@bigblue344 Yeah, Sonic 06 is clearly a project with heart and sincerity, just a botched one. And yes, that makes the failure spectacular, but at least it's somewhat vulnerable.

You had me until you started talking about the story of Sonic the Hedgehog.

We can thank diversity hiring for that

Twitter is a part of the real world. Living unplugged is a different kind of being oblivious by choice.

its the same in pro wrestling..the hardcores would rather have a 30min match with no story,no interviews,no build and no commentary....just 2 guys doing acrobatic moves all the time...

They know to much more like.

@@yavvivvay my mom lives "unplugged" and she lives well.