Kulturkampf

[Nintex]

[benji]

[benji]

[benji]

How did I miss this one about half the population having "exercise intolerance"?

   

[RetiredSkunk]

we’re not gonna make it

We get what we deserve

If anyone would tweet that, it'd be a gyy that looks exactly like that dude.

[Uncle]

[HaughtyFrank]

From 10 months ago but lmao

More Than 30 Harvard Students Hunger Strike for 12 Hours in Solidarity With Brown Protesters

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/12/hunger-strike-solidarity-protest

[Uncle]

From 10 months ago but lmao

wat

[benji]

Should have done eight hours in solidarity for the eight days. Also the eight days of Hanukah.

[HaughtyFrank]

From 10 months ago but lmao

wat

Oh weird, the site must have trouble with my time zone. It actually says "in 10 months" 

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[benji]

Maybe we need a Taylor Swift Wars thread:

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[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Taylor could never.

[Nintex]

Taylor Mid

[Polident]

Sort of in tune with the bitterness around Taylor Swift’s success, there are people upset over this recent romcom being a surprise box office success story. Mostly down to it starring two conventionally attractive straight white people. People bitterly bring up other recent romcoms about gay leads or non white leads and how they were better by some mysterious metric and should’ve been more successful. Like they unironically see all media as propaganda and audiences democratically neglecting their slop as a slap in the face.

[Eric Cartman]

Sort of in tune with the bitterness around Taylor Swift’s success, there are people upset over this recent romcom being a surprise box office success story. Mostly down to it starring two conventionally attractive straight white people. People bitterly bring up other recent romcoms about gay leads or non white leads and how they were better by some mysterious metric and should’ve been more successful. Like they unironically see all media as propaganda and audiences democratically neglecting their slop as a slap in the face.

I think its because uncreative people see creative products as equivalent to drop shipping and confuse equality of opportunity with equality of outcome, so they get mad when ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT A sells well but ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT B doesn't, even though PRODUCT B has lots of labels on it about how ethically sourced it was and how a share of its profits goes to educational scholarships for the disabled.

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

The Taylor swift shit has gotten a bit much and very annoying tbf, I'd prefer it if we could just go back a few years to when she was still mega successful and shit bit the hysteria wasnt there

Idk it seems like she's stolen most of Kim Kardashians press to go ontop of her own or some shit.

[Uncle]

yeah back when she was a cgi cat with a cgi butthole

[Nintex]

It's kind of strange how her current success is limited to a specific audience (~25 - 45 y/o American women) but she captures that audience nearly 100%.
There seems to be almost no interest in Taylor Swift from men aside from the fact that they are annoyed by the coverage.

Outside of the US, Taylor is not even in the top 10 in most European countries and the press has very little interest in her private life. 
Dua Lipa is more popular here. I seldom hear Taylor on the radio when I'm driving, while that Houdini song from Dua is basically on repeat. 

I expected that just like other American pop-culture things the Taylor Swift craze would sweep across Europe within weeks or months too and while her marketing people certainly tried it just didn't happen.

[Uncle]

I've probably heard taylor swift songs ambiently but I couldn't name any and know nothing about her, she doesn't seem to be a loudmouth drama celebrity of the type to make videos you'd see in memes like the mariah carey "I don't know her" etc

off the top of my head I was like, did she sing that wrecking ball song? no apparently that was miley cyrus

I literally don't fuckin know

[Besticus Maximus]

She's completely sexless. I don't mean that as a criticism, more an observation. A pop star for mormons.

[Uncle]

oh she did the screaming goats song?

[Polident]

She's completely sexless. I don't mean that as a criticism, more an observation. A pop star for mormons.

That’s by design. Everything she is and does is filtered through a high school fantasy. Emotionally adolescent but unashamedly so. Right now she’s a woman in her mid thirties pretending to be a cheerleader girlfriend. 

Given how much of modern society is people collectively unable to let go of high school drama, she’s wish fulfillment by proxy. She’s Conan the Barbarian for women.

[Nintex]

She's completely sexless. I don't mean that as a criticism, more an observation. A pop star for mormons.

I think part of the reason why women like her so much is that she does not appeal to men at all.

Even Adele, which was also popular among women still got plenty of attention from all the Pierce Brosnans out there.

[TylenolJones]

US Army lowering standards for millennial again.

[Potato]

She's completely sexless. I don't mean that as a criticism, more an observation. A pop star for mormons.

That’s by design. Everything she is and does is filtered through a high school fantasy. Emotionally adolescent but unashamedly so. Right now she’s a woman in her mid thirties pretending to be a cheerleader girlfriend. 

Given how much of modern society is people collectively unable to let go of high school drama, she’s wish fulfillment by proxy. She’s Conan the Barbarian for women.

You leave Conan out of this.

[HaughtyFrank]

[Potato]

Oh, fuck off!

That shit is detestable and I hope whoever forced that shit dies a horrible death.

[TylenolJones]

I prefer a message like that over them cutting the content out or making changes to alter the problematic parts.

[Uncle]

I prefer a message like that over them cutting the content out or making changes to alter the problematic parts.

however, such a message being normalized (rather than leaving it out) implies that it would've been a valid choice to cut the content, but this company just happened to decide not to, but watch out old content we got our eye on you next time

imagine every rerelease including unskippable shit like this

imagine mario 1 "representing attitudes of the time that it was ok to present women as a prize to be won which wasn't ok then and isn't ok now"

[Uncle]

also as recently as 5 years ago, shadow of the tomb raider had gross grunting african tribesmen with weird rituals and shit, which I have no idea how they got away with and is far worse than anything in the classic tomb raider games