[CW: Discussion of politics, Nazism and Christian topics]
Such a term made to describe prosumerist trends online. "No pawlitics" with a rabid defence. If you do the language of entertainment, do it right.
Be it cultivation or hypodermic
"Look, you can never consider yourself special or discerning for enjoying a product that employed a literal army of marketers in a skyscraper somewhere with the express goal of getting you, personally to spend money on the product. You’re a consumer. You bought the most marketed thing in the world. It’s like basing your personality on liking Coca Cola, the most popular soda on the planet. Congratulations on being the laziest mother______r alive, incapable of discovering anything for yourself because you’re an incurious f___.
Why would you ever demand respect for doing something easy? Why would you demand respect for liking something popular? It’s popular, which means a lot of people like it. By definition, you cannot be special for liking the big and popular thing!
But along comes the person who buys the game with the ads in Times Square and the commercials on the television and the standee in gamestop and the neverending press coverage (because it gets the clicks, and who’s doing the clicking? a lot of other people just like you!) and they go “I’m special! I’m special for consuming the commercial product!”
I wouldn’t consider you a discerning consumer for buying a McDonald’s McChicken sandwich every day, so why would I consider you a discerning consumer for buying the most commercial s___ in the world?
Congratulations on being boring.
Now, hey, this isn’t to say you can’t enjoy popular media! I enjoy a McChicken. The Last of Us 2 had a pretty good shotgun and some nice graphics! But to suggest that you are special for consumption? That’s what is ludicrous. It’s not even serious. It’s pathetic and boring."
I can only relate to them with these other platforms, propriety strictness of the platform with a SEO that's hard to ignore.
It's still prosumers for the dysfunctional business models awaiting it's return. Act on the platforms accordingly. Aah, the annoying commercialism and it's paradoxs. thats another pondering. (Even the article asks for it, welcome for the machine.)