A general chit-chat thread. Post whatever you want, share whatever you want.
274 posts and 116 image replies omitted.>>797025the chad is bogged. loomer'd. one might even say chopped.
>>797025This was the original intention of the meme, the chad guy looks absurd, his head is the outline of the country of Chad. the virgin guy just looks normal
Humanity is weird. The things we do and pay attention to are weird. Like, parody rap songs, for example. Why are those a thing? Someone one day decided to make a rap song about a video game character or movie or something, probably because they wanted to make rap tracks but felt like they couldn't cause they're not 'a real mothafukken G'. It's weird that parody rap songs exist, and it's weird that people pay them attention and might even think they're cool. Entertainment in general is weird. Generally, people will have spent hundreds of thousands of hours over the course of their lives consuming entertainment media, and will think themselves arbiters of taste and quality, but will also be generally unable to explain why they feel the way they do about a particular piece of media. Cat got your tongue? Bad at language? What is it? Regardless, the concept of making entertainment and then being entertained by someone else's entertainment is weird to me.
It's weird that there are people who can earn billions of dollars making songs, but only because they have the backing of some huge corporate entity whose business is to sell their likeness as a product, and christen them as idols, and it's weird that the rest of us commoners, who have no such corporate backing, are relegated to being effectively impotent in our ability to achieve a similar level of success, even in the age of the internet, which has facilitated unprecedented communication around the globe.
Think about it, Justin Bieber wasn't some hit sensation out of his garage, he was picked up by a record label. Oh, sure, he went viral I guess, but he still required backing from music executives who sought to exploit his talents or style for their benefit. It's just weird to me that most people have to slave away at monotonous jobs that they hate, just so they can feed themselves and their families, while a scant few are given the opportunity to achieve such incredible financial success for being the court fucking jester, or perhaps participating in athletics, or some other "fun" activity that would otherwise be nothing more than a pass time had certain people not realized that such things could earn trillions of dollars through their entertainment value.
I can see why you'd label artists and athletes petit bourgeoisie, and those who would aspire to inhabit such positions as lumpenprole.
>>797601I think most forms of entertainment are ultimately part of some tradition, a more general notion of what some people would call fandom bleedover. These things seem to delight us, because they exist in reference to something else, and interacting with them engages us in some kind of indirect social conversation
Capitalist mass culture has been both an awesome standardizer and a great destroyer of local tradition in that regard. Whenever i read something about the personal life of a fanfiction writer, they seem to be working a regular job and do it precisely for that participation with others in a community. Therefore i don't think this form of entertainment is much different in purpose from the low culture of the past, if significantly so in scope, complexity and convenience.