I'm convinced that chocolate guy is some kind of confectionary siren.
Like HOW is every video so MESMERIZING. If I saw this over the bow of a boat I'd jump in for a better look
Scotland will have an independence referendum on October 19th 2023. If you live in Scotland pls vote to finally be free of the shit ass uk
Wishing y'all luck, y'all deserve to be free.
They don't seem eager for a sip of contamination smoothie!
The UK government has just unbanned fracking while everyone's distracted by the royal circus
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the emotional fragility of a Prius driver contemplating his own mortality
emotionally fragile? not this guy:
Important personality test. What kid were you in gym class? I was the try hard who took it too seriously
fun fact if you refer to children as "things" and use "it" when referring to children and are happy to see children cry and get hurt im stealing something from your house
"what did he think was going to happen" i dont know considering the fact that this four year old boy literally cannot properly comprehend consequence
"and NOW she's acting like a victim *laughing emoji*" this six year old girl doesn't know anything about the world let alone how to process her emotions
like these are literal CHILDREN. they don't know shit about anything. hop off this cruel and edgy "i hate kids" train and go see a shrink asshole.
Oh my fucking god, this. So much this.
I’ve had to fucking explain this to parents. Why can’t the baby stop crying? Because that’s the only way the baby knows how to communicate -- they’re trying to tell you something. Why is this child acting like the world is ending because they lost their favorite toy? Because they’ve never experienced loss before -- this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to them in their lives
Children have all the emotional capacity of adults and none of the experience in learning how to cope with it. A knee scraped for the first time is the worst pain a child has ever felt. Not getting to go to the park is the greatest injustice ever.
They’re responding proportionally to the event from their life perspective. Children actually don’t over react, like ever. They just feel everything so much and have so little reference to weigh it against.
anyway i’m blaming disney for the rise of what is essentially pro-censorship rhetoric in “progressive” internet spaces. mostly bc i blame disney for everything but also i have some totally unfounded ideas. will expand in a sec
okay so. take everything with a grain of salt because im literally just making things up. also its not my intention to be overly deterministic and minimize consumer agency, so just being very clear about that right off the bat. i think people's refusal to seek out other content is a major contributor.
but on a broad level, i think what's going on here is the intersection between the character of disney in both their expansive monopoly and the specific brand of content they produce, and consumerism as identity/activism.
disney as a brand is characterized predominantly as childrens media, or at the very least media you wouldn't mind watching with your kids. kids media is generally prescriptive, at least to some degree, trying to teach kids how to behave, what is right and wrong, etc. in essence, trying to make kids into 'better' people. this is disney's goal too. because of this public perception, and because their power is contingent on consumer satisfaction, disney is almost diametrically opposed to genuine moral ambiguity. they cant be subversive because, as the most giantest media conglomerate in the universe, all their content is intentionally created to uphold traditional morals and live up to consumer expectations. if they suddenly decide to start making really subversive, really out-there content, people are gonna be pissed. their formula ensures their power.
at their core, all disney media must be formulaic and morally prescriptive.
now. many people today have been raised with these disney morals since their childhoods (with ppl who were kids during the disney renaissance now in their adulthood). and now that disney is making content geared toward older teens and adults, audiences aren't being forced to transition away from those simple moral principles as they grow up. now they make disney princess movies for adults too! people continue to be inundated with what are superficially complex, but fundamentally black-and-white morality tales, because as i said, disney cannot introduce real ambiguity into their products without threatening their brand. this creates a false sense of relativity of what complex media actually look like, and what they should be. if the height of moral ambiguity to you is the new mcu miniseries, you're going to be soooooo out of your depth if you suddenly decide to watch like. the sopranos or something. disney content have moral safety nets built in, where if you start to think too deeply about the implications of certain characters/actions, don't worry, they'll catch you. if you've rarely encountered stories that don't adhere to disney's moral code, which again is the moral code you've been prescribed since childhood, those stories might feel wrong, and they might feel scary, and they might feel categorically immoral.
and now, too, is this pervasive sense that you are what you watch. that watching the 'right' movie makes you a better person and watching the 'right' tv show makes you an activist. and luckily for all these people who only watch disney, they've been told their whole lives rather explicitly that what they're watching does, functionally, make them better people. it teaches them moral lessons that are applicable to real life, so surely it must be actively progressive, actively moral, to watch. implicit here is the other side of this belief, that media lacking clear moral principles must be actively harmful. because if your perception of media is that it should be prescriptive, as disney is, you might start to think that content with genuine complexity is telling you that becoming a mafia boss and destroying your family and killing people isn't that bad, actually.
this is getting long and probably makes no sense but essentially. if you believe that the content you consume should lay out real-life guidelines on how to behave (as disney must do in order to align with their brand and solidify power), when you encounter something that doesn't do that, you might have a tendency to think that its immoral and making audiences into worse people.
THE STAKES AND TRADE-OFFS THESE PEOPLE MAKE ARE ACTUALLY CRAZY
I dunno I read Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid and this seems pretty normal to me
excuse me
Image description: A tweet by @/Imman_Adan from 11 Sep 22 which says:
Idk why y’all are fighting with racists over Ariel’s race.
Just hit them with their fave line “why are you bringing race into this”
Follow it up with “maybe she was the best person who auditioned”
Close it out with a banger “not everything is about race” / End ID.
If you went by what you see on TV you’d think the nation was gripped in a collective outpouring of grief and.. it isn’t! No spontaneous flower tributes, no black armbands. People are just getting on with their lives. The only public displays are by brands and businesses.
Look at the number of flowers in town today under the queen statue. They’ve optimistically set the barriers far back anticipating thousands. There’s about 15. There was no one there paying their respects either. Literally no one. The biggest queue was at a burger van nearby.
No it is. Literally I was out in the centre of a major British city when she died with family and no one knew until 40 minutes later when my cousin checked her phone because we’d just been talking. Stuff keeps getting stopped, events cancelled because they think we care but the shops and events are no quieter. It’s all on billboards and sites but there’s not a single human being I’ve seen actually care. It is wild to see this state enforced mourning of “you should care, you have to care,” when no one actually is. It’s a trite comparison but the only thing I can think comparable to it would be if Big brother died in the world of 1984. It’s just screens everywhere insisting you have to have an emotional reaction but no humans actually having it. Non Brits please don’t think what you see online is a reflection of what it’s like here. All the mourning is happening online and non of it is happening in person. It’s basically an astroturfed funeral