Sometimes I wonder if things like the hexbear bouncing cat emotes are a bit twee and cringe, but then I see the aesthetics the other side has run with…
So :meow-bounce: is bad because it’s blobby and blobs are for children, but :party-cat: is fine because it’s not blobby?
Genuinely don’t understand the problem with things being stylized
I think neurotypicals are super weird about how you’re not allowed to keep liking certain things because you’ve aged, so if that’s what you mean by fucked concepts of adulthood im right there with you, but from what I understand you’re actually in favor of taking those arbitrary social rules that exist to shame people for harmless things that bring them job to even further extremes…?
Yeah I have no idea what specifically you’re talking about in terms of adults being increasingly more infantilized, getting older for me has pretty much exclusively consisted of being shamed for continuing to like things.
edit: specifically thinking about the evolution of animation (eastern as well as western) since like the 80s in terms of more rounded art styles with infantilized facial features becoming more and more popular
This is purely because it’s cheaper to animate with less detail
I mean, it’s not unheard-of to have grown adults with walls full of plush toys of characters from comic book films. That’s kind of a different issue though, more along the lines of nostalgia for our childhoods which is also used very cynically.
i mean, it’s kind of a mess, right? you have the things you might actually want to keep-wonder, expressions of joy, hugging a cat, whatever, and you’re not supposed to do those when you grow up. but you ARE supposed to position yourself in a hierarchy of domination, and you’re not supposed to want to be at the bottom, and you’re also supposed to submit and be meek and fragile and shit. drop the good, keep the bad, is the current position re: childhood and adulthood in modern european descended society.
i agree with the statement above; baby talk is not a good thing, and neither is curtailing your language because you’re talking to people who don’t already know every word you plan on using. people should have chances to grow, to learn and be more than they were, to be exposed to new shit.
I don’t really understand how that relates to using cute emoji sometimes.
In fact, emoji add more emotional context, tone, and meaning to text-based communication, which makes it easier to infer whatever the speaker is trying to say — I find them incredibly fucking helpful, im autistic and neurotypical people tend to be really bad at saying what they actually mean so having some sort of standardized tone or emotional indicator makes it way easier to figure out wtf they’re actually trying to say. I see no reason why those tone indicators can’t also be cute, and I don’t think it helps anyone to remove them.
NT’s do not tend to say what they mean, no. and that emojis allow more information to fit in a small space is literally just information theory, it’s, like, the second or third calculation that comes up in shannon’s original paper on the topic. we aren’t arguing that emojis are inherently bad or useless-I personally don’t like them, and think they’re overused by the worst people to avoid the discomfort of actually articulating their ideas, but if emoji didn’t exist, they would find another way to do that, and there is actually utility in there, once you dig through the mountains of boomer crap.
liking cute things is fine. but the idea that a whole person is dominated by that aesthetic, like these nazis are, is when it becomes problematic. its the aesthetics of the nonthreatening, of the needy blanket the whole personality, that’s where it becomes a problem. even children aren’t so thorough about that crap. i guess it’s also fucking creepy, like fetishizing the idea of cuteness, and the overselling of being nonthreatening is crazy sus and puts people on edge?
