I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam “Buy me a coffee!”, Reddit says shit like, “Don’t panic” when a webpage doesn’t load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.
My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up
Dude, nothing is serious anymore. Everything HAS to have a smile, or be funny and make me laugh. It’s like real jokerfication shit, why does EVERYTHING have to be light-hearted and feel-good? Every commercial, every TV show, every billboard has a fake-ass smile attached to it. Ask someone how they’re doing? Their mouth says “I’m fine” but their eyes say “I’m dead inside.” JFC people, JUST ADMIT THAT THINGS SUCK HOLY SHIT.
Tbh I get why people say “I’m fine.” If I say I’m having a bad day invariably people I barely know will probe me with questions about my personal life. Why can’t I just be miserable without scrutiny or having to explain myself?
“Marvel humour” had poisoned so many pieces of media now. The style of writing where if there is any sort of threat, any potential emotion, any quiet moment, is immediately undercut by a “funny” quip.
I saw people cry at the end of Infinity War because it actually tried. Final moment of potential victory, horrid realisation of defeat, then it’s silence as the weight of just having let a madman get away with wiping out trillions of lives in an instant sets in.
Bam, cut, done. Make your audience fucking cry, you pussies. Make them sweat during every action scene.
I watched the Addams Family movie the other year and it shocked me how much they don’t make comedies like that anymore. Other than the very best shows and movies, every funny moment is the character being funny. The ridiculous situations of Airplane! wouldn’t be greenlit today.
It’s why I can’t bring myself to hate The Final Frontier. It still captures a lot of that spirit that the other films have, especially the dynamic between the core three of Kirk, Spock and Bones. It kinda sucks but at least you can tell someone cared, even if they weren’t talented enough to pull it off.
It doesn’t give me the same awful vibes that something like Nemesis or Into Darkness does. Or the new CBS shows for that matter.
On the same level, every piece of media trying to take itself too seriously. I really don’t mind putting some idpol in your tv show if it’s relevant to the characters experience, but half the time it feels exactly like the Boys. Pandering on the surface without addressing underlying issues. If you want to get political, get political. Don’t half-ass.
Hard agree when it comes to film, but I was more thinking about everywhere else. Like magazine covers, ads on the bus or train, just fuckin smiles everywhere I look and like OP said even on shit that doesn’t have faces. I’m sure they’re even specifically designing cars to look like they’re smiling because focus group testing shows it “makes people feel more comfortable.”
Dude, nothing is serious anymore. Everything HAS to have a smile, or be funny and make me laugh. It’s like real jokerfication shit, why does EVERYTHING have to be light-hearted and feel-good? Every commercial, every TV show, every billboard has a fake-ass smile attached to it. Ask someone how they’re doing? Their mouth says “I’m fine” but their eyes say “I’m dead inside.” JFC people, JUST ADMIT THAT THINGS SUCK HOLY SHIT.
Don’t come to Korea.
