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.
Along the same lines of what someone else said about things not being serious anymore, I’m tired of every fucking thing being meta, self-referential, or post-modern.
Everything has to be a wink, nod "you don’t really buy this, do you?
Like fuck it was original to break the fourth wall in the 70s or something, critique of grand narratives and all that, but now nothing can be self contained.
Does every show or movie have to have “Wow, so that happened”. Or like the fucking dragons in GOT turning their heads like dogs in a romantic scene. Just infantilizing.
Let things be sad or serious or whatever. The above-it-all, snarky bemused shit is so fucking bourgeois. “Hmm, it doesn’t matter, I’m too smart to care about any of this.”
Fuck off. Some things matter. I rather something be up its own ass and self-serious (which is easily dismissed, ridiculed, etc) than to be overly ironic.
Matt talks about this in a recent Cushvlog, though I’m afraid I can’t remember which one.
I think that’s why I loved the modern She-Ra so much when I watched it. It is so incredibly genuine, the characters are themselves and hurt and love and its so over the top flamboyant without ever being ironic about it. Despite any problematic parts, the core is simply be true to your heart, love even when it hurts, and find your own reason to keep living.
