>silly
>goofy
>fun
>haha comix XD amiright
Why has the pendulum swung so far to the other side to the point where everything must be "silly" and "wholesome"? No matter where I go the slightest hint of taking something seriously, or adding some grit, is seen as "edgy" or "meanspirited" and whatever else. It's as if all fiction is now only being accepted if it stars moral paragons (according to the beliefs of the [current day]) going against some generic baddies who are not characteristically or uniquely evil but are just some brand of "bad", and everything must end with a big happy hug while everyone quips and there's a long therapy session or whatever else. Batman can't be a brooding gothic character because now he's a heckin daddy with 10 million kids and has to learn to have therapy talks while having silly adventures against megasharks, and everything else is "edgy". The FF can't have another space opera epic story because the family aspect is the only important thing and they should have one-off adventures where they battle space alien zombie dinosaurs till the end of time. And so on and so forth.
There's no edge to anything anymore, it's all extremely safe. And the majority of consumers want it all to be even safer. Just slice of life derivative nonsense until the end of time with no break inbetween. Why is everyone so averse to storytelling and conflict? It's as if everyone's gotten stuck on the level of cartoons for 5 Y/Os. The irony of the 10s has metastasised into a case where they can only consooom something if it's constantly chastising its fantasy as ridiculousness through "self-awareness".
>goofy
>fun
>haha comix XD amiright
Why has the pendulum swung so far to the other side to the point where everything must be "silly" and "wholesome"? No matter where I go the slightest hint of taking something seriously, or adding some grit, is seen as "edgy" or "meanspirited" and whatever else. It's as if all fiction is now only being accepted if it stars moral paragons (according to the beliefs of the [current day]) going against some generic baddies who are not characteristically or uniquely evil but are just some brand of "bad", and everything must end with a big happy hug while everyone quips and there's a long therapy session or whatever else. Batman can't be a brooding gothic character because now he's a heckin daddy with 10 million kids and has to learn to have therapy talks while having silly adventures against megasharks, and everything else is "edgy". The FF can't have another space opera epic story because the family aspect is the only important thing and they should have one-off adventures where they battle space alien zombie dinosaurs till the end of time. And so on and so forth.
There's no edge to anything anymore, it's all extremely safe. And the majority of consumers want it all to be even safer. Just slice of life derivative nonsense until the end of time with no break inbetween. Why is everyone so averse to storytelling and conflict? It's as if everyone's gotten stuck on the level of cartoons for 5 Y/Os. The irony of the 10s has metastasised into a case where they can only consooom something if it's constantly chastising its fantasy as ridiculousness through "self-awareness".
