Thread 24673324

Why are zoomers obsessed with this retarded edgelord?

>>24673324 (OP)
serious answer is that wendigoon did a video on blood meridian and zoomers love wendigoon

schizo answer is that zoomers are neo-puritans especially with social media/phones infecting everyone. the peak's passed I think but there's still shockwaves from the blast. their darker drives/unconscious currents/desires shoot outward through the internet looking for recognition and who better than the judge. plus he's got that cool factor. youtuber, vaguely classic literature, still seems modern and edgy

Really? Or is it just a small group of degenerates promoting it online? Not going to read this book for pedos and sodomites. This is supposed to be high art? This is supposed to be a highly acclaimed great novel and staple of our culture? It's disgusting.

Something went wrong at some point. A wrong turn, a descent. This was 1985. It's been creeping for decades. I refuse to believe this is just the nature of the world. There are good and pure things in this world. Something changed. I believe the intellectuals were the first to abandon God.

>>24673324 (OP)
zoomies don't understand the metaphor is the important bit, so they focus on the writing.
And the best writing is put into top ten lists
If you want a marketable character you can sell funko pops of, you can't make him an actual vile.
so Judge is 1. cause hes what an actual evil person would do with his time.

>>24673343
>Something went wrong at some point. A wrong turn, a descent. This was 1985. It's been creeping for decades. I refuse to believe this is just the nature of the world. There are good and pure things in this world. Something changed. I believe the intellectuals were the first to abandon God.
You would love Blood Meridian kek

>>24673324 (OP)
Zoomers have an extremely neurotic morbid fascination with pedophilia and the accusations of vile irredeemable sin, and what >>24673345 said this makes the judge like an actual evil, not some salvageable safe edgy kind of evil. On top of that the character and book have a cool, edgy, unique and almost high classical cosmic horror tone so it's a recipe for tik tok hits.

Why is 4chan obsessed with zoomers?
No matter what board I go on there’s some thread about them and a behavioral trait about them that is completely made up or at least far less represented in actuality than is assigned to them on the internet.
I work with a lot of zoomers and they seem exactly the same as everyone their age was 20 years ago.

>>24673343
The is covered in the book.

>>24673324 (OP)
The part at the tent revival in the very beginning was pretty fucking funny guyz. Reading right now.

>>24673395
4chan is mainly populated by millennials at this point, which is to say people who are transitioning into old age. And like all the ageing and old people during all eras, they obsess over the youth. "Zoomer" obviously doesn't denote members of Gen Z in particular, but is mere slang for youths in general, much like how "boomers" has morphed into new slang for geezers.

>>24673685
>at this point
It was always a millennial site you drooling retard. Who do you think made it?

>>24673704
There used to be a big share of Gen X'ers, but they partially graduated and partially just died out.

>>24673738
>big share
Strange larp. There was a minority who came crawling from SA, that was it. Do you think /a/ was populated by 30-40 somethings back in the 00s?

>>24673395
All millennials seethe about zoomers. It's a generation of marvel watching hufflepuff chungus fatcucks refusing to grow up

>>24673685
>"Zoomer" obviously doesn't denote members of Gen Z in particular
Utterly moronic post. Are you brown? Post hands.
>>24673744
>a minority on reddit is indicative of anyone
Broccolicucks are internet damaged.

>>24673748
Yeah it's not like Marvel movies grossed billions or cuckolding become one of the most consumed porn categories or was in the mainsteam content or dysgenic freaks were plastered everywhere
Cuckllenials are the most pathetic group of retards to ever exist
KYS

>>24673324 (OP)
Gave it an honest try and quit halfway through.
I just caught myself having to reread constantly my brain preferred to daydream rather than absorb anything from the page. I don't even think it's badly written but the story did not engage me whatsoever. I wouldn't suggest it has nothing beyond shock value as a story, but I think it was more interested in being commentary than an actual story with stakes you're expected to care about and it made it intolerably dull to me. Or the brain fog is winning, I don't really care which, I dropped it.

>>24673324 (OP)
/lit/ is populated by a bunch of sub 80 iq pajeets and trannies. Literally. Not even a joke. Any self respecting literature fan should leave this rotting place immediately, just take a look at the catalogue and see for yourself. This place is only gonna make you associate literature with brain dead retards, it's gonna make you dislike it ironically enough.

>>24673704
>>24673742
Gen xers made it and made it great. Boomerlennials took a fat shit all over it.

>>24674166
>m00t
>gen x
retard

Reading it for the first time rn. Its good but i keep falling asleep

i dont think most zoomers could read past page 5 and the ones that watched a youtube video don't count. I read Blood Meridian, Suttree, and then ATPH, and Suttree was undeniably the true masterpiece.

>>24673351
its fucking hilarious like he completely missed that the book does not promote these villainous characters

>>24673858
i cant imagine not being enraptured by the character of The Judge. His entire essence is a mystery like an alien standing among men and the entire book is essentially the experience of a kid encountering this man. Also Suttree is his best work imo that ones really funny among other things

>>24673395
Zoomers live rent free in the minds of soilennials

>>24675148
More like broccoliheads came crawling here and started shitting up the place like so many jeets

>>24674705
>Suttree was undeniably the true masterpiece.
This is becoming such a hipster take. It's zany Faulkner b8. BM is by and far what his legacy will rest on.

>>24675163
Yeah the people who rec Suttree always say something like “Blood Meridian is too dark bro….Suttree is waaay more lighthearted”
If you can’t handle BM then I doubt Suttree is more accessible, and it’s not even as good as the former

>>24673754
We have our problems to be sure but I don‘t know on what basis you‘re assigning this as a millennial problem when the culture has been on a steady decline for decades at least and the trajectory has continued while Gen Z is now primarily in their twenties.

>>24673858
its based on real events so the plot kinda just meanders in the middle. The violence gets so over the top it gets boring.

>>24673324 (OP)
He has a lot of memorable quotes and dominates the best scenes of an excellent book
t. zoomer

>>24673324 (OP)
It's funny how you think you're not one of them

>>24673324 (OP)
Joker got too memed on, so they moved onto this

>>24673351
Nah Blood Meridian basically goes that humans are naturally evil and then goes on detail about disgusting bullshit
It's little more than the author's barely disguised awful fetishes hidden behind a false veil of cynicism and nihilism which considering how the other anon talks, he's heavily against

>>24673395
Zoomers are overwhelmingly separated from society, reliant on Internet anonymity and even AI chatbots, often addicted to insanely degenerate bullshit stemming from the deepest, most distasteful pits of the net, and attached to the point where a normal life is usually a very hard thing to achieve for them. It's funny though that 4channers, the earliest generation to end up like this, is annoyed at them kek. I guess it's sad seeing how people stoop down to this level

>>24673324 (OP)
Most "zoomers" wouldn't be able to tell you what Blood Meridian is, much less who Judge Holden is. Take a break from the internet, champ.

>>24673324 (OP)
>>24673343
I’m just about finished reading the book and this is close to my take as well. There are a handful of passages I found clever but for anyone to suggest blood meridian is some profound artistic expression let alone the great American novel is completely absurd

I didn't understand the purpose of the bit with the Judge and the preacher. So yeah, he slanders the guy in front of the congregation, and for some reason they immediately believe him (supernatural manipulation maybe, or they just stupid?) and then later on he blatantly admits he lied about the whole thing and instead of lynching him they all just laugh. Was fucking weird.

>>24676021
There is a supernatural element for sure, but something people forget is the judge's height. He is near-on 7 feet tall, and he looks intimidating in every way possible. People naturally defer to people of enormous stature, even moreso if they are well spoken and carry themselves well. If he was 5'6" and tried pulling this trick the preacher and everyone else would've had him quickly strung up.
I don't particularly like the book, but I liked this scene because it shows how easily manipulated the average person is.

>>24676021
its his character introduction.
he's an eloquent liar thats entertaining himself.

>>24676016
Blood Meridian was pushed by Redditards and Discordtroons. Before that nobody gave a shit about the book except shitty book reviewers that don't influence the average person. It's just pushed by people trying to feel clever when they aren't, much like the book tries to act clever and profound when it isn't

>>24673324 (OP)
He's just a fun character in a book. Are we not allowed to like anything anymore? (t. not even a zoomer)

>>24673333
Resident zoomer here. I originally heard of the book when this bisexual DJ guy I knew showed me the most retarded sentence I've ever seen. But what really got me to read it was for some reason the book was getting shilled like crazy on here a little while back (if anyone remembers that). Also when I saw pic rel I busted my gut laughing. Although I usually just lie to people I know and say it was the wendigoon video so when someone asks where I read it I don't ruin my image.

>>24676037
It was too on the nose for me. I know nothing about this character is supposed to be subtle, and mccarthy was going for a big hit to introduce him, but idk. it felt almost comedic in nature, which you might argue is part of it, but i dont mean comedic in absurdity, more like comedic in stupidity. he was written in like how a fanfic writer would put their main villain in. THIS is the bad guy, he is so bad he will make you hate your preacher..

>>24676002
Blood Meridian says that evil exists in this world and if you are a fence sitting faggot like the kid it will destroy you even if you flirted with it

>>24676095
and? whats the alternative? become a pious bible basher? We all straddle the fence of good/evil whether we like it or not. if you eat meat you are doing evil every day. living things had to die for your pleasure and sustenance. there is no absolute morality, but there are things we absolutely know are wrong.

>>24676113
idk you could probably start by blowing the head off the demiurge when the opportunity presents itself thrice

>>24676117
What made those scenes so gripping is that whether it‘s because they still needed him or for some metaphorical reason about not being able to condemn him for the evil they all had or most especially for what felt like a near certainty that he‘d somehow still get the upper hand: there seemed to be about as much likelihood of achieving that as there is in going out demiurge hunting in the woods tonight. It was tantalizingly so close but unquestionably beyond their reach.

>>24676158
they were shit scared of him. it's made clear in the subtext throughout. they know this guy is something other than human, and they couldn't leave him if they wanted to. he would find them, and kill them, if they tried it. theyre tethered to him, which is another metaphor for their evil deeds i suppose.

>>24675429
> I don‘t know on what basis you‘re assigning this as a millennial problem
Exactly the way everything le bad is Zoomers doing

>>24674166
Gen X has never made anything. The ultimate bystander generation nobody cares about.

>>24673324 (OP)
Anyone who venerates this character needs psychiatric help. Identifying with an insane murderous, child rapist is crossing a few lines.

>>24673324 (OP)
malding about "edginess" is millennial coded

>>24676190
Uh, Gen X made all the games you fucking little milleniall bitches claim as your "culture". GTA, half-life, rainbow six. Theyre 3 I just named off the top of my head. Sit down and shut up bitch. Fact is, millennanals and zoomers are equally shit, and that's why everything is going to shit. You children expect everything to be handed to you on a plate, because that's all you've had your entire life. You are babies in adult bodies. Gen X never made anything..... ahahahahahhahahaaa. jesus.

>>24676091
Yeah, I remember when Blood Meridian was /lit/core and obscure among the general public. Well-known by readers ofc but I remember raving about how good it was to a few of my friends years back and they had no idea what I was talking about. Strange

>>24676219
>three video games

>>24676260
You have to understand, x-lets totally define themselves by popular culture. Garbage music and games under boomer direction was all they could manage.

>>24673324 (OP)
Zoomers read books other than romantasy novels? That's news to me.

>>24676543
I think most of them are just watching videos and shitposting about blood meridian, not actually reading it

>>24673343
>Not going to read this book for pedos and sodomites.
If you haven't read it, how do you know it's for pedos and sodomites?

I only read the road. But it was so bad I dismissed him as a writer permanently.

>>24673324 (OP)
why are you obsessed with us judgeheads?