Anonymous
10/20/2025, 6:34:38 AM
No.723690894
>>723688542
Interview is actually good, but I think I agree.
I think what happened is that the main appeal of Anne Rice novels was relationship fantasy and erotica for women, which are 'lowest common denominator' impulses.
When something appeals to such basic impulses too much, over time it will morph into being majority about those impulses as everything non-essential gets pruned off. Think of how porn movies used to be an hour long with stories and characters, then they made them 30 minutes with extremely stupid stories, now they're 2 minute clips with literally no intellectual premise and just pure visual sexual stimulation.
And then some process occurs where the quality of the medium correlates with the intellectual depth of the medium.
For women, the word "Vampires" is now like "Catholic School Girls" or "British Broadcasting".
Interview is actually good, but I think I agree.
I think what happened is that the main appeal of Anne Rice novels was relationship fantasy and erotica for women, which are 'lowest common denominator' impulses.
When something appeals to such basic impulses too much, over time it will morph into being majority about those impulses as everything non-essential gets pruned off. Think of how porn movies used to be an hour long with stories and characters, then they made them 30 minutes with extremely stupid stories, now they're 2 minute clips with literally no intellectual premise and just pure visual sexual stimulation.
And then some process occurs where the quality of the medium correlates with the intellectual depth of the medium.
For women, the word "Vampires" is now like "Catholic School Girls" or "British Broadcasting".