Can a product be truly progressive? How can I free my skin? Let's discuss!
Can a product be truly progressive? How can I free my skin? Let's discuss!
This is pretty good. I didn't realize he made videos, I just know him from the Donkey Kong stream. Subbed here too now
Saw the backer version a couple of days ago. It's basically what Peter Occfin said in his Adversaries series. Really great stuff.
One of the more important takeaways is that liberals and leftists could, at some point, become the commercials and we should be prepared for it.
You've seriously missed out. Aside from a few videos early on, when he was kind of finding his voice, he's done trememendously well-written stuff. Bar none my favourite video-essayist/youtuber. The Measured Response videos are great, but his videogame and movie critiques are solid stuff too. Be sure to check out his backlog, because it's really worth it.
We're doomed.
2012It's amazing how capitalism will package up absolutely anything to sell shit. Including stuff like this and brands being given human personalities on social media. If someone wrote a film with this 20 years ago they'd be laughed out the room.
They Live taught people nothing.It's amazing how capitalism will package up absolutely anything to sell shit. Including stuff like this and brands being given human personalities on social media. If someone wrote a film with this 20 years ago they'd be laughed out the room.
You mean other then Roddy Pipper was a better actor then hogan?
YupOoh this is going to be great!
I loved the tears that the Gillett ad created, but brands attempt to appear woke as a marketing strategy is pretty gross.
I'd vastly prefer they do nothing.Yup
Its better than not doing anything sure but people who eat it up...
Yeah I guess that's true too. Idk I just thought more exposure would helpI'd vastly prefer they do nothing.
Coloring real issues with the absurd cynicism of late stage capital "BUY ME" taints the message, sometimes irreparably. And this isn't an "authenticity" thing which is a bullshit way to codify if something is good or not, it's because this form of woketevist shilling with a corporate wrapper works and got people to buy shit. Wendy's twitter is like some cultural fucking touchstone moment in the last few years, how depressing is that?
It's amazing how capitalism will package up absolutely anything to sell shit. Including stuff like this and brands being given human personalities on social media. If someone wrote a film with this 20 years ago they'd be laughed out the room.
I think it's crucial to strike that balance between killjoy and reaching out to people. You have to approach it in a way that doesn't make people reflexively retreat into their consumerist habits.What's extra depressing about this is that, by pointing out out, you just come off as a killjoy trying to piss on what most people just gloss over as harmless fun and not something much more sinister. This is a common problem with being socialists in general, tbh, unfortunately - it can feel like you're cursed into being a Cassandra.
All the while, it tricks people into thinking consumption is politics when it absolutely is not.
You mean other then Roddy Pipper was a better actor then hogan?
Yeah, I was actually hesitant to post because I figured I'd get the killjoy shit.What's extra depressing about this is that, by pointing out out, you just come off as a killjoy trying to piss on what most people just gloss over as harmless fun and not something much more sinister. This is a common problem with being socialists in general, tbh, unfortunately - it can feel like you're cursed into being a Cassandra. In our increasingly atomized society, these kinds of "woke brands" and "Wendy's dunked on someone on twitter!" things appeal to people that are increasingly lonely and disconnected from others alone in their homes. All the while, it tricks people into thinking consumption is politics when it absolutely is not.
This is a huge factor in the popularity of streaming, too - the parasocial relationship aspect of it is incredibly seductive for some people and further and further draws them away from actual society. Anything that disconnects us from the struggles of others in the real world and equates consumption with activism is a win-win-win for capital.