I have decided to list out some known warning signs that media as nearly 10/10 times it indicates the thing is pozzed.
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Thin Line style: also referred to as the Cal-art's style by many critics. it's considered the most abused art style in media today and is only popular with regressive leftists who's reasons for liking it tend to be connected to their ideology or because they're Steven universe fans.
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Dark skinned characters in the forefront without adequate lore justification: Done to cater to extremists.
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Non whites, especially blacks, having exaggerated abet realistic racial features: Blatant warning sign of extremist pandering
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Women who look too masculine/intentionally desexualized: this is done to cater to gender identity extremists, body positivity extremists, and adherents to objectification theory.
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Trannies outside of humor or without legitimate lore justification: Done to cater to gender identity extremists with the only exceptions to this rule being pornography with TF type content.
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Plots involving Neo-Nazis/White Supremacists and/or racist whites in general usually created past 2010: This is a blatant warning sign the plot involves regressive leftist propaganda.
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Racemixing: done to cater to extremists
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Race swaps of preexisting characters, including swaping the characters with a new nonwhite character.
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Shoehorned references to homosexuality/bisexuality/alt sexualites and sexuality in general.
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Regressive leftist lingo and buzzwords: lgbt[insert random crap here+], shitlord, fuckboy, etc.
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Openly Identifying the product as "woke"
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Hair styles popular with regressive leftists.
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Literally anyone connected to the company expressing any behaviors that indicate they are a regressive leftist.*
The only exception to these signs is that the creator is openly rejects the regressive left and is not aligned with any other questionable ideology.
Be sure to suggest any other additions! Also, the mods should consider adding this to some sort of FAQ about identifying propaganda.
*this includes:
- having pronouns in the bio
- spewing regressive leftist propaganda and conspiracy theories
- having any regressive leftist memes on their account like the "socialist teeth" avatars
- outright identifying as a regressive leftist by calling themselves a:
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- SJW
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- intersectionalist
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- trans rights activist
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- "anti-racist"
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- "anti-fascist" (also declaration of terrorist affiliation with Antifa)
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- any variation of Marxist/communist/socialist/etc., though classical communist's may also identify under both the base terms and even some minor variants, and regressive leftists may still identify under Cultural Marxist in super rare cases even though the term was abandoned due to their conspiracy theories about it's origin.
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- Critical (blank/insert anything else here) theorist
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- Feminist, though it should be noted gender criticals also call themselves this.
- Openly declaring affiliation with any regressive leftist group
What do you mean "past 2010"? I remember very distinctly wondering why the hell shows like Get Smart and Wonder Woman were so bloody obsessed with Nazis, when the Big Bad of the 1970s was supposed to be the Soviets!
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This can be seen in Star Trek as well IMO. TOS, VOY, and ENT all have scenarios where literal Nazis are the enemy. Especially notable in TOS since it was produced in the late 60s.
In TOS and The Voyage Home fear of the Soviets is arguably played off as a joke.
Also add when the owners of the IP talk about “needing more (fill in the blank)”. I hear this in gaming with women or comic books. I guess any general nerd hobbies. They ignore the fact that there already are women/minorities that are into the hobbies but if white males are the majority it’s seen as a bad thing.
Added spewing propaganda and conspiracy theories along with some other things to cover that.
If you put their shit through a pattern recognition translator, it becomes abundantly clear that "more x in y" simply means "more leftism in y". As you've pointed out, there is almost always plenty of x in y already. And if there isn't, then there's usually good reason why not.
"There are too many white males" is really the only warning sign you need, because they do it every time and people tolerate it despite being a genocidal statement on its face. If anyone says there aren't enough [race] or [gender] (universally, [race] is non-white and [gender] is female, but still), there is a ninety percent chance they're regressive sociopaths. The remaining ten is people paying lip service to the cult because they're cowards.
Really though, find a regressive leftist TV show/movie/entertainer who hasn't encouraged white genocide, at least in passing. I dare you to try. They all do it. It's all you need to watch for.
True. I’m black and I can clearly see the irrational hatred of whites. I always say if you couldn’t say it about any other race then you shouldn’t say it at all. Like the whining that there are too many white male comic book creators. I would be attacked if I said there are too many females in comic books and that’s why they sick now.
If we lived in a time period where powerful people were united in openly denying as many opportunities to people of any other race as possible, I'd be against that too. It just so happens that right here, right now, anti-white racism is the ruling class norm.
That's why it's so disgusting when these people claim to be champions of equality. As someone who believes in actual equality it feels personally insulting the way they hide their racism behind something I believe in.
Totally agree. I was raised by the “judge by content of character” philosophy. It drives me crazy that they can’t see their own hypocrisy. Condemning racism and then making racist statements about whites or if a white person does a horrible crime it’s front page news but if a black person or other minority commits crime it’s barely reported
Equality is probably the biggest lie ever told. You can see undeniable evidence of wholly organic inequality literally everywhere you look. You have to close your eyes to deny it.
Real values are things like dignity and respect, neither of which require equality. I can have dignity without being equal, and respect can exist between unequal people.
I'm talking about classical equality, not this bastardized version we have more.
Actual equality is when you judge everyone using the same measuring stick. Nu-equality is when you discard the measuring stick in favor of assuming everyone is the same, then get confused when the outcome is different.
Thin line was literally designed for churning crap out as fast as possible.
Chowder and flapjack, and regular show were predecessors in my opinion.
What is stupid is the Rick and Morty rip-offs, who's art style is related but developed over years by Justin Roliand.
I'd argue that Corporate Memphis is worse, but at least that has been confined to advertising for the time being.
Is that the crap with purple people that have huge bodies and tiny heads?
Yep. Another term is “globohomo art” style or “big tech art”.
I posted this on c/gaming but got 0 upvotes I'll repost here.
woke ideology is inherently performative, it requires you to be actively anti-racist not just an idle non-racist you must actively have to perform your "affirmative action" acts to fight against the system of oppression.
plus sjws want to be seen as virtuously fighting racism and siding with the oppressed, therefore when sjws make a woke product they often flaunt it as a woke product so you will know very easily. but just in case...
signals the product is woke:
the maker state the product is woke.
makers or staff insult or gatekeep potential customers for their "wrong views"
woke character design. (you can only be able to tell this with experience. woke character designs have a distinct way to emasculate men and androgenize women, plus haircuts, clothes, and armor. etc)
The cast is diverse for the sake of being diverse, without or with weak in-setting explanations why the cast is such diverse.
Tokenism.
Side characters, background characters or worldbuilding is diverse for the sake of being diverse.
The race or gender of a character of a pre-established IP is swapped.
Sexual relationships and sexuality are brought up without or with weak in-setting explanations.
Sexual relationships and sexuality are brought up constantly (you must understand! knowing which gender this character prefers in the bed is important!)
The sexuality or gender of a character of a pre-established IP is changed.
woke mary sue: a particular form of mary sue when the characters reach higher leading positions without much build-up, but for the fact of being woke or a minority.
Galbrush paradox. (look it up)
No edgy. (can't risk offending someone)
carpet bombing of cussing words. (when you cannot make good jokes or be edgy because you could offend someone, the only thing you can do is work on the delivery of the joke and cuss a lot)
Other woke taboos: (ex: reip, no consent hand-holding, and love potions)
Product contains: Contemporary political lines, contemporary political figures are in the product, Contemporary political events are referenced in the product. (and you know who is gonna be the bad one)
Exclusive woke circlejerks lingo is used in the product.
Pronouns.
Pronouns but is actually used in dialogues.
all of the above are inserted into the product in a way that they are not integral. so they can easily be cut off when the product is sent to China
trigger warnings
products contain things "offensive for this era" warnings
the simpler way to prove that the product is not woke is to state it directly.
otherwise when you are marketing your product at a point you can show limited material, show any of the following: sexy female characters, feminine female characters, cleavages, characters that are fidel with the IP, setting that look fidel with the IP, edginess, no diversity and inclusion cast and design.
And it’s really ridiculous with period pieces.
Sad that you’ve described all of popular culture in the last 5 or so years
Against those signs they use the bait and switch trick where the trailer of a film of the first episodes of a series seem decent but really hide an upcoming lecture on wokeism. Latest offender I've seen is The White Lotus miniseries with its cringey in-your-face leftist dialogues starting at the 4th episode or so.
Yeah, this tactic is something they would obviously do, though I think the solution would be to implement laws targeting regressive leftist propaganda with allowances for false advertising charges.
What did they do? I think Westworld and Stranger Things are other examples
This is a big one. Any show that becomes popular is immediately targeted for wokefication. This process usually starts with calls to "diversify" the writing room. Once that beachhead has been established, lefties can begin injecting their propaganda into subsequent seasons or sequels. These people count on the gravity of your 1-2 season investment to keep you watching as they rapidly shift from entertaining you to indoctrinating you.
Rick and Morty actually started out relatively good IMO. It immediately went to shit when Harmon hired a bunch of feminist writers in a desperate attempt to escape the MeToo mob.
No women behaving like men
No can do no wrong "minorities"
No sexualities that are useless for the story
The last game i boought was Kenshi and the last series i watched outside anime was netflix's DARK. In Kenshi everyone is an asshole while in DARK almost everyone is wrong.
Female main characters.
There can be good female characters. The problem today is that they are boring because they want you to know they don’t need no man and are great at everything. Or for some reason there is a show that generally appeals to guys but they have to push women to forefront.
I disagree, how can you believe empathy from a group of people so inherently unempathetic? It's really jarring.That's because entertainment today is created to crush male self worth to help the OF racket.
The recent Alita movie wasn't woke, but I would hold that this is almost always correct at this point (although any major movie is going to tend to be woke more often than not now, so maybe it's not as good an indicator as it seems.)
This is more a symptom of current era leftism infecting everything. Sarah Connor in T2 and Ripley in the Alien franchise weren't woke. And while female action heroes aren't particularly realistic, the same could be said of much of the elements of the action flick genera.
Ripley never straight up challenges anyone/thing in the trilogy (and I wouldn't really consider her an action hero anyway). She always outsmarts them with whatever equipment she has on hand. The characters actions and abilities are really quite grounded in those movies (IMO).
or just female characters that look/act like men.
Add: "Neurodivergent" "autistic" "ace" "NB" "Pan" "poly" and the like to the things used to self-ID as a regressive.
The second pains me because wokeism's overtaken the autism groups. There was an autist in a reddit kia2 thread a day or so ago that's a perfect representation of what they're like these days. smh
With the current state of things, it's probably better to assume everything is woke and search for signs that it's not.
Oh, also add "turns natural selection on its head", by having a legless wonder outrun people with legs.
ALL media has and has had leftist talking points since the 30s, you just ignored or agreed with it until you didn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtinTlx7yo