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Clapping like seals over Wheel of Time Changes.
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I think they're overcompensating because they know they can never write anything as engaging or appealing as the source material, so they end up desperate to leave their stamp on the work. They're willing to see the IP fail just so they can claim any level of popularity as due to their contribution.
IMO it's a bit of this and a bit of plain mean-spirited cultural vandalism, wrapped up in a cloak of self-righteous masturbatory wokeness. The pieces of shit maladapting one beloved cultural property after another seriously seem to have a major hard-on for trying to turn said properties into trashfires to spite both the fans and the original creators, for daring to create (and like) 'problematic' messages - like how a core theme of WoT is that men & women are different but complement each other and need to work together, or literally everything about LOTR from its naturalistic, anti-industrial themes to Tolkien's devout Catholicism and desire to create an Anglo-Saxon natural & cultural myth.
Welp, at least the LOTR fanbase seems a lot wiser & more united in bitter opposition to Amazon's bullshit than the Wheel of Time fans were. I'm still flabbergasted that any among the latter were still surprised that a modern (or rather 'postmodern') adaptation of their source material would turn out so badly this late in the game, but at least their experience has served to further put the LOTR crowd on guard against Amazon. If anyone can turn the latest project of woke cultural vandals into a Cowboy Bebop-tier dumpster fire that gets canceled after one disastrous season, it's probably them.
Definitely, but I think it's motivated by their absolute unwillingness to face their inadequacy. Sure, they do it for the woke points, but would they even deign to lower xirself to work on some shitty nerddom if they could generate their own popular content? Hell no. They definitely hate us, but they need us too, and that makes them hate us even more- almost as much as themselves.
I really hate this logic. These people are narcissistic monsters. They don’t hate themselves at all. They hate the world for rejecting their obvious brilliance, and that’s not the hallmark of someone who is insecure or lashing out due to their own inadequacies. You don’t go to war with reality itself because you’re “unsure” about your talents. You do it because you’re a delusion shithead imagining your greatness.
Why not both? They aren't a monolith. I have to disagree that a narcissist can't have an inferiority complex; I believe the opposite is true. I think their narcissism causes them to enter a state of denial, and anything that reminds them of the reality of the situation causes a severe overreaction because nothing can be allowed to threaten their self-perception of "greatness".
They said that exact thing on Friday Night Tights a few weeks back