Out of sheer morbid curiosity, as an autist and a writer, things like this fascinate me. I like to know what not to do and how to avoid it where possible. That doesn't mean it's never happened to me, though, there's been a few times.
Now, I'm not talking about like gay characters in a show and you're not into that thing. I'm mean the media equivalent of receiving a great blowjob and then suddenly you get a finger in your ass that wasn't part of the original offer.
Mine is the show, The Magicians. I knew it would be lefty-leaning because that's just how the books were and the cast was diverse in hollywood's favorite way. That said, I was in for some trash and the fastforward button was for the parts I didn't like. 3 seasons in, I like the dumb plots and the sudden twists, then, the show decided to pull some stupid fucking meta and lecture the audience: Rasheed starts to lecture us that you're a racist, sexist, bigot if you don't watch/read something because the main character isn't white and male. After that, I completely skip a couple episodes, because fuck that bullshit. I calmed down and the first episode I watch, they killed the main fucking character, a white male. Series goes on, I do not. The whole fucking scene was the producers trying to guilt the audience into not rage-quitting the show by calling us bigots. After that, I decided I was never watching another syfyllis network show again, or one with a racially diverse cast, especially no Rasheeds.
I think most things made before 2010 are okay. With a soft stop at 2014, and a hard stop at 2016. There were signs and hints here and there in some media about how it aligned politically, but it could mostly be ignored in favor of not ruining the show/movie.
Now it feels like everyone is a self insert, and all the writers have taken to making bad fan fiction, and for some reason it gets put into movies and TV.
My general rule of thumb is to avoid stuff made after 2014 unless a trusted friend or family recommends it. 2014 into 15 is when I noticed the constant talk about diversity
Velma Syndrome, is what we should call it.
Yeah, that's good. I'm gonna start using that.