I swear since 2016 it seems that people enter hobbies, music, entertainment with the sole intention of crapping on the fans
Nah, its older than that. The entire "fake geek girls" discussion in the 2000s was the same thing, girls entering the hobby to feel special and then shitting on anyone in said hobby for being a nerd. And that was just a single area.
But recently, its being done much more deliberately and with malice across all fields to destroy things "wrongthinkers" like.
That's why Lil Nas X was promoted to a name people know, despite that nobody gave a shit about him until he was able to be a gay Satanic "country" star for a single song. Its why Nascar was such a hotbed of removing every single form of iconography that its fanbase might have. Its why everything from your childhood is being remade with perverted warping built into the theme, with no care taken to make it good as long as it can piss you off.
Its never about "reaching larger fans." Its always about destroying what other people loved to demoralize them through constant browbeating.
Its never about "reaching larger fans." Its always about destroying what other people loved to demoralize them through constant browbeating.
It's kind of the same thing. If you want to appeal to everyone, then you can't allow anyone to have a niche. Each thing must be interchangeable. There must be nothing beyond the smallest possible visual differences between on base cultural unit and the next. That is the only way for something to be accessible to everyone.
As such, the powers that be in an industry will seek to "expand their reach" but will hit diminishing returns, cutting off their revenue. Growing in size past a certain point means the entire point of your growth is to fund what you've already grown past, making it inevitable that you will collapse. You start having to try and drag the audience with you, even through no one is asking for it. Those who resist need to be socially slandered, and those who are obedient need to be socially uplifted (I literally had a friend who was a Star Wars fan tell me that The Last Jedi was great because of how the writers explicitly threw away all of the fan theories and expectations). In order to expand as far as possible, you have to start attacking your own fans because they are becoming an impediment to your expansion, which you can't survive without because you've become to large and unwieldy.
If you want to appeal to everyone, then you can't allow anyone to have a niche.
In reality it's the opposite. The laws of physics do not permit "equity". You can never please everyone with one thing, but if you want more people to feel happy and included in something, you create as many niches as possible. As your company hits market saturation, you branch off and expand to new markets while also producing products exclusively for the old market. They are no longer doing that. This is how we know the industry is either retarded or only cares about demoralizing White men.
Nah, its older than that. The entire "fake geek girls" discussion in the 2000s was the same thing, girls entering the hobby to feel special and then shitting on anyone in said hobby for being a nerd. And that was just a single area.
But recently, its being done much more deliberately and with malice across all fields to destroy things "wrongthinkers" like.
That's why Lil Nas X was promoted to a name people know, despite that nobody gave a shit about him until he was able to be a gay Satanic "country" star for a single song. Its why Nascar was such a hotbed of removing every single form of iconography that its fanbase might have. Its why everything from your childhood is being remade with perverted warping built into the theme, with no care taken to make it good as long as it can piss you off.
Its never about "reaching larger fans." Its always about destroying what other people loved to demoralize them through constant browbeating.
It's kind of the same thing. If you want to appeal to everyone, then you can't allow anyone to have a niche. Each thing must be interchangeable. There must be nothing beyond the smallest possible visual differences between on base cultural unit and the next. That is the only way for something to be accessible to everyone.
As such, the powers that be in an industry will seek to "expand their reach" but will hit diminishing returns, cutting off their revenue. Growing in size past a certain point means the entire point of your growth is to fund what you've already grown past, making it inevitable that you will collapse. You start having to try and drag the audience with you, even through no one is asking for it. Those who resist need to be socially slandered, and those who are obedient need to be socially uplifted (I literally had a friend who was a Star Wars fan tell me that The Last Jedi was great because of how the writers explicitly threw away all of the fan theories and expectations). In order to expand as far as possible, you have to start attacking your own fans because they are becoming an impediment to your expansion, which you can't survive without because you've become to large and unwieldy.
In reality it's the opposite. The laws of physics do not permit "equity". You can never please everyone with one thing, but if you want more people to feel happy and included in something, you create as many niches as possible. As your company hits market saturation, you branch off and expand to new markets while also producing products exclusively for the old market. They are no longer doing that. This is how we know the industry is either retarded or only cares about demoralizing White men.
True. I guess I just didn’t notice outside of the occasional whiny feminist complaining about comic books