A white pill moment in these months of constant black pilling, I am extremely glad I was wrong about normies liking Fallout and other shit. Have you noticed? All the woke DEI crap is turning them off IPs entirely as well that were originally the hobby of nerds only which is how it should be rather than these cringe posers who are going around posting memes for about five seconds before they go onto the next astroturfed trend. The IPS that have been infested with DEI checklists are not getting the new audiences that they were hoping for because normies have such a low attention span so they won't be a profitable replacement to the dedicated fans all the woke companies despise.
Now the caveat to this will be Halloween, we'll see whether or not the bastards are trying to cosplay as vault dwellers or anything like that. Which will happen a bit anyway because it's Fallout but I'm not seeing an endless tidal wave of current thing Fallout posting that was all over the place before.
I think it's because normies have that much brain rot from constantly chasing current thing trends that by the time 1 - 2 months have gone by because the Fallout Amazon show wasn't that long ago they've forgotten everything and have chosen to latch onto the next current thing. This is kind of working out in our favour because looking at their psychology you realise even when it comes to something they're 'outraged' about they'll have forgotten it all within a month because normies are absolute retards.
TLDR: Normies are terrible long term consumers for media and games companies because they just follow trends, they tried to replace us and it failed, expect layoffs
This reminds me of a comment of yours I saw in another thread, and I have to say I disagree that it's necessarily favorable:
The goal isn't to have normies outraged at anything specific.
Journos and other leftists don't care if normies remember that Donald Trump rudely and impatiently dumped bread into a Koi pond (nevermind the fact Trump was following Shinzo Abe's lead, of course). They care about the negative impression of Trump burned in by article after article and story after story.
They don't care if normies remember George Floyd. They care about the repeated narrative of cops killing innocent black people.
They don't care if woke Fallout or Witcher or whatever remains popular. They care about woke entertainment being normalized.
But then this can work both ways. Normies may not necessarily remember the shit Biden and Harris have done, but they can feel like they're worse off for it.
Might also want to include the obvious suppression of anything good that Trump does. A lot of normie Dems actually think the dude is like a vaudeville villain that twists his mustache while cackling after everything he does. It’s absurd and general media illiteracy has led to people soaking up 20 articles of “Trump did this, what an asshole!” While simultaneously ignoring anything actually good he’s ever done.
Normies chalk that up to manipulation, they constantly veer between acting as if Trump is some raging illiterate baboon to a genius psychopath who manages to evade everything thrown at him and they see absolutely no contradiction.
Yeah, and the irony would be funny if they didn’t actively ruin our society…
This is true, I think the conversation of politics is a different one to have though compared to the normies and their consumer practices. I will point out, have you seen what happens when even a midwit level youtuber tries to interview a normie about exactly why they feel the way they do on certain issues?
They don't know a damn thing, they seem so sure of themselves about how 'angry' they are and then when they get called on it they can't name one thing about why they're angry.
People cosplaying in Fallout stuff might not indicate popularity as let's be honest, the vault suit is REALLY easy to make.
...and REALLY easy to turn slutty...
But for other stuff it just doesn't stick in the mind as well because they use the franchises as a skinsuit to tell the same tired old stories. So for normies it's like:
"Oh look this is a unique setting. Bored now watch something else"
There's nothing underneath the asthetic to make it standout, I bet if it was the writers of Fallout New Vegas, they'd have probably done the series like the Anime Handyman Saitou in Another World so you could follow different people on different quests as other than the Ghoul and little brother, everyone else was REALLY dull.
Eh, I keep saying the dam will eventually break and the 'nerdmania' will be remembered half chortled like everyone's obsession with Australia back in the day. Thing is I really wonder who, if anyone will be left to pick up the pieces.
Normies having short term memory is a problem, Lethn. It's why they don't remember crazy shit like that time that CBS attempted to have us send US troops to Syria because they faked an attack on civilians from a Kentucky Machine Gun range.
Oh yeah, like I've mentioned though, that's a separate issue with regards to politics, however when it comes to outrage mobs and current thing programming the time frame between them remembering any of it shorter and shorter. I find it disgusting on a personal level, but pragmatically it's interesting if a bit disturbing from a psychological perspective.
It's terrifying in that it's psychological conditioning of the masses to forget the crimes perpetuated against them.
I popped into one of those Spirit Halloween stores last week because it's next to the grocery store I frequent, and I don't even remember seeing anything Fallout related.
kniggers with knives is doing more to red pill than just about anything at the moment
That's only because they keep happening in such a short span of time, I don't think we're going to see any real change though until it starts affecting leftists who live in white only areas.