Let there be cartoons you don't like. Don't chime in with your two cents about why this or that bad faith argument has a point actually when the bigger debate is clearly less concerned with quality than who's making it and why. Be more skeptical about critique attacking black and queer people.

READ the ROOM when adding to the discussion. Your words don't exist in a vacuum just cuz you say so. Or else we all will be impoverished when today's awkward 14 year old never picks up a pen and become's your new favorite showrunner cuz she's worried she'll get mobbed for even trying.

This goes TRIPLE if you share shit in common with the creator. You don't have the luxury of ignorance to explain why you chose to go on the attack. Don't be a useful fool; don't give ammo to the mob.

Does this mean all stories are off limits if this or that category?

No, but then I expect you to know the difference between a mob and reasonable media analysis. Hint is that if the usual culture war bullshitters are joining in, it's not reasonable critique.

Queer and black media analysis is not shy about crit. Good ones give it the same respect as any media analysis, just through their cultural lens. And they've never needed a dogpile to lend them an opinion to monetize.

Brought to you by the umpteenth time seeing kids afraid to make art because of culture war shit, making me pissed the fuck off on their behalf.

Not a kid myself but I’ve abandoned or postponed my creative aspirations many times due to the vitriolic bullshit you mentioned.

Angry online reviewers and nitpickers who don’t know shit tearing works apart, using them as targets for their sickening bigotry and so on.

It’s sickening to see.

You said it! The whole dogpiling just feels manufactured to spread bigotry instead of actual criticism. Almost like a Kremlin psyop. The important thing is that, there’s no such thing as perfect Queer or Black art.

Even if you exclude people with guilty pleasures or whatever

The amount of people who have surface level relationships with ALL the things they consume outnumbers the people that don’t

They have more important and urgent things at the top of their mind than that.

Its annoying too because I’ve seen really really smart people subscribe to this mindset (e.g. FD saying people who are big Drake fans are bad people)

Just really weird stuff that isn’t grounded in reality or how everyday people work.

There was presentation for it and I hear 90% of it was AI Slop

Capcom gotta reveal a new Ace Attorney soon the Professor Layton fans are miserable