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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Wahhhh! This award in honor of a black man has too many white winners even though a lot of the protagonists aren't white!
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Maybe black people just aren't interested in writing kids' comics. It's not exactly a crucial role in society, and it doesn't reliably put food on the table in the way they want.

I've noticed a trend where people seem to think socially insignificant jobs like comic artist matter more than vital labour jobs like street cleaner or garbage man. I'm not sure why; it's not like the pay's any better for the most part given how low those Patreons are dropping these days.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
Maybe black people just aren't interested in writing kids' comics. It's not exactly a crucial role in society, and it doesn't reliably put food on the table in the way they want.

I've noticed a trend where people seem to think socially insignificant jobs like comic artist matter more than vital labour jobs like street cleaner or garbage man. I'm not sure why; it's not like the pay's any better for the most part given how low those Patreons are dropping these days.
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It's the idea that someone somewhere is consuming the product that the artist put out. Maybe there's something about having created something that affects the pop culture and people in a meaningful way, that your memory is preserved by those that consume your product. Or being an artist sounds a hell of a lot better than cleaning streets, disposing of trash, or growing crops.
 
SoberBlitz said:
It's the idea that someone somewhere is consuming the product that the artist put out. Maybe there's something about having created something that affects the pop culture and people in a meaningful way, that your memory is preserved by those that consume your product. Or being an artist sounds a hell of a lot better than cleaning streets, disposing of trash, or growing crops.
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The problem with that is that most of the people who try making "woke" comics just end up entertaining us on Kiwi Farms rather than actually making anything people like.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
I've noticed a trend where people seem to think socially insignificant jobs like comic artist matter more than vital labour jobs like street cleaner or garbage man. I'm not sure why; it's not like the pay's any better for the most part given how low those Patreons are dropping these days.
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The reason is simple: they grew up on things like that and wanted to do that, which is in and of itself not lolcowish; but many of them seem to have the idea that it's a piece of cake, which is. (Every job is hard to do well and art is no exception.)

Secondly, combined with the "all art is political" nonsense you hear regularly, this leads to people vastly overestimating the impact that art actually has on the rest of the world.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
The reason is simple: they grew up on things like that and wanted to do that, which is in and of itself not lolcowish; but many of them seem to have the idea that it's a piece of cake, which is. (Every job is hard to do well and art is no exception.)

Secondly, combined with the "all art is political" nonsense you hear regularly, this leads to people vastly overestimating the impact that art actually has on the rest of the world.
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Art can influence the way people think if it reaches a wide audience, but the message has to resonate with people. "If you're having pronoun problems I feel bad for you son, I've got 99 genders and a bitch ain't one" doesn't.
 
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Pointless Pedant said:
I've noticed a trend where people seem to think socially insignificant jobs like comic artist matter more than vital labour jobs like street cleaner or garbage man. I'm not sure why; it's not like the pay's any better for the most part given how low those Patreons are dropping these days.
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It's because the Mary Sue and places like it are pop culture sites, and if they know anyone who is black or are black themselves, they are an upper middle class neet. They aren't interested in getting job for black people, they are interested in getting jobs for themselves or their friends,since that will also get them more work.
 
Ineedahero said:
It's because the Mary Sue and places like it are pop culture sites, and if they know anyone who is black or are black themselves, they are an upper middle class neet. They aren't interested in getting job for black people, they are interested in getting jobs for themselves or their friends,since that will also get them more work.
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It's funny how being a welfare queen is bad but being an upper middle class NEET isn't.
 
Are there any stats on who actually reads the site?Reads it for the informative articles not to amuse themselves at how ridiculous it is.Most of the articles are about how this or that minority is not represented fairly.Who actually is a fan of this?
 
iafiv said:
Are there any stats on who actually reads the site?Reads it for the informative articles not to amuse themselves at how ridiculous it is.Most of the articles are about how this or that minority is not represented fairly.Who actually is a fan of this?
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That or whining about Trump.
 
iafiv said:
Are there any stats on who actually reads the site?Reads it for the informative articles not to amuse themselves at how ridiculous it is.Most of the articles are about how this or that minority is not represented fairly.Who actually is a fan of this?
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It actually is quite popular as the "definitive" site for feminists pop culture conversations. One user even claimed TMS got him interested in social justice.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
It actually is quite popular as the "definitive" site for feminists pop culture conversations. One user even claimed TMS got him interested in social justice.
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Assuming said user actually fit the definition of "male", how much shit had he done that he needed to cover up to suck the ass of TMS that hard?
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
It actually is quite popular as the "definitive" site for feminists pop culture conversations. One user even claimed TMS got him interested in social justice.
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oh that's got to be shit, this is not mainstream feminist enough to be definitive.
I'll sperg and say I'm a big black dyke feminist and I'd never read this shit.
people with white guilt, men, that's who's reading it. I wish they'd stop trying to guess what other people want and just ask.
 
Pina Colada said:
Cheesy monster movies now count as part of the "muh male gaze" narrative. While it is a tired trope, of course Theresa ties monsters to men in fictional media.
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What part of them being monsters does the author not get? They are dark reflections of our psyche and their attitudes make them more frightening.

Meowthkip said:
I'm really glad very few of these people are super into horror as a genre. They probably would not do well among horror fans, particularly those who love the more lowbrow stuff.

Titties are practically mandatory in a shlocky horror film after the 70's.
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And the horror fandom isn't all that SJW (from what I know), they'd just disregard them and the shlock fans ridiculing them.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Wahhhh! This award in honor of a black man has too many white winners even though a lot of the protagonists aren't white!
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Reminds me of an education class during which the professor gushed over an annotated bibliography I drew up for a hypothetical English class, but then she bitched about there not being enough token authors.

I wrote a letter back to her on how several works portrayed "PoC" and women in a variety of roles. She never responded and left the grade as it was.

This only reaffirms my theory that social justice is a personal grab for power.
 
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