You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I can't help but wonder why my brother didn't go to his own bed (and never seems to do so) tonight.
It's kind of irritating having to deal with it for ten minutes, let alone a whole night. I may stay up late often but this sexy face doesn't stay that way without TEH BED.
It's simple: They spend a significant portion of their free time interacting with people and content they are not directly in connection with IRL. Subculture is defined by the wider culture, to who all such persons are people who are "geek/nerd/whatevers who spend too much time online"
Of course, as you say they don't have much in common, and furthermore some are more ok with their status as "other" in the larger culture than others in the group. That is what produces tension. There are those who want to be accepted in the larger culture, they feel that the other sub-subgroup are the ones they get lumped in with by society, the "neckbeards who masturbate to strange things" or what have you.
Furthermore, anyone who actively rejects or is indifferent to the judgement of society as a whole is clearly the problem. They are the reason everyone thinks you're weird, and they must be culled from the group so that it can be accepted.
That whole thing there scales down into the subdivisions of internet culture too. The same tensions are exhibited within fandoms and sites themselves. It's those other tropers/goons/bronies/furries/otaku/gamers! they're giving us a bad name!
I mean, there are some that are, but not nearly as many as...
Am I making any sense?
Thinking some more about this... doesn't it extend beyond the Internet? Like gamers: "Yes, we play a lot of video games, but at least we play them with people we know IRL." And even beyond geek subcultures, really. "I may be a little weird, but at least I'm not a nerd" (could substitute other "other" groups here depending on the beliefs and prejudices of the individual in question). It's a fundamental of how othering works, really.
I think we should be wary of oversimplifying, though. There are influences on the dynamics between geek groups other than the desire to conform.
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?????????? no wonder you made no sense talking about EL-P little child, this is not music, this is a terrible attempt at using other peoples music and pasting it all together on whatever cheap program you have. accordians and seagulls over tribe and rakim? oh man.........thumbs down.
I really should not be so sensitive about this kind of thing, but I am.
That is literally the only comment on my Youtube channel that is a video I actually made. It's rather disheartening.
Furthermore, I can summize that the guy only checked out my channel after seeing a year-old comment I made on an El-P video. Which is kind of odd in of itself.
Russia doesn’t technically ban movies, but the Ministry of Culture did officially recommend that Borat not be shown in theatres. The weirdness of the Kazakh jokes was the American audience being so ignorant they didn't know anything about this huge country - even extremely basic stuff like Kazakh people looking more like this - in other words, ethnically Asian instead of like the Jewish Sacha Baron Cohen. This was bound to be lost on Russians who don't have to deal with American ignorance every day, but do have to deal with Central Asians being a growing ethnic minority with all of the problems with stereotypes and media portrayals that entails.
I hate it when things get worded this way. It's not technically wrong (Borat is indeed discouraged from showing in Russia because it's offensive to Kazakhs), but the random and unnecessary lines about "American ignorance" annoy me.
I hate it when things get worded this way. It's not technically wrong (Borat is indeed discouraged from showing in Russia because it's offensive to Kazakhs), but the random and unnecessary lines about "American ignorance" annoy me.
Well, the Great Satan must be shown up at all times :3
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Whenever someone from another country makes a smartass remark about Americans being ignorant, I just ask them the last time their country has been to the moon. Or the last time we showed up to save their collective asses.
Yes its a self parody but what the Russians are falling back onto a tired old-dated stereotype that Americans are ignorant about cultures and places that aren't America
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Whenever someone from another country makes a smartass remark about Americans being ignorant, I just ask them the last time their country has been to the moon. Or the last time we showed up to save their collective asses.
Piece of advice, you really shouldn't play the American Exceptionalism card because that just makes you look arrogant. Also, American interventionism isn't seen as a good thing.
Whenever someone from another country makes a smartass remark about Americans being ignorant, I just ask them the last time their country has been to the moon. Or the last time we showed up to save their collective asses.
Yeah, but Borat wasn't supposed to be from the moon, and he didn't talk to all Americans. The movie was not a showcase of American achievements.
Obviously they picked and chose the stupidest footage for the movie, and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of it was staged anyway. But it depicted people displaying their ignorance.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
I never do, until someone arrogantly criticizes America first. Then it's game on.
Also, American interventionism isn't seen as a good thing? Tell that to the children in Afghanistan who can now experience things like "other cultures" and technological progress, and its women who can no experience something much closer to equality than what they suffered through before. Or the few remaining French who knew how bad things got last century. The main reason we intervene is because the rest of the world is content to just listen to Kitty Genovese scream.
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It's kind of irritating having to deal with it for ten minutes, let alone a whole night. I may stay up late often but this sexy face doesn't stay that way without TEH BED.
Thinking some more about this... doesn't it extend beyond the Internet? Like gamers: "Yes, we play a lot of video games, but at least we play them with people we know IRL." And even beyond geek subcultures, really. "I may be a little weird, but at least I'm not a nerd" (could substitute other "other" groups here depending on the beliefs and prejudices of the individual in question). It's a fundamental of how othering works, really.
I think we should be wary of oversimplifying, though. There are influences on the dynamics between geek groups other than the desire to conform.
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let's music
Although...
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Wow. Fuck this guy with a rusty rake.
That web address doesn't go anywhere, by the way.
None of them worked.
They never work, because they're never real surveys.
I really should not be so sensitive about this kind of thing, but I am.
That's not really the point.
That is literally the only comment on my Youtube channel that is a video I actually made. It's rather disheartening.
Furthermore, I can summize that the guy only checked out my channel after seeing a year-old comment I made on an El-P video. Which is kind of odd in of itself.
I would much appreciate you not.
I hate it when things get worded this way. It's not technically wrong (Borat is indeed discouraged from showing in Russia because it's offensive to Kazakhs), but the random and unnecessary lines about "American ignorance" annoy me.
^^ But he was playing on American ignorance, though.
He did the same thing in Britain, and there he was playing on British ignorance.
Yes its a self parody but what the Russians are falling back onto a tired old-dated stereotype that Americans are ignorant about cultures and places that aren't America
edit: Piece of advice, you really shouldn't play the American Exceptionalism card because that just makes you look arrogant. Also, American interventionism isn't seen as a good thing.
Obviously they picked and chose the stupidest footage for the movie, and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of it was staged anyway. But it depicted people displaying their ignorance.
I never do, until someone arrogantly criticizes America first. Then it's game on.
Also, American interventionism isn't seen as a good thing? Tell that to the children in Afghanistan who can now experience things like "other cultures" and technological progress, and its women who can no experience something much closer to equality than what they suffered through before. Or the few remaining French who knew how bad things got last century. The main reason we intervene is because the rest of the world is content to just listen to Kitty Genovese scream.