As far as he's fallen these days, MovieBob once pointing out in a very old video, from when he still worked for the Escapist, that white male nerds are getting angry that they aren't the only target audience for nerd media anymore was a formative moment for me. Probably helped stop me from going down the wrong path.
Like thats what a LOT of this rage is about. White male nerds are no longer the most special wonderful target audience and are no longer being exclusively catered too and that makes them fucking FURIOUS. And they are reacting like the spoiled brats they are.
My Brother in Christ if you feel seen by scenes like that that is 100% on you.
Remember when MAGA chuds told on themselves by seeing the Galactic Empire being negatively portrayed in Rogue One and calling it anti-Trump propaganda?
I missed that one but thats hilarious. I do remember that reaction to other things though like Wolfeinstein and Farcry uh... 6? The one with the southern cult leader.
CHUDs think they represent the "silent majority." That everyone agrees with their hateful nonsense, but is too scared of the wokes/sjws/commies etc to admit it.
It's hilarious but true - they think they represent some huge number of americans who are out there, disregarded by enormous media and portions of tech. In fact, they represent less than a third of Americans who are stuck fighting a losing race war that they're convinced is going to turn on them and eliminate their control (it will) then eliminate them - and they jump to these sick conclusions because of their rampant projection, it's exactly what they would do if they had control so of course they fear it.
Well they feel alienated since right-wingers can still count on the state and capital to follow along with their ideology, but culturally they feel confused since movies, shows, advertising, etc is captured by ideological liberals. Right wingers have basically everything they want in terms of political victories at the moment.
By that I mean they're winning when it comes to actual enforcement of racism and transphobia. Structural bigotry is still rampant and is getting worse. And this is at odds with American popular culture, which is will often vaguely gesture in the direction of progressive values. There will be gay characters, or trans characters, like little progressive snacks for suburban liberal types.
I would probably ask them to point to an apolitical show, mostly out of curiosity. I don't think I'm convincing anyone with this line of thought though
The funny thing is, I'm a non-binary vegan commie with a silly haircut, and I've worked in manual labor and physical farm jobs more than any anti-woke right-wing tool I've met.
I also come from a family of electricians, builders, farm hands and carpenters. I'm as fucking working class as it gets.
In contrast, every IRL right-winger I've met has been a higher-up office worker
His fans certainly are. He’s just a bog standard garden variety conservative talk show grifter now. What other conclusion can you come to when all he does is JAQ himself off with crank antivaxx shit, hours long meltdowns over the existence of trans people, platform other conservative grifters and bloviate about how republicans are the true working class working against the globalist woke cabal or whatever.
I remember about 2 years ago on the horror subreddit, there was a discussion about how the new Candyman was gonna be all political unlike the original and people were so sick of horror movies injecting social commentary all the time. I stopped taking that sub seriously after that.
I have a coworker who was ranting about politics in modern video games. I asked him for an example of a game devoid of political commentary and he said Final Fantasy 7.
in the chud imagination, literally everyone in the United States (the only country) secretly agrees with them except people in Hollywood, people in New York, people in DC, and ungrateful blacks.