The consumption is the point. They just want candy not a meal. They want fucking marvelslop not Cinema.
Inb4 let people enjoy things, the mindset on display is a perfect member of capitalist society. A mindless consumption machine.
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I never said that Marvel was harmless. It’s disingenuous to even imply I did. The movies are literally military propaganda.
This random Reddit user watching it is harmless, though, or at least, our negging doesn’t reduce the harm. Our insults are nothing but an annoyance that’s trying to pierce an actual social institution of people who “enjoy” (said loosely due to the “quality” of the films) Disney’s media.
These people aren’t brainless, idiotic ghouls who are just going along mindlessly with what they know. They got here because there are a ridiculous number of social pressures that lead people into becoming obsessed with Marvel.
It’s probably one of the only things they talk to their friends about, and not just because they themselves bring it up, but because it’s one of the only forms of shared experience that people have these days, as horrifying as that is. It’s the same thing as celebrities and news stories about them. Just mindless slop that has no real bearing on reality. But people still stay up to date on it because all their friends and their entire social network seems to care about it.
Every single one of these things are all things that insults have no power over. We like to say bullying works, but this is where it’s power ends. Disney has such an intense stranglehold on the West’s culture that all an insult to a person who consumes their content does is just hurt them a little without even remotely changing their behavior.