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This can't be a real comment, right? Surely there isn't a person whose brain is this pickled stalin-stressed

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[โ€“] prolepylene@hexbear.net 47 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You dare turn our childhood into a woke travesty?! YOU MUST DIE!!! ๐Ÿ‘ฟ BOOM! BOOMโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธโšก๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ

[โ€“] prolepylene@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

The first part is pretty good too

[โ€“] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay sometimes boomers can be funny

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

I have to assume this person is like 40 at most

[โ€“] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 39 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[โ€“] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Going by their playlists and their interests, at a conservative estimate this person is in their mid-twenties but more likely in the 30-40s bracket.

My guess would be early 40s.

They are manchild. But they're definitely of a vintage where they were exposed to things like Liquid Television, Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead, and games like Splatterhouse.

That puts them at an age where they were old enough to be exposed to these things and old enough to remember them, meaning they would have been about 10 years old in 1995, which would make them about 38 now.

[โ€“] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

I refuse to believe this for my sanity

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

Holy shit, it gets better michael-laugh

[โ€“] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Also, time for a game of disappearing Teletubbies!

lol, so randum! Monkey cheese ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] PKMKII@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If this person thought the live-action Pinocchio remake was good, then they have zero sense of taste in cinema. Even Disney realized the end product was a giant turd and relegated it to an unceremonious Disney+ release with little fanfare.

[โ€“] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

I enjoyed the Pinocchio with Pauly Shore way more than the Disney one. Now THAT was a great movie

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I can't remember, but was that still when the West gave the slightest shit about Covid which meant a lot of movies were skipping theaters

[โ€“] PKMKII@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

It was released September of last year, the Lightyear movie came out a couple months prior and that got a theatrical release.

[โ€“] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Probably a small child

I hope

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

I'm getting conservative Millennial woman who grew up on Disney vibes

What trips me up is that they say they liked the Disney Plus Pinocchio movie when everyone thought that was a giant turd

[โ€“] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

They reference Teletubbies in their profile. How many small children would know what Teletubbies are in 2023?

[โ€“] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

When the Large Adult Disney Nephew hath spoken

[โ€“] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

Surely there isn't a person whose brain is this pickled

Have you seen the average YouTube comments section?

[โ€“] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago
[โ€“] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Aladdin remake was sick as hell come on

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

I think that was the last one of their remakes that was kind of somewhat broadly liked. The Lion King made a bazillion dollars but everyone panned it and Mulan kinda bombed (also I recall there being some noise about woke Disney filming the movie in sight of le evil CCP concentration camps!!!!)

[โ€“] Tachanka@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

mah boi, this cringe is what all true posters lurk for

[โ€“] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

This is a person who posts Minion memes to their facebook every single day.

[โ€“] Barabas@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Immediately going on to state that most of the live action reboots were good after saying that they are all shitty kind of undermines the point.

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

That and specifically listing the universally panned Pinocchio flick make it read like parody

[โ€“] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

This can't be a real comment, right? Surely there isn't a person whose brain is this pickled

Yes, I have worked with, am working with, and most likely work with these kinds of people for the rest of my life. I've just sort of accepted it at this point. As long as I can persuade them to fight for their material interests at work, I'm more than content to put up with their crackpot theories like eating dirt for micronutrients or not drinking water but rehydrating by sitting in their bath for hours.

7 live action reboots were fine. How many live action reboots were there? I have to imagine Wishbone wants Uncle Walt to ganondie because there were a minority of stinkers made by Disney. They were stinkers because the producers gave Uncle Walt the black eye. I'm going to hypothesize based on the adjective black and him referring to a woke travesty that Wishbone is upset about minorities and neutered messaging being put into the movie.

They're the kind of person who you'd pity because they probably can't run off into other types of fiction like literature. Even if they did write, it'd likely be derivative without the capacity to build characters with new points of view. One might imagine TTRPGs/DnD might be too complicated for them. They still suffer under capitalism, so it's probably not easy to find people to LARP with and those that have tried get frustrated with Wishbone. They sort of rely on big productions of fiction to fill a void for them. Their sports are probably getting encroached on too. Then, the kicker, is when you want to think of Wishbone as a sympathetic character, they go on to hate women or espouse racism and call it simple authentic backwoods silliness. Wishbone's a prime candidate for a 3 week re-education camp where you feed them MDMA so they'll discover empathy and then teach them to read. Then you send them off with a World of Warcraft novel and a DnD guidebook to live happily ever after.

[โ€“] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Youtube comments are astroturfed to hell.

[โ€“] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)