It’s kinda a well-known fun fact that Kurt Cobain didn’t actually know that Teen Spirit was a deodorant brand and titled the song because his friend graffitied “Kurt smells like teen spirit” on his wall, but it’s a slightly lesser-known fun fact that his friend was Kathleen Hanna who is also a great musician and probably my #1 favorite.

It took a lot of thinking to realize why I never liked Mr. Beast. He does a lot of philanthropy, which is ostensibly good, but I realized that I mainly dislike him as an artist/creative, ignoring whatever controversies implicate him.

As an artist creating video entertainment, Mr. Beast’s primary message and aesthetic is the worship of money.
“Survive 30 Days Chained To Your Ex, Win $250,000”
“Would You Risk Drowning for $500,000?”
“2,000 People Fight For $5,000,000”
Is it worth it to participate? Yes, it might be. People risk humiliation or their health or their lives for money all the time. But the magnification, glorification, deification of money as the Supreme Object that determines the value of anything is what I don’t like about his “art”.

I think it’s so funny that there’s a tool called “Wii U Downloader” that literally downloads the game files, whatever game you want, directly from Nintendo’s own servers

I haven’t seen it actually, but my impression is that it’s probably actually good based on what I’ve heard. I’ll have to watch it though

Good question actually. What are some things that have competent production and writing but are otherwise just really generic movie slop?

My vote is for The Shawshank Redemption. Is it good? Yeah, but it’s just a movie. It’s not something special like Fantastic Planet, Fiddler on the Roof, or some of my other favorite movies. There’s a good guy and a bad guy. They fight, and the good guy wins. It’s the #1 highest rated thing on iMDB but like, it’s just qualityslop. People only like it because it’s good 👋🙄

I think the exact same is true of Sousou no Frieren, currently the #1 rated anime. Qualityslop is generic and unspecial enough to reach mass appeal, and people only like it because it’s high quality. Slop.