#How to Target Millennials

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I need to stop taking TV recommendations from my eldest sister, good god.

[hyukassubi]

The songwriter behind gnarly:

[amplexadversary]

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[some-assholes-familiar]

Can we talk about the fact that so many people in older generations kind of have this habit of just expecting children to magically manifest the skills they themselves were taught how to do? and then shaming them for not knowing how to do the same things they should have been teaching their children?

Like, as I’m entering the adult world I’m learning more and more about necessary faulting skills I should have but don’t because no one ever taught me, and when I ask for help or don’t know how to do something like, say, oiling my car or navigating university systems (seriously, I still barely understand what the hell the credit system is) i just get a bunch of the older adults in my life laughing at how our generation doesn’t even know how to do the basics.

And it’s like, yeah, we’ve got google to help us in a pinch theoretically, but my little brother doesn’t know how to scrub a pan (despite literally teaching himself how to cook and make paper sculptures on his own) and he just gets called stupid for not doing it right when no one ever taught him what the hell brushes he was supposed to use.

There’s this whole game of parents telling their children to do a task they’ve spent years doing every day as second nature, because they’ve forgotten that they had to learn how to do it in the first place.

It’s like yelling at a baby for not being able to walk. Sure almost everyone we know does it every day without thinking, but none of that changes the fact that right now, the baby doesn’t know how!

I don’t know, I’ve been sitting on this thought for a while, but the amount of frustration I get from encountering a new problem I’ve never seen before, and asking someone for help only for them to either a) do it for me or b) tell me to figure it out on my own and then get angry when I don’t do it their way… it weighs on you. Especially when you know this is a skill that will help you and are more than willing to learn.

I don’t know, maybe it’s just one more thing for me to get pissed at boomers at. They complain so much about kids not knowing how to do stuff for themselves into adulthood when they were the ones who never bothered to teach them how.

[quinnlarrabee]

Macron's fiery Sorbonne speech targets summering American Millennials

It’s no coincidence that Emmanuel Macron gave a fiery speech about the threats facing Europe the same week that American Millennials in New York, LA, and Miami began talking about booking their one-way flights to the continent. "There is a risk our Europe could die - we are not equipped to face the risks," Macron said, referring to the dietary allergies, alternative milk needs, and tedious conversations of trust-funded, unemployed young adults who will begin their summer in Paris to attend a museum benefit that spills into a large dinner party with several professional photographers before traveling to Puglia, Comporta, or Ibiza where they will subsist on ‘beautiful tomatoes,’ flat whites, and MDMA. 

Europe has struggled with illegal immigration for decades, and there is no more pressing illegal immigration threat than American Millennials who have decided that being unemployed in Europe is less distressing for their parents than being unemployed in Williamsburg. Google searches for ‘how long can I stay in EU without passport’ spiked in late-April among Americans who have not yet bought a Portuguese passport from a guy who used to run a turnkey Burning Man camp who is now running a Golden Visa scheme in Lisbon. “Our Europe today is mortal,” Macron said. “It can die and that depends solely on our choices,” the choices being whether or not to search and detain for ketamine at customs and how to clearly define tipping protocol in restaurants. 

“It used to be enough to spend a couple weeks in Italy in July,” observes Coco, a 34-year-old retired gallery founder who is on the board of several art-related non-profits that she instructed her unpaid interns to start. “But now it gets so hot in Europe in July that everyone is going in June and even like, May.” Coco has several weddings and dinner parties in various coastal destinations in Europe in June, but she has not yet RSVP’d nor has she booked any travel. “I know I’m going to go, but I’ve just been too busy to look at the dates or book anything,” she says, absently picking some kind of beige matter from the left eye of her toy goldendoodle. Macron at one point asserts in his speech that Europe is “too slow and lacks ambition,” referring directly to Coco’s ambivalent European travel plans. 

Uncertainty permeates the vibe in Europe right now, not because of a military threat posed by a giant, angry country with cocked nukes driven by a weak-minded Cold War relic, but because every Millennial in New York, Miami and Los Angeles has expressed their intention to occupy Europe without declaring the targets. 

“Is very stressful,” says Aldo Melpignano, the proprietor of Borgo Egnazia, a trendy boutique hotel in Puglia that for Europeans costs €120 a night and charges 30something Americans visiting from coastal zipcodes $970. “I see the hashtags on the Instagram, like, I’m coming for your @borgoegnazia,” he says. “Va bene, Allison, when you gonna come for us, and are you gonna come with that stupid capello?” says Aldo while making a pinched-fingers emoji with one hand and pointing to his head with the other. Hotel, coffee shop, organic market, and narcotics purveyors all over Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal have echoed this desire for more resolute planning and fewer hats from the demographic that funds the less productive but more desirable EU countries.  

"We must produce more, we must produce faster, and we must produce as Europeans," Macron said, a rallying cry to European DJs to sample only vocals that were recorded in native European languages.  

“Europe must show that it is never a vassal of the United States and that it also knows how to talk to all the other regions of the world," Macron said, refuting the irrefutable fact that Europe has become a summer camp for unproductive younger Americans and suggesting that they be immediately deported to Bodrum or Izmir upon landing at CDG, MXP, and LIS. 

“This is a betrayal of our values that ultimately leads us to dependency on other counties,” Macron said, making an observation about Europe’s frustration with having to work between May and August in order to show American Millennials how to correctly tap their credit card on puzzling European payment terminals.

“Europe must become capable of defending its interests, with its allies by our side whenever they are willing, and alone if necessary,” said Macron, in defense of French baristas who do not like working with oat milk. Taking a hands-on approach to ensuring the EU’s “ability to ensure our security” Macron and his wife will begin their Summer at a wedding in the Aeolian Islands in early June, float around Sicily or Puglia the following week, head to Bonjuk Bay for an appearance of prominent LA-based DJ, RICHE, and then couch-surf in Santa Gertrudis de Fruitera the rest of the summer.

[therainscene]

I've described myself in the past as "overly-queerbaited" as a way of explaining why it took me so long to come around to Byler endgame as a legitimate possibility... but that's kind of a misleading way of putting it.

Truth is, I've always been too much of a cynical fuck to fall for queerbait... or any other story that promises positive queer rep.

[Sherlock couldn't touch me; I saw this cringe homophobia coming from a mile away. Fans mistaking straight anxiety jokes for meaningful gay subtext was clearly doomed to end in mockery. Nobody deserved to be treated like that... but god, it was easy to predict.]

I think it's a symptom of having grown up under Section 28 -- feeling like I'm being unreasonable for wanting to see queerness normalized is such an ingrained habit that even today I instinctively recoil like a vampire touching sunlight whenever an optimistic queer story falls unrequested into my lap.

But I'm hardly alone in feeling this way -- many queer Millennial and Gen-X fans of Stranger Things are against the idea of Byler because it would ruin the catharsis of watching the gay boy growing up in the same era as we did slowly succumb to the same despair that we did.

[For those who haven't played the VR game: Vecna is speaking in this screenshot.]

There's genuine comfort to be found in painful stories -- this type of catharsis is practically the cornerstone of horror as a genre -- so I can't really fault myself or anyone else for wanting it, despite the obnoxious oversaturation of disappointing queer endings in media.

This is the nostalgia show, after all -- and like it or not, for many middle-aged queers in the target audience, nostalgia is shot through with the pain of homophobia and loneliness.

But do you know who else is a hurt queer(-coded) adult who resents happy endings? This cynical fuck:

Henry personifies despair and loneliness and the dark urge to take our pain out on others -- and when Will is in the picture, I would argue that he also represents internalized homophobia.

Will might represent who we were -- but Henry represents who we've let ourselves turn into.

And I don't think many of us want to admit to that, because that would involve questioning why we have so much in common with the literal villain of the show; why we're still so consumed with self-pity after 20+ years that we're obsessing over the fate of some kid.

I'm not suggesting that wanting a less-than-fairytale ending for a fictional gay boy is equivalent to being a child killer lol. It's perfectly valid to want to see your pain acknowledged, and stories which appeal to that desire deserve to exist.

But between Henry's connection to Will and the cycle of abuse themes of the show, it's clear that this particular story simply isn't about wallowing in the bleakness of growing up gay in the 80s, but about self-actualizing in spite of it all.

So I just can't bring myself to want a "relatable" ending for Will.

As much as I struggle to enjoy positive queer rep, I don't want to be so cynical. I'd thrown up so many walls to protect myself as a teenager that I forgot how desperately I wanted to see just one of those painful queer stories end on the same uplifting note that straight stories were always entitled to: with true love overcoming the odds, saving the day, and living happily ever after.

[But I'm A Cheerleader, a surprisingly fun movie about conversion therapy, is proof that stories like this did exist when I was a teen... but finding them in the pre- and early-internet days amidst so much censorship was a tall order.]

What makes Stranger Things different from most queer stories -- and what allowed it to pierce through my defenses and stab me in the gut -- is that it perfectly mimics those bleak, acceptable-to-the-censors stories from my youth -- only this time, the secret uplifting gay plot twist is real.

Not for the sake of shock value or of grabbing some empty woke points at the last second, but because the plan all along was to slap the audience in the face for believing homophobic lies about the existence of queer happiness.

That's some gourmet catharsis, if you ask me.

Just the possibility that my inner child might finally be vindicated has allowed me to truly let myself want the things I want for the first time in 20 years -- and that's the first step towards finally crawling back out into the sunlight.

Happy Pride Month, everyone. 🌈

[3liza]

the twisted metal show is just getting progressively goofier and funnier and I can't emphasize enough how refreshing that is, even though it's missing a lot of the same stuff I was complaining about missing with fallout. a good attitude can excuse a litany of sins tbh!!! it's correctly on tone with the source material (which is dumb as hell) and not stuck up its own ass and not trying to adopt any more elevated message than "Orange County is full of psychopaths" which is something we can all get behind tbh

they are clearly aiming for a thunderdome or escape from LA tone and getting, generously, almost as close as they can without thunderdome production budget. once again the wardrobe is really lacking, which always bugs me when wardrobe is so easy to do on no budget if you just hire the right creatives. i don't want to watch serious or irony poisoned post apocalyptic shit anymore, I'm fed up. whanging that horseshoe as close as you can get to "mad max" and falling short is preferable to whatever smug tech conference bullshit was going on in fallout.

I'm not saying it's good but it is fun. I'm especially enjoying how the stupid action movie dialog is getting progressively more self aware, but not in an annoyingly ironic way. they are getting comfortable with letting their writers and actors softshoe a little bit and we're starting to get Simpsons-style crowd bits like the protagonists encountering some poor bastard strung up by one of the wasteland gangs and remarking that "maybe he deserved it" and the extra groans and raspily retorts "I didn't!", which got a genuine laugh out of me because they didn't linger on it and let it get stale.

i wish they had pushed this a lot father in terms of making it more late 90s grimdark gargoyle shit like the games, but that stuff is expensive and I think they spent all their money on actual vehicles (which I respect) and didn't have a lot left over for costumes and set dressing

what's most surprising about this entire production is how laser targeted it is at people born between 1980 and 1988, which cannot be a significant television viewership in the larger picture. there is almost zero effort to make this relatable to anyone outside 40 year old Oregon Trail millennials. the soundtrack is so fucking funny

special mention to casting a bunch of actual 40 year old women and letting them look haggard and dirty and wrinkled for once

really Sweet Tooth is the biggest disappointment. i understand he's the franchise figurehead but they fumbled it imo. i don't think will arnett is the right casting. idk if sweet tooth should even talk or be human tbh, I kind of always saw him more as a sort of ogre or avatar than just a normal human psycho killer, and having him onscreen so much from the beginning was probably network mandated but really spoiled the biggest narrative tension for franchise fans they could have saved up to cash in on a good reveal later. oh well. alternately I think leaning into it being JUST will arnett in a clown mask would have been funnier than trying to split the difference with dubbing arnett over a more physically powerful Joe Samoa playing the body

[amphibimii]

It is so fucking funny that veilguard was SO bad that even its target audience, moral purist millennial Tumblr users, absolutely hate it.

It was too sanitized for Tumblr. How do you even accomplish that?

[angelshizuka]

If you want anymore proof how detached "critics" are from all this, they legit unironically claim teenagers are the "target demographic"... Ah yes, teenagers... for a show that literally has an "adult audience" warning infront of every episode...

Just because a lot of teenagers invade this space (both fans and "critics") does NOT mean they're the "target" demographic. Learn how words work, for the love of Lucifer.

If we really had to pin point a specific target demographic, it for starters would be Viv herself first, and by extention millennials who grew up in the 90s/00s. So yeah, I'm honestly never suprised if people outside of that demographic don't get it.

Also, I don't care how blunt this sounds, but if you're a minor your opinions on an adult show literally do not matter.

[cobbbvanth]

the culture impact of glee, for the uninitiated

okay YEAH I'm starting glee discourse in the year of our lord 2024 due to recent events on the gay firefighter show. so for those who don't understand why josh's speech on 911 this week was so important, here's a brief run down of the impact glee had on queer history.

glee, also created by ryan murphy, began airing in 2009 and ran for six seasons before ending in 2015. for all ryan murphy's crimes™, his contribution to queer representation in media has been incredibly influential especially in the early 2000s-2010s. at age nine, kurt hummel from glee and mitch and cam from modern family were the first queer characters I remember encountering. representation of any kind was still so hard to come by on television, let alone stories where queer characters got to have happy endings. in 2009, chris colfer (who played kurt on glee) was one of the youngest openly gay actors in hollywood, being just 19 years old when they started the show. throughout its run, glee introduced several additional queer characters and story lines that dealt with real issues queer people experienced such as being closeted, coming out, homophobia - external and internal.

only 33% of Americans supported same-sex marriage when glee started airing, and "even among millennials — Glee’s target audience — just 51% were in favour at the time."

the support for marriage equality jumped to a record high of 60% as glee was airing it's final episodes. same sex marriage was legalised in the usa in 2015, just months after the final episode of glee aired. a season six episode features a double wedding for a wlw couple and a mlm couple where a lesbian, a bisexual woman and two gay men get to experience a day of joy and celebration surrounded by friends and family, despite having to cross state lines to marry legally. and yes, as stated in the above quote from this article and the speech josh gave on 911 this week, glee had its fair share of problematic moments. plenty of stuff on that show (as is the case with many ryan murphy shows) is not what we'd class as "good representation" today. and it's not perfect yet either. biphobia is still prevalent in bisexual arcs, wlw representation is still far behind mlm representation, and it's hard to convince networks to go for anything that's not cis male queer rep. but it's important to show grace for the media that helped us get to the state of queer representation we do have now. shows like glee have been credited with changing the minds of many of the people who were initially against marriage equality, purely by exposing them to stories about lgbtq+ people and their experiences. and glee was HUGE. one of the biggest shows on television when it was airing - it brought in millions of viewers weekly, hundreds of glee covers climbed the charts, it won awards, the cast sold out national and international tours. we get to have characters like josh and hen and karen and buck and tommy BECAUSE OF shows like glee that came before. so yeah, it wasn't just ryan murphy worship on another ryan murphy show, the pre-glee/post-glee timeline was a "genuine unit of culture measurement" as @autisticjoshrusso put it here.

on a personal level: I watched glee every week as it aired from age 9 to 15. so much of the way that I am today (my sense of humour, my love for performing, my taste in music) is because of this show. I've seen it countless times, but didn't fully realise how much it meant to me as a piece of queer media until I was in my early 20s, so this is a topic I'm very passionate about. I owe ryan murphy my life and I also want to hit him with my car <3 anyway. stream teenage dream (glee cast version)

[commsroom]

is eiffel a chapel roan fan?

i like this question because it lets me talk about eiffel and modern pop culture, which is something i think about pretty often. it's kinda all about how he engages with it, if that makes sense? he's a very nostalgic older millennial man with a now-teenage daughter.

on one hand: in an AMA, gabriel urbina said eiffel's favorite bands would be pink floyd, led zeppelin, and the rolling stones. he's one of those guys. he has dangerous levels of nostalgia poisoning, and he will regularly rant about "classic rock" stations playing 90s music; he thinks "classic rock" should always mean the same bands it meant when he was a teenager, forever and ever.

on the other hand: eiffel is not elitist or gatekeep-y, and he really likes to be in touch with pop culture, so i don't think he would dismiss new popular things just for being new, even if he prefers older stuff in general. he's an offline guy with mainstream taste and wouldn't have any particular biases or preconceptions based on any of that; he's more of a rock guy than a pop guy in general, but he honestly has pretty broad taste, so it'd be unfair to stereotype him. he likes music.

on the other other hand: he's an older millennial and a dad and not exactly her target audience. he would not have known about her until she got really popular, and he'd engage with things that are popular with his daughter's demographic in an embarrassing dad way. if he's in anne's life, part of that would be teasing on purpose, but i also do not think eiffel will age with grace; there is definitely part of him that wants to convince himself he's still young and that He Gets It.

to put it another way, the example i usually use is, like... "eiffel likes taylor swift" that is unfortunately, canonically true. "eiffel is a swiftie" well... no, i don't think so. i would not agree with that. that's basically my answer to your question, too: do i think eiffel likes chappell roan's music? yeah, probably. do i think eiffel considers himself a fan of her in particular? ... probably not?

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

It just doesn't jive with some of the PR that KP puts out about William - for instance, the 'statesman' PR they do whenever he travels abroad. You're not a statesman if all you do is travel twice a year for two or three days at a time. You need to be in meetings, going places, talking to people, being in the room, representing the king at other countries' diplomatic/state events.

What do you want the KP do though? They can’t just sit om their asses. It’s PR. And maybe it’s not even for us royal watchers, it’s for the general public whose image of William is probably still stuck to when he was a hearthrob teenager or a young adult stumbling out of clubs or a newlywed or a young balding boring father. The KP PR team have to tell those people something, and maybe for those people it’s enough to see this new phase in William stepping up to his role. They see him taking a meeting with Biden or Trump and they’ll realize ohhh William is doing grown up stuff now lol. I was just watching the Daily Mail youtube show Palace Confidential. In the latest episode, Jo Elvie, the host, made a comment that for her who’s a bit older than William, she still very much sees William as young, so seeing him on his recent trip to Estonia, she feels William is stepping up into his role. There’s no mention of maybe his comms team should avoid saying he’s a statesman when he’s not.

That problem with the “statesman” tag thing is mostly coming from the niche place of royal watchers. The general public don’t think of that. Anyway, I’m just questioning the whole thing because the whole “Wiliam is trying hard to be a statesman” first came from the Baroness Bruck group of antis anyway. Those group of trolls have an agenda. The sentiment is echoed by William’s “fans” who aren’t happy with William’s workload. Maybe they want the PR to be more honest in a way, but as I said, maybe they aren’t the target audience for it.

I’m not saying I agree with KP’s strategy, I’m just putting forth questions for people to think about. The KP team got to do their jobs. So in your opinion, what would you have them do?

I thought that was clear in my post: KP should not be using the word "statesman" to describe William.

"Statesman" conveys a seniority that I don't think William has, not yet, not when you consider how long and how diverse his career is going to be. He's definitely on track to get there in the next couple of years, though.

But the flip side of it is when you consider who William's peers are - the other millennials in national government leadership roles; the JD Vances (born 1984), the Pete Buttigiegs (born 1982), the Sebastian Kurzes (born 1986), the Sanna Marins (born 1985), Guillaume of Luxembourg (born 1981). Compared to them, William has the most diplomatic experience in terms of the heads of state he's met and the audiences he's had.

In that respect, "statesman" does work, but no one is comparing William to the other millennials in government. They're comparing him to Elizabeth and Charles, and that's where William falls short of the mark for now.

The safer adjective, IMO, is "diplomat." Because that's what William is doing. He's doing diplomatic work meeting with heads of state and, in limited circumstances, representing the monarch abroad. He has not fully stepped into the kind of visible leadership role that "statesman" conveys to me, because his main focus is his family and as I said in the earlier post, that is perfectly okay.

The issue here is that KP messaging needs to align better with what William is actually doing or if William really is doing all this work on the back-end behind closed doors, then KP needs to be communicating that better, and that's something I've pointed out here several times before.

[hheartsdramas]

Settling in for more makjong deliciousness!

Ep 9:

Sang-woo is still creepy to me. Sorry if that’s not what you’re going for, guy.

Sa-Eon (or whoever he is) is such a goddamn romantic, I’m melting over that speech outside the police station

Okay i know lots of people are suspicious of In-A but after that convo with Hee-Joo, she is 100% at this press event thing to fuck. shit. up. in a good way. Hee-Joo has told her she wants the man whoever he is but they’re stuck in this ridiculous situation and big sis said, “I got you. Let’s piss off some parents.”

“my partner put a tracker on my phone without telling me so they can find me whenever” IRL: 🚩🚩🚩 in a drama: 😍😍😍

okay this tie tying bit is so sweet and domestic I’m melting again

Not Mr. Kang leading the charge straight into a private hotel room. He loves his boss so much and we love him so much

her dad 🥹

(I’m a millennial, I’m going to overload on emojis and if that’s old of me well what else is new)

So everyone on the internet called it about Do-Jae, but I don’t understand yet how it all fits? His motive for going after Sa-Eon would be because he thinks he killed his twin, but if he’s working with the OG Sa-Eon then he would know he’s targeting some poor random orphan and his wife, yeah? So is he a separate entity from OG Sa-Eon?

Phew, that was a roller coaster! On to Ep 10:

my god they both just want to be a normal bickering married couple so bad. and I want this for them. let the babies be happy

okay, so did Do-Jae not know that guy was OG Sa-Eon? like he managed to get in contact with the kidnapper without knowing the rest and now he’s found out that he fucked up?

yeah he kind of life and death fucked up, huh?

why is everyone insisting on tangling with the known crazy serial killer directly with no Ji Chang-Wook to action scene this drama up

I KNEW In-A was on our side! sistah sistah!

Hee-Joo is such a goddamn romantic, I’m melting over this proposal 🥹

had to stop typing my thoughts because those last 20 minutes were WILD

I refuse to accept her being dead, no one here deserves that kind of ending. also no preview at the end means they’re trying not to spoil that she’s actually alive.

but why did I laugh at his team’s reaction to finding out Hee-Joo is his wife, this is such a serious moment, self!

Finale week next week, what are we going to doooooooo

[lightning-wyvern]

lol bitch dont post comments on my luigi mangione fanfictions about how gross they are. about how its "gross" that im madly in love with luigi mangione. "i can't believe i'm seeing this shit" i can't believe your mother hated you so much you actually had the confidence to post that. block me, virgin. you three fools- yes i'm talking to the three of you- made mistakes posting those comments on my blog. be lucky i deleted the comments instead of doing what my headmates wanted me to do.

i dunno if you three jealous little bitches hate a) me, b) the fact that i clearly write better than you, c) the fact that i love and support luigi mangione, d) the fact that that particular story was targeted to agender, nonbinary, gender-anonymous/in the closet, and gender non-identifying luigi fans instead of you sorry lil bitches... but the next time someone comes all up in my grill yapping about how gross i am for supporting an innocent millennial, i'm gonna lose my shit, and you're gonna regret it and i'm not. i realize the tone of this whole damn post honestly makes me look like a huge narcissist, but it's 2025 and i don't have time to hate myself just because you decided you hate some random 19-year-old polyamorous trans dude on a dying fanfiction blog application.

besides, i'm so hot i have 3 consenting boyfriends who all have the hots for me and each other, so what in this burning world makes you think someone calling my headcanons gross is gonna huwt my feewingses? bitch please touch some grass, get a life.

whats crazy is i'm not even old enough to be buying the benchmark, everclear and absinthe i drink. i'm 19. you 3 random women are probably like what 30?? who gives a fuck if thats a bad guess i didnt even look at ur blog bitch

get off the internet and go walk your pet irritators, you unpleasant cock-starved wine-dry pack of kaprosuchus. do something besides bully random teenagers on the internet, neither you or i have time for this petty 2000's bullshit. act like what year it is, act your age. it's 2025, revolt against the government or don't bother opening tumblr. if you follow the rules then tumblr isn't for you. if you hate teenagers then tumblr isn't for you.

bitches r lucky i don't tag you, let my whole little train of cult followers bite your tits.

fuck.

[cornyonmains]

I'm hoping the insane box office take Deadpool and Wolverine had drives Marvel towards targeting adult audiences with more of its properties. I've been reading comic books all my life. The medium is a messy one that started with some standard issue white dudes in the 40s, queer counter culture personalities after Vietnam, and then showbiz writing talents going into the 90s in a desperate move to recover from market saturation.

In this VAST canon of creative works, the MCU's biggest problem is they're trying to give every single storyline this family friendly tone that audiences are starting to recognize as creative bankruptcy. As Marvel and Disney being more concerned with milking families of four for cash than preserving the creative integrity of a product to properly translate that magic to the big screen.

Deadpool and Wolverine reminded me of how great it would be to finally get to see Peter Parker grow up. To get to see him hanging out with Deadpool AND Logan (could you fucking imagine), having finally been given a story that keeps him out of this state of perpetual boyhood the movies and TV shows have always kept him in.

The comic book fandom has never been one where family friendly rules the roost, ESPECIALLY not with Millennials. Marvel is making the audiences who grew up with their movies feel pushed aside for a younger and newer audience, so of course they're not going to show up, which basically takes Gen Alpha with them. That leaves Gen Z and they're broke.

I've said it once, I'll say it again. If Disney is going to continue to buy up every studio under the sun, they need to learn to acknowledge adults exist and are complete exhausted with origin. coming of age, and overcoming adversity plots. We're old. We've learned these life lessons. Now we just wanna see shit get weird, sexual, and frankly, a little gay. Is that too much to ask?

[downtroddendeity]

new post to spare my poor dash another round of the same thread, but @cephlopodman, in a weird way, I think that's why it works. You can even sorta see the logic that got them here. Someone started with,

This series is about people going to a magical other world, it's right there in the name, and

We want this game to be about a little boy learning to be a king.

But,

3. if the little boy is from pseudo-Earth like Oliver was in NNK1, his taking on serious long-term responsibilities in another world opens a huge can of worms that's been bugging every single reader of portal fantasy since 1950, so therefore

4. someone else has to be the Earth person traveling to another world.

5. So we now need a second character who's going to be central enough to the story for their backstory to justify the title of the game, but who won't distract from the story about a little boy that we're trying to tell in the first place.

6. This character is going to be there pretty much all the time, supporting the protagonist through thick and thin, so the logical role to cast them in is a mentor.

7. So this character has to be someone from somewhere a lot like our Earth who knows how to lead a country, and we have to establish these qualifications as fast as possible so we can get to the plot.

8. What's an archetype of a World Leader(TM) that will be instantly understood by our target audience of Japanese 12-year-olds with no further explanation needed?

9. Answer: the Generic US President in every single blockbuster disaster movie Hollywood produced from like 1980 through 2010.

It's just that I'm not a Japanese 12-year-old, I'm an American millennial who's experienced every presidential election I could vote in being more of a descent into Yakkety Sax madness, and consequently this completely logical chain of thought resulted in a character who causes me to wheeze with laughter basically any time anyone says anything or anything whatsoever happens.