#but people will be like ‘stop saying mermaidcore and fairycore it’s all made up it means nothing!! 😡😡’ | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

boysnberriespie · 1 year

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There’s always something off putting about new internet memes and language* becoming serious discourse with real analysis (fine and normal, academics do it all the time) but people with no media literacy read those posts/essays and think that means anybody who says those things is brainwashed sheep. They’ve been analyzed and therefore there is something significantly wrong with them.

Can we not do neutral analysis anymore? Can nothing be interesting for its own sake? Must we be the arbiters of cultural value based on the next new substack essay and how we felt about it?

*not including the misuse appropriation of AAVE which is not what I’m thinking about in this moment, and while a connected discussion, isn’t necessarily the same thing as people coming up with corecore or even something like blorbo

#this brought to you by the fact that I find #putting the word ‘core’ at the end of anything to be really funny #this so me core and all that #but people will be like ‘stop saying mermaidcore and fairycore it’s all made up it means nothing!! 😡😡’#I mean by that logic let’s just throw out all suffixes in the English language dude #language evolves and it definitely evolves at a much more rapid pace on the internet #but that doesn’t mean it’s inherently bad #what is inherently bad is the underlying push for consumption that goes on on Every Social Media #which honestly that’s why I like my corner of fandom tumblr because I don’t get products pushed to me all the time #but there are corners of this site that push consumerism over stationary or home decor #we just don’t have an algorithm forcing it on us thank god #I brought up this push for consumption because a lot of these new phrases and language uses #get manipulated into consumerist practices #and that’s what makes them ‘annoying’ in many ways #but like no I don’t care that 13yo is looking up mermaidcore on Pinterest #I care that children are being manipulated into being consumers from a young age #or at least children who are in heavily consumerist societies #this isn’t even a think of the children thing #I just find that they tend to be trend pushers on internet language #because they have significantly more time to spend on social media #and they also have significantly less protections against capitalistic forces

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