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ravenkings · 2 years

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i, personally, have no intention of seeing blonde, but i do agree that watching the tendency in some internet/fan spaces of engaging in art and culture criticism purely as a metric as to whether one work or another should be allowed to exist based on a system of black-and-white moral judgement seeping into the critical mainstream to be.......troubling.......to say the least

#that being said i increasingly wonder how much of these kinds of controversies (re: blonde but also don't worry darling etc.)#aren't astroturfed.......#i read something somewhere the other day about how when you recommend a series/movie to someone #oftentimes it will just go to the bottom of their never ending ''to watch'' list #however if you drum up controversy around it/try to ''cancel'' it #that almost guarantees an audience (either of reactionaries/contrarians but also people who are just curious)#it's really just baby simple reverse psychology #and like......even if this particular situation isn't astroturfed i wonder if we won't be seeing more of that in the future.........#art #writing #twitter

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