BLEEEH

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[idontreallyusethisaccountanymore]

I finally watched Infinity Train and woah did I miss out. Such an interesting plot point and while similar to Over the Garden wall distinguishes itself in it’s style and writing. The character growth and message of the plot was amazing as well as all of the world building and mystery leading up to some reveals that solidified the concept in me. 

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) dir. Michael Dougherty

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[jiinouga]

This post is an SCP

[xliminalspacex-deactivated20250]

listen i like john mulaney as much as the rest of y'all but whenever i see some intense shit like “OMG HES THE ONLY SAFE MAN EVER” it fills me with so much dread. like i know y'all are gonna turn on him for something dumb and im gonna have to see a hundred posts about how “HES LITERALLY THE WORST MAN TO EVER LIVE”. y'all put celebrities on these massive pedestals and then when they inevitably fuck up, you call them names and harrass them. it’s insane.

[canadiangold]

best thing i learned today: “The Loud American” role in Japanese businesses

[canadiangold]

nobody asked but imma explain anyway

no idea how it came up, but my programming prof was talking about his friend who works for Nintendo Japan who’s secondary role is The Loud American, and my prof explained what that was and how it came about

see, in Japan you do not talk back to your boss. you just don’t, even if they have stupid ideas and want the company to act on them. Like Nissan did sometime back. But since the other employees couldn’t do anything about this terrible idea that would ruin the company, they called in an American who had no reservations about telling the boss that their stupid idea was a stupid idea

and that’s just become a role in Japanese businesses, where they keep an American on staff who plays up the American stereotype and tells the boss what the Japanese employees can’t or won’t out of societal norms

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

dream job.

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How much do they pay per hour for me to sit around and every so often storm into the bosses office and call his ideas stupid as fuck?

[dankmemeuniversity]

[fatretard]

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okay i just had a bad epiphany but corporate interest’s influence on the internet is going to become so much stronger now that generations that are internet naturalized have grown up and starting working as “social media consultants”. advertising is going to become so much more subtle, manipulate your behavior to a greater extent, and completely pervade every aspect of our lives the more we rely on the internet for everything from entertainment to social validation. 

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what im saying is its scary that corporate twitter accounts are getting good at twitter. to have the same avenue a human would to express themself. its like, an extreme anthromorphism of a brand, and that brand representing a corporate interest, and successfully passing itself off as a sentient entity on twitter, thats really weird to me.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

like this is so fucked up. it doesnt immediately read as an advertisement, conceptually it executes the levels of irony and deconstruction that usually make for successful memes in this genre or whatever. its almost subverting itself, but ultimately it still succeeds as an advertisement. it makes me sick. for every misfire of corporations trying to relate (pepsi protest commercial), theres another company getting better at it

[radailurophiles]

okay but like my thing about this is… who is actually eating at these places because shit like this? yeah it’s funny but i never go to wendy’s because a meme, if i go to wendy’s it’s because i want a gross burger and a frosty, same with taco bell and mcdonald’s and wherever the fuck.

i really think that you’re blowing this out of proportion and having very little faith in people’s ability to decide what they want for themselves. it’s just not that deep.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

It’s not about the effectiveness of the ads in question, but their complete omnipresence in every aspect and moment of life, and how bizarre and sophisticated the mechanations of advertising have become. If people don’t call attention to these things, they become normal.

[sausaged-rat]

The effectiveness of marketing isnt one-to-one, like, “ad says burger is good, I think burger is good, I eat burger.” That was 50 years ago. Y'all, since then these multi-million dollar corporations have been hiring psychologists and sociologists and anthropologists to study how best to get under consumer skin and theyve figured out it’s not about making you WANT a burger,

It’s about creating a Brand Identity - an anthropomorphized personality that your brain fits into an established schema (system of thought) so it’s easier to just drop into the background of your everyday life. It’s not about making you want a burger, it’s about making it so, when you DO want a burger, the first place you think of is Wendy’s, because their ads have made you think about them five time already that day. And most importantly, it’s about making sure you dont realize how often they make you think about them, so you don’t resent how pervasive they’ve become. They do that by tricking your brain into thinking of them as just another human-like personality. Your Funny Meme Friend Wendy’s. Wine Aunt World Market. Woke Jock Nike. Even your Endearingly Unhip Uncle Geico.

(hey also if you want dozens of terrifying examples of what I mean, just type ‘brand identity schema’ into Google like I just did and take a gander at all those scholarly articles discussing how best to acquire consumers, like we’re a fucking commodity)

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one time i said i didn’t like the wendys twitter and got called classist for hating retail employees 

this shit works. it makes people like Brands. gets under their skin and in to their minds. when i said i didnt like the wendys twitter i personally offended people that viewed wendys as a friend, that viewed the wendys social media manager as a friendly individual that they respected.

the wendys social media manager is not your friend. they don’t even really exist. there’s no one person that writes the tweets for wendys. there’s a team of 20 something year olds that casually observe the latest meme trends and crank out mspaint memes because they know they’ll get retweeted if the memes are relevant.

they trick you in to thinking that Wendys is a hip friendly young person, and they manipulate you in to thinking that disliking marketing is somehow a “problematic” “un-woke” thing to do. 

and it works. 

install ublock origin. on mobile, block every promoted tweet you see. don’t let them convince you that this shit is normal.

[lostinspaceandmeaning]

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I just wanna say, not only was I extremely correct in my paranoid regarding these posts, but it’s actually gotten way fucking worse already

I’m just going to be blunt about it; America’s depression epidemic is a direct result of the all-encompassing alienation we experience under late stage capitalism, and now private interests are attempting to recuperate the general public’s feelings of hopelessness and despair into marketing material, the spectacle in effect recuperating our despair and making it appear that the powers that be are on our side. That we are being watched over by boardrooms with loving grace, despite the fact that they are part and parcel with the forces of economy that has driven so many people to not see any hope in their lives. By recuperating the public discourse about the root of endemic depression, the status quo is able to trivialize it and sterilize it before before safely incorporating it back into mainstream society. Not only are we unable to strike against our enemy, most of us can’t even see them for what they are, and the rest of us can’t even speak to the truth of what they are capable of.

Pay attention to little bizarre happenings like these, they betray the rest of the iceberg

[robinandraven]

[cremsie]

refreshing tumblr today like

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did someone break a torch, why did tumblr suddenly get so dark

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WE NEED TO LIGHT UP TUMBLR OR MOBS ARE GONNA START SPAWNING

[did-you-forget-i-was-here]

[mesopelagic]

[idontreallyusethisaccountanymore]

When you see fandoms posting about canonically bi characters saying they are gay and you don’t know if they are using the term gay as a collective for lgbt or if they being biphobic and erasing them.

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[scottsummers]

The Ringing of The Bell

[idontreallyusethisaccountanymore]

[closet-keys]

My brother was diagnosed with depression years before I was, and because of that he started therapy years before I did.

I still remember when I was a young teen and he was playing a Nirvana song and he stopped it at this one line: “I miss the comfort of being sad”

He told me that when you start to get better, there’s a part of you that misses being sad and that if you start feeling that way you have to be extra extra aware and careful because if you indulge the feeling you’ll go down a self-destructive spiral

And even though that was years and years ago, I think about it all the time. Especially when I’m reading discourse on the idea of getting so attached to mental illness as an identity that you don’t want to improve things because you feel safe in it and don’t know who you are without it

I always think of that line “I miss the comfort of being sad” and my brother’s warning

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E X T R E M E L Y important

[idontreallyusethisaccountanymore]

It’s weird how we kinda look over unorganized the internet is. Take look at art and fandoms, you could go to all of the main websites that art is posted on and archive the fanart of a character that has some kind of tag or marker that indicated that was the character and you wouldn’t be able to fully archive all the art that has been created of said character cause sometimes art is uploaded without being tagged. Even more so you go on google images and you’d find images you’ve never seen before of the character that have been only posted on one place like a thread of a forum, never tagged, never uploaded to a bigger site. Even deeper there are forums and sites that web crawlers can’t access known as the deep web (not to be confused with the dark web) that have fanart, stories and media most of us will never see. Their could be fandoms you’ve never dreamed would have content for making it and sharing it with each other away from any sense of organization and archive. It makes me wonder how much media and information is lost over the years through forums and old websites shutting down.