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[cameron-phillips]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 1x05 Queen's Gambit

[sotvrna-deactivated20250828]

does anyone here know about the brazilian asymmetric warfare meme campaign against portugal?

[sotvrna-deactivated20250828]

basically, a while ago brazilians came up with a meme where portugal was called "brazilian guyana", the latest brazilian state in europe. there was a lot of debate over what should its official name be, ranging from "gajos strip" to "unnecessary captaincies" (as opposed to hereditary captaincies) and a bunch of others that are equal parts funny as fuck and hard to translate.

a lot of mock videos and posts were made with an educational approach to explaining this newly annexed overseas territory, all in good fun. lisboa was renamed vitória da reconquista, european portuguese was rebranded as "antiquated brazilian", etc.

and basically a lot of portuguese people flipped their shit, and started ranting online about it. and as you guys know, europeans can't just be normal about things, so they started being extremely xenophobic, claiming they "allowed" brazilians to live there despite our bad manners and poverty and we should be grateful, pointing out the violence and other things they think about brazil, and just generally being awful.

which, predictably, only made brazilians double down and triple down on the meme, and it got so big other south american countries joined in in making fun of portugal (and spain).

the context of portugal having a population smaller than the CITY of são paulo, and brazil being so much more influent on the international stage and on the portuguese language that there's an ongoing linguistic trend in portugal of "abrasileiramento" which means european portuguese is becoming more brazilian, and young people are speaking closer to brazilian portuguese, especially due to the popularity of brazilian content creators just makes the whole thing more interesting.

basically, reverse colonialism works.

[sotvrna-deactivated20250828]

as an addendum, i want to be clear that this didn't come out of nowhere. there's even a wikipedia page about it:

The joke began after a controversy involving the signing of Portuguese player Kika Nazareth by Barcelona's women's team, which was announced with the Brazilian expression "Fala, galera!" (lit. 'Hey, folks!'). This sparked criticism from Portuguese users, who considered the expression inappropriate and "too Brazilian".

[sophsun1]

Sabrina the Teenage Witch – 2.15: Finger Lickin' Flu

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

[tronmike82]

I don’t mean to be rude; but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?

[darkshrimpemotions]

Supernatural

Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)

Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)

Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.

A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.

Arguably Game of Thrones.

If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.

In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.

They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.

And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.

[pessimisticfanboi]

It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they won’t usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.

Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.

And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.

Young Justice

Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences

#WhereIsRey (initial)

#WhereIsRey (ongoing)

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' owes its box-office success to women

The older, male generation of 'Star Wars' fans may be losing interest in the franchise, but female fans are stepping up.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi

[drunkenhills]

You’re all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh

[vbartilucci]

And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.

[jediorgana-deactivated20260403]

#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because he’s actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)

OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like “Hey folks, this girl’s getting us more viewers, let’s put her in more scenes!” It just doesn’t make sense to me. MEN don’t make sense to me.

[geraltcirilla]

The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.

[annaknitsspock]

Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.

[nova-arcania]

Doesn’t stop it from boggling the mind

(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron … 🤔)

[ridleymocki]

Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isn’t the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.

Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.

(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)

[nerdsandthelike]

I think a lot about an interview I heard with Bo Burnham a few years ago, where he talks about this phenomenon with his own work. He gained a large audience of teenage girls, and people in comedy spaces would look down on him for that or say what a shame it was, but he responded differently:

“The real truth is, I would perform my show and I would meet kids after and young girls would come up to me and they understood what I was expressing in that bit onstage way more than guys my own age. Way more. So if there was a bridge between us that I had to cross to write the movie [Eighth Grade], it was built to me by them. I felt understood by them before I presumed to understand them.”

Instead of trying to change his comedy, he decided to lean into and celebrate the audience that he actually had by making a movie specifically about the experiences of a teenage girl. It’s fascinating to hear him talk about how he got there, but also to acknowledge how rare that reaction is.

[laurens-german]

"The fame thing isn't really real, you know. Don't forget, I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy— asking him to love her."

NOTTING HILL (1999) dir. Roger Michell

[no-chill-at-all]

[wildlyannoyingdoofus]

These kinds of responses are my FAVORITE. Some examples to answers to this question I have heard:

1.

“Okay, and who’s the president?”

“Obama, no wait, shit *vehemently* fuck, I hate him… what’s his name…”

“It’s okay, you know who he is.”

2.

“Who’s the president?”

“*drunkenly angry and confused* ..uhhhhhhh…Orange… damn it what’s the fuck’s name….

“Yup, good enough.”

3.

“And who’s the president,”

“Not fuckin’ Obama!”

“I feel ya.”

4.

“Who’s the president- wait, nevermind you’re from Korea you said, right? So who’s-“

“Everybody knows that Trump-bitch.”

“Oh, well, alright then.”

5. (My personal favorite)

“Who’s the president?”

“Ew.”

“Good enough.”

[epaulettes]

My roommate is a neurologist and has to do this check all the time. Her all-time favorite so far has been “ay dios mio” during which the woman was vigorously crossing herself.

[moodyehudi-deactivated20180519]

lol me too , lady

[emi--rose]

One time I got “that orange fuck” from a very cute little old lady with urosepsis

[nezumipi]

I have - quite unintentionally - contributed to this phenomenon.

I was waking up from surgery in the post-op observation room, where they kept people before sending them off to the ICU. The nurse was talking to me as I was semi-awake, telling me that as soon as it was ready, I would be sent to room 2008.

I did not hear the word “room”.

I started trying to sit up and get out of bed (entirely unsuccessfully), shouting (mumbling forcefully), “He’s not president yet! I have to warn everyone!”

[magimerlyn]

That’s awesome. Thank you for trying to warn us

[euphoria-my-love]

i’ve been looking for this post for ages and it finally crossed my dash again

[whatsgoodmentalhealth]

(( *smiles* the post is back))

[stackcats]

Paramedics had to stop asking “who’s the prime minister?” in Australia because it changed so often that not knowing the answer wasn’t really all that indicative of anything.

One paramedic reported receiving the answer “I haven’t watched the news today”.

[placeofwonder]

Meanwhile in Germany, the joke goes that a teenager is waking up in a hospital bed, the nurse asks them who the chancellor is and they say, “hang on are you telling me that can change?”

[drst]

And here we fucking are again. How did we let this happen.

[poirott]

New Agatha Christie statue in her home town Torquay, Devon

On 12 April 2025, Torquay's Harbourside celebrated its most famous daughter, Agatha Christie, with the unveiling of a magnificent statue in her honour.

The statue, which includes her favourite dog Peter, has been created by a local artist Elisabeth Hadley and is part of the town's new Harbourside Plaza.

Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and remained on the English Riviera for much of her life, with many of her books being set locally or inspired by the surrounding Devon scenery.

Source: ITV clip, photo by Torbay Weekly

[cigarrw-s]

Ainda Estou Aqui (2024) Dir. Walter Salles

[davisbette]

KEEANU REEVES as JOHN CONSTANTINE in CONSTANTINE (2005)

— dir. Francis Lawrence

[guerrillatech]

[smallville-gifs]

every smallville episode: 6x11 justice

[theconcealedweapon]

[enbymeaning]

Every time someone says “but billionaires create jobs,” I think about how many of us are working three of them and still can’t afford rent, therapy, or dental care.

Capitalism didn’t just concentrate wealth, it rewrote the story so we’d blame ourselves for being crushed under it.

Poverty isn’t natural. Homelessness isn’t a personal failure. Healthcare shouldn’t be a luxury. The system is working exactly as it was designed.

We deserve more. We deserve rest, housing, care, and joy—not survival scraps.

[filmzsource]

“When will my life begin?”

[closet-keys]

[shawnshatosy-deactivated2026033]

Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls. But the dolls were always and forever baby dolls, until…

Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

"doesn't this charater under insane stress going through extremely traumatic events realize how inconvenient their irrational emotional reactions are to the people around them?" well, see, you're not gonna believe this, but the thing is,

[dailyflicks]

MUSIC AND LYRICS (2007) dir. Marc Lawrence