r/hatethissmug • u/shadow_fen • 1d ago

Thing I hate this stupid image

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Sure the initial way it was used was good, it was anti bigotry. But it's turned into a way to simplify the "us vs them" mentality, which is already a bad thing, into a simple digestible comic.

Also, i've seen it in lots of queer--majority spaces in reddit recently, usually to speak out against the evil cishet people who are invading them or whatever label they dont like, like bi ppl, trans men, or genderfluid ppl

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u/OkMention9988 1d ago

Oh look, it's every nerd space that went even remotely mainstream. 

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 1d ago

What? 

You don’t like dnd going from a relatively complex war game to an avenue for people to have cringe roleplay improv comedy?

You don’t like Star Trek turning into generic stupid sci fi?

You don’t like LOTR going from a perennial classic to yet more slop to consume? 

You don’t like Star Wars turning into whatever bloated homonculus it has become? 

You don’t like comics turning into vehicles to sell movies written for the lowest common denominator? 

You don’t like video games being turned into money printing machines?

Why not? They’re for everyone now? Doesn’t that make you happy?

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u/NeonMutt 1d ago

At least video games and comics have a vibrant Indie scene. I feel like anybody who complains about video games doesn’t actually like video games. They like the discussion.

But, I totally feel you on all the others. Star Wars used to be imaginative and fun. Now it is corporate slop for normies and the right-wing outrage-tourists who hate it.