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A few good sites/pages for learning some media literacy and spotting online misinformation:
Snopes.com - a site that’s been around for twenty years (long before Google search engine was a thing) debunking urban legands and, more recently, fake news and misinformation.
Checkyourfact.com - a site similar to snopes that debunks fake news and viral “facts”. It’s the place I found out that post about Kraft releasing a rainbow coloured mayo called “Real Gaydo” for pride month was a satirical photoshop piece that was stolen from its original artist’s Instagram and shared around as a real product on Facebook and other sites.
School Library Journal - has a page of resources for teaching students and teachers how to spot misinformation and fake news and improve media literacy.
NAMLE.net - aka the National Association for Media Literacy Education, the leading nonprofit membership organization dedicated to advancing media literacy education in the United States.
Newslit.org - an educational nonprofit that provides programs and resources for learning media literacy. What’s cool about this site is they have an extensive number of quizzes designed to help you test your media literacy skills, which give you tips along with the question answers about how to spot and avoid misinformation and fake news. All of which you can try out for yourself here.
If anyone has more good online literacy resources like this, please feel free to add more!
#resources#fake news#news literacy#media literacy#online literacy#snopes#check your fact#school library journal#namle#newslit#fact checking#misinfo#misinformation
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I watched Starship Troopers tonight.
#personal#dumb#my art#immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it#cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir#scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance.#“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol.#and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator#scrolled through the comments#second panel face#this sucks i'm outta here.#just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is”#idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening#to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it”#and then seeing droves of people online going#WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's#the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.
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hey teenagers. ive heard some of you are starting to use ai instead of a search engine now. PLEASE do not do that!
ai literally makes shit up. it strings words together based on patterns! when you're trying to find information, you need to find reliable sources, and you need to look at them YOURSELF.
literacy is important! knowledge is power! stay well-informed!
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arthur is rude to that one sex worker because the guys are fucking around as they oughtn't be and he actively wants the source of their distraction to go away. that is how he operates through the entire game: deliberate, utilitarian intimidation and strategic unpleasantness to achieve a goal. it is an early game commentary on arthur meant to position him as a big dog that barks. it is not a commentary on his views about women which are clarified many times afterward. you guys realize that right
#arthur morgan#rdr2#redmeta#this is one of the most wildly misinterpreted but also most obvious scenes where writers are teaching us how arthur moves through the world#i really don't mean to seem short here#i am just exhausted of reddit mentality low literacy “ARTHUR WOULD SHOOT U IN THE FACE FOR FUN HE HATES WOMEN AND SLUTS” takes#my mistake was imagining a world where your average man online could intellectualize about narrative art#unless it is spoonfed to them on a shotty slug that says I'M STRAIGHT BUT I'D LET [MASC CHARACTER] FUCK ME
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hi, i wanted to give you an update on that post of mine you reblogged. heritageposts has informed me that they were using the red triangle in this context: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231123-one-small-red-triangle-palestine-we-are-finally-looking/
i was wrong about what they meant with the 🔻 emoji and i am officially rescinding my previous statement
I am all for fact checking and I would love to believe that Heritage Posts did not mean this particular horrible thing they did.
However, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) is not a reliable source for information in this conflict. If HP is actually using MEMO for news, they should focus on more reliable ones going forward.
There are plenty of other left-leaning sources with more reliability, credibility, sourcing, and transparency.
They have failed several fact checks for misleading and occasionally false information. The publication is explicitly and repeatedly pro-Hamas, and they often omit vital information to skew their stories.
While they are not rated as an outright propaganda publication or as a source of conspiracy theories, they do often cite sources which do and are.
Finally, they are funded by donations. Of course these donations largely come from people who support the kind of reporting that people who donate to them support. They are a nonprofit organization, which is not inherently a bad thing. But this means their interests are not based in journalistic ideals but in political ideology. This is not a reason to completely discount a source, but it is something to keep in mind.
In general, with a topic this intense and with such profound consequences for so many people, I’m only engaging with sources who receive a “reporting” rating of “high” or better and a “credibility” rating of “high credibility.”
I would POSSIBLY consider a “reporting” rating of “Mostly factual” if it had a “high credibility” rating and several extenuating circumstances and reduced media bias to compensate for its lower score in another area.
Leftist sources worth referencing instead:
Forward Progressives
Haaretz
International Policy Digest
Current Affairs
And many others
Personally, though, (for this particular conflict especially) I tend to prefer sources that fall into the central three categories: left-center biased, least biased, and right-center biased.
No news source is perfect or without bias. But this conflict is so fraught that I frankly don’t trust anyone reporting with extreme ideological intentions. And I also don’t want to only read sources that make me comfortable. I am personally very leftist in all of my personal politics and voting. However, I also know that the far left has been more hostile to me based solely on my Jewish ethnicity than anyone else in these past months. Furthermore, I think politicians should be more left, but journalism should always prioritize facts and a full scope of a situation over any one viewpoint. I am the daughter of a journalist. I am deeply in favor of journalistic freedom. And I absolutely do NOT believe in “both sidesism.” Sometimes, there really aren’t two sides to a situation that are both equally worth listening to. There is no alternative viewpoint to “Black Lives Matter” for example that is not deeply racist.
There are not “two sides worth teaching” when it comes to The Holocaust.
But the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not so simple. Israel should stop its bombing of Palestine. Palestinians should have full and equal rights. Jewish people in Israel and around the world should not have to live in constant fear or attack, harassment, or murder. There are a lot of extremely valid perspectives from Palestinians, Muslims, Israelis, Arabs, and Jews. And right now, the far left and the far right are weaponizing their ideologies to reduce all of the aforementioned groups to their worst actors. That is not something that will help anyone with regard to this conflict.
Left Leaning Sources
ABC News
Associated Press
Atlantic Media
Boston Globe
The Forward (This is a Jewish source. They had one failed fact check in the last five years, but issued an official correction.)
Human Rights Watch
Institute for Middle East Understanding (This is a Palestinian source and it has a completely clean fact check record)
Least Biased Sources
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (Obviously a Jewish source)
Reuters (this has a Very High reporting rating)
American Press Institute (not only have they not failed a fact check in five years; they have never failed a fact check ever)
The Conversation
Pew Research
Foreign Policy
Foreign Affairs
Sky News UK
Right Leaning
Note: As I stated numerous times, including in this post, I am a leftist. However, something important for American readers of this post to know is that, when it comes specifically to matters involving military analysis of foreign conflicts, a slight right lean in perspective is common and sometimes preferable to leftist idealism. I say this as someone who votes and holds opinions that are about as far left as one can get. However, I also say this as someone with a background in university studies of international politics. Because analysis of military conflicts is often done by those with experience in and understanding of the military, most of the most credible and detailed analyses of foreign military affairs do tend to be more right leaning than sources of equal worth focused on domestic political matters. Furthermore, a leftist tendency toward pacifism (which I share) tends to mean less leftist involvement in military-involved political matters at all. Of course, none of this means there are no quality leftist sources on the current conflict (which I obviously demonstrated by linking to such sources above). I am simply explaining the value of such sources to those who may justifiably be skeptical of anything right-leaning after the hellish past two decades of domestic policies and US-caused violence in other countries.
Note 2: There are plenty of right-leaning sources that received “high” credibility ratings and “high” reporting ratings. I found no sources that had both “very high” credibility and “high” reporting ratings in the “right-center” category.
Boston Herald
Chicago Tribune
Counter Extremism Project
Foreign Policy Research Institute
The Jewish Press (clearly a Jewish source, this publication is geared toward the Modern Orthodox Jewish community. They have no failed fact checks)
ITV News
Jewish Unpacked (this source has no failed fact checks. this source is right-leaning by necessity because of its historical examination of antisemitism in leftist spaces making those spaces inherently unsafe for Jews—not specifically in this most recent flare up in the I/p conflict, but for years).
Right Bias
Note: I don’t personally follow or read any of these sources. But I did list leftist sources with high credibility and reporting ratings, so I will do the same here in the interest of fairness. It should be noted that all other source bias ratings had results several pages long. Right Bias sources with high credibility and reporting ratings were confined to one page only. There are no Right Bias Sources with Very High reporting ratings and high credibility.
Economic Policy Journal (no failed fact checks now or ever)
Influence Watch (tends to view liberal and progressive politics as “extremist,” but has no failed fact checks.)
I am not inclined to trust HP simply because their most recent antisemitic behavior fell short of hoping for Jewish genocide. I have a higher bar for accounts than that.
#antisemitism#leftist antisemitism#media literacy#I/p#israel#palestine#oh boy#I’m about to get so much hate#I’m not looking forward to it#but media literacy is important#and HP needs to be held accountable for the harm it is causing to Jews online#source evaluation
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do not want to start a fight but isn’t this totally normal. in middle school you’re like what 11 years old? I didn’t know any of this shit at that age and that has not made my life difficult as an adult even remotely. in particular I was shit at touch typing and remember being miserable in class because I was horrible at it and now I’m perfectly comfortable touch typing because I’m no longer 11 years old. I’ve taught several semesters of upper year undergraduates (meaning all of them were over the age of 21-22) in a similar coding/technical class setting who didn’t know anything about windows file structures and it was fine, they didn't blow up their computers or bring about the downfall of civilisation, they eventually picked it up over the 12 weeks of the semester because that’s how learning works
#I think the much larger concern is children not being taught about online safety and how to keep their information private#computer literacy takes many years to build up in my experience like I genuinely don’t think this is a cause for alarm#like I think you guys are doing ‘back in my day’ shit lol#I’m also obviously an outlier in many respects because I’ve been in university for a long time#so my experience is particular#however. and I cannot stress this enough. they are 11 lol
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Okay, look, they talk to a Google rep in some of the video clips, but I give it a pass because this FREE course is a good baseline for personal internet safety that so many people just do not seem to have anymore. It's done in short video clip and article format (the videos average about a minute and a half). This is some super basic stuff like "What is PII and why you shouldn't put it on your twitter" and "what is a phishing scam?" Or "what is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS and why do you care?"
It's worrying to me how many people I meet or see online who just do not know even these absolute basic things, who are at constant risk of being scammed or hacked and losing everything. People who barely know how to turn their own computers on because corporations have made everything a proprietary app or exclusive hardware option that you must pay constant fees just to use. Especially young, somewhat isolated people who have never known a different world and don't realize they are being conditioned to be metaphorical prey animals in the digital landscape.
Anyway, this isn't the best internet safety course but it's free and easy to access. Gotta start somewhere.
Here's another short, easy, free online course about personal cyber security (GCFGlobal.org Introduction to Internet Safety)
Bonus videos:
youtube
(Jul 13, 2023, runtime 15:29)
"He didn't have anything to hide, he didn't do anything wrong, anything illegal, and yet he was still punished."
youtube
(Apr 20, 2023; runtime 9:24 minutes)
"At least 60% use their name or date of birth as a password, and that's something you should never do."
youtube
(March 4, 2020, runtime 11:18 minutes)
"Crossing the road safely is a basic life skill that every parent teaches their kids. I believe that cyber skills are the 21st century equivalent of road safety in the 20th century."
#you need to protect yourself#internet literacy#computer literacy#internet safety#privacy#online#password managers#security questions#identity theft#Facebook#browser safety#google#tesla#clearwater ai#people get arrested when google makes a mistake#lives are ruined because your Ring is spying on you#they aren't just stealing they are screwing you over#your alexa is not a woman it's a bug#planted by a supervillain who smirks at you#as they sell that info to your manager#oh you have nothing to hide?#then what's your credit card number?#listen I'm in a mood about this right now#Youtube
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I’ve only recently got into the bridgerton fandom side of things but making an entire blog about how much you hate one ship/character is actually kinda crazy and obsessive 😭 if you don’t care about them or don’t even like the show bc of them why keep entertaining it and talking about it… maybe unclench and log off for a bit idk
#bridgerton#like idk if I don’t like smth I’m not gonna make my entire personality online about how much I hate them#aren’t y’all exhausted or what#maybe take a break from being online and go outside and realize… it’s all fiction and not reality#you don’t have to entertain it if you truly don’t care or don’t want to no one is holding a gun to your head man 😭#this goes for any bridgerton ship tbh bc some of y’all sound insane#also… media literacy ain’t there anymore#y’all think every character has to be 100% good with no faults or very few faults in order to like them#but all characters in bridgerton have their faults and morally grey areas#and some are worse than others#but it’s all fiction at the end of the day#polin#saphne#kanthony
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Lily Orchard: "SU is garbage!"
SU: "Who is garbage?"
#lmfao fucking good#that video did so much damage to online media literacy in general not even just su specifically#not to mention while shit talking su she was heavily defending fucking FAMILY GUY and dismissing the problematic aspects of it#and thats not even getting into all the other abhorrent shit lily's said/done#su#steven universe#lily orchard#rebecca sugar
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the tf2 fandom on tumblr is in such dire straits, it wraps around from being annoying to being funny
no one knows anything about the time period it's set in. no one knows anything about the time period it was written in. no one knows the media genre it's parodying. no one knows how to write mostly-middleaged, mostly-white men who are intentionally and comedically a product of their time and individual cultures. no one seems to even realize each character is hugely informed by (the stereotyped version of) their culture. no one is comfortable engaging with the old war propaganda it's satirizing. no one knows anything about guns. some people actually think the sniper is 26
it's hard to watch, but then again the official comics post-2015 fall into every single one of these pitfalls too so like. maybe a lack of media literacy isn't just a fandom problem
#deerchatter#team fortress 2#tf2#yeah im putting it in the tags idc it has to be said#yes it's a silly haha world and the plot and characters are just set dressing for a fun online game#but it's also a hugely detailed and well-crafted piece of art w a lot of interesting layers that most fandomites#don't even seem to realize are there?? they have no idea ???#comedy as a genre is so disrespected and so misunderstood. just because smth is meant to be funny doesn't mean it's not art !!!#it still MEANS something even if it's meant to make you laugh instead of cry! fandoms struggle w that 1 so much#this is the same developer that made portal! just bc it isn't poignant doesn't mean it wasn't crafted w the same nuance and care!#im at the end of my rope tumblr fandoms desperately need to start getting obsessed w comedy as a genre so we can get#some media literacy on that too for you people
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this is the first and last thing i’m going to say about this bc this isn’t a “hot take discourse mic drop” thing. this is very fucking real and talking abt it on tumblr is not really going to do anything. the last thing the internet needs is a fucking half-dead stranger things blog giving their fresh hot take abt a literal war, but if we are going to talk about it on tumblr, we need to be talking about it responsibly.
ok.
saying “you either stand with israel or you stand with terrorism” is dangerous propaganda, and it doesn’t matter if it was intentional or not. it is SO irresponsible to insinuate to your millions of followers (mostly teens and children) that not supporting a colonial power that is actively carpet bombing palestinians is being complicit in antisemitism. in what world is being against a century of violent occupation calling for the death of israeli citizens, esp children? we’re all pretty fucking clear on the idea that isis does not stand for all muslims, right, or that westboro baptist doesn’t speak for all christians? being against an ethno-state does not mean being against the ethnicity/ethno-religion. it means being against the state. learn about 9/11 and iraq, about the way that muslims were treated in the states (and continue to be treated). learn about six year old muslim child in illinois who was killed this weekend, whose death was in no small part influenced by the anti-palestinian propaganda that is getting shoved down american throats. (i can’t speak for the rest of the world but i doubt the coverage is much different.) why is it so hard to say “civilians shouldn’t die, regardless of side, and also apartheid is bad and should stop.” caring about jewish lives and wanting to end the occupation of palestine are not mutually exclusive, and to imply otherwise paints palestinians as inherently evil. that’s bad. we all understand why that’s bad right.
noah’s post is not an excuse to be homophobic and antisemitic.
criticizing the very tangible impact of his statement is not homophobic or antisemitic.
anyway.
#we all talk a big game abt literacy this and literacy that. ok. be literate.#saying dumb shit online is not an excuse to have homophobia thrown at you#but it is an excuse to get held accountable to your actions and influence.#protect civilians & free palestine#noah schnapp
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The influence of Twitter on online culture made me angry, the influence of TikTok on online culture kinda scares me. The amount of misinformation, censorship, media illiteracy, secular puritanism, revisionism, moral dogmatism… it just horrifies me.
Twitter made online culture into a sphere of perpetually pointless discourse, filled to the brim with pedantry, cynicism, performative outrage, gleeful abuse, bad faith arguments etc. It’s a world where everyone is an intellectual, an activist and a critic, no matter how incurious, inaccurate and demonstrably absurd their arguments.
TikTok is creating a world where everyone feels themselves to be historians, educators, politicians, community leaders, moral guides, experts etc. Like that woman who says the Roman Empire didn’t exist said: “some people just know more than you.” (Or something similar)
‘Just know’ is critical here: lots of TikTok influencers just confidently presume to know things without doing any real research, fact-checking and due diligence. They just act as if they are experts and will say whatever without citing anything. More than anything, they act as if their words and intuitions hold universal moral weight.
This is inevitably leading us to a path where the worst impulses of people who love attention and love to feel right no matter the cost are steering discourse standards for young people.
The result is this kind of secular dogmatism, puritanism and moral absolutism. What is problematic is immoral, what is uncomfortable is abusive, all authoritative information is untrue… People propagating all kinds of misinformation and historical revisionism, people spreading the attitude that all “problematic” media should be wiped from existence, that any expression that doesn’t meet their criteria doesn’t have a right to exist publicly, that morality is not concerned with actual interpersonal behaviour but with personal taste, preference and media consumption instead… At the centre of it is the bane of much online media “analysis”, the attitude that ‘I am the universal I. My taste corresponds with the bounds of what should exist and what shouldn’t. If I can’t relate to it, it’s irrelevant, if I dislike it, it must be morally reprehensible and should be erased.’
This will lead to more alienation, fragmentation and polarisation, but that’s not all. A lot of these misguided attitudes come clad in the language of progressive values and radical politics, but deliberately or not, they are smoothing the path for reactionary gain. People forget that reactionary ideas and attitudes don’t always have to come with explicitly right-wing conservative, neoliberal signifiers, they can just as easily be clad in the language of socialism or revolutionary values as well (just look at the Sovjet-Union or modern day China).
I do sincerely hope that the online left does something to counter this because this trend will make it incredibly easy for the right-wing to enflame the culture war and turn offline people against social progressivism and/or for red-brown goons and reactionary “socialists” to infiltrate the online left and increasingly make it more conservative and more culturally restrictive.
This finger-wagging, prudish and proudly ignorant version of progressivism will not protect anyone from anything. It will just open up online communities to more harassment, thought-policing, gatekeeping, public shaming and open the door for many cynical and unscrupulous people to gain prominence and violently enforce cultural conformity.
#Twitter#TikTok#social media#media literacy#misinformation#online#online culture#conservative#socialist#radical#reactionary#social media culture#media consumption
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I love morally fucked up complex characters but I hate the fandom spaces because you either get people frothing at the mouth to declare that liking that character means you 100% agree with everything they did and would support that behaviour irl, or you get people who have put them on a pedestal insisting that they were 100% correct and good and anything bad and unconscionable they did was because those cruel writers forced them to be evil.
#accidentally went on yt to look up da absolution clips. online media literacy is in shambles#'miriam was pure evil for not wanting to work w rezaren' mf did we watch the same show#dragon age#dragon age absolution
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When I engage with the Silmarilion fandom it’s always very educational and enlightening no matter what side they’re on regarding Finwe and his sons. But whenever I interact with the HoTD fandom it’s always “you’re condoning XYZ and therefore you’re a horrible person!!!” Or doing mental gymnastics to try to justify whichever atrocities their side committed.
Thematically both stories are quite similar. We can find parallels with Rhaenyra and Feanor but even at his worst (Pulling a sword on Fingolfin, First kinslaying, burning of the ships etc.) Feanor had never put a bounty on a toddler (Rhaenyra stating that Maelor should be bought to her dead or alive causing him to be ripped apart. Like hello??!??? How is that ever a justifiable thing to do???). I can find parallels between Feanor and Rhaenyra, sure. But if I’m honest the parallels stop with them being the only child of a kings first wife who’s father then went on to face four more kids with another women. Finwe is ten times the father Viserys was. And literally none of the kids (Feanor included) would ever take their anger out on their siblings child like we see the so called Maegor come again do.
But I digress, I was talking of the fandom. I may get heated talking about whether Feanor was right in his anger at Indis or whether Fingolfin should’ve absolutely demanded more reparations from the sons of Feanor when he crossed the ice. But I’ve never seen anyone in the Silm fandom saying that someone should die because they had an opinion.
But I’ve seen many instances of HoTD fans threatening rape and death on people who think Alicent is not the monster they portray her as, or that Rhaenyra isn’t as ‘girl boss queen slay!!!’ As people say she is. Maybe it’s because HoTD is a TV show and many of the fans haven’t read the books and therefore don’t understand nuance since the TV show focuses so much on Rhaenyra’s manifest destiny arc that team green gets painted as the ‘ultimate’ villain for our girl boss queen Rhaenyra to ascend to the throne since it’s her ‘birth right’.
Not to mention how the whole made up show canon prophecy to justify colonialism means that team black stans are really showing their true colors on what they think is right. Because guess what? The Silm also has what could be said to be as a colonizing story line with the Noldor coming to Beleriand and settling but most fans agree that the cutting up of Beleriand was very much a colonizing behavior no matter what they think of Thingol.
Point is, most HoTD fans can’t hold and intellectually simulating debate over their characters without feeling like said debater is personally attacking them since their entire personality is so deeply entwined with their fav that a critique on them would automatically equate to a critique on themselves. Therefore making it entirely impossible to have a decent conversation on the thematically very important foils that Rhaenyra and Alicent pose to each other (since they still think a good story must have a black and white view of the protagonist and the antagonist lmao).
Media illiteracy in these fandoms truly is a cancer that spreads to even the most level headed and literate individuals. Pick up a book! Understand themes and how foils are supposed to be written without internalizing criticism of your fav as a criticism of yourself! I don’t get mad when people criticize Feanor, nor do I get mad when people say I’m wrong when it comes to my own interpretation of the statue of Finwe and Miriel. It’s called having a discussion and you can only do that when you’re not on the front lines dying for a fictional character who wouldn’t spit on you if you were on fire in front of them!!!
#media literacy#hotd#the silmarillion#feanor#pro alicent hightower#alicent hightower#anti team black stans#anti team black#pro team green#please I’m begging for people in this god forsaken fandom to stop defending a fictional character with your life#cw rape#anti rhaenyra targaryen#anti Rhaenyra Targaryen fans#rhaenyra targaryen#as you can see I despair at the lack of reading comprehension skills and media literacy skills most team black stans have#literally head empty only girl boss slay queen omg she’s such a boss bitch!!!!#if you can’t recognize the flaws in your fav character maybe don’t debate their actions online?#like#a character having irredeemable flaws is like half the reason you like them
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Not touching the original post HAHSHFHGJG but omg y'all need to learn to be normal about gen z this is embarrassing
i'm begging people online to talk to actual 20ish year olds and not make assumptions based on your tiktok user niece that you see once a year at family gatherings and crap.
We are not children. we are adults in college and grad school and shit (median age in my MA is about 23) and most of us in fact know how to use laptops, word processors, folders and basic software........... Almost every entry level office job (which we are holding down and applying to to be able to afford grad school!!!!!!!) requires microsoft office skills (excel etc) so it's laughable to make claims like this with zero non-anecdotal evidence
This keeps happening in posts about gen z doing this and that and I'm fucking tired!!!! I stg being born in 1994 doesnt make you smarter or more tech literate than younger generations it just makes you (at least some ppl) smug and annoying apparently!!!!!!!!
#media and tech literacy declining is an issue#but i stg. y'all always make the stupidest assumptions about this mythologised interpretation of a homogenous gen z that DOES NOT EXIST#ashhdjf also no hate to the ppl on my dash who reblogged this its not your fault#i'm just so tired of this discourse cos its everywhere#the urge to get a phd by age 25 to be able to effectively talk down to people older than me online ASHDJFJKGJKLASKSDHGJ#(dw i'm not THAT obnoxious)
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I’m making an extremely spicy take for one second after seeing how divisive recent episodes have been and then I’ll be returning to our regularly scheduled programming but a truly double-edged sword of this show is that it doesn’t hand-hold its audience. It leaves a lot to subtext, it’s driven by themes over real-life morality (with different lenses of morality per character, even), it gives characters dialogue that contradict their actions, it operates in symbolism and metaphors; it’s very show vs. tell, as most well-crafted media is. And this is part of what makes it so addictive and compelling; you can spend hours dissecting it under a microscope. But it also means that if you’re watching this show literally, you’re going to miss a lot of its intention—and because the show implies but does not tell, it can be easy to take things at face value even when the implication is something else entirely (or else extremely nuanced).
This isn’t necessarily an issue, but I say all this partially because I don’t think it would be so uncomfortable for us POC to see Izzy’s lack of apology to Ed et. al if the harassment in fandom didn’t exist. Because we know that this is how the show operates—a lot is assumed off screen, and long beats of open dialogue aren’t really a thing compared to the way characters are tonally portrayed. Tonal growth speaks more than words here (basically, Izzy’s silent growth speaks volumes). But this show vs. tell/taking things literally is also why the harassment started in the first place—because people took the literal violence of the toe thing more heavily than the tonal presentation of the “this is Blackbeard” scene, for example. So on some level, it now feels a bit like the show needs to do something about a problem created by fandom itself.
Do I want the show to change all this and be more obvious about what it’s trying to say? Honestly, as a viewer, no; I personally think it would be way less impactful if it was. But it’s definitely a cautionary tale that I’m genuinely not sure how much the creative team is even aware of. And what I think is most important is that while you as a fan are welcome to interact with this show however you damn well please, there are 2 things to keep in mind: a) POC are a part of this fandom space too and their feelings and discomfort shouldn’t be steamrolled just because you love your meow meow (you can love him, even I’m growing to, but you’ve gotta be mindful!) and b) this show, while a rom-com, is also so much more than that—and while you don’t personally have to engage with the themes of toxic masculinity and the question of what it means to be a man, you have to be okay with others doing so (and yes, that does include critiquing and critically analyzing Izzy for his role in these themes).
#as usual I only speak for myself so if any other poc have conflicting opinions I am all for others weighing in#I also think there’s something to be said about a dip in media literacy in conjunction with Covid and everyone becoming chronically online#but that’s another post that I will probably never make#I hope this is coherent#ofmd#ofmd season 2#ofmd spoilers#ofmd s2 spoilers#our flag means death#ofmd meta
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