Megathread Trans-made Media - Stories about genderspecials, by genderspecials

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The summary so far:

This is actually why I started the trans made media thread: somehow, as soon as a person became trans, the ideas were sapped from them. As if subtly and narrative point was wiped out of their brains with the precise swabs of a thousand q-tips. It's not about writing a story to entertain the viewer, or to enjoy the art of writing and storytelling, it's not to explore a nuanced topic or even a strange possiblity (and if they say it is they do it where it goes their way all the time regardless of being interesting or making sense), it's rarely because they're having fun. I think it's what you said, it's about affirmation, power fantasies, and endless navel gazing. The basic ones I've seen have basic young adult show melodrama on top of another premise, and it boils down to "I'm troubled and toiled and my haters are dumb." I think the most pretentious ones are on the side of "I am a ball of light, an ephemeral being, a being without shape or form but made of substance, I am sinful and I am not yet I do good and bad, and also my haters are dumb." There's usually something about love and acceptance conquering all in a phony, unnatural sense, from ignoring flaws in a relationship between protagonists to having the dream polyamory work, to having the trans person be better for accepting everyone and stuff. It's like shitty hippie literature where they just want to talk about how it always feels like to feel like themselves, people with terrible grasp on who they are trying to become metaphysical or heartwarming when they barely experience emotions outside of anime and online emoticons. It's shallow, flat, and screams like they know everything but also don't. It's just... so consistently shit in how it's written and what it is about that I don't know how it got this way. Like again, everyone had the same brain parasite that makes you write like crap.

It's all vanity projects up and down. The biggest mystery to explore is themselves because they're socially and emotionally stunted, there's a lot of low quality anime and cartoon style writing because a lot of them don't graduate beyond that (or autism), and there's hardly any structure or conflict that doesn't end with "the character accepts themselves" or "the bad guy is converted to Jesus if redeemable and super punched to hell if irredeemable in the author's eyes." That was a lot of jumbled up rambling to say that trans writing is so shit and it confounds me on how it can be so CONSISTENTLY shit IN THE SAME FUCKING WAYS, OVER AND OVER. The nervous ones write the least offensive to anyone ever who's a minority writing possible (to the point they become super bland). The angry ones write kill all bigots and terfs fantasies with little character arcs or nuance to either side. The self absorbed ones write self felating about how much thinking and musing they do about being trans and how when others accept their ideas all the problems go away. The sheltered ones write shitty anime as stated earlier. The lonely ones write love stories that amount to "omg i'm gay" being repeated between two people one hundred times. And all of these are usually present in different amounts in a story and all are surprisingly fucking shit.


I don't trust anyone who says they're a professional trans writer to tell me a damn thing about writing. They couldn't tell me about plot, structure, tension, word usage, anything aside from MAYBE character whinging and purple prose. I'm so fucking sick of it and I'm elated I do not have to speak to anyone about troon writing in books or games anymore because it's fucking atrocious.

 

[AMHOLIO]

The summary so far:

I wrote this while tired so thank you very much for thinking it's good enough to quote and repost here.

 

[cia-log]

I was just thinking about that the other day. I was reminiscing about PhilosophyTube's play in which he grinds out some metaphor about accepting and loving your true identity from a handful of Shakespeare plays.

A thing that stuck with me is that I couldn't help but notice that there are quite a few trans content creators who work hard and still make nothing more than middling content with repetitive themes and, in general, a very narrow perspective on life and people outside of the ingroup. Manhunt was kind of the same way, although that was more about surviving in a world that hates you, another favorite theme among trans writers.

I used to think you could make a shitty idea decent if you worked on it enough, but now I'm realizing work without a sense of direction is pointless. Bad ideas can be worked into good ones with enough time and effort, but one has to have the perspective to see what's wrong with the bad idea in the first place in order to improve it. Not only that, you have to be willing to examine the things that keep you locked in a certain frame of mind if you ever hope to make anything with the time you spend trying to improve. It's kind of sad, these examples serve as a pretty good and clear indication of how slavish, uncritical adherence to an idea can cause one to stagnate prematurely, and taken as a whole these examples could be pretty instructive, but I seriously doubt anybody in the art world would dare use them to demonstrate that.

 

[Space Police]

A thing that stuck with me is that I couldn't help but notice that there are quite a few trans content creators who work hard and still make nothing more than middling content with repetitive themes and, in general, a very narrow perspective on life and people outside of the ingroup.

It's like those Christian YA novels designed to do nothing but hammer in the moral that Jesus will solve all your problems. While there is a lot of good media made by Christians and good Christian media, the good stuff is made by adults who are mature and willing to take constructive criticism to improve their work. Trannies are all perpetually adolescent, narcissistic, and have a mindset that rejects constructive criticism (or at least doesn't accept it in a meaningful way). Their media ends up like those stilted, hamfisted turn to Jesus YA novels because they can't write above a YA level, must make everything about themselves, and have no interest in improving. All that matters is that they got out of their "dysphoria fog" (aka got out of bed) to make something -- after all, many troons would 41% at the thought of putting themselves in a "notable", public-facing position where they can receive transphobic harassment, chud!

 

[cia-log]

It's like those Christian YA novels designed to do nothing but hammer in the moral that Jesus will solve all your problems. While there is a lot of good media made by Christians and good Christian media, the good stuff is made by adults who are mature and willing to take constructive criticism to improve their work. Trannies are all perpetually adolescent, narcissistic, and have a mindset that rejects constructive criticism (or at least doesn't accept it in a meaningful way). Their media ends up like those stilted, hamfisted turn to Jesus YA novels because they can't write above a YA level, must make everything about themselves, and have no interest in improving. All that matters is that they got out of their "dysphoria fog" (aka got out of bed) to make something -- after all, many troons would 41% at the thought of putting themselves in a "notable", public-facing position where they can receive transphobic harassment, chud!

That was something that was really stuck in the back of my head for a long time but I couldn't figure it out until the other day. Critics will easily explain how strictly propagandistic pieces or otherwise heavy-handed literature can fail as pieces of art, and often you'll see critiques and essays about how right-wingers in particular are just too dogmatic and simplistic to make nuanced pieces of art a lot of the time, but this was different. I realize now that the authors become so absorbed in a single perspective on what they're talking about that no matter how much work they do or how much technical skill they apply, the hallmarks of bad writing and bad art persist, and we end up with the very detailed, high production value pieces of shit that we've been seeing.

So these people keep poring over their work, editing and revising until everything seems perfect, and it still blows, because what they've been taught to look for skips right over the things that make their work suck. With the evangelicals, they believe strongly in their message, and they also believe that they are somehow alone in these beliefs, so their propaganda is often meant to convince outsiders. In God's Not Dead, a Muslim girl finds joy and safety in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and converts, obviously meant to communicate to the audience that their religious beliefs are a way out of feelings of emptiness or unhappiness. Trans content creators can look at a thing like that and tell right away that it's patronizing and simplistic, so they don't do it.

I suspect because of that awareness that a lot of trans content would probably get decent grades in a university literature class, but it still doesn't pass the smell test. You're told not to preach to your audience, but they get around that by just assuming that their view is so obviously correct they don't have to preach. Outside of media for kids you basically never see a character go "I was a transphobe, but then I learned that being a transphobe is bad and made me unhappy, so now I'm not one and my life is much better" I almost suspect the level of awareness of other people's feelings that you would need to write such a thing is beyond these people to begin with (in particular Manhunt's depiction of so-called TERFs is telling) because it seems like they're not even interested in convincing people in the first place. They're simply right and the reasons for that are self-evident, so any criticism of the simplicity of the characters doesn't make sense to them because that's just how reality is in their heads. You're either with them or you're evil, and there's no depth to you as a person beyond that.

So they write a story or make art doing everything that school and video essayists taught them to do, avoiding what they were told not to do, they use a varied vocabulary and avoid the obvious clichés that Evangelicals can't help but run into the ground, and still their art feels just as cliched and predictable and one-dimensional.

 

[AMHOLIO]

They're simply right and the reasons for that are self-evident, so any criticism of the simplicity of the characters doesn't make sense to them because that's just how reality is in their heads. You're either with them or you're evil, and there's no depth to you as a person beyond that.

The only converts in the trans doctorine are Nazi/Bigot to Trans Woman, specifically so. Man angry at trans people? Must be a closet transphobe. Woman angry at transphobes? Fuck you mom you're a boomer/gen X who will die before me (optimistic of them but ok).

Another thing is that trans authors specificially AVOID giving villains a relatable perspective or to sympathize/make them human. The visual novel game made by a lesbian and trans lesbian, Heaven Will Be Mine, specifically went out of their way to make no pne sympathize or draw sexy fanart of the villain by blurring his face because the authors hated people who fetishized evil authoritarian bigots like that in fandom. This is an incredibly fucking narrow worldview framed wholly around the audience being the type to turn into a "fandom" and not a diverse player base (casuals, deep thinkers, fandom shippers, etc.). They had their main protagonist have conflicting views and some be morally gray, but all were understandable from the authors' POVs and they related it to their audience as such. Steven Universe was a ground zero type for this where a lot of the villains who were given long term character were turned "good" or redeemed in some way, while short term villainous bigots got one and done dunks. I wonder if Rebecca Sugar and the writers couldn't fathom turning a character with an understandable thought process into someone they related to, someone they loved, so they made them go good in addition to the love and friendship stuff. Manhunt author Micah Felkner-Martin was a fascinating case since he felt bad for males and the male rape apes, but never for the TERFS. I think he said it was that the TERFs chose their position while the male rape apes were acting on instinct, and I'm guessing because Micah/Gretchen is a rape ape himself.

This leads me back to this tweet:



"What if you happen to play as a character you don't identify as?" "There is no such thing."

I have a feeling, like hardcore religious and politcal movements, that there are many trans people who use the human = relates or thinks like me, waste of air = does not relate or think like me. The filter is set too high. The black and white make things simple, but ends up tripping them into terrible situations and unhappy days since they are so quick to panic and judge. Some notice this dissonance and slowly change, some will never do so or even CARE to do so, and will be continued to be posted on the farms.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

This is a common thing across the LGBTQAMAPOMGWTFBBQ+ and furry groups. You'll see them in the comments of videos showing their group being absolute shitheads and they'll still bring attention to themselves by saying "I'm _____ myself but I'm not like them!". It's really fucking annoying.

Call it what it is, man, it's A-Logging.

It's functionally not much different from back in the day when some pudgy, permavirgin autist with a Sonic recolour and a speech impediment would make a shit, unfunny reaction video clearly filmed in their mom's basement for their YouTube channel, trying to mock or attack Chris-chan, because 'he's giving autistics a bad name'.

 

[cia-log]

The only converts in the trans doctorine are Nazi/Bigot to Trans Woman, specifically so. Man angry at trans people? Must be a closet transphobe. Woman angry at transphobes? Fuck you mom you're a boomer/gen X who will die before me (optimistic of them but ok).

The Contrapoints video about how Blaire White secretly cries in self-loathing when the cameras are off did come to mind when I wrote that. For a minute I thought maybe I'm wrong and there's some depth to their portrayal of others after all, but then I realized that no, this is just more self-congratulatory smugness masquerading as thoughtfulness. In this way Contra is elevated above someone like Felkner-Martin to the level of Jack Chick. Jack Chick's famous tracts, depicting Dungeons & Dragons players as weak-willed nerds who are easily seduced by hot babes into the dark arts, also try to psychologize the issue in question, but like Contra his disinterest in honestly understanding the people he criticizes leads him to depict a world that exists only in his own head



(not that it wouldn't be totally rad though) Although Contra is more skilled at this than Jack, with characters like Abigail Cockbane representing women that could at least plausibly exist, they're still just strawmen whose entire purpose is reassuring the person who made the character to begin with, similar to the "they hate us because they secretly want to fuck us" argument you see often.

Another thing is that trans authors specificially AVOID giving villains a relatable perspective or to sympathize/make them human.

Exactly, it comes too close to breaking the spell. TERFs are either stuffy, dried up prunes, sexless man-haters, BPD lesbians, but never women who simply want female-only spaces for completely normal reasons.

Manhunt author Micah Felkner-Martin was a fascinating case since he felt bad for males and the male rape apes, but never for the TERFS. I think he said it was that the TERFs chose their position while the male rape apes were acting on instinct, and I'm guessing because Micah/Gretchen is a rape ape himself.

This is the other thing, it's always clear how convenient their views and morals happen to be. It's like when career criminals are interviewed and all they have to say for themselves is "what choice did I have?" In other words, even if you know what you do is wrong, you just happen to be in a situation where you don't have to feel shame or guilt because of factors beyond your control. Likewise, if anyone calls them hypocrites for constantly voicing their anger towards women through violent fantasies women while crying about acceptance, they've already got a worldview that excuses them from feeling shame all worked out.

 

[Chandelier]

Let me introduce you to Taylor Titmouse, a transman creating trans art on Twitter and has a series of published novels starring a trans man during the turn of the 20th century. One of their more popular series is called 'Roger Crenshaw' starring said trans man. The books are available here. Archive of page.

Their socials:

A bulk of their NSFW art was posted in the SJW art thread, but I'll give an example so you can get a feel as to the creativity.

Spoiler

As of this writing, they have 855 patrons. She ghost writes the books with an individual named R/L Monroe. Here is the title page:

Examples of the writing. So far, I haven't been able to find any copies.




If the full version ever gets uploaded somewhere, I'll give it a read.

 

[deermeat]

guys.......... guys........
I feel so down rn because I found out this cool amazing super-dope artist and... I think they're a troon. And if they are then FUCK. It seems likely they are too.


for those who are like "what the fuck is this", no need to tell my music taste is weird and shit I already know.
But FUCKKK man....... Usually troons aren't common within this genre. I guess I'm not suprised, though I am extremely disappointed this person might be a troon in particular. Maybe she's a woman, maybe she just uses a voice changer. Maybe she just looks unfortunate.

They had so much potential reeeee.

 

[Chandelier]

There is a Webtoon called 'Here There Be Dragons', about magical transniggers in a futuristic/fantasy setting. I found it off pooner twitter, so you can imagine it had raving reviews. Here are some snippets that are 100% authentic, drawn and written by troons who are True and Honest Women (and Men).

 

[AI generated waifu]

guys.......... guys........
I feel so down rn because I found out this cool amazing super-dope artist and... I think they're a troon. And if they are then FUCK. It seems likely they are too.
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for those who are like "what the fuck is this", no need to tell my music taste is weird and shit I already know.
But FUCKKK man....... Usually troons aren't common within this genre. I guess I'm not suprised, though I am extremely disappointed this person might be a troon in particular. Maybe she's a woman, maybe she just uses a voice changer. Maybe she just looks unfortunate.

They had so much potential reeeee.

I was pretty bummed out knowing lena raine was trans, too. You're not alone <3

Tbh, this is an issue with online gamedevs and music artists all over the Internet. You think you found a female artist? Well, this person you liked is actually just a man's larping girlsona. Sorry!

 

[AMHOLIO]

There is a Webtoon called 'Here There Be Dragons', about magical transniggers in a futuristic/fantasy setting. I found it off pooner twitter, so you can imagine it had raving reviews. Here are some snippets that are 100% authentic, drawn and written by troons who are True and Honest Women (and Men).
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I love the abuse of stock backgrounds. Congrats to the troon for being able to write and draw a whole story about getting asspats and then getting them from real people on twitter.

 

[fake farts]

Legitimately what happened with one of the IDW writers. They massacred Star Saber's character from a heroic badass of justice into an insane religious nutjob who kills indiscriminately because the writer, James Roberts, wrote him that way in a fanfiction he made in the 1990s.

I dropped the series when that happened. I was too paranoid with what he'd do to Deathsaurus after turning Star Saber into what is basically the Tranformers version of Cardinal Syn. By all accounts, his Deathsaurus was decent though. It doesn't change the fact that he injected a bunch of weird shit into the series and basically made the dialogue in many cases Dr Who tier shit.

That's the one with the crazy scene of Soundwave giving birth to a Quintesson, right?

He dedicated his Soundwave mpreg fic to his son too, by the way. I can only imagine the "Um, thanks dad?" he received.

 

[Dick Johnson]

I'm surprised not to see Envy/Desire in this thread. It came out a few months ago and I got around to watching it the other day. It's kind of amateurish in its acting and dialogue, but it's fairly well shot and edited. I'd call it worthwhile to watch because it's about a HSTS dating a guy that turns out to be AGP - not in an affirming way, either. Frankly, it almost seems like it was written by Kiwifarmers.

But if my recommendation isn't enough, let trans filmmaker Louise Charlotte Weard have a word:

This movie is… perhaps the most offensive thing I’ve ever seen? As a trans woman, definitely. Envy/Desire is the movie that the worst critics of Actors think that movie is. In a sense, I applaud the team behind this for making something I found genuinely upsetting. I felt like the dolls who saw Dressed to Kill or Silence of the Lambs back in the day and had to send in an opinion letter to the zine of their choice (in a way what I’m doing here is the modern equivalent). This film’s politics are genuinely grotesque in a way that I was somewhat appalled by. It’s mean-spirited in a new way for trans art, which to me makes it very fascinating for discussion.

Manhunt author Micah Felkner-Martin was a fascinating case since he felt bad for males and the male rape apes, but never for the TERFS. I think he said it was that the TERFs chose their position while the male rape apes were acting on instinct, and I'm guessing because Micah/Gretchen is a rape ape himself.

Having just read it, I think it might be as simple as finding it much more enjoyable to imagine and describe violence against women. The monsterized men get a lot of descriptions of how grotesque their bodies have become, but not nearly such long, lingering passages of how they're injured and killed as you find with the female characters/carnage scenery.

 

[AMHOLIO]

But if my recommendation isn't enough, let trans filmmaker Louise Charlotte Weard have a word:

Weard calls his fellow troons "dolls". AGP - not even once.

Honestly, it's interesting to see him upset over the film. Sometimes genuinely two people are an incompatable orientation, even if they're enlightened transgender goddesses. It's sad he can't realize a problem born of humanity, general incompatablity in a relationship and the two's conflicting desire for what they want out of transition, isn't just an interesting topic to make a film and explore. Maybe the film is mean spirited, but the focus is on a genuine problem Weard likely will find with him and or his friends in real life. It's like a black dude making film to highlight black on black crime and dismissal by both media AND other blacks, or an asian chick making a film based on her family being dicks to her because she was dared to be born with a vagina. It's not something people want to confront, but it needs to be done, you big coward.

 

[Dick Johnson]

I think it's

Weard calls his fellow troons "dolls". AGP - not even once.

Honestly, it's interesting to see him upset over the film. Sometimes genuinely two people are an incompatable orientation, even if they're enlightened transgender goddesses. It's sad he can't realize a problem born of humanity, general incompatablity in a relationship and the two's conflicting desire for what they want out of transition, isn't just an interesting topic to make a film and explore. Maybe the film is mean spirited, but the focus is on a genuine problem Weard likely will find with him and or his friends in real life.

Yeah, the 'dolls' thing is fucking gross, but then again, the first time I saw it was with Kevin Gibes. I figure he should be some sort of poster child for any trans person to hang on the wall as a warning of how they might be perceived by others. Speaking of how you're perceived by others:

Spoiler: My interpretation of Envy/Desire

The two main trans characters actually pass quite well (hats off to their efforts, they've paid off handsomely), and are used to not being regarded as freaks as they live as women. But when the AGP boyfriend comes to 'cunty doll brunch' as a newly out transwoman, with five o'clock shadow, garish wig and dress stretched over a broad-shouldered frame he embodies a lot of negative trans stereotypes (Thanks, Trans Visibility!) that they really don't want to be associated with. And possibly even worse, he raises the question in their minds: "Does everyone look at us like a more skilled version of that?"

 

[Spangled Drongo]

Having just read it, I think it might be as simple as finding it much more enjoyable to imagine and describe violence against women. The monsterized men get a lot of descriptions of how grotesque their bodies have become, but not nearly such long, lingering passages of how they're injured and killed as you find with the female characters/carnage scenery.

When you mention it like that, it sounds like the male zombies could easily be read as a representation of the troon author's own insecurities - men with a warped, unnatural form who need to be put out of their misery... sounds like Greasy Gretchen looking in the mirror and realising what's staring back at him is not a pretty lady but a monstrosity. And the "TERFs" being violently killed... that's his envy of actual, biological women talking, and to get what he really wants, which is to be recognised as uwu valid by all, he has to eliminate the naysayers. Which translates to simply blocking them on social media IRL, but to write something like Manhunt you've got to be a special kind of insane.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I was just thinking about that the other day. I was reminiscing about PhilosophyTube's play in which he grinds out some metaphor about accepting and loving your true identity from a handful of Shakespeare plays.

A thing that stuck with me is that I couldn't help but notice that there are quite a few trans content creators who work hard and still make nothing more than middling content with repetitive themes and, in general, a very narrow perspective on life and people outside of the ingroup. Manhunt was kind of the same way, although that was more about surviving in a world that hates you, another favorite theme among trans writers.

I respect those ugly army troons cause theyre 'army, troons'. Any other low-level non-achiever is a TRANNY (whatever title they may use). It's front and center. It's rarely "I'm trans, anyway back to-". It's why they don't detransition; it'd rob them of identity. Shit I've known a few who specifically stayed troons because it was a kink to them post-realization. Wake up every day half mast thinking "oh man I'm gonna get called she so many times today".

 

[Coo Coo Bird]

There should be a post for that overhyped movie I Saw the TV Glow:

The media feting of this Jane Schoenbrun tranny is wild.
I never heard of him but saw this pic and was like STOP, SCROLL BACK NOT A WOMAN

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They are 100% pitching this guy as an oppressed minority struggling against the patriarchy.

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Meanwhile: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_film_directors
THIS PATRIARCHY
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This is a standard or garden variety autistic film Jew.

https://x.com/criterion/status/1783953895934321079?s=46&t=TMUOZCqGbx3Pv9MjeQqrig

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Spoiler: teeth and moob plus person of genderfriend

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Also, as if this even needed to be stated: family money.
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So many other directors have tried to make a definitive horror film for the digital age. Unfriended gave it a go in 2014, but spent most of its time with the kind of bullies that drove characters like Casey, Owen, and Maddy to their online safe havens in the first place. 2020’s Host played a similar trick, but would never have existed without the backdrop of our pandemic-based fear. Talk To Me starts as a clear-eyed takedown of the dangers of social media, but morphs into a completely different beast by the end; one I loved, but one that dilutes the metaphor nonetheless.

It’s clear that those films were written by people so desperate to expose the menace and terror of the internet, that they could never truly comprehend its real dangers—or its beauty. It’s clear that those films weren’t created by anyone who’d fully lived on the other side of the screen. I went into I Saw The TV Glow and We’re All Going To The World’s Fair expecting horror movies. Instead, I got a homecoming.

No one understands internet kids quite like Jane Schoenbrun

Dire and inventive, I Saw the TV Glow is about the media that defines us, saves us, and shows us who we are, even when we’re not ready to admit it. It’s a meditation on dysphoria, and the lifelines queer and trans people often cobble together out of music, TV, and film to find ourselves in places and times when we feel alone. Rolling Stone spoke with Schoenbrun about their “Pink Opaque” and the delicate balance between finding refuge in fantasy and letting it consume you.

This film feels like it’s in conversation with so many Nineties and early 2000s cultural touchstones, from Twin Peaks to The Smashing Pumpkins and Donnie Darko. What brought you back to that moment in time?
In starting to transition, and becoming the kind of person who could never fit in the place I grew up — not that I ever was someone who fit in — I was reflecting back on my childhood and the places where I first learned what it was to be a person. That all happened to me in the suburbs, and through the screen.

Jane Schoenbrun Made Sundance’s Hottest Horror Movie About Their Trans Experience

I Saw the TV Glow is discombobulating by design, with narrative jumps, fourth-wall breaking, and cacophonous sound effects. It’s all threaded together with a current of low-grade terror: “The movie is really interested in trans time — this ephemeral, almost ambient dread of knowing that life is passing in a way that feels wrong,” Schoenbrun says. As the film sensationalizes the mind-altering force of late-night TV, it also pulls from all sorts of old-school media — zines, VHS tapes, high-school coming-of-age dramas, arcade games — for its engrossing visual world. It’s a 2024 film that transports back to ’90s occult soaps, but it has neon-saturated visuals that evoke the ’80s. Scored by indie-rock hero Alex G, the soundtrack revisits the nostalgic comforts of Gen-X alternative rock, and to spotlight it, Schoenbrun occasionally seems to put the film on a music-video break, pausing the story as a song runs its full duration. I Saw the TV Glow conveys how our identities are unstable, a blitz of what we consume and some more fluorescent, indefinable force.

Jane Schoenbrun Doesn’t Really Watch TV Anymore

Spoiler: Moobs

It's literally just some AGP nerd crying about Buffy the Vampire Slayer ending.

The creepy television show? Buffy the Vampire Slayer


This is so deep!
https://archive.ph/oPKit

It's worse than that - the show is basically a stand in for Buffy.
The main characters get obsessed with the show as teenager. The lesbian character basically kills herself to become Buffy, while the boy ends up living a depressing failed life prevaricating about if he should kill himself to become Buffy and in the coda it's sort of implied he does - he hallucinates cutting open his chest to reveal a TV playing Buffy and then is blanked by everyone like he's a ghost. If this sounds suspiciously like something else -

-Sarah Michelle Gellar should maybe start reviewing her security arrangements.

Liberal media shills, AGP troons and Movie Bob (who baffles Kiwi scientists by not trooning out) gush over it:

So sick of hearing about this gay tranny movie

05May#26
A movie is "too much" for Bobby, making him "dazed and sad for like 24 hours"

A more accurate summary:

I posted it on the Tranny Sideshow thread but here is a honest review of the TV Glow shit.

And his other movie, We're All Going to the World's Fair, is a glorified creepypasta:

His other movie is again, a creepypasta, combined with internet grooming:

We're All Going to the World's Fair is a 2021 American coming-of-age psychological horror film[6] written, directed, and edited by Jane Schoenbrun.

Casey, a lonely teenage girl living with her single father, decides to record herself taking the viral "World's Fair Challenge". She states "I want to go to the World's Fair" three times on camera, pricks her finger, smears some of her blood on her laptop computer screen, and watches a short strobe light video, before saying she will post updates if she starts to notice any "changes".
Other World's Fair challengers record and post their own psychological and physical changes. In Casey's next video, she recounts bouts of sleepwalking she experienced when she was younger and says she has begun feeling similarly since taking the challenge. Late one night, she sneaks into her shed, where she finds her father's shotgun. She then watches an ASMR video of a young woman calming someone after a nightmare before a disturbing video made to her from user "JLB" plays, featuring Casey's distorted face along with the messages "YOU ARE IN TROUBLE" and "I NEED TO TALK TO YOU."
Casey reaches out to JLB, a collaborator with other World's Fair challengers, and speaks with him over Skype. JLB claims to worry about Casey after the symptoms she reported in her last post, and encourages her to keep making videos so he can monitor her wellbeing. JLB is revealed to be an equally lonely middle-aged man who spends his time watching other people's World's Fair videos.

Haven’t even tried to watch it after reading similar things, and We’re All Going To The World’s Fair was hot garbage.
It was on Shudder for a while.

World’s Fair (because I’m not typing that overly long title again) was a snooze fest filled with well known tropes, oh no spooky internet game and found footage and being affected in real life by the killer game!
Generally I love found footage, but only if it’s good (like Incantation).

Also found it funny in World’s Fair that there was a full grown man who was secretly watching the minor teenage main character through her webcam, that was introduced as a helpful character.
Remember thinking it was bizarre that they just glossed over the man secretly watching a teenager to “help” her, that’s a creepy plot device.