Yeah, Brooklyn Nine-Nine got intolerable. I tapped out after Holt was running for something or other. He and some fat broad agreed that they couldn't let a white man win, which is a little more explicit than the bigotry you usually get in this kind of thing.
And since it's supposed to be a comedy, Holt and fat broad threw all kinds of hilarious barbs at each other, except that Holt, a mean and bitchy gay man, never called the fat broad a fat broad. It was a clear example of virtue-signaling over comedy.
B99 was always
kinda woke. I've not seen the later seasons (I'm sure it's gotten worse) but it always had at least the potential to go full-woke.
Like the
episode in Season 1 where a problematic old crime author has a grudge against Holt, Peralta punches him in the face for calling him a homo, and the episode concludes with him ceremoniously destroying one of the author's books, despite having idolised him in the past.
I have almost come to the regrettable conclusion that most of our entertainment has been produced by (and for) insufferable leftist arsewipes, and that the only real difference between then and now is that the presence of social media and the imagined threat of
the Naahtzeeees have removed the incentives for them to be subtle about it.
And since OP mentions
Welcome To Night Vale in the thread title, I'm obliged to point out that the storyline beginning in the first episode with Cecil having a crush of the scientist Carlos' perfect hair, which eventually culminated in their marriage and adopting a kid, was almost certainly written (at least in part) out of a desire to represent gay people. And many more creative decisions in the show's history appear to have been motivated primarily by diversity (such as Jeffrey Cranor's decision as a white man to stop voicing Carlos, a Latino). So if they were already kinda woke when the show launched in 2012, it doesn't surprise me at all that they'd go mask-off around 2016-ish.
Plus, it already had that
Alice In Wonderland-esque 'nonsense world' kind of vibe, which attracts woke fans like flies to manure.
Doctor Who is another good example of this, which I swear one day I'll talk about on this thread.
A podcast I listened to from this worldbuilding Youtuber Artifexian turned out the same way. It went from a world building podcast to bitching about Donald Trump, fascists, and had a big 30 minute BLM intro when the George Floyd shit was going down. I tuned out when they were talking about election systems and sperged out about one that apparently emphasized compromise because "The conservatives could team up with the Natsees guys!!!!!". Dear God, Ireland is the fucking Washington of Europe with the waves of soyfags it churns out.
Oh my fucking God yes,
that podcast. And have you noticed all of Bill's dramatised
segments seem to have this thinly veiled subtext of "COLONIALISM BAD, AMIRITE?" which they discuss in detail after he reads them.
Bill is definitely the worse offender of the two. Like I've noticed it was mostly him in the Floyd episode telling white people to "deal with it" and "this isn’t about your feelings" (both direct quotes by the way). And if I recall, it was mostly him who made those remarks in the voting systems episode.
Edgar is a bit more moderate, but he's prone to sticking his foot in it at times. Like apparently he sat on a video idea for
five years because he didn't want to fuel conspiracy theories. And when he finally did release it, it was full of unnecessary disclaimers that he doesn't endorse the conspiracy
at all, complete with a list of reasons why flat earthers are dumb.
As with the examples mentioned above, I don't think B+E were ever really active online before they became woke leftists. The culture just changed so rapidly (like, a few years at most), which made it
way more acceptable to show your wokeness in public, and I think that's mostly what we're seeing here.
By all means, tell me I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
