Changing opinion of representation in media - From the pre-woke age to now, have things changed or is it just my opinion that has?

[Professor G. Raff]

For a long time I've been thinking about how my reaction to 'diversity' in media has changed over the past 6 or 7 years. To give a bit of background before the world went made with wokeness I considered myself a democrat because I didn't want people to be judged on stuff like sexuality/color/etc. During this time I was a decent proponent of shows having gay characters and would always be willing to praise it when I thought it was inserted tastefully and not in-your-face (even then I had some sense). Now, around 2014-2015 when things started to go publicly wrong and what I thought was just a hilariously dumb subculture on Tumblr became the mainstream attitude of an entire political party my attitude slowly started to change. I realized I was probably always a Libertarian since the left had become worse than I had ever seen the right, but that didn't change the fact I was still pro-gay in terms of rights but suddenly media representation changed for me. As I became more aware of how much pretty much all entertainment media was run by people who want to push an agenda it went from something I liked seeing, to something I didn't care about until it was finally something I actively disliked and avoided.

Now I cannot look at a single gay character in media and cynically think they don't exist for any kind of character, writing or story reasons but simply to check a box. Whenever I see one now, which is in 99% of everything, I just cringe at the very idea. Part of me still thinks that sometimes it must actually be an actual character decision but because of all forced corporate shilling it's near impossible for me to accept it as such. It sure doesn't help how obvious it is in 90% of circumstances, but even that 10% I don't think I can take at face value. Over-saturation has just ruined it for me and now what shouldn't be too terribly rare a trait for some characters just feels like something that cannot be done right.

Is this too unusual a change in perspective? Has anyone else had this kind of change? Am I letting modern problems effect my view of media too much? Do you just hate fags and none of this is relevant to you at all?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

All I know is if you need people in your fiction to look or think like you you're either a complete retard or a sociopath.

 

[BlueSpark]

pretty much all entertainment media was run by people who want to push an agenda

Once you learn about them there's no going back.

But yeah, the degenerate propaganda has always been increasing in severity and scope and more and more people are noticing things as it permeates basically all aspects of modern life. You can't just be an oblivious normie anymore because even normie things like sports and videogames are pushing the agenda.

 

[z0mb0]

No it also does not help that with so many platform and channel options Good talent, production, and writing is rarely meeting together in this case writing being weak so the characters don't act like people and the plots are contrived.

Once you learn about them there's no going back.

You ever think you could relate to they live so much

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Same, I use to be a liberal progressive type about 10 years ago. I remember getting angry over the casting of white actors in the live action The Last Airbender movie in place of characters of other races.
If you ask me in 2013 what is my opinion on disabled people in film. I would answer "more disabled people would be cool". I was never on board with replacing the races of characters for a agenda.
No matter how progressive I got I was not fully on board with anti-white rhetoric either and looking at the more radical progressive slowly pushed me out of this group,
Slowly overtime I grew more right leaning as a result of seeing the batshit insanity that is progressivism in the 2010s. I've began to notice the more of the creeping anti-white agenda in the entertainment industry and embracing the redpill o holywood helped pushed me on that track. Now it's impossible for me to see a deliberately agrenda driven cast without see the social political agenda behind it