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- Oct 4, 2021
Speaking of George Molho, what the hell happened to Deadwood Dale's GEORGE videos? I really liked those (especially the second one, where he makes it seem like Jeremy from G&G is literally cumming at the prospect of George's sweet money).Roger Ebert was a film critic. RedLetterMedia's Plinkett Prequel reviews were fan criticism raised to the level of art in its own right. Neither should be compared to Friday Night Tights or the pop culture complainer crew, who are more accurately described as 'professional hatewatchers' at this point than critics of any sort. A good critic can provide information or perspective the reader did not know or think to consider, making their service of value. A hatewatcher by contrast does not offer information and instead operates on a purely emotional level; they take feelings of dissatisfaction and/or alienation from a work or its fandom and translate them into feelings of validation and a sense of social belonging through their shared dislike in exchange for the viewer's time and money.
To an outsider looking in, none of this makes any sense - why the fuck are people lining up to watch woke garbage that they hate that has zero real likelihood of improvement? Or pay a gaggle of chucklefucks through the nose for the privilege of chortling stupidly at some C-list TV series? Though they try to disguise their nature and say they're critics, or somehow contesting these global media corporations over what's considered good culture and what's not, the reality is they simply peddle emotional validation and inclusion in a parasocial relationship to their viewers for money. Sometimes to excess in the case of clearly disturbed, vulnerable individuals like George Molho.
Did Dale get pressured into privatizing them? Inquiring minds want to know!
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