Speaking of furfags. Another tranny on YouTube demanding more censorship. Of indie video games, Analog Horror and Splatterpunk books. A furfag Troon that sexualized the powerpuff girls at that.
I'm telling y'all, people
love pretending to be provocative and edgy until it starts to question their moral code or limitations. People want to be scared but not
too scared. People love ((safe)) gore and talking about beating people's skulls open but anything regarding more tense topics is a no-no. People want to be horrified but only in a
safe limit. Not saying people
need to handle these stuff, but censoring them does squat. Horror is meant to be uneasy and tense, to make one uncomfortable. To make one think about "what was in this author's mind when they made this"? It's called horror for a reason.
But no, horror is a joke nowadays. Horror is at its safe edgy phase and I feel like it's been that way for years, and the LGBT community only worsened that feeling. They want to go "against the man" and act like they're hardcore punks but will still start losing it to the moment some random bloke makes a piece of media on a certain topic that they may or may not like. We don't need hundreds of trigger warnings. That junk I feel only lessens the impact of the horror. A simple "This [blank] may contain sensitive topics or scenes that a general audience may not be comfortable seeing. Viewer's discretion is advised." works much better than listing all the things that are going to be in the video. Though, that's more of a nitpick than anything.
Of course, edginess
does need some merit of good work put into it. Edginess can't be edgy for the sake of edgy - but then again, not every edgy piece of media needs a reason or a story behind it. Some things are just meant to be irreverent and meant to shock as many people as possible. It's the same feeling as how not every cartoon needs to be some deep lore with well written characters and a dark, edgy plot where the main characters go through the 12 stages of angst. Some cartoons can just either be well written and silly or silly as a whole, and like with edginess, some of them, if not many, are just meant to shock and bewilder the viewer as much as possible.
You can't stop a man from making an offensive game as much as we can't stop a man from making an Analog Horror video that's so stereotypical with its tropes and cliches that you could call it a parody and people would believe you.
The point of horror is to go against the things that people are comfortable with and being disturbing without really caring what the audience thinks about it as it will change nothing to the overall shock value, even if the topics at hand may be more offensive than your average 2fort lobby in TF2. But through that, there will also be people who do handle edginess right, keeping it disturbing, unsettling and/or grotesque whilst not being pure LiveLeak-esque shocking to look at or coddling/babying the audience.
But even after all of what I explained, it's inevitable knowing we're at this stage in horror where the only acceptable form of horror is safe horror. Safe edginess. Things that are edgy but not
too edgy lest you want a bunch of angry blokes cancelling you left and right for it. It's why hardly anyone really tries with Analog Horror nowadays. They can do the bare minimum, the basic blocks of making someone jump, and it'll have lore and "Most Disturbing Analog Horror" videos made out of it, man. At this point, for anyone making horror- stay anonymous.
