The Tumblr Files - Official Thread (Case I: Steven Universe) - An exposé on the media and people that destroyed the Internet

[Life is Hell...]

Damn, this was quite an interesting read, and i can't wait to see where it goes. All i can say is, Keep up the good work!

 

[TV's Adam West]

I really just hate what this bitch did to my nigga captain Harlock and this is how one of the best anime protagonists ever will be remembered

 

[Outer Space Traveller]

Good writeup, OP. I'm convinced now that the cancer of Steven Universe truly took the cake in more ways than one about why cartoons are cancer now. I fear for those who have kids nowadays. You either have to watch the originals from a while ago (and even then, it's no guarantees that it won't have sexual innuendos or so) or you'll be raising kids to be massive homos. Still, not to be a defeatist: I think that if it weren't SU, it would have been someone else. I just don't understand how these marxists have the gall to say "it's habbening DDDD it's our time!!!!!1111" when indeed, it is. "Like, wow, for the first time evar1111!!!" Something they like happens. There's nothing to stop it. Society lives their ideals with alphabet soup already. (Their cheering almost comes down to military victory, huh.)

Anywho, I await for more.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

I just don't understand how these marxists have the gall to say "it's habbening DDDD it's our time!!!!!1111" when indeed, it is. "Like, wow, for the first time evar1111!!!" Something they like happens. There's nothing to stop it. Society lives their ideals with alphabet soup already. (Their cheering almost comes down to military victory, huh.)

I can't help but wonder if part of that is them trying to reexperience that feeling they got after seeing Jailbreak for the first time. Like the rush of dopamine from seeing cartoon girls kiss is some kind of unexplainable addictive drug and they need more and more and more of it over time.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

You should showcase the outright plagiarism from anime Sugar's a fan of, and by plagiarism I'm talking about lifting literal frames to trace over with SU characters. This would become a standard among the animation industry because apparently no one knows how to pay proper homage to their favorite animu without literally copying scenes frame-by-frame like all those Evangelion rip-offs did back in the day.

I mean, tracing and rotoscoping was a thing for the longest time in animation. Or even tracing frames from previous animations the same studio already made.

But then, they only traced content they themselves made. Like footage they themselves shot with live action actors. Nowadays there's the option of rotoscoping a Blender animation, I suspect many independent content creators do that.

 

[Outer Space Traveller]

I can't help but wonder if part of that is them trying to reexperience that feeling they got after seeing Jailbreak for the first time. Like the rush of dopamine from seeing cartoon girls kiss is some kind of unexplainable addictive drug and they need more and more and more of it over time.

Precisely. I believe you hit the nail to the head better than I could - it's the "dopamine rush" that narcissists like them require for constant validation. It's like sinning in the concept of religion: they know it's wrong, and perhaps they need others to say "it's okay, we are sinning too, and we can all sin together. Maybe sin doesn't even exist!". That's amped up to an eleven with troons. Ever since the alphabetarians got what they wanted, perhaps they don't need this dopamine any longer.

By the way: I refuse to say "narc", to me that's narcotics, and maybe they use it, maybe not.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Any Anime experts that might know stuff; definitely toss it my way.

Personally I can't do it when it comes to Steven Universe specifically, but other animated projects would follow suit that would literally lift frames or objects and don't even bother to hide it.

For example, there's this animated music video:

It actually wouldn't have been a bad video had they not literally copied from Sailor Moon (probably also Creamy Mami, though at least that'd be a first for shout-outs from Westerners) when it comes to background aesthetics and the transformation scene. They actually just took a frame from Sailor Mercury's transformation and turned her Star Power Stick into a microphone.



I hate this shit so much, it's absolutely infuriating that that's the only magical girl series these animators seem to know and like (all the new Utena fans are just tourists imho) and they can't come up with their own original transformation sequences.

 

[Shoresy]

ahahahaha holy fuck I forgot about this. The edits Tumblr's reveal of being a "black trans woman" and the immediate fucking backpedal by everyone else on Tumblr was peak fucking hilarity

good job on this thread @I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis

 

[Lei Wulong's Left Leg]

Ahh, throwback to an age of Internet when all you had to do was get some surf map footage and whine for 40 minutes to make money on YouTube. Reminds me that E;R got basically shoehorned into the alt-right griftosphere by just saying SU wasn't that good.

 

[Coo Coo Bird]

The Tumblr Files
I: Steven Universe
II: [WIP]
III: [WIP]
IV: [WIP]

Does that mean there's going to be a SuperWhoLock and a Homestuck section?

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

Does that mean there's going to be a SuperWhoLock and a Homestuck section?

Unfortunately, no. What I have planned covers media that blew up/debuted in 2015/early-to-mid 2016. While Homestuck would be deserving of its own case if I expanded the scope, that's a rabbit hole I am not mentally prepared to go down. Homestuck will at least be mentioned in one the cases, and I think you can guess which one it'll be in.

As for SuperWhoLock, just take everything I said about Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons and apply that to this. Everyone on the side of Tumblr I browsed made "SuperWhoLock is trash" memes, and it was pretty funny.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

What I have planned covers media that blew up/debuted in 2015/early-to-mid 2016

Thank God because I wish I could just unread and unsee everything about the Onceler fandom, so the less said of it, the better.

 

[Lone Star]

Just be glad I didn't include any Fusion GIFs in the write-up.
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And they really tried to backpedal and insist fusion isn't basically Gem sex. I remember seeing Garnet and Amethyst fuse and Garnet literally squats, holds her legs open, and then Amethyst dives into her cooch.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

Thank God because I wish I could just unread and unsee everything about the Onceler fandom, so the less said of it, the better.

While stuff like SuperWhoLock, Homestuck and the Onceler fandom did define Tumblr's identity early on, they aren't what Tumblr used to "change the Internet", if that makes any sense.

 

[WelperHelper99]

While stuff like SuperWhoLock, Homestuck and the Onceler fandom did define Tumblr's identity early on, they aren't what Tumblr used to "change the Internet", if that makes any sense.

When I think of the cancer that eventually infested Tumblr, it comes down to things like Steven Universe. It changed the tone, raised the temperature as a whole. Things that came before were still "hipster" in tumblr fashion, but not diseased, corrupted in the sense that it sent people and entire fanbases and in turn the internet into a steep decent.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

When I think of the cancer that eventually infested Tumblr, it comes down to things like Steven Universe. It changed the tone, raised the temperature as a whole. Things that came before were still "hipster" in tumblr fashion, but not diseased, corrupted in the sense that it sent people and entire fanbases and in turn the internet into a steep decent.

And it affected the rest of the Internet, the area outside of the Tumblr bubble, so to speak. Remember, people like Jimmy Whetzel, for example, were making videos on it. Steven was one of the first notable pieces of media to breach Tumblr's containment.

 

[Lime Rogue]

Dunno if you'd be interested, but here's an actually good execution of Steven Universe's central concept.
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Idk, Land of the Lustrous has nothing to do with Steven Universe other than the concept of "gem people". Even their origins are different (from space apparently? vs. organic material turned sentient on earth itself). It's certainly a better use of your time though.

 

[Outer Space Traveller]

Unfortunately, no. What I have planned covers media that blew up/debuted in 2015/early-to-mid 2016. While Homestuck would be deserving of its own case if I expanded the scope, that's a rabbit hole I am not mentally prepared to go down. Homestuck will at least be mentioned in one the cases, and I think you can guess which one it'll be in.

As for SuperWhoLock, just take everything I said about Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons and apply that to this. Everyone on the side of Tumblr I browsed made "SuperWhoLock is trash" memes, and it was pretty funny.

Oh, awesome, we'll have Wintergun, I mean, Underhell, I mean Undertale.

 

[armfleshween]

I watched this when I was a preteen-early teen. Looking back, its very disturbing that I was exposed to this so young. I definitely blame that show for shoving me into the LGBTQIAPEDO+ rabbit hole. The whole community was very bad for me, I was huge in the SU fandom on instagram. There was a lot of porn spread around this community and it effected me heavily for years.

Tax. I was 14, this was 2016 or so:



Even I noticed:

 

[Haffhart]

Ah, Steven Universe. I loved that show as a kid, or rather its worldbuilding. I'd daydream about the mysterious Gems, pondering their cool alien tech and naming conventions, wondering what their Homeworld (and by extension the show's end) would be like.

But after 2016, I went rightward and the show went leftward. Both for the better - I saw the show for what it was, and it turned out the show wouldn't answer those questions to my liking. I'll credit them for seemingly tossing the Pink Diamond theory, then canonizing it right at the end (though Tumblrites weren't very smart so maybe this was due to dumb fans, not gifted writers).

Idk, Land of the Lustrous has nothing to do with Steven Universe other than the concept of "gem people". Even their origins are different (from space apparently? vs. organic material turned sentient on earth itself). It's certainly a better use of your time though.

Well SU had a unique world, it's hard to find anything faintly like it...unless someone made their own better version (I wonder how the showrunners would react to that lol).