kasdeya
kasdeya
“I had a dream that…” is internet-speak for “y’all fuckers will clown on me if I show the vulnerability of admitting that this came from my daytime creativity”
and you know what? I’m glad that there are workarounds for showing vulnerability and creativity online without the risk of getting absolutely blasted for it
but I do wish that internet culture as a whole could just, grow up enough that people don’t have to frame everything as coming from their subconscious or whatever
what a utopia we would live in if artists felt safe to share their vulnerable selves completely online, without any trace of irony or self-deprecation or any other defense mechanism at all. imagine how much more art we would have, and how much more varied and beautiful it would be
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before criticizing someone else’s art, consider these questions:
- did they ask for constructive criticism?
- you are trying to be constructive with your criticism, right?
- have you carefully worded your feedback so that it is gentle and constructive and sounds more like helpful feedback than criticism?
if you answered “no” to one or more of these questions and you still feel the need to post your criticism, please try your absolute hardest to make a piece of art and then post it publicly on twitter dot com so that you can learn some fucking empathy
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we’re at a point now where these defense mechanisms against internet assholery have even leaked into TV and movies. there are so many TV shows, for example, that are terrified of unironic sincerity or positivity or optimism in any form. any time a character expresses any affirmative value whatsoever it’s usually the show going “lol look at this fuckin loser having morals and ideals”, or at the very least it’s presented ambiguously enough that the writers can claim that that was the intent
the result is a whole bunch of storytelling that has nothing to express other than criticism, contempt, cynicism, and ridicule
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I could keep ranting about this but what I especially want to say is: how dare they do this to Star Trek in particular. how dare they take one of the most utopian and progressive and mature and idealistic shows in popular culture and turn it into cynicism slop. when the world needs idealism and hope more than ever, how dare they
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“kas you literally just said not to criticize art”
with some exceptions, TV shows and movies are not art - they’re content. content is the result of a corporate assembly line. art is something that was created with love and passion for no reason other than to bring it into the world. when I say not to criticize art, I’m talking about the art of random people online, not the “art” of a massive media conglomerate
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what I’m trying to say is that mainstream big-budget media is not something that’s open and vulnerable. I don’t think anyone is expressing their hopes and dreams through Star Trek: Discovery character arcs. and that lack of vulnerability and passion means that it probably isn’t especially painful for the people involved to hear criticisms of their work: because it’s a job to them and not something that they put a piece of their soul into
and even it is painful for them to hear criticisms, me complaining about their work on Fedi is not going to hurt them because they’re never going to even notice my existence. if someone can make a convincing argument for why me posting like this would cause meaningful harm then I’ll try to stop but I don’t think it’s harmful at all right now
compare that to calling someone “cringe” and laughing at them for posting hand-drawn art of their OC. that is dramatically more likely to cause real, lasting harm. and that’s the distinction that I’m trying to get across
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