We could avoid a lot of bad discourse if we just realize 1) it's not the job of critics to mirror mass taste 2) popularity of a work of art is proof of neither its merit or demerit 3) both critics & audiences react to art in complicated ways which are worth good faith inquiry
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Starting to think this Jesse Singal guy is pathologically dishonest
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especially when the Chappelle audience score is obvious astroturfing
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I can certainly believe that people overall liked Chappelle more than critics, but 99% is not a credible number. That's the kind of number you get from intentional manipulation to make a point.
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It's called astroturfing A lot of people in various online communities intentionally went to RT to rate the special to make a point. Most likely because they hate trans people/PC culture/whatever
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Also, don’t look up was a biting critique of the elite class of all stripes, and sympathetic to the common people (who, for example, had the good sense to riot when they learned the elites were gambling their certain death for mineral rights)
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starting to think reacting to every single thing out there means you're just not going to have any coherent continual ideas.
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Jesse Signal is a bad take spitting machine
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