What people who like to dunk on Black Mirror are like: "Oi guvnah wot you got on the telly?" "Black Mirror, it's a show from the UK about how our relationship with technology is complicated." "Oi guvnah so it's tech is bad, innit" "Please stop talking like that, you're American"
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Replying to @tinysubversions
very tangential but it still feels weird how ideas are so rapidly devalued as/because they gain broader currency
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like there was a point somewhere where ideas went from having some inherent utility (thing is good, its spread is good because now more people know the good thing)
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to more strictly disease-like (where "viral" has become value-neutral this is more, incubating communities disdain/despise idea spread in broader populace)
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I just thought of this because "what if phones but too much" was legitimately hilarious two years ago (countersignal) but now marks one as basic (signal)
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but the process happens with entire classes of political arguments, go from trenchant or at least clever to overexposed to hopelessly unfashionable in matter of months
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in chanboard-inflected spaces (righties and lefties, the shared culture is way stronger than ostensible politics) it's kind of a constant sloughing off
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in more avowedly feminist spaces it seems more like a fractalization, things don't become old memes they become "pernicious" but effect is same
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sorry I'm monologuing about nothing this just made me think of that, I don't actually have an opinion on the show
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