I guess the other thing about Cuties is to ask why the fuck the culture war over this issue hit the boiling point over this movie, now, when Dance Moms has run for eight seasons and only went on hiatus about COVID-19, and Maddie Ziegler etc launched careers from it
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Some bad fucking luck that all this pent-up rage is landing on a first-time Senegalese-French female filmmaker who was aiming for satire, and not on the many people selling young girls' bodies for entertainment for real
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I mean, I'm not actually saying all the backlash was racist -- a lot of people genuinely did not know Maïmouna Doucouré existed when this started and assumed the movie must've been made by a white guy and set in America But I do think there's bad actors involved here
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I expect a lot of casual channers are participating in the pile-on because the movie humanizes their EXTENSIVE loli porn archives too much and that hurts their boner. The usernames of a lot of them are pretty telling.
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There's some... really obvious irony in a bunch of 8chan accounts sounding the alarm over this, yeah
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When this backlash first started there were people literally going "Wow this movie is so bad even the channers hate it, I guess even 4chan and 8chan have standards" Because they're gullible stupid dipshits
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Nothing channers like better than having a scapegoat to pile on and attack for supposedly doing the things they themselves do all the fucking time
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Cf. that ridiculous meme where they put the poster from Cuties next to some anime and go "They said this WASN'T pedophilia but this WAS" I mean... no, they can both be
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