Stu: "See, we ask you a question and if you get it wrong, BOOYAH! You die." Billy: "And if you get it right? You die!" AKA, the reason why you don't debate sealioning trolls online. They're Stu and Billy. They don't care if you know the answer; they just want to play the game.
I’m thinking of it more as a two birds with one stone scenario: they absolutely skewered them as violent, obnoxious dickheads who thought they were cool and edgy, but the sexist dimensions I think were less the point, given that the film itself uncritically uses sexist tropes
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But your point "it’s not even meant as a satire of toxic nerdboy culture" is wrong I think - it is exactly that and that's why it escalates so perfectly in alignment with that. you're a writer - surely you recognise that things like that don't line up without careful thought.
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I think it's meant to satirise toxic horror nerds, and it does this well; but in doing so, it shows the misogyny underlying a lot of that toxicity, which applies across the board, without expressly acknowledging that misogyny as a key factor to what's being documented.
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