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There is a technical problem of course — depicting Very Online life visually is hard. But even accounting for that, it’s kinda tiresome that almost 30 years after being Very Online became a real thing, it’s still villain-zoned in the old media storytelling imagination.
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If you have more real friends online than offline, you’re basically a villain by default for TV. This is one reason bluechecks are so hated around here. They’re old media types who “descend” to our level, usually bringing hordes of tv-programmed to bits online with them.
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Interestingly the protagonists of such shows are familiar types... the ones who really grind away at grifts in order to land the bluecheck jobs. If we wrote the shows, they’d totally be the villains and the old media orgs the underworld 🤣 Sellouts. Betraying our nice world.
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Memo to TV writers: we’re now the good guys 😇 The longer you ignore this fact, the more out of touch your shows will seem. It’s not “showing tweeting on TV” that’s the problem, it’s the unreconstructed instinct to make us the bad guys.
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1. A meta tv show about fans of a great canceled animated tv show coming together to raise a gofundme and write/produce/act it and make it a big hit.
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2. A discord group discredits a vast trove of really bad irreproducible papers paid for by oil lobby and enabled by an evil journal and a corrupt disciplinary org. Group takes the, down just as they’re about to pass Evil Legislation.
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3. Dark conspiracy shrouds a missing airliner. Subreddit gang wisdom-of-crowds it and uncovers the truth without ever meeting face to face. Heads roll at airline and airplane companies.
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4. Evil blogger invents horrible sort of clickbait tarnishing reputation of an entire lovely blog platform, and rides it to an oped gig at the Mew Bark Times. Platform destroyed in the process. The good people make new platform while evil blogger and MBT get themselves canceled.
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These ideas write themselves... Props to South Park btw. The only show with genuine affection for Very Online culture. Cartmaaaan braaaah.
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5. Self-aware person in corrupt old meatspace org asks “are we the baddies?” Hijinks ensue as he tries ineptly to learn how to be Very Online, eventually succeeding when a nice group adopts him despite his being cringe.
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That makes me not Very Online then. I haven't seen any of the shows you mentioned, they didn't appeal. If people I respect on social media talk about a show, I might seek it out. Usually don't watch more than 2-3 episodes before meh-quitting. Better things to spend time on ;)
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I mean the culture overall loves TV, if not every person in it. After all, fandoms and wikis and fan fiction sprout up around all shows and there’s trending discussion around all big shows.
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Media loves talking about other media but the narratives about the online cultures would be a lot of people interacting with screens that aren't TV. That's just not going to play well on TV ;)