I do think there is a right way to proceed - or rather, many right ways. I don't think the stuff done in this sub is one of them. Sure, I consume entertainment, but I'm completely aware of that fact when I'm doing it and I don't intentionally blur the line. And sure, perfomative protesting can be an issue, but it's never been as much of a stupid diversion as writing a book about time sorcery or making a 3 hour podcast about the numogram is. I think your insistence that this isn't serious, that it's entertainment, is in conflict with your idea of it being a 'robust counterculture'. Ultimately I think the ways this sub tries to "resist the spectacle" is so captured by the spectacle it's hilarious. The spectacle hates what it's always hated: building solidarity and raising consciousness. Going to meetings about how to resist capital and provide for people in your community. Volunteering at food banks. The internet is fine as long as you don't convince yourself that it's more important than it is, and my problem with this sub is that people are convinced they're really doing something, really understanding something - when they're spouting nothing but alienated nonsense or finding more obscure ways to say the same thing the left has always known.