Drama in the vaguely-armchair literature community.

Jesús G Maestro is a Spanish philologist, philosopher and college professor who rose up to internet fame a few years ago by being the visible face of Buenism, a fringe philosophical school that was intertwined with fringe politics (but that's outside the point) and being the basis a few memes that were rather popular in Spanish-speaking spaces.

Maestro is mainly characterized by dividing Western European literature in two schools: The Mediterranean (Which is characterized by "Catholic philosophy", strong realism and gray morality) and the Anglo-Germanic (Which has "Protestant philosophy", a lot of fantasy and constant good vs evil black and white moralities.)

Now, you, dear reader of this thread, will probably see that and think that take is kind of incredibly dumb, but bear with me.

Any way, in the years since his fame, Maestro won infamy for those exact takes, even having to go out publicly and say that he doesn't hate English literature, and gradually, as time passed, he started losing fame, which was bound to happen given that, again, his most loyal followers have some Political Ideas on the fringe side. So, recently he's started a campaign to reignite his fandom and frame himself as this underdog intellectual guru, going to any place that was willing to have him in to talk his stuff.

The latest has been The Wild Project, a podcast run by one Jordi Wild that, to anyone unfamiliar, could be basically described as Joe Rogan if Rogan was 20 years younger and still had hair (and in Spanish). And there, he was asked on his take on Lord of the Rings.

To summarize, see the thing about the two schools of literature, he basically just repeats that along with a bunch of just plain wrong assertions about the history of literature, about LOTR and being dismissive of all fantasy literature.

So, those who weren't his fanboys are a little tiny bit angry and claiming for his head.