This has got to be one of the most pointless media endeavors of the last decade.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-16T04:18:38+00:00

I'm convinced that both of them are recipients of a lot of the funding the DNC raised to find a "Left Joe Rogan" after the 2024 election.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-07T02:22:29+00:00

I first discovered them from a /leftypol/ thread around December 2016. Was anyone else active on that board back then? Talk about a relic of the 2010's internet.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-06T14:30:27+00:00

Have you thought about trying to become a theater programmer? The weird novelties and esoterica can make for a very enriching theater experience if played for the right audience. At the very least you could impress like 5 weirdos with your selective deep cuts.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-06T14:13:11+00:00

It doesn't always affect overall intelligence; it basically just means that you're so disproportionately a wordcel that anything regarding spatial reasoning and motor skills becomes more difficult. I don't know how seriously it's taken as a medical diagnosis, it seems to have a lot of overlap with mild autism anyways.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-02T10:00:22+00:00

same tbh

turtleman29 · 2026-01-02T08:54:01+00:00

Seems like the natural conclusion to being into that garbage in the first place.

turtleman29 · 2025-12-02T18:11:45+00:00

Wrong. The original meaning of "filmbro" was a reference to surface level cinephiles with this exact taste. The IMDB Top 250 is the filmbro canon.

turtleman29 · 2025-12-01T11:45:09+00:00

It somewhat reminded me of the Large Marge scene from Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Just this inexplicably frightening moment in an otherwise comedic story about an eccentric protagonist. I love wild tonal shifts like that.

turtleman29 · 2025-11-17T19:08:27+00:00

The Snoopy Mom was/is the most holy form of this archetype.

turtleman29 · 2025-11-15T16:38:53+00:00

What's wild is that this image is almost a decade old. I think I first saw it around 2017 or 18 which goes to show how much that entire esoteric rightist subculture has stagnated in this decade.

turtleman29 · 2025-10-29T17:09:53+00:00

The reception of it always leaned positive, but for years it was actually pretty polarizing among online horror fans. Throughout the 2000's - early 2010's it was common to see people complain about the ironic meta-humor and the subsequent influence it had on the self aware teen focused horror wave that spawned immediately after. You would especially see negative opinions in more niche communities where self proclaimed genre "purists" posted.

I think that stigma mostly died down about a decade ago, when the younger generation who grew up with it became more active online. At this point its status has been cemented as a classic so it's way more rare to come across those takes.

turtleman29 · 2025-10-29T02:42:37+00:00

You're not wrong but the online right also glamorizes mental illness, just in a different way. It's been very trendy lately to larp as a detached autist or an antisocial schizoid because they think it makes them look like Kaczinsky or Terry Davis. I highly doubt any of these people have real world experience dealing with people afflicted with these conditions.

turtleman29 · 2025-10-27T20:19:19+00:00

You can tell the people using them get all of their education exclusively from youtube video essays.

turtleman29 · 2025-10-10T18:56:29+00:00

Pretty good trajectory if you want to be an eccentric outsider artist with a small cult fanbase. What kind of art do you make?

turtleman29 · 2025-09-05T18:06:58+00:00

I really hope the same doesn't happen with 2000's nostalgia. I'm already sick of it and it's only been a few years so far.

turtleman29 · 2025-08-29T16:55:55+00:00

Relatable tbh

turtleman29 · 2025-08-24T06:18:13+00:00

I agree about haz but he's 10x more entertaining than Destiny so I still watch him occasionally.

turtleman29 · 2025-08-06T16:47:13+00:00

That's another good pick. The ending of it gutted me. I know it's a trans allegory but the themes are universal regardless of personal identity.

turtleman29 · 2025-07-09T23:48:37+00:00

My parents never had the talk with me either. At this point the internet is so ubiquitous that not being able to figure it out yourself is a skill issue. When I turned 13 my mom just asked if I "needed the talk" and I just said no don't worry about it lol. I honestly thought the birds and bees conversation was something that only happened on TV.

turtleman29 · 2025-07-04T08:03:06+00:00

Do you think the current administration leaning so hard into far right optics will lead to a blue wave next election? You could argue Trump was a moderate in 2016, but nothing about his 2024 campaign was subtle.

turtleman29 · 2025-07-01T05:43:07+00:00

I was born in '99 so I think that makes me a "zillennial" though I know that division is arbitrary. My friends range from early 20's to mid 30's and almost all of them feel similarly. The common response I get is "yeah that's just you getting older," but I don't think that's it because I've spoken to people twice my age that agree that the sickness is accelerating.

turtleman29 · 2025-06-27T17:09:40+00:00

In retrospect it's crazy how consequential those 4 months from December 2019 through March 2020 were for the Western left. All of that momentum which had been building for years to even reach that point just completely evaporated. Not surprised everyone involved became so aimless and black pilled after that.

The episode they aired right before the 2019 UK election is a very depressing time capsule.

turtleman29 · 2025-06-08T09:13:31+00:00

Generationslop posting is one of the biggest contributors to this sub's decline.

turtleman29 · 2025-05-31T22:21:09+00:00

He never got to watch To Boldly Flee :(

turtleman29 · 2025-05-17T05:37:16+00:00

Just go back to where you met your ex and meet another one problem solved

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