One of the worst parts about nerd culture over the last 15-ish years is people caring or arguing or obsessing over the financial side of their favorite things
Not, like, "oh I hope this thing makes money so they can make more of this thing that I like"
I'm talking about like when weirdos start talking about whether Marvel or Avatar deserve the top spot of #1 movie
or whether the PS5 or Xbox Series X|S is selling better
or if Epic losing $300 million matters at all because it's a multibillion dollar company
or hell, even the contingent of wrestling dorks who are obsessed with whether AEW or WWE has more viewers on any given night
just enjoy your damn thing
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Also, he describes Walker as "Wants to create but is generally incurious about what other people think or feel" and I feel like could describe a certain type of person online no matter what kind of media they create
Like, the kind of people whose whole personality is making fun of or not liking things and that's their whole youtube channel or whatever.
I don't know if anyone else has this particular anxiety, but the early years of Twitter where social activism/justice basically boiled down to "Have you seen this fucked up thing? If you haven't, you are now and if you're not talking about it, you don't care and are a bad person"
The situational support stemming from police killing a black person lasts for about a week and isn't substantial in any sense and, I know in my case, makes me feel like shit on multiple levels