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Nerdy as hell. INFP. Here & Queer. 23 years young. Nonbinary named Carter. They/them. BPD PTSD depression and generalized anxiety squad.
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luimnigh
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Why don’t people like CinemaSins?

Short Answer: They're bad at movie criticism.

Long Answer: Their premise and branding has forced them to become bad at movie criticism in order to continue their livelihood.

CinemaSins began as a channel talking about bad movies, pointing out their flaws, and counting it up as a sort of ranking.

The problem is that it became popular, and because it became popular it became monetisable.

All of their problems really stem from the fact that they earn a livelihood from it.

The Youtube Algorithm started focusing on longer videos, so the videos had to become longer, which meant more sins. But even the worst movies have so many flaws, and you can only make the "joke" sins so many times. So the criticisms started getting... looser. Sinning things that get explained moments later. Sinning things that aren't explained, but are obvious without explanation. Sinning things that are completely subjective.

At the same time, there's only so many popular bad movies. Plenty of completely obscure ones, but nobody's gonna click on a video for a movie they've never heard of. So they started sinning good movies, which left them less to legitimately criticize, while still needing longer videos with more sins. Worsening the problem.

And then the selection becomes more limited when you start chasing what's popular. There's a sequel coming out, got to make a video on the previous film, soak up some of those searches. Doesn't matter if the last movie was a masterpiece of cinema, gotta sin it.

And because the channel was popular, it's word was parroted. It gave a platform for some worst aspects of film criticism: the focus on "plot holes"; the conflation of the two definitions of "critical"; the constant "why didn't the characters do x? lol dumb movie" spiels... all existed before CinemaSins, still exist even in those who profess their hate for the channel, but they became the loudest voice making these points.

They're not the first to fall into this trap. The wave of Caustic Critics spawned by the Angry Videogame Nerd suffered this as well. You cannot monetise negativity forever, there is only so many genuinely bad works of media that are interestingly bad, or praised as good and are actually bad, or bad in a way nobody's discussed before.

If you keep telling people "X is Garbage and Here's Why", you're gonna run out of garbage and start having to manufacture it, no matter what the actual facts are.

Other creators adapted. Found other ways to make their content interesting besides anger and negativity.

But CinemaSins can't. It's in the name.

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hey uhhh but fr the concept of fallen angels existing but risen demons being an impossibility is kind of a great summary of sin in christianity

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ashelyskies

holy shit

no, no, come back here and tell me how stupid it is to talk about how the power dynamics inherent to christianity are built upon the rhetoric that failure is unavoidable and there is never enough you can do to make up for it

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bleekay

just woke from a dream where the new big discourse going around was that if you were upset your parents were divorced/divorcing then you were actually super cringe for irl shipping your parents and it was disgusting to want to see your own parents together and that you were disrespecting them by placing your shipping expectations on them

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doggendoodle
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neil-gaiman

who even are you. like what did you write

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I have no idea. Let me see if anyone else in this ask place knows.

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he was in arthur.

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telebisou

you’re thinking of Jill Eikenberry; I think this guy was an astronaut of some kind

that’s Neil Armstrong, I thought this guy was in How I Met Your Mother

That’s Neil Patrick Harris. I think this might have been the playwright who wrote The Odd Couple.

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merinnan

That’s Neil Simon. I think this is the musician who wrote Sweet Caroline.

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hils79

That’s Neil Diamond. I think this is an astrophysicist

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oneiriad

That’s Neil deGrasse Tyson. I think this is a river in Egypt.

That’s the Nile; I think this is the Irish guy who made the movies “The Crying Game” and “Interview with the Vampire”.

No no no, that’s Neil Jordan. I think this is the English author who helped write Good Omens.

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aphony-cree

You’re right! This is Terry Prachet’s tumblr. Good job everyone

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cuddlydemons

ok I love this meme but like

Neil Gaiman actually was in Arthur.

This is true.

what were you doing in a falafel

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kipplekipple

Let a man live

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wabblebees
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NOTHING makes me more mad than people shoving aside creepy behavior just because the person in question is neurodivergent and doesn't pick up on social skills well. there was this girl in high school who got way too touchy with me no matter how many times I told her to stop and the fucking school guidance counselor and school psychologist were like "well you can't blame her because she can't pick up on social cues well". i'm neurodivergent too but if someone begs me to stop doing something it's kind of fucking clear they don't like it???

just the way people approach neurodivergency is so infantilizing I hate it. if you ever reblog a post about how it's ableist to react angrily to someone invading your space i'll fucking kill you. half the things you guys call ableism are just straight up not, and this isn't even a tumblr thing, it's something supposed medical professionals believe.

It's no longer a social cue if someone says "stop, i don't like that" it's literally just someone verbalizing what they expect you to do. which is stop.

^^exactly

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biokitty

So, keep delivering packages during a tornado warning where the packages you’re dropping off will very likely be flung off the porch in the ensuing winds and, you know, tornado vortex dropping down thus resulting in them not being delivered and you getting fired for not delivering the packages? 

Or get fired for seeking shelter from the literal tornado?

Where the fuck is OSHA? Where the fuck is congress? Amazon has been doing shit like this for decades and no one gives a fuck?

We need labor unions in this country so badly.

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It's not even hidden. People openly admit to this. They've literally said openly "most of the deaths are people with disabilities so we shouldn't care".

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laeffy

Every time I get groceries I’m always appalled at how little you can get for like, $20. I was making banana pudding so I needed vanilla wafers but the brand name nilla wafers cost $4 a box. The minimum wage in my state is $7.25/hr. My friend put it really well when he said “imagine you work for an hour and someone hands you two boxes of nilla wafers and said ‘actually this is a bit more than what I owe you’”

How are some of y’all missing the point so bad. “Shop at aldi instead” “make your own food” “don’t buy brand name” “don’t buy unhealthy processed food” It’s not about the box of cookies. This is about how minimum wage pays peanuts and has stagnated for 12 years while the cost of living keeps growing. No one wants your financial advice about how to survive on beans and rice and frozen veggies. The smartest grocery list in the world is not gonna help you budget your way out of poverty. Please get a grip for the love of god

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denkisauce

class 1a vs 1b arc, also known as: denki & his boyfriends

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As far as ethical materials go you can't really get better than wool.

The sheep need the hair cut.

Nothing dies for it.

Sheep live pretty much wild for most the year.

Placed correctly they maintain a landscape and help the wildlife that live there to thrive.

Doesn't use Vast Quantities of land for little product.

Not draining inland fresh water oceans.

Been spending thousands of years perfecting the genetics for this purpose.

Comes in many different kinds of uses.

And the animal it comes off is fully edible.

My main issue with it is it has fallen so out of fashion that it pays the farmers who make it more to transport it than they get per fleece, and people have really fucking weird hang ups about the ethics of giving a sheep a hair cut.

Sheep can get infested with wool maggots if they are not shorn.

Also an unshorn sheep can drown if it falls into water, just by the sheer weight of the water its wool can absorb, dragging it down.

A Tunis sheep can live in a large doghouse, and staked in a different place every day, will mow your lawn (buy they get lonely. Buy two).

Light shearing nicks heal fast because the sheep’s waxy lanolin coats their skin. Though most sheep farmers won’t Nick the sheep bc it gets blood on the wool.

Sheep farmers MUST treat their sheep with care, because any little thing that upsets sheep affects the quality of their wool.

Even “natural” fibers like bamboo take TONS of water to process and alkaline dyes to color them. You can dye wool with unsweetened koolaid.

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I just… wanna remind people that asexuality was classed as a mental disorder by the DSM all the way up until 2013…. Because I feel like people don’t know this or like to ignore it because it doesn’t fit into their “asexual people don’t face discrimination” rhetoric.

Asexuality was only removed from the DSM in 2013. Please, know this and remember it.

asexuality is STILL in the DSM they still have a disorder that’s literally the definition of asexuality called “hypoactive sexual desire disorder” which is what they’ve always classified asexuality as. they just added a clause that said “if the patient IDs as ace it’s fine” but it’s not like the general population knows what asexuality is and people want to complain about how visibility is such a high priority for us jesus christ

thats a very good point. i knew about that distinction, but it bears repeating for people that see this post and arent aware of it

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vaspider

And that’s why we need the queer community to be like ‘no really we exist and it isn’t hurtful it’s quite fine they belong here with us, the other queers, who were just de-pathologized.’ 

*bang gavel*

I was going to college and grad school when the fight over this diagnosis being included in the DSM-V was going on. 

If I remember correctly, the big push to keep it in the DSM came from the pharmaceutical companies who need this diagnosis to exist so that they can market a drug they are currently working on to treat “female sexual interest/arousal disorder”. 

This diagnosis is so fucked up. It not only pathologizes Asexuals, it also pathologizes non-asexual women for having less interest in sex than men. This disorder literally used to be called “Frigidity” and feminist psychologists had to fight like hell to get the DSM to clarify that simply having a lower sex drive than one’s husband was not sufficient for a diagnosis. 

The APA throws in that little disclaimer about being a “self-identified asexual” and the diagnostic criteria of distress, but they did the same thing before they removed homosexuality from the DSM. 

A lot of people think that psychologists stopped considering homosexuality a disorder in the 1970s, but that’s not entirely true. They kept it in the DSM with a slightly changed name and a criteria that the person experience distress about being gay. This was used to justify “reparative therapy” for decades. 

This diagnosis is just one part of the APA’s long history of pathologizing human sexuality, especially women’s sexuality. Women who deviate even slightly from the prescribed amount of sexual interest will find themselves labeled as either borderline or frigid. 

Important stuff. Little thing: ‘the other queers, who were just de-pathologized.’ Does not include trans people and cross dresssers. We’re also still in the DSM.

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