>>113185879imagine a general thread that got so out of hand that it became not a containment board but an entire toxic wiki filled with pricks who think they're smart but can't read a book about literary or film criticism and actually retain any useful information or terminology and so spend their time - years and years of their time - making up homespun terms to cover the concepts that already exist and are readily familiar even to people who've never studied criticism as a specialist subject
imagine making up an entire garbage language to parcel up pop culture into offensively broad and nondescript categories, not out of any genuine interest in discussion but out of a narcissistic need to prove to internet strangers how smart you are for seeing broad similarities between wildly different works
imagine doing that in the era of the internet, when you could literally be learning about critical theory for free in significantly less time than your weird, passive-aggressive tagging and purple prose article writing takes up
imagine doing it at all
what kind of asshole does that
