>>88098043American millennial scum. And I say that as someone in his 20s.
I go to a very famous, very prestigious university. I'm theoretically supposed to be around the best and the brightest, right?
And yet the shit people say is beyond belief. It's not even that they're wrong, people are wrong all the time and it's generally not infuriating.
But it's that there's not a shred of self-awareness in what they say. I can even understand them not being open to different opinions because, leaving memes about SJWs aside, that's exactly what conservatives are like too - "I'm right and I know it". But it's more than that, it's an aura of omnipresent arrogance and smugness, always projecting the feeling of "I'm better than you on every conceivable level due to my stances, and I refuse to acknowledge that other people might have reasons for thinking the way they do". It's borderline solipsistic. And as an actual liberal and an actual progressive, I hate them much more than /pol/ does because they're doing their level best to discredit everything I believe in and turn ideas that people have died for into a joke.
And you see this with the media those people produce - it's smug, it panders to them, the characters are mouthpieces for their ideas even when it makes no sense given the setting or the target demographic (elementary school kids don't give a shit about feminism, they want cool/cute/funny stuff).
PPG 2016 failed because these people don't realize you can't create media based on your biases and expect general audiences to like it. Placing "your message" ahead of competent characterization, a decent story, memorable villains, etc. is a sure way to get a shit show, and inundating it with contemporary references is a sure way to make sure everyone will cringe 5 years from now if they watch it.
PPG was successful in part because it was timeless - there were references to everything, from Rocky and Bullwinkle to the Beatles, not just turn of the millennium stuff.
