Has slop always been wildly successful?

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We live in times where any autistic tranny weeb retard can now make a video game, cartoon, comic, webseries, arg, whatever, and have it be a very popular and profitable IP, regardless of how mid and derivative it is. Have people always enjoyed slop? Is this the future of art and entertainment? Just overhyped garbage nonstop forever?
Maybe we need kings and monarchy as well as class systems back to keep plebs in their place to prevent this from happening.
 
Sneaky lurker dijo:
Maybe we need kings and monarchy as well as class systems back to keep plebs in their place to prevent this from happening.
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This but unironically

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Some slop has always been wildly successful. There's a lot of slop.
 
FPTMIU dijo:
This but unironically

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No, you'd just be shuffling the problem around. You'd still get tranny retard weebs but now they have crowns and even more entitlement.

Anyway, it's accessability. We used to have barriers to entry for a lot of our entertainment be it publishers, TV executives, the Nintendo Seal of Approval, ect.

The internet destroyed all that.
 
yes. not all slop is successful, but the overwhelming majority of successful things are slop. most people are fucking retarded and literally lack the mental horsepower to think about things beyond the shallowest surface level. the popular media of yesteryear - even after being filtered by time - is littered with slop. many things are passed on simply because they were popular with idiots, and then those idiots simply repeat that their favorite things are "classics" despite being too retarded to form real opinions.

MazonLabs Recruitment Rep dijo:
Anyway, it's accessability. We used to have barriers to entry for a lot of our entertainment be it publishers, TV executives, the Nintendo Seal of Approval, ect.

The internet destroyed all that.
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accessibility is good. the unfortunate element of gatekeeping is that when you have faggots in control, you keep the talent out. Hollywood has been really good at that for a long time. now that the gates are more open than they've ever been, there's a whole lot of garbage, because most people are stupid and they make stupid shit. but a lot of cool shit that wouldn't otherwise have gotten made has managed to find its way into existence.
 
There has always been slop and always an audience for it. Dickens was publishing his stories at the same time people on the street were reading Varney the Vampire and other Penny Dreadfuls. Whilst Mozart's operas were being performed before the nobility of Europe, people were laughing at performers hitting each other with pig's bladders on a few boards outside.

But a few things are different now. One is the sheer volume of it due to ease of distribution and creation. Another is that rather than a system of patronage by an educated elite, we have a mercantile system of selling entertainment and these people have an incentive to market towards the maximum possible range of people rather than an upper segment.

One might think this means targeting the middle of the bell curve but even that would be charitable. The prevailing belief is that you can target the lowest common denominator and everyone above that will consume the slop regardless. After all, they have nothing else to consume.

So, two factors. One semi-obvious, the other oft overlooked. That we have gone from patrons saying 'entertain my circle' to artists, to a world of carnival barkers hawking their wares to all.

So people consume it. And you are what you eat.
 
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this shit kills my faith in humanity so fucking hard
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timmycel maldin

I dont know, he doesn't seem to like gooner shit and is just passionate about something he likes. He also helps fund the industry, and honestly I'd rather see it funded by someone like him than Blackrock any day.
 
L. Ron Hubbard is the most published English-language author for a reason. Slop has always existed and people have always consumed slop en masse, with what is considered slop shifting as access to media shifts: Shakespeare was contemporaneously considered slop. Consuming some slop is fine, not everything you read needs to be Dostoyevsky, but the modern issue is four-fold: 1) slop is near omnipresent in the production of media to the exclusion of works of quality, 2) this media has a push by insincere actors to be undeservedly considered quality work, 3) works of quality will still give deference to slop media (e.g. Space King using Rick and Morty’s artstyle), and 4) the average consumer is content to only consume slop.
 
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No, you'd just be shuffling the problem around. You'd still get tranny retard weebs but now they have crowns and even more entitlement.

Anyway, it's accessability. We used to have barriers to entry for a lot of our entertainment be it publishers, TV executives, the Nintendo Seal of Approval, ect.

The internet destroyed all that.
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You forgot that the PCs and home computers didn't have such thing as "seal of approval". Only video game consoles, Nintendo being notorious for its draconian restrictions to sell in the US as a japanese developer. And their graphic violence censorship.

Today we have the same shit on PS5, Switch and Xbox, unable to publish titles without their blessing, and slop is still official.

Hell, even in the 2000s, consoles like Wii, Gameboy advance, DS had Nintendo approved sholvelware. You could also argue that the NES had movie licensed slop made cheaply like Terminator on NES.

Gatekeeping from the manufacturer will not solve the slop issue. Consumers should be ones to vote wisely with their dollars.
 
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Don Quixote was written to parody the massive amount of slop romances and knockoff Arthurian legends of the time.
 
i440BX dijo:
You forgot that the PCs and home computers didn't have such thing as "seal of approval". Only video game consoles, Nintendo being notorious for its draconian restrictions to sell in the US as a japanese developer. And their graphic violence censorship.

Today we have the same shit on PS5, Switch and Xbox, unable to publish titles without their blessing, and slop is still official.

Hell, even in the 2000s, consoles like Wii, Gameboy advance, DS had Nintendo approved sholvelware. You could also argue that the NES had movie licensed slop made cheaply like Terminator on NES.

Gatekeeping from the manufacturer will not solve the slop issue. Consumers should be ones to vite wisely with their dollars.
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But just look at Nintendo now. The Switch e shop is shovelware city. I found out the hard way that if you want to sort sales by lowest to highest you will have to wade through hundreds of crappy copy/paste mobile games and stuff you'd find on Rinmaru ten years ago for free before you find that one good game that's only $1.99 this week. Why are there so many games about feet?
 
Dysnomia dijo:
But just look at Nintendo now. The Switch e shop is shovelware city. I found out the hard way that if you want to sort sales by lowest to highest you will have to wade through hundreds of crappy copy/paste mobile games and stuff you'd find on Rinmaru ten years ago for free before you find that one good game that's only $1.99 this week. Why are there so many games about feet?
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That's proof gatekeeping doesn't work. Curators and the industry can become compromised. Just look at Hollywood.

What we need is to educate people what is "haute-culture".

Even in the 1990s, Sony was petty about censorship. They refused to publish the uncensored version of Policenauts, only found on Sega Saturn in Japan.

The horror game D by Akklaim was almost censored, but the lead designer Kenji Ino was sneaky enough to swap the censored cds with the uncensored version of the cd before giving to the ones who press the cds. That angered Sony and intentionally produced less copies of that original version.

Those 2 games I mentioned were good ones.
 
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What's unusual about now is that nothing that's successful is good. You can point out good qualities that distinguish some popular things from the average, but it's still otherwise crap. That wasn't always so. It may never have been so until recently. (Was Sophocles crap?)

For almost every genre of artistic stuff, knowledgable fans have a last truly great one—or movement or era or "scene" or whatever—that they largely agree on. Some are from generations ago.

When did the last new genre of thing happen?
 
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