moffattron9000
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http://www.avclub.com/article/south-park-raised-generation-trolls-258253
A great article into how South Park helped create the modern troll culture that we suffer today, and how its decision to not cover the troll-in-chief is such a cop-out. In particular, there is this part that really gets into the ramifications in part of South Park's rebellion.
A great article into how South Park helped create the modern troll culture that we suffer today, and how its decision to not cover the troll-in-chief is such a cop-out. In particular, there is this part that really gets into the ramifications in part of South Park's rebellion.
Theres also the same co-opting of anti-liberal stances as the highest possible form of rebellion: Parker and Stone used to brag that they were punk rock for telling their Hollywood friends how much they loved George W. Bush; Parker even told Rolling Stone in 2007, The only way to be more hardcore than everyone else is to tell the people who think theyre the most hardcore that theyre pussies, to go up to a tattooed, pierced vegan and say, Whatever, you tattooed faggot, youre a pierced faggot and whatevera quote that may as well have been taken from 4chans /pol/ board this morning. Conservatism is the new punk rock, echoed a bunch of human cringes a decade later. Whatever, you faggot, a dozen Pepes tweeted a few seconds ago.
But well beyond the alt-right, South Parks influence echoes through every modern manifestation of the kind of hostile apathynurtured along by Xbox Live shit-talk and comment-board flame wars and Twitterthats mutated in our cultural petri dish to create a rhetorical world where whoever cares, loses. Today, everyone with any kind of grievance probably just has sand in their vagina; expressing it with anything beyond a reaction GIF means youre whining; cry more, your tears are delicious. We live in Generation U Mad Bro, and from its very infancy, South Park has armed it with enough prefab eye-rolling retorts (ManBearPig! Im a dolphin! Gay Fish! Member?) to sneeringly shut down discussions on everything from climate change and identity politics to Kanye West and movie reboots. Why not? Everything sucks equally, anyway. Voting is just choosing between some Douche and a Turd Sandwich. Bullying is just a part of life. Suck it up and take it, until its your turn to do the bullying. Relax, guy.