Okay so banger insight I got from here:
material conditions reign supreme as the foundation of any meaningful program or political convo. This type of analysis cuts laserlike through vast clouds of fluffy, worthless, marketplace of ideas grift style vvvvibes-based “idealistic” baloney.
However.
Vibes, also, are a thing. Often enough vibes become material conditions. People fight, work, organize, sacrifice and die for Vibes. Non material elements can rally support around a material cause.
What are good ways to think about the relationship between material conditions and… idealism, pure “politics”, lofty rhetoric, untethered wishful thinking… vibes. I’m hoping some well-read comrade will bless us with thought or maybe a reading rec
I love you all 
TRMWLAFW?
It’s a G-Man quote from Half-Life using caps to imply his strange cadence.
Oh, my first instinct was that it was some sort of code.
Your apparently total unfamiliarity with Half Life 2 through either firsthand experience or cultural osmosis, now a whole 21 years after the enduringly popular and influential video game first released, is a testament to the admirable amount of grass you touch, which we should all aspire to.
Also me when it comes to all the culturally unified moments in TV when everyone and their dogs were watching the same thing i.e the walking dead, breaking bad, uh that dragon show with the old guy that won’t write books, marvelslop, etc.
I’m pretty much living on a completely separate circuit of social existence from America. It’s kinda lonely but the price paid is a mind that is uncorrupted by capitalism
Me when I reference a fucking MS Paint Movie Maker magical girl fan animation made by a ten year old in 2006 and literally seen by fewer than 2,000 people. The dictatorship of obscurophiles will reign supreme, our day will come.
…Although, truth be told, I have been taking some time to catch up on a few of the “culturally unified” popular things, because it turns out that a decent number of popular things are popular for a reason. Sometimes it’s because it’s lowest-common-denominator slop that happens to resonate with the anxieties of present circumstances, which is interesting in its own way; sometimes it’s because it’s genuinely good.
Me when I keep saying “I should watch breaking bad”
I have faint memories of youth where I watched among the first YouTube creator made origional video series that ran for hundreds of episodes that I don’t remember anything about, only had handfuls of people watching them, and were cringe-edgy Japanese weeb tropes stuffed to the gills but it was kickass awesome because it was the first of its kind on the world wide web video distribution network at the time. I’m talking like this level of writing but stretched across multiple seasons
I did see the first like season and a half of Breaking Bad recently-ish, but I ended up falling out of it. That also happened with Community but hasn’t happened with House yet. I think the difference with House is just because I see House with my whole family — really, social watching does make it easier to check new things out and not fall out of them. I do remember you have an account on the blorps, too, but it’s been rare for us to be online at the same time there.
Remember fucking Lego Plane Go Boom? It’s not at all the sort of cringe-edgy Japanese weeb trope-laden thing you’re talking about, but it was an early YouTube series that ran for about 100 episodes from 2008 to 2022, that I watched as a wee’un. It was basically just a guy filming his hand holding a Lego airplane and walking around his house with humorous narration, and then breaking the airplane into a bajillion little pieces… but it pretty quickly ended up having like a recurring cast of characters and ongoing plot with Megan, Doofy and Uncle Straw et al.
When it comes to long-running cringe-edgy weeb shit, I’m not sure I’m familiar with anything like what you’re describing. If you ever do stumble upon an example of That Sort of Thing again I’d be glad to hear about it. The stuff I’m talking about — fanime — all the ones I’ve seen have been more silly than edgy, and tended to only run for like… 15 episodes at most. It wasn’t anything I saw much of as a kid, either — I was only really introduced to fanime more recently, but I’ve quickly become obsessed with it because it’s so capital-K Kino[1] that Viktor Tsoi himself might as well be singing the opening themes.
I normally oppose using terms originating in chan culture but this is one I make an exception for. ↩︎
I fucking love house I should watch that shit again
I genuinely don’t remember what that show was, it, along with many things from my childhood, have simply vanished into the void with naught but fragmented memories remaining to tether it into existence.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
What of Andor? IMO it’s in a different category from prestige level slop.
Astonishing post btw
I believe I watched only up to right when he got thrown in the clink then haven’t really watched it, or anything else since.
Has Left vibes without a doubt and more so as the thing goes along
Wake up mr. ball, wake up and smell the ashEs
E? Like the celebrity gossip channel?