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Right wingers love to do this thing where they point to the most absurd examples from their opponents and then argue from that as the premise, but that has been steadily dwindling in effectiveness since ~2019. It hardly even works against the left anymore.
It's always funny to see how the average 2smart4u misunderstands the topics they talk about. Virality is by definition internet-based. As long as something is interacted with enough on the internet, it is viral.
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We should deport everyone with a low credit score that would make MAGA chuds so mad
Scott Greer has bitten off more than he can chew with his predictable contrarianism for the same reason you don't countersignal the anime pfps. They have what people who consider themselves normal or reasonable do not: passion.
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At a certain point you realize that they really are in the same category. (Especially when your go-to example is The Godfather)
What we now call fanfiction was a huge aspect of the literary world. It's why Miguel de Cervantes had to write part two of Don Quixote.
The campfire tale, the tall tale, the bar tale, "fanfiction" and great novels are all ways in which people participate in telling stories together. If you want a culture that appreciates "high art" it needs to also participate in "low art"
Malfoid is weird. Anime is weird. Right wingers are weird. Eventually what will come out of all this weirdness is a new age of sincerity.
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Like it or not, Harry Potter is what little shared culture we have left.
I don't like it by the way. But that hardly matters when it comes to the manifestation of viral cultural phenomena. The vehicles for this are extremely limited.
Leftwingers shoehorning Harry Potter analysis into political current events is very different to a trendy, mostly apolitical art collaboration. Right wing analysis within this is mostly, like it has been for everything for a few years, analysis of why the trend has taken off.
No, what is happening with Malfoid is something specific and timely.
Replying to @killthedoctors
Ok grandpa. The zoomerwaffen want Hermione to be a boy and a nonbinary Ron. You wouldn't get it
Malfoid is a cultural reclamation project using a piece of timely popular media which the Left has abandoned.
Poasters are participating in spontaneous collaboration prompted around fixing a childhood IP that many find or found disappointing in some key aspects.
The story is written from the human and elf perspective. Sympathizing with something trying to kill you is retarded and there is no room for sympathy in-universe. If you want another "Are the predators of humanity really even bad?!?" cliche watch Parasyte or Tokyo Ghoul.















