Slop.

This is a half-baked thought but I'm kicking around the idea that this hyper-pathologizing urge is the opposite side of the normative coin whose obverse is grindset culture.

The grindset is an extremely narrow and rigid concept of what's "acceptable" in society and I feel like the shadow that casts is that therefore everything else outside of it is inferior or bad. Throw in that weird online tendency to weaponize therapyspeak which has been on a massive upsurge in the past few years and it feels like the natural consequence of that coupled with the grindset normativity results in everything outside of the grindset being turned into a pathology.

Idk I think I need to take this idea out for a spin a bit more before I decide whether it's actually accurate and maybe grindset isn't quite the right term here but I'm sure you get the kind of culture I'm trying to point at with the term. It's like some sort of cultural phrenology or something.

As much as I love a good shitpost it may be time to bring sincere-posting to the forefront as an counterprogramming strategy given that the challenge of determining terminally online weirdo v. shitposter is becoming more and more of an impossible task.

i feel guilty for reading this post since those are someone else’s emotions.

i should be punished. who is going to punish me? please dont clamp my nipples with these nipple clamps i carry in my pocket. dont do that please

Books? That's called wordslop now.

I’m copyrighting my own method for generating mildly excited concentration and it involves a DAW and a guitar. No more mildly excited concentration unless you PAY ME

it's tumblr, coin flip if it's a bit or not
or the rarer "it began as a bit but now i sincerely believe it because everyone that argued with me made terrible points"

Comrades I have to report this attitude is... Getting worse and not just young folks.

I teach composition in the university. The major journal for our profession, College composition and communication, just published an article with this astounding claim:

. In the context of higher education, the presence of AI has intensified atmospheres of surveillance on college campuses (see McIntyre), including a reliance on AI detection software, a requirement of showing process work (i.e., showing document history in Google Docs), and an in-class restriction of computer devices

Folks, asking a student to show their work is now surveillance. Btw, I should say, instructors demanding Google docs history are obviously gone too far (I write in markdown), but asking a student for process work as some kind of panopticon in a writing class where the goal should be understanding the writing process, not the final product is a totally cracked claim.

I’ve heard tale that the Gen Alpha teens find outwardly enjoying things to be cringe as their peers will shame them for it on TikTok. But I’m not sure how true that really is.

talking to someone, getting them to agree with you on something; upturning the table and screaming THOUGHT THIEF!

But...but...but the Animé they will all be obsessed (and masturbate to) will have music on it

All external stimulus is manipulation and deceit! A solipsist internal world is the only genuine experience!

If you're fixated on retvrning, presumably you want to go back to small communities. You know, the kind as far back as we have archeological evidence for? The kind where children played with toys, people played music, and people shared their ideas with each other? The kind that far predates hustle culture by thousands of years I mean.

Ragebait or whatever; the individual as they describe it is a sickness of the mind brought out by atomization

Fuck them, music is the most amazing thing mankind has ever invented. Just tonight I sobbed to a beautiful EP for over 30 minutes and I am thankful that music can reveal such strong emotions from deep within me.

The only true way to experience the world is in a sensory deprivation tank.

At least BMF posts sort of have some sense if you read them over a couple times. What the fuck?

pretty sure the ottomans used to execute islamic puritan rebels while forcing them to listen to music

Oh ok. If experiencing someone else's art is emotional theft that is also the same for your television programs and videogames though. In fact, those also have music in them.

nah this is funny af

The op and last reply are clearly doing a bit

this isn’t real

art is emotional piracy, and piracy is cool and good

its obviously a bit, come on

there is something like 7% of people who literally do not care for music, btw

Podcast is just cope for people who can't generate thoughts on their own