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I think that there's a false opposition between calling things cringe/soy/reddit and the "let people enjoy things" line of thought. being "cringe" about something is often falsely equivocated with being soy because all soy individuals are cringe but not all cringey individuals are soy. it is inherently cringe and soy to be really into Marvel movies or Funko Pops and one can be cringe about things that aren't soy, but it's incorrect to thing of the two as the same because they resemble each other

cringing at being passionate about something is downstream of a culture where the only acceptable identities are worker or consoomer, and whatever your interests are must be reducible to idle bourgeois leisure activities that a market exists for. this is why soy is a separate category: it's whatever things are passive consoomer hobbies that are given a lot of space by the mainstream. this is why we have a cringe response to soy, because it is a lower state of consciousness, of being very libidinally invested in something that is pointless entertainment, a permanent state of childish arrested development for people who have never had to live in the real world

the real issue then is falsely believing any similar level of passion in something is cringe. what matters is one's level of active engagement with something, which differentiates it from the soyness which produces cringe as its emotional affect. soyness is an enthusiasm at being passive and domesticated and thus we must conclude that being soy and reddit is fascist while being cringe has the potential to be revolutionary

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