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TRVTHNVKE
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I don't get it either.
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@Hoss ngl, her sitting there in that pose grosses me out
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@Hoss it doesnt feel sexy at all, it just feels... idk, disgusting
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Looks like the position she'd assume at the gynecologist's office, lol.
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@mischievoustomato @Hoss but to a 21 yo groyper, "she totally makes some really valid points bro, she's one of the good ones bro".
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@Hoss Normies still need to be told this lmao
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@alexmussolini88 @Hoss Yeah, it's genuinely something that happens the same way every time. It's dilution through oversaturation. The product wants more customers to "grow" the hobby (healthy hobbies attract people who like it, not change to find "near likers" or whatever) and the people coming in care little for the details and bring in people who care a little less than them and on and on until it becomes about the flanderized big cartoonish things the hobby once stood for.
You can see it happening with 40K in real time. "Oh the Grim Dark is a bit much isn't it?" And long time fans will concede "Yeah, I guess sometimes I wish I could see different stories" and then, a few years later, "Oh well this all male thing is a little silly isn't it? I mean look how cartoonish the lore is already."
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@alexmussolini88 @Hoss The underground used to be underground. Not every subculture has to sell product and every subculture has to be something my mom both knows about and approves of.
That was the balance our culture had for a hot minute. We had our subcultures and we belonged, sometimes to multiple, but they were cordoned off. Contained and beautiful and unique and fun and enthusiastic.
Now everything is the fucking same. Normies at comic cons and trannies and overbearing women in every hobby policing shit that has nothing to do with the hobby.
I had dudes at my local comic shop that I knew for five years or more and I couldn't tell you their last name, what their job was, or how they felt about a single political issue. But we talked about comics for a few hours every Wednesday.
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@snappler @Hoss
>everything's the fucking same
The way i see it, the subculture becomes so oversaturated, so refined (not as in sophisticated/fancy), so processed that it becomes pablum. The allure dies. The same fate befell stuff like emo, it used to be the outcasts that united via music and being weird/different, now it's just thirst traps with teased hair who like pop punk, or tranny freaks that want to salvage the few kids still into the subculture. I just brought up emo because I grew up with it more or less
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@Hoss The absolute shit part is that there WERE women in those places. Very few of them, but they were there and they were pre-filtered.
They were women who looked at the Juicy shorts and the Britney Spears whore music and said "No, thanks. I like these little guys I can paint. Or these comics." They were RARE, but they were authentic and nerdy in a feminine way.
They weren't trying to be equals. They weren't trying to be one of the boys. They occupied their space in the hobby separate from but supportive of the men in the hobby 99% of the time. You would get the occasional boss bitch or server queen who was there for the male attention or to domineer over a bunch of men as pseudo babies but for the most part it was a good deal and everyone was happy, even if competition for the limited nerdfoid resource was sometimes cutthroat.
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@snappler @Hoss we used to be a proper niche 😔