Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?

It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.

  • Dort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.netOP
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    18 days ago

    the internet has made more people aware of the idea of subtext, allegory, metaphor, etc in media in a way that prior generations mostly didn’t even consider.

    I always find it funny when the narrative is beating the audience over the head with a theme and meanwhile people are like “but what could the cup on the table mean?” theory crafting and its consequences.

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      18 days ago

      If Amazing Digital Circus is anything to go by, you might think people pay more attention to the background details than the dialog.

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        17 days ago

        If you look in the background in episode 3 at 8:37 minutes, for half a frame you can see the silhouette of Sans Undertale, thus proving that ADC and Undertale take place in the same universe!

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      Over-reading is the counterpart to nothing meaning anything. Then there’s also weirdos who try to say every noble sacrifice is a jesus figure but i don’t think they’re doing analysis per se.