The best explanation I’ve heard for this phenomenon is that they’re man children who don’t want to accept that the reason new Star Wars, Marvel, LOTR, etc doesn’t make them feel the way they did when they were nine years old watching the originals is, they’re not nine anymore. They’re adults, they don’t have the wide-eyes wonder anymore, they’ve developed enough to see weak plots and poor suspensions of disbelief that nine year old them wouldn’t pick up on. They can’t just watch the old films because that will just be nostalgic, instead of recreating that feel they had watching it for the first time.
But rather than accept that perspective of media is something they’ve lost, they keep going back to the slop hoping beyond hope it will come back. And when it doesn’t, they get disappointed and mad and, hey here’s a culture warrior saying the problem with modern media is woke and DEI and feeeemale. Now there’s an outlet, an explanation that isn’t growing up.
There are a lot of people that do not have an internal monologue going, and thus do not ever really do introspection unless prompted. This isn't just a chud phenomena, liberals and leftist do it to (though leftists far less ime, as to become a leftist in the U.S. usually requires a lot of introspection). They don't move on because it doesn't occur to them that they should move on. Hell at this point they are probably more focused on the drama around the media than the media itself. They are consuming more media about media, than primary media.
Because then they have to accept the loss and temporality of that feeling and time in their life and that’s a scary/depressing thought for some people.
The best explanation I’ve heard for this phenomenon is that they’re man children who don’t want to accept that the reason new Star Wars, Marvel, LOTR, etc doesn’t make them feel the way they did when they were nine years old watching the originals is, they’re not nine anymore. They’re adults, they don’t have the wide-eyes wonder anymore, they’ve developed enough to see weak plots and poor suspensions of disbelief that nine year old them wouldn’t pick up on. They can’t just watch the old films because that will just be nostalgic, instead of recreating that feel they had watching it for the first time.
But rather than accept that perspective of media is something they’ve lost, they keep going back to the slop hoping beyond hope it will come back. And when it doesn’t, they get disappointed and mad and, hey here’s a culture warrior saying the problem with modern media is woke and DEI and feeeemale. Now there’s an outlet, an explanation that isn’t growing up.
That's a good explanation. But why are chuds so stuck in the past? Why can't they move on and just watch something that makes them happy?
There are a lot of people that do not have an internal monologue going, and thus do not ever really do introspection unless prompted. This isn't just a chud phenomena, liberals and leftist do it to (though leftists far less ime, as to become a leftist in the U.S. usually requires a lot of introspection). They don't move on because it doesn't occur to them that they should move on. Hell at this point they are probably more focused on the drama around the media than the media itself. They are consuming more media about media, than primary media.
I think maybe nothing could make them happy?
Spitballing here
Because then they have to accept the loss and temporality of that feeling and time in their life and that’s a scary/depressing thought for some people.