the media people consume influences/reflects their personalities and attitudes. if you are consuming something 'just because others are consuming it' it betrays a lack of critical thinking, and a kind of bandwagon effect attitude. if people are 'literally addicted' to Marvel then it is by your own admission very problematic. the solution to addiction isn't to just keep letting the addict use without any effort to control and reduce usage. that 60% of their conversations could ideally be used for something beautiful or useful, but instead is squatted by bland, meaningless, corporate garbage with zero artistic integrity or cultural value. corporate slop is, let me be perfectly clear, a weapon of psychological warfare forced upon the masses by corporate media campaigns. media isn't some kind of utopian democracy where the 'best' thing or 'naturally/objectively most popular' thing 'wins' the grand popularity contest; media attitudes are manufactured by marketers and inflicted on the public via expansive and expensive propaganda campaigns.

its not that these are 'bad people' (as if the opinion of random internet posters would matter in that regard), its that they exhibit what some leftists consider to be problematic behavior and thought processes. and since they are not on this board to have their feelings hurt we use the format of 'dunking'. this is a trait not unique to hexbear but common to english language, where the fundamental misattribution error is basically baked in to the syntax and grammar.

like yeah, we're not going to write a marxist essay for every marvel enjoyer analysing their plight and oppression. these treats are mostly for rich white suburban kids and their parents, marvel enjoyers are not some oppressed minority yearning to be free of the yoke of hexbears telling them they like silly mindless shit. we are going to dunk on them like we do for EVERY SINGLE OTHER example of problematic thought or behavior.

just like we don't pearl-clutch over criticizing nazis or cops or liberals that support genocide, who were 'just victims of propaganda and society' (which is true!), we don't pearl clutch over criticizing this kind of problematic mindlessness either.

media consumption is not some kind of sacred event that cannot ever be criticized in another, we are allowed to draw conclusions, even critical and negative ones, from the behaviors and attitudes of others.

edit: this is not intended as hostile but educational; i tried to maintain a mostly neutral tone, and just wanted to make my position and possibly that of others clear and explicit.