Chuds hated it for being woke. The targer audience hated it because they didnt feel represented, they felt mocked. One near universal backlash later its thrown in the bin.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    you forgot about the other one, Screentime. A teenager who got exposed to "internet gas" and now sees memes everywhere. His power is his brain is connected to google. I'm not kidding.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Internet gas and related powers actually sounds cool. Maybe bring that back for a Section 8 remake?

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      A Meme-Obsessed super teen whose brain became connected to the internet after becoming exposed to his grandfather’s “experimental internet gas.” Now he can see augmented reality and real-time maps, and can instantly Google any fact. Does this make him effectively a genius? He sure acts like it does.

      "I wanted to have teen characters who felt as "now" as the New Warriors did in 1990,” explains Kibblesmith. “The New Warriors have been zeitgeist characters from the beginning, you get edgy skateboarding Night Thrasher in the '90s and the Reality TV team in the 2000s, and now in 2020, we have New Warriors who have never grown up without the Internet, and one character who appears to essentially live inside it.

      “The word ’screen time’ is only ever used in a sort of restrictive sense, and because we’re doing a story about teenage rebels, a lot of the names are about teens fighting against labels that are put on them. So with Screentime, we liked the idea that he has infinite screen time.”

      Grandpa's internet gas? Oh god, he's plagued by 4chan stuff everywhere, isn't he?

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      1 year ago

      So with Google destroying their search engine algorithm and the emergence of AI bullshit, the kids basically got terminal boomer brain at a young age