willow: "There are pressures in many directions for this to happen of course: status quo affirmation is popular (the goal of ‘commentary’ is not to say something surprising or novel, but rather affirm beliefs the audience already holds), creators are beholden to the interests of capital (ads, sponsors, etc),"

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willowOct 8, 2023

I know it shouldn’t be surprising, but it still is a little shocking to see the extent to which “commentary influencers” are just baldly agents of social reproduction

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There are pressures in many directions for this to happen of course: status quo affirmation is popular (the goal of ‘commentary’ is not to say something surprising or novel, but rather affirm beliefs the audience already holds), creators are beholden to the interests of capital (ads, sponsors, etc),

October 8, 2023 at 11:54 PM

willowOct 8, 2023

and once a creator does begin to get more popular their perspective shifts along with them. One of the most pernicious things is ostensibly progressive commentators really just promoting the same basic paradigm, but this is nothing new. For everything to stay the same, everything must change.