Some good points, though I disagree that pathos heavy material aimed at teenaged boys fares any better in the critic's corner. Anything that is out of balance

Some good points, though I disagree that pathos heavy material aimed at teenaged boys fares any better in the critic's corner. Anything that is out of balance with the 3 pillars of rhetoric comes across as artistically incomplete and immature to the degree which it's out of balance. Most art aimed at a specific in-group tends to overemphasize pathos (and to a lesser extent ethos) and almost completely abandons logos - you don't need rationality when you're preaching to the choir. I don't know about "hate" as it's just a market to be served like any other, but there's no reason to celebrate imbalanced low-stakes art when we have so many counterexamples.