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Everyone complaining about “woke” culture misses the fact that it’s basically driven by teenagers. The only reason it has any effect at all is because teenagers
by wayoutthere 5y ago
Everyone complaining about “woke” culture misses the fact that it’s basically driven by teenagers. The only reason it has any effect at all is because teenagers are one of the most valuable advertising demographics.
- CodeGlitch 5y agoDriven by teenagers, executed by adults.
- wayoutthere 5y agoOf course; because the adults are the advertisers. They’re trying real hard to appease the kids so they can sell shit to them.
- kazinator 5y agoYou're hitting upon something here. Woke culture is intolerant precisely because it's made of immature young people, who take in certain concepts and world views, strip them of all nuance and context and simplify them into set of hard rules to be imposed on everyone everywhere. That and plus everything in woke culture that touches on sex reeks of juvenile prudishness.
- wayoutthere 5y agoRight; the culture wars are less “the culture wars” and more “don’t offend the kids”. You can make a choice to offend them, but then you’re not worth as much as an entertainer. I’m not sure many 13 year olds in 2021 even know what Monty Python is.
- ashtonkem 5y agoMost 13 year olds don’t know about Monty python not because they’re too sensitive, but because it’s over half a century old and they’re 13. Lots of them are unaware of the beetles too, it’s just a time moving on thing.
- wayoutthere 5y agoTotally agree! I was mostly saying John Cleese doesn’t have much to worry about being cancelled because the audience that would cancel him doesn’t know he exists.
- kazinator 5y agoHow I would articulate it is that an artist worth their beans doesn't care whether or not their work offends thirteen-year-olds, no matter if they have a slight preference that it does, or that it not.