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This. I‘m guilty of relying quite heavily on reviews/star-ratings when deciding what to watch, and avoid low-rated movies/shows. Until some years ago, I‘d just
by ManuelKiessling 4y ago
This. I‘m guilty of relying quite heavily on reviews/star-ratings when deciding what to watch, and avoid low-rated movies/shows.
Until some years ago, I‘d just have a glance at the score/stars and make my decision.
By now, if something is rated low but my gut feeling tells me that it could be off, I always do a quick check of reviews, and 90% of the time I go „Okay, it’s the racists again“.
Also: „high critics score, low audience score on Rotten Tomatoes == racist and/or LGBTQ-haters being racist and/or LGBTQ-hating“ is a frighteningly precise heuristic.
- docmars 4y agoPerhaps it's telling of a highly problematic and sudden shift in society's values that the majority have rejected wholesale, and for good reason. Social (in)justice took the world by storm almost instantly as governments, corporations, and other large entities flocked to using controversy to fuel their greed while they haphazardly feign a set of supposed virtues that only a tiny, fractional minority care about -- and among them, even many of them abhor what is happening with wokeness. It is but a temporary fad/trend that will eventually die, and the world will finally go back to normal again when people get bored of it all, and thank God for it.