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But they don't stop watching it, their identities are invested in it. There's sunk cost fallacy going on there. They don't want it to suck, they want it to keep
by big-green-man 2y ago
But they don't stop watching it, their identities are invested in it. There's sunk cost fallacy going on there. They don't want it to suck, they want it to keep getting better. And it doesn't. And they complain. But they keep watching anyway. I know a guy that watched every episode of discovery, complained how bad it was, then watched the next one. It didn't matter that it sucked, you can't miss knowing the canon!
They're entirely captured by the corporations that produce this stuff. Their minds are trapped arguing over the validity of literal nonsense because it's profitable to some company for that to be the case.
- throwpoaster 2y agoAnother way of saying this is that they share creative ownership with the corporation managing the commons, like open source software.
- big-green-man 2y agoThey don't share ownership of anything. The owners do whatever they want, then lip service the fandom after the fact, and the fandom takes it because they can't cut loose from their attachment. A die hard fan that won't drop something the minute it begins to be destroyed is a sucker for abuse, and their willingness to look past it afterwards is why the owners get away with it. And they'll do it again.
- throwpoaster 2y agoIf the fans stop paying attention it dies. The power to destroy something is ownership.
- lupusreal 2y agoOn the contrary, if they assign importance to "canon" they are putting the corporation on a pedestal, as it is the corporation which defines the canon.