culture

  1. AnHero

    MY STOCK PHOTO MODEL OBSESSION

    (Article from this site ) As part of my job here at BlogMutt, I look at a lot of stock photos. Like, a lot. All told, I probably spend nearly the equivalent of one full work day each week trying to find photos for our customers' posts and ours, sorting through the boring and the bizarre to find...
  2. AnHero

    The Decline of Taste -A Marxist Analysis

    ("Marxist" in this case refers to David Marx, and his book, Status & Culture. Not commie shit, I just thought the title would make ya look. :gigachad: ) In his book, David Marx discusses the way that status distinctions between 'high-status' and 'low-status' people define society, and how...
  3. AnHero

    Why Does Dating Men Make Me Feel Like Shit?

    (In which a feminist almost reaches empathy for men--then swerves left in the nick of time.) Originally posted to Medium. I woke up this morning with this terrible fucking feeling, and I was like I know this feeling. How do I know this feeling? Where is this horrible feeling from? And then I...
  4. Xovi

    Toxicity of "New Age" Tik-tok Gym Culture

    Athletics and fitness has been inherit in many cultures, from the Greeks to their Olympic games to the Indians and the way they lift weights. Nowadays classic athleticism and fitness has been marooned by Tik-Tok Toxic Fitness Culture on top with a mixture of the "black pill"; Instead of...
  5. AnHero

    How much do you think fiction actually influences reality?

    I encountered this meme here while I was foraging in the wilderness, and it sort of made me think: It's some kind of anti-lolicon meme, kind of a 'gotcha' regarding how lolicons will easily agree that such pictures are representations of older women and thus implicity believe that enjoying...
  6. AnHero

    Why Men Love War

    This is an article that was published in Esquire Magazine in 1984. It was written by William Broyles Jr. In it he muses on the fascination men have with making war. You can read it here: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a28718/why-men-love-war/ Why Men Love War I last saw Hiers in...
  7. AnHero

    Historical Inaccuracies and Historical Revisionism

    This is an article by Jef Raskin, who has worked in computing since the '60s and worked at Apple. He notes the high number of historical inaccuracies in various accounts of Apple's history, and muses on the cause of such mistakes. I think it's an interesting microcosm of greater flaws in the...
  8. GhostInTheMachine

    English as World Language

    Due to the popularity of the discussion about learning second languages under @RisingThumb 's profile post, it has come to my attention that many of us, myself included to some extent, have english as their second language. In this context, what is your opinion of english having become the...
  9. Chao Tse-Tung

    Social Media Algorithms and the Cultivation of a "Look-Away" Culture

    Hey folks, long time no post. Anyways, this is an idea that came to me in a bout of introspection (mild foreshadowing, that big introspection post is still coming some day), and I'll fully admit that it probably says a lot more about me than it does about the population at large. Nonetheless, I...
  10. remember_summer_days

    Current Thing meme analysis and research

    So, I'm making this thread to discuss the political implications of this exotic variation of the soyjack meme. I think this meme is trying to attack stuff that's obscure, weird, and grotesque to normies but really it's some normie-core shit all along. So like, it's trying to point out how...
  11. lovelace

    Ptolemy - "Dead Society Theory" (video)

    User Moon-Watcher777 posted a thread with a video from a YouTube channel named Ptolemy a couple months ago "Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost." In this video Ptolemy borrows from dead internet theory arguing that most discourse is manufactured and the world is becoming more sterile and...
  12. The rise of profilicity and the future of society

    This thread is based on a post I made about the recent massacres in the United States. A sort of sequel to my meme critique thread which got a surprising amount of attention. Over the past decade I have found a lot of my social interactions to feel strange and stilted. Like the other person...
  13. I'm getting tired of modern meme culture

    To be honest I'm kind of sick of meme culture at this point. It's something I've been feeling for over a year now and I've been trying to figure out why. I think the following observations may explain why I've been feeling this way. It may simply be a sign of cultural change or something worse...
  14. mast

    Outdated Internet Slang

    It occurred to me I haven't come across a "rofl" in the wild for quite some time. Along with "ttfn" and "asl". I'm sure I'm missing other older internet slang. I remember lurking AOL chat rooms when I was a kid and it was filled to the brim with slang and abbreviations I didn't understand then...