I See Posts Go By Periodically About How Modern Audiences Are Impatient Or Unwilling To Trust The Creator.

I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.

1947 Cadillac Series 62 Touring Sedan Ad. Time Magazine, September 22nd 1947.

If this isn't illegal, it's at least flirting with unethical.

No credit???? What the actual fuck Rooster Teeth??? What the actual fuck. Rooster Teeth is trying to make it a rule that they can steal content people make of their show and profit off of it even if they so desire. This is disgusting and seeing people in the comments trying to justify it? I have no words.

As much as I am a Catholic and working on my AU, I’m not gonna gonna ship canonically Gay characters with the opposite sex, I might just not touch upon it is all.

It feels malicious to me, it’s part of the problem I see in modern society on both Right and Left.

Everyone wants an excuse to be superior and spite everyone else, not relate and communicate

Which that itself gets me labeled a “Cuck” by MAGA conservatives

While the Left accuses me of being problematic.

And there’s RWBY AU writers who can handle this kind of stuff better that I could. Since I have no experience in the matter whatsoever

I'm listening for inspiration, shut up.

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