I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.
Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.
its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art
If you follow Selmers to the poetry society meeting in Night In The Woods, this is her poem.
I loved it and the themes of the game, and wanted to use it as practice to see if i can control the way readers ‘hear’ the words through images.
They’re trying to encourage longer videos so that might actually be it. Lately when I post I’ll get a message about “a longer video will have better engagement” or something along those lines and I’m like “i don’t care? Fuck off and let me post the dumb thing I made.” I give 0 shit about catering to your Al gore rhythms.
On that OTHER site
I'm kind of baffled. I do have a Tiktok account, mostly to follow a few specific creators (Dylan Hollis).
But I put up a little content, too. No, absolutely nothing which will show my face, thank you. Just some videos I've taken, mostly nature stuff. Completely innocuous, relaxing videos. Exactly nothing even vaguely controversial. I put up a video every Friday morning.
Obviously this has no following of note, and I'm totally okay with that.
What gets me, though, is that my videos used to be shown to, oh, somewhere between 50 and 100 people. but the last three weeks... none. Zero views. I think one or two people who explicitly follow my account - I have 15 followers, supposedly - have seen them.
And while I don't mind per se, I honestly want to know what's going on. Has my account been marked as controversial for some reason? Are my videos too short?
Just kinda confused by a sudden change in the way that site works.