Artists creating specifically to sell and trading off (some of) their own style to do it, activists begging for attention and shares and media coverage because they aren't being paid enough attention, UNWRA desperate for donations, the percentage of people who don't mask in 2024 compared to deaths and disabilities, ppl who need to be convinced to vote with principles that save lives and that genocide is unacceptable, how a living wage or UBI is believed to be "unrealistic" despite the trillions in shareholder investment accounts.
....I'm starting to think Mainstream People™ fucking suck, ngl. In fact, dare I say that Mainstream People are the biggest obstacle to progress now.
Malcolm X said it was the white liberal as did a lot of other revolutionaries and thinkers.
I, however, think anyone who can hold their own comfort over someone else's suffering is the problem.
Why are the rest of us constantly begging and shouting and changing ourselves and our bodies in an effort to make them care about us? To make them see us? To give us rights? To bless us with the support needed to make a living?
Same shit, different generations. And idk about y'all, but I would love to be the last generations who ever had to hate themselves to survive.
Dan and Phil have started to become a part of the "mainstream culture" again. The main reason you know their apart of mainstream culture is not just bc mainstream online media accs are talking about them but the fact they just state "Dan and Phil" and everyone knows who it is they are refering to. No last names mentioned or the word youtuber Just "Dan and Phil". On top of that, they are once again seen as a "mainstream culture DUO" bc if one just said "Dan" or "Phil" people would be like who but say "Dan and Phil Dan" or "Dan and Phil Phil" they know who it is.
To all the people out there that had that one show, game, movie, song, book, podcast, fanfic, or whatever other obscure thing that had just kept them going, that suddenly got canceled, dropped, deleted, or discontinued…
I see you, and I feel you. I hope you get another season, a revival, or I hope you find something that you can love deeply again, or whatever it is you need to get you through the hard times.