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  • I’ve been on both sides of that equation before!

    If I find a particular piece of media upsetting I just quickly move on and do not look again.

    But there is some media I engage with that I was disappointed by, but care about (whether because I enjoyed it by itself, or because it’s the sequel to something else I liked). I’m invested, so I bother to complain instead of just walking away.

    And it’s a lot easier to complain, and to latch onto other fans’ complaints, than to properly explain why I liked what I liked besides a quick “well this was nice”. I just don’t have enough knowledge to write 3 paragraphs on how they did it and why it works, only enough to say “I really liked X.” In my opinion and experience, it takes more knowledge to write a lot about the success of something beyond “wow this succeeded!” than it does to write about the failure of something and your quick guess on what went wrong.





  • Yeah, as someone who does not recognize this format it read as just a regular political meme (the stuff I enjoy seeing turn out to be not political on this sub, really not here for any actual political content even though I agree with this post). Hope this stays antimemes and not a “libs” “conservatives” political place where people try to dunk on each other with pictures; otherwise I might have to spin up my own version with hookers and blackjack














  • Elves, I’m pretty sure that’s two elf characters from Lord of the Rings, Legolas and whoever the significant woman one was (I didn’t really engage with LOTR so we’re lucky I know Legolas). And as far as I know elves vs. dwarves is a common fantasy trope, but not dwarven misogyny or homophobia.

    If you were making a joke, sorry! I could imagine myself asking that question unironically, but can also see how it could be a joke.



  • Friendly advice: if you are not in the mood for discourse and debates and political discussion, don’t check the comments if you know the regular version of the meme is often used to make political statements. I clicked on the comments for two antimemes whose normal version is often used for political commentary instead of just scrolling by and upvoting, not knowing what to expect. Found the expected sociopolitical commentary for if the regular version of the image was posted while extremely not in the mood for politics and just wanting a fun antimeme, and some of those comments made me angry, so I came here and typed this advice to use that anger productively (and also conveniently in a way that likely won’t invite conflict from anyone based on my views).

    Not sure if this is intended and allowed behavior for the community, and thus I just need to adjust my behavior to match my advice to get what I want out of it, or if this something the community maker did not want and it should be added to the rules and reported.


  • For what it is worth I do try to contribute with posts in communities I am in and I understand the challenge. I mod [email protected]. I mostly just post whenever I donate, which is bound to be very occasional because of the required donation intervals (2 weeks for platelets if I recall correctly, 8 weeks for regular whole blood) and what my own schedule can accommodate. I sometimes seek out scientific research on blood donation to post, but eventually I’m going to run out.

    Thank you for the long reply! I suppose I should post my funny internet images here again to help out, even if I am admittedly not too pleased with the seemingly-new direction (though better inspirational pictures I don’t vibe with than the depressing or political stuff that actually makes me feel bad).





  • Both. I want to exploit “underreact to things you are expected to have a big reaction to” and briefly considered becoming a 911 dispatch because being calm in a crisis is an asset as one. Nobody wants the 911 dispatch who starts crying in empathy and saying “I’m so sorry, that must be hard,” they want the one who sends them the darn emergency vehicles. But then I thought about how I might screw up and be responsible for a life in a more immediate, “your fault” way than in the ways I am responsible for lives and can’t opt-out of. And unfortunately, like most people who don’t have my “underreacts to crises” trait, I don’t think I’d be able to handle that weight too easily if I did cause an accident. Perhaps I would react more “typically” with guilt, even if I’d be cool as a cucumber in the moment, during the screwup, and while handling the fallout of my screwup. (Becoming a surgeon would also take advantage of this trait, but my guilt and personal responsibility would be even worse with a screwup, and I’d probably get sued for malpractice. And the more immediate issue: I’m so squeamish.) Like typical people I don’t want the consequences of that type of job, so sadly my “underreacts to crisis, cool in a crisis” trait goes unexploited for the benefit of myself and others. Except for the two (2) total times in life an emergency happened in front of me and I called 911.

    (What I mean by saying I am responsible for lives in a way I cannot opt out of: maybe I take a left in traffic onto an empty road instead of going straight, and 5 seconds later another car is behind me instead of getting the stretch of road to themselves like they would have if I just went straight. I stop at a stop sign and go on my way. This 10 second extra delay in their travel might be the difference between a speeding car hitting them or them being gone already. Without me, they would not have been hit, but you can’t really hold me responsible for something I had no way of foreseeing or controlling beyond this speculation that it could happen.)