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[–]lunarstrain 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Fetishism and consumerism.

You're a teenage girl and you get off on fictional gay men, so much so that you wish you were one, and that has become a foundational part of your sense of self due to weirdo internet leftist ideology being so hortative of make believing and deviancy. You're also very into fandom and because young people are overwhelmed with how much content is easily accessible and not encouraged to develop any meaningful skills, including socially, or hobbies outside of media consumption, what you're currently consuming is also a significant part of your sense of self and how you relate yourself to others.

This is how you end up with an unholy marriage of these two aspects that borders on a manifestation of some kind of mental illness, that we are all forced to witness when we dare look up our favorite TV shows, books, and movies.

[–]LyingSpirit472 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don't forget some good old fashioned hatred: They hate their "other" so much, and they know their happiness is built into the media consumption, that if they take a character from the "other", they truly believe their "other" will never be happy again. After all, that's what would happen if you did it to THEM.

[–]OuroborosTheory 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

that's why I call them teenyboppers: they JUST discovered horniness, met up with others who have, and it's channeled through a fandom that itself is created as a commercial product

also why I just sigh now when a 17-22-year-old bangs the drum about how "now we know about the truth about Issue X and anything else is not just unacceptable but objectively wrong"; they flip-flop so often that by 2024 we'll be at radical feminism and "I don't see race" again

because of the Ouroboros

[–]SerpensInferna 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is a very insightful, concise explanation of something I've been struggling to put into words. Thank you!