I generally agree, but I think your second point is worth parsing.

I have issues with the frequency with which the entitlement argument or label shows up because I’m beginning to think that a good part of it is cover for what you could consider anti-consumer sentiment in any other industry.

If 2018 was the first time you ever encountered the concept of fandom, it was probably for something bad.

The algorithm is the laziest algorithm they could’ve implemented. People have been finding flaws in the algorithm since day one. Here are some of the stupidest findings.

I just hope whatever rises to replace Tumblr is a heck of a lot easier to navigate

Because it’s cheaper to just blanket ban badly than to actively moderate... or so they think till their user base largely vanished because it was the NSFW content probably keeping them afloat judging by how much of a negative vibe this ban has created.

Eh, if they reduced the fluffyness by 30%.

Considering all the fuckery that happened with Ivy’s cursed blood and the alchemical modifications she made to herself, she probably doesn’t even register as human.

You know, I’d imagine that 2B’s reaction upon seeing Ivy would be more akin to HOLY SHIT A HUMAN WHATS THIS I DONT EVEN

Yeah, I’m gonna take this report with a few grains of salt.

They didnt have to amplify it, the movie was pretty bad and disjointed, it was an average sci fi movie at best but really not a worthy entry into the star wars legacy.

That doesn’t change the fact that it is the worst of the revival films with a really stupid story. Bombs in zero gravity, one enemy ship attacked while the others just watch, Mary Poppins Leia, killed Snoke because ?, military leaders with no knowledge of tactics or protocol. It just goes on and on.

I’m pretty sure you can see russian bots in any sample of the twitter population.

It’s the Russians its all the Russians fault! Not the fact that the movie just SUCKED. My son was 10 at the time loved starwars and right after the movie ended turned and looked at me and said Dad that was HORRIBLE. He refuses to see solo and lost all interest in star wars....he must have been influenced by the…

Well, the movie sucked. dialogue was crappy, the plot holes too numerous to mention. but just because i didn’t like it doesn’t mean i have to go trash the actors. nor does other morons trashing the actors make the movie any more watchable. it was just a really bad movie.....

Bay’s study collected all of the tweets directed at Johnson

Oh man, this is so bad. This is one of those “studies” that was reverse-engineered from the headlines it desperately wanted to produce, because it’s just so shockingly weak. The big claim boils down to, out of a sample of 1,273 tweets, 16 *might* come from Russian bots.

To ensure that the dataset was not restricted by adherence to certain hashtags or so large that it would exceed my computational resources to analyze it, I chose to study to tweets addressing The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson directly.

Star Wars is infantile rubbish that America should have outgrown decades ago.  Just because it’s a Russian troll telling you this doesn’t mean it’s not true.

America, sweeping issues under a Russian carpet since 1947.