It’s impossible to know because fandom is pretty nebulous. In my experience, it’s full of lesbians. Like a woman going ‘omg i’m gonna write my new female friend m/m porn omg she’s so cool oh god it’s a crush oh god now we’re married’ is an actual cliché in many areas of fandom.

FWIW, the genre is not really called ‘yaoi’ in Japan. And while the patriarchy is at least a motivation for some female m/m shippers, the situation is a bit more complicated than that.

There is Third World environmentalism but it’s not really the same as First World environmentalism because the main thing here is that our environment gets fucked up so that richer countries can enjoy the benefits while we get stuck with the cyanide in the water. So environmentalism is part of leftist platforms and…

I just realized it’s kinda odd boba tea isn’t popular here, uh.

She picks those colors because of an Air Force T-shirt Monica is wearing.

In fact, at least some have been stolen art! Because anybody can create a NFT of anything

I know. I’m from a Third World Country, so it’s even more infuriating. This is the reason our countries get exploited? They create as many CO2 emissions as my entire country does for this shit? Seriously? If I had read this in some 80s cyberpunk novel I would have thought it was too dumb.

Of inactive home devices that are in stand-by!

That and outright lies, like the bits about internet copyright. Internet copyright works fine - the problem is copyright enforcement. That’s not a meaningless distinction, ffs.

It’s a false binary. You can support artists and not buy NFTs.

You can get those signatures! You can even pay them (a lot less money) for them to make a piece to your specifications. Hell, you can even buy signed prints!

It also very purposefully ellides the many digital artists who have been critical.

Other critics cite the massive amount of energy it takes to mine cryptocurrency, but according to the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance, “always-on but inactive home devices in the USA” consume as much energy in a year as Bitcoin would in 1.7 years..

Well, the inspiring tone of that part where Carol changes the colors of her uniform from those of an imperialistic, war-mongering political entity to those of the US was really funny as a non-American.

Movies and music is art as well and it has value

It’s also a way to move assets and money laundering, iirc, but yep. At least the original tends to be there at the end!

Physical art is not endlessly reproducible in the same way: we can both own a print of the same painting but they’re not the painting itself. They will age in different ways and five years later, your print and mine will be notably different. Whether or not that justifies the value we add to ‘the original’ is a…

... actually that’s not what it is. Digital media is already copyrighted, by the same old standards non-digital media is copyrighted: if he had taped that on video he’d have the exact same rights over his work. You have copyright over your work the second you create it (if you can prove you created it, that is).

Do try to explain pyramid schemes to him eventually. And the enviromental costs of NFTs.

I wouldn’t presume to speak for all Latin Americans, let alone everybody who has been in this position, of course. I did see African critiques of Wakanda pan-Africanism and some thoughtful articles engaging with it as specifically African-American fantasy. But there were probably people who disagreed with that.…