I...need to rant a little. So today I saw a bunch of "alternative" gen z posers on tiktok trying to cancel freddy kreuger and blowfly girl (author of The Maggot Story) and I'm just kind of shocked at how utterly regressive and conservative many people in this generation in particular have become because of growing up with the corrosive influence, increased social pressure and inescapable scrutiny of social media during adolescence. That stuff is amateur hour, by the way. Wait'll they find out about Poppy Z Brite and shock sites and new french extremity films. Constantly calling millenials cringe while clutching your pearls over transgressive and subversive art that is a response to the utterly oppressive climate of purity culture, censorship, christofascist moral panic and sex negativity that many marginalized millenials and younger gen xers grew up experiencing as actual harm is crazy goddam work. But to go a full 180 and embrace that purity culture, censorship, and sex-negativity and then turn around and parrot christofascist moral panic is as unhinged as it is stupid, tone deaf, and historically illiterate. I guess that's what happens when nuance and context doesn't land for so a generation that is becoming increasingly less literate and largely can't be bothered to read or watch anything that takes longer to ingest than 10 seconds. And to be fair, we ARE cringe. I know good and goddam well that I am. I find it liberating not giving a fuck what you think about that, too. The thing about being perceived as cringe is that it actually isn't dangerous and it can't fucking hurt you. This constant performative outrage must be so fucking exhausting. I know I'm exhausted with it. It's my sincerest wish - and this is coming from a leftist lesbian swer with green hair, tattoos, and piercings - that a lot of these woke motherfuckers would just go back to sleep. Or do what we did. Log off, get fucked up, get laid, break an unjust law or three because it's the right thing to do, and enjoy some tawdry smut and grotesque filth and some subversive art made in exquisitely bad fucking taste with your shithead friends just because you can. And maybe read a goddam book and touch some grass while you're at it.