currently on 9-2, probably shouldn’t recommend this podcast to those who enjoyed homestuck
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“This podcast helped me understand why people would ‘hatewatch’ something. This series is at once insufferably conservative (in that a-lot-of-elitists-in-academia-are-white-men sort of way, where ‘fandom’ and ‘young people’ are poor unfortunate shoals for not viewing media in the way ‘professionally trained critics’ do) and genuinely enjoyable (I think the segues into fboyisland is absolutely hilarious, which when examined with the fact that I’ve read homestuck, says something depressing about my sense of humor).
Apparently fanart is not as interesting as ‘good comics panels’ because characters are Just There? Wildest take on fanart I’ve ever heard. What an overgeneralization. Apparently “the girl who’s only there to be the object of sexual attraction” is a fake concept that Fandom (not specified) has made up, and the examples for this are Harry Potter and The Hunger Games? Of all things? (This is a carbon dating test, isn’t it, and the test came away with ‘you haven’t read anything published in the last twenty years and you don’t want to’. I get it, you don’t like marvel movies, you’re Different From Other Girls.)
This isn’t to say that the two academics running this podcast aren’t funny, respectable people who dive into great discussions on the constructive elements of a silly webcomic. This is simply to say that despite their willingness to acknowledge and criticize misogyny, transphobia, ableism, and other discriminatory static that is wedged in the seams of a webcomic produced in the 2010s, they themselves are still the product of a time when literally anything that a teenage girl was involved in was considered laughable. They would fit in better in a classroom than in a fandom discussion.
I’ve written a review before on this podcast, and in trying to smooth over whatever criticisms I had (because I hate-like this podcast, and when the creators tell me to leave a five-star review to support the podcast, I follow the instructions like the ‘little-sucker-who-has-read-homestuck-before’ I am), I came off as insufferably passive-aggressive. So this time I’m choosing to be straight-up insufferable.
One of the creators of this podcast was an antifan of homestuck, and the other doesn’t enjoy media made for people who were born after 1998. (This is an arbitrary number I’ve chosen because I’m a tyrannical reviewer like that.) The absolutely incredible thing about this podcast is that while they are criticizing Andrew Hussie for being over-sensitive to viewer feedback, these podcasters are also sensitive to their own listener feedback. If you don’t understand that the ‘genuine incredulity at gullible fans who liked homestuck’ is not at all an attempt to belittle fans who enjoyed homestuck, then you just don’t get the joke. If you can’t divine that this specific opinion wasn’t meant to be taken as an offensive jab at how some people can get excited at media and fan-content, then you don’t have the Objectivity required to become an Academic. Whatever, bro. Academia be racist anyway, and most of the tenured professors are nearly as old as congressmen.
So yeah, this is a bad-faith review. My pre-existing biases about the people who say these kinds of things about fandoms and fan-creators are heavily influencing my perception of this podcast, much like how the views of the podcasters are influenced by their own personal biases. Someone needs to leave a three-star written review on this podcast, though, because that’s what reviews are for: to leave incredibly personal opinions on a piece of media that no one wants to read. Maybe I will feature (again) in the breaktime-reading-of-reviews as that malicious idiot who keeps reading (sorry, listening) to homestuck (podcast). The Bad Listener, perhaps.
The structural organization of the summaries is incredible, by the way. Gotta love that timeline-edit stuff.”
CaliAmy via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/01/22
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“This is the only way I will ever get any modicum of context for when my irrevocably Homestuck friends talk about this thing.”
IggyD.42 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/09/22
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Archimidias via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/22/22
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“Do you ever have those moments where you think to yourself “maybe today is the day I re-read Homestuck” or “you know what, I think it’s time to go to grad school”? Well for me, this show provides a momentary relief from impulses like that.”
Window Sloth via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/17/22
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