well I don't care, it's equally boring as a spoof or a legit site. some of the quiz questions are a lil funny

10 Be honest: Have you ever gone on a rant about "authenticity," "narrative," or "love without strings"?

YES

NO

*steps off soap box* /rant

edit: sorry if this is your site. it's ok.

I kkick ass for the lord

cold war kids.....

Actually I could kinda see this just because I think the next step after hip irony is a kind of pastiche of sincerity. Like irony has always had a weird NOBLE SAVAGE thing going on with awful pop culture garbage where part of the fascination is the idea that other simpler (possibly farmer??) folk like this shit genuinely and that perhaps . . . we fell from grace . . . and that the way to become a better person is to wholeheartedly embrace that stuff too. This is a good example of what I'm talking about (don't read it it's awful) and so is that one David Foster Wallace essay where he suggests hightailing it back into the 19th century psychological novel as a response to smug Dave Eggers postmodern garbage. Basically it's just latching on to whatever dumb shit still has an aura of sincerity around it so you can wrap yourself in it like a snuggie and feel grounded and matured I guess. That website is a pretty good example in that it's generic hipster girls standing around in some kind of concrete box and then just vaguely namedropping bands and things while presumably deep soul-searching happens somewhere in the background.

uh this ended up being a weirdly spiteful post but I just really don't trust the idea of getting out of dumb irony shit by embracing even dumber and more reactionary garbage as a condescending way to BECOME COMMON MAN.

I went to a Christian private school for 5 years of my life. As a result, I don't have many friends back home because they are either

1) Dumb Italian kids who lived 40 minutes who wear fitted caps and act like idiots at clubs.

2) I'm a devil among the religious.

After attending "chapel" for 45 minutes every week, and skimming a few pages of the first chapter. I'm 100% sure this is real. I mean I've seen books being sold at retreats and shit about how Star Wars promotes and holds various Christian themes.

This kind of thing doesn't surprise me man.

it's like nathan barley for people with no balls

I might be like sort of not of this camp but I think the reason that pop culture sucks today is either internet or like that maybe people making movies/tv now are fairly well-adjusted people and we need more crazy unstable people to shake things up? (Tom Cruise Mel Gibson John Travolta etc. etc.) like JJ Abrams has he even joined any Scientology-type group? Has he crashed into any living rooms lately? Does he buy into the crazy conspiracy stuff on his shows? Does he hate people from iceland

I really do want to watch anything that just throws everything on the table about somebody's philosophy on life with no irony even if it's horribly racist or something

Edit: like we get this all-day kids channel now on regular digital tv and it's like little kids shows etc. and they all seem really nice like whoa maybe they finally put normal healthy people in charge of making children's tv shows but it's also boring as hell I wonder if this is really like the kids of today will still have fond memories and I'm just embittered because there don't seem to be any TERRIFYING moments (look out it's the wheelers) or is this a genuine feeling like it's just too cutesy and perfect and ends up being unsettling because it's sheltered or something

but yeah that's pretty funny looking to redneck stuff I guess for genuine culture? like that stuff is OUTSIDER now or what

Edit: it's probably been done a million times by everyone on the internet already but I hate all these NES bands NEScore etc. etc. like just trying to make stuff sound like a nintendo game look like a nintendo game I want to do something sometime that exploits the color palette/low resolution/PACING of things for terrifying/uncanny/bizarre effect. Like intense familiarity and unfamiliarity at the same time. Lol how did I get on that subject

Edit: Basically that fucking 600 AD theme from that pirate NES version of Chrono Trigger

Edit: like we get this all-day kids channel now on regular digital tv and it's like little kids shows etc. and they all seem really nice like whoa maybe they finally put normal healthy people in charge of making children's tv shows but it's also boring as hell I wonder if this is really like the kids of today will still have fond memories and I'm just embittered because there don't seem to be any TERRIFYING moments (look out it's the wheelers)

i think part of it is that there are almost no cartoons anymore, it's all real life hannah montana shit.  well, little boys have cartoons but there aren't many little girl or even neutral cartoons.  also there are no more superheroes (NO MORE HEROES (KEINE HELDEN MEHR)).  i have a real issue with there being a lack of cartoons for kiddos because cartoons are severely better role models for kiddos than actors.  sailor moon and hannah montana may both teach you importance of being true to yourself or your friends w/e but the difference is that sailor moon can't go outside of the show to date some grown-ass dude or turn into a mess like lindsay lohan.  they can't set bad examples unless they're written badly, and it's kinda a shame.  that's why i really like this new monster high franchise mattel made because a) it's cartoons and b) it's gone back to teaching li'l mini lessons every episode (i say episode but right now it's just a line of dolls and some short vids on youtube).  what happened to this?  you either had series that were pure entertainment or series that taught lessons every episode.  both were good.  now, there's just this bizarro middle ground where hannah montana (keep using this one because i can't remember the names of most of this shit) wants to teach you lessons, but really the only lesson i can see is GO LIVE A DOUBLE LIFE FOR THE SAKE OF FAME.

uh this is only a halfassed argument that honestly has nothing to do with this topic but i have felt very strongly about this lately so i am takin the opportunity to say it!!

there's still superhero cartoons around, and they're better than the old marvel ones from our youth (though nothing is nearly as good as the animated batman) just they're aimed more at older child-teen market more than kiddos, or are overly 'hip' like Teen Titans.

i like, can't imagine a child sitting down watching yo gabba gabba or whatever it's called, but i could imagine me watching it.

there's still superhero cartoons around, and they're better than the old marvel ones from our youth (though nothing is nearly as good as the animated batman) just they're aimed more at older child-teen market more than kiddos, or are overly 'hip' like Teen Titans.

teen titans was canceled in 2006, i'm talking RIGHT NOW

also nickelodeon doesn't make ANYTHING anymore

Yeah, It's "Yo Gabba Gabba, " I believe. And as long as lessons don't equal "Sailor Says" then OK.

sailor says was the best and

  I find Jimmy Neutron mildly amusing

you are a flawed human being

Yeah, and I mean like the girls in Totally Spies aren't superheroes but it's kind of the same thing. The series was over some time ago, but they released the movie last year. I haven't seen it yet so I don't know if it's as good as the series but I hear it's a prequel.

my (older) brother likes yo gabba gabba

theres no such thing as hipsters it doesnt exist

I liked Sailor Says back in the day too . . . I just have more interest in the original Japanese plot now.

wow really because i had the exact opposite reaction.  i took sailor moon very seriously as a kid and watched the japanese eps and w/e but as an adult all i wanna do is watch the dub.

also yo gabba gabba is in no way really marketed towards kids and idk why they pretend like they are, they have the fuckin aquabats and shit on there

I was flipping through the channels last night and saw them [for ][/for] dancing and possibly singing to a performance being done by the roots so yeah... I'm really curious to what their deal is.