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commrequest: popularculture (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by dead@hexbear.net to c/commrequest@hexbear.net

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popular culture

For observing and discussion of cultural phenomenon, entertainment, celebrities, internet culture, zeitgeist, etc.

Every newspaper has a culture section. The news comm doesn't like culture/entertainment articles. The chapo comm doesn't like stuff outside of the chapo subculture. People want the gossip comm to be closed. The slop comm is meant for screenshots of stupid internet posts.

Pop culture influences the way that people feel, think, and live their lives.

Pop culture would attract people to the hexbear instance.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bill Burr in recent times has said things in recent time that seem left leaning like support trans people and lifting the embargo on cuba, but also last year he defended land lords. In the 90s, he was pretty misogynistic.

Just a more recent example here too: Bill Burr, along with several other comics, went to Saudi Arabia to do comedy shows and were paid a lot of money for it. Bill got a lot of heat from his fans because he once said that Beyonce was taking "blood money" by going to Saudi Arabia and doing shows. He doubled down on his position by saying he was doing it "for the people", but also thinks comics shouldn't hold their tongues, but was able to do that just fine after being paid a shitload of money and being provided a list of band topics directly from the Saudi Prince.

Before this, there were all his remarks about killing billionaires and yata yata yata. None of this stuff is "news" but it 100% is pop culture.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, and I should say, I'm also interested in helping mod this comm, unsure if that's something you're interested in too (you should!).