Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid - welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard. Also celebrating my birthday on Friday)
Eliezer 'I am the author, and I am above tropes' Yudkowsky has an entire page dedicated to tropes associated with him on a bootleg TvTropes website
The "Your Mileage May Vary" page even gets in a sneer!
Yea verily, he is almost as smooth at this as I am at inserting references to The Romance of T'Lyn and Beckett Mariner.
They got another (unintended) sneer on another page
Also, advertising your own fics in other people’s comments is massive loser behaviour
Seems like Yud saw fanfiction as an arena he could advertise in and recruit from, not a community he was participating in. Hence he used all the tricks to get as many hits and reviews as possible.
What If: A Chick tract was 600,000 words?
This view on the community also explains his recklessness not only with aggressively monetizing HPMOR, but also his willingness to risk drawing JK Rowlings attention to his fanfiction (towards the end of HPMOR, one of his author's notes was looking for someone to reach out to her).
Rowling (and Warner Brothers) have been litigious with their IP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_disputes_over_the_Harry_Potter_series#Other_accusations_of_infringement . So this was a reckless move on EY's part, possibly indicating that he doesn't appreciate the delicate place fanfic (and its communities) are in.
Edit: thinking about the way Rowling has shown her true face over the past decade... "with all profits accruing to a UK charity" makes me wonder if in whatever fantasy universe Eliezer did talk Rowling into allowing published fanfic to be monetized for "charities", that money would all end up going to TERF "charities".
Somehow, the people who write stories where everyone just ends up in a giant fuck pile are both less vain and more dignified.
@scruiser @maol What on Earth did he think Daniel Radcliffe would have been able to do?
Well put.