commrequest
Community and moderator requests and nominations for unmodded communities.
No bulk requests. That means one comm request per post. This is so we can sort out their interest individually.
Community request posts with enough upbears and a volunteer for moderation willing to submit an application will be created during mod drives.
Hmm we do have individual comms for movies, music, games etc. Is there something a general popculture comm would provide that they don't?
Popular culture is constantly changing. It is not rigid and doesn't fit into a box. I would like for the comm to be a place where people can post entertainment/culture events that are interesting to them, but not necessarily news stories.
I don't know what entirely will be posted inside the comm because pop culture is changing. A lot of pop culture today is internet related.
example:
Ben Cohen (cofounder of ben and jerry's ice cream) is a pro-Palestine activist. He's been arrested at multiple pro-palestine protests.
Roger Water of Pink Floyd is another activist for Palestine.
Pedro Pascal (actor) wore a t-shirt in support of transgender people. It said "protect the dolls", with dolls meaning transgender women.
Ishowspeed (internet celebrity) did the tour in china which was promoted by the China's government.
Ms Rachel (internet celebrity, makes children's shows on youtube) advocated for Palestinian children. This past week, she did some modelling in fashion magazines.
It doesn't have to be good things. There could be dunk threads. example:
Jerry Seinfeld being a Zionist and donating money to Zionist students on college campuses.
Quentin Tarantino lives in Israel. Thom Yorke lead singer of Radiohead is massively Zionist.
REM (90s rockband) did a fundraiser in support of US/cia propaganda.
More recently, the halo game soundtrack guy is in support of ICE. Dr Phil went on ICE raids. The actor of 90s superman went on ICE raids.
The comm could contain things that are ethically confusing.
Like the beef between Bill Maher and Larry David. Bill Maher is nonreligion and a Zionist and very islamophobic. Larry David is Jewish and doesn't speak much about Zionism, but probably Zionist. Larry David wrote an essay which compared Bill Maher to a Nazi after Bill Maher had dinner with Trump.
The pope's brother is a chud and met with Trump and traveled with JD Vance to meet with the new pope. This pope is supposedly not a chud.
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.
Elon's transgender daughter, Vivian Wilson is kind of a radical liberal. She said something about hating tankies. Also it's funny because she talks shit about Elon.
Luigi Mangione recently said that he's listening to music by Taylor Swift and Charli XCX (musician who made brat album, like brat summer) in prison.
These are just some examples that came to my mind now. These are things that are culturally relevant but also don't fall into a specific category of entertainment. Also many of these things are not relevant to the chapo subculture.
I also don't want the comm to be limited to things that I think are interesting. I'm sure that someone else will post things into the comm that I might think are not interesting. I don't understand what "girlypop" is.
I am open to suggestions.
I'm sure some person is thinking "Isn't pop culture vapid and like a waste of time?" or something like that. Some of it, yes. However, each user should only post things that are interesting to themselves. Only upvote and post on things that you think are interesting. Then the vapid things will fall out of the algorithm if posted at all. Or you can block the comm.
I actually voiced a similar request in the thread about slop/gossip. I think a pop_culture community would be an actually enforceable scope. Places like r/fauxmoi are an example of fairly left-leaning popular culture communities.
Damn, that's a good answer
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.
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!).
Hey I'm going to take this comment and turn it into a "What is this comm" post. It's a good outline of what the comm should contain.
This is my main question, too. And if yes, is there a more specific comm or set of comms we could open to fill the gap?
Would you be interested in moderating it?
If c/gossip gets closed , we could just reopen it and make it to be about popular culture
I never liked the name gossip. c/pop_culture is more descriptive and a much more neutral term than gossip.
We could change it to c/gossip & popular culture
In some interfaces and apps for Lemmy, the display name for a comm is not visible, so it would just show up as c/gossip. I wish there was a way to force a name change on a comm instead of just deleting it or locking it. I get the desire to want to preserve the existing comm and its subscribers. But people who were subscribed to c/gossip might just be interested in posting shit takes from Musk and Co into the Slop comm and might not be interested in talking about Taylor Swift's relationship status.
But that's why the distinction is good. c/slop is like the low effort version, where we can take obvious shit takes, regardless of who they are, and post them to catharticly point and laugh. c/pop_culture would be the place for people invested in the more interpersonal aspects of popular culture or long drawn-out dramas between people (think the Hasan vs Ethan drama for example)