LateMechanic
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Rian Johnson definitely exhibited a gigglesneering contempt for the existing audience, but I'd doubt that this was mostly about trying to wake people up to how star wars was always dumb. The trolling theory needs to also incorporate that Johnson literally inserted deliberate random 'mansplaining' and 'manterrupting'/'bropropriating' scenes in TLJ with no narrative purpose, from Poe & Finn against new female characters (so it wasn't just Luke he wanted to take down a peg).
To anyone who missed it, this kind of stuff was in the air from ~2015 era inane 'white feminist' complaints, before feminism went intersectional which was found to be a sturdier shield against mockery. RJ slightly missed that timing by the time TLJ came out, so it was doubly embarrassing to put this inappropriate 'chud-owning' in a giant-budget star wars blockbuster.
edit: actually found the manterrupting clip, from the plinkett review
LateMechanic
27d ago
Strangely after reading that, I want to get Michael Crichton, Michael Crowley, and Michael Conklin in a room together to hash it all out.
If you search youtube for "obama royal guard", you'll find hundreds (or more?) of variations of similar fictional LLM stories combined with generative images and video about an emotional meeting supposedly between Obama and a UK guard. The multiple channels keep pumping them out day after day. Most have less than 100 views, but one has over 100k views. The variations are now spreading to try different figures like JD Vance and random other royal family members I think.
I'm assuming a bunch of clickbait ai slop is like this, trying things constantly until something hits, and I only know about this one because my elderly neighbor started weeping as she recounted this beautiful story about Obama to me (though admitted she knew there was 'some' AI involved, in the pictures).
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