Media literacy
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>WHAT DO YOU MEAN "THE CHARACTER ISN'T REAL AND WON'T ACTUALLY KILL THOSE BIGOTED NAHTZEES"?? YOU'RE JUST HECKIN MEDIA ILLITERATE, YOU STUPID CH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCKKKKKK!!!
Media literacy is the ability to understand deep and complex themes in media, such as that "nazis are LE BAD" or that "angels are biblically accurate". It is a phrase beloved by many breeds of pseudo-intellectuals, especially YouTube video essayists. Media literacy is most commonly mentioned in discussions of this week's troonslop, although people sometimes like to bring it up when talking about books that have already been dissected 20 thremtrillion times like 1984. If someone uses this term unironically, (you) can safely disregard their opinion though.
Common Talking Points[edit | edit source]
Death of the Author[edit | edit source]
An excuse used by these people to say their interpretation of the story is the correct one and the original creator's actual intentions don't matter. They usually do this if the creator was a heckin bigoted and problematic person that said controversial stuff.
Fictional character agrees with me[edit | edit source]
When a redditor or xitter user makes a post about how their favorite cartoon or comic book character will definitely support xis political ideology and hate ICE; Or how a show is actually a deep social, political and philosophical commentary about capitalism being le bad. They do this because they're unable to enjoy a piece of media if it doesn't validate them 24/7 apparently. It's part of the idea that "all media is political".
"Queer-Coded"[edit | edit source]
"Queer-Coded" is a buzzword used by media-literate troons and fags to claim random characters are actually gay or trans despite there being zero proof of that, but they still call those characters "gay icons" and will send you death threats if you say their headcanons aren't official. This is almost always done in cartoons for cacas and media that doesn't have any gay themes, since they desperately want representation in places where there is none. Another example being those long video essays where they claim the show/movie/game's story as a whole is an allegory for dysphoria, HRT or pronouns or something.
The "evidence" they have to confirm the characters are fags are always the same mental gymnastics
- The two characters are friends, this must mean they're a couple
- Over-analyzes scenes that were clearly made as a joke
- The character sometimes acts like a gay stereotype (same people that say stereotypes are le offensive btw)
- Every woman with short hair is a dyke or a pooner because tomboys don't exist apparently
- The character's gender is unknown? this must mean they're nonbinary
- Male character voiced by a woman (or vice versa)
- A lot of times they don't even give any reasons, they just want to insert their porn fantasies into the characters
- It's my comfort character, so they must share my problems
Also, if there's something in the series that contradicts their headcanon (such as the character being in a straight relationship), they will dilate and write walls of text saying "Nooooooo they only added that because muh heteronormativity, le queer erasure"
Media-Literate Individuals and Groups[edit | edit source]
- A24 / James Youniverse
- Notejak (see picrel)
- Redditors
- Trannies
- YouTube essayists
- Analog Horror fans
- Wikipedians
- Pop-Science enjoyers
- Me
