a white guy wearing a beanie that doesnt cover his ears just told a girl at a party that he hates “three hour black and white european films about the horrors of war” and was instantly teleported to hieronymus bosch’s garden of earthly delights where a demon thats just two human legs and a carp’s head has begun breaking him upon the wheel
Cringe culture is not dead, unfortunately.
See, here’s a perfect example.
Someone just decided it’s cool and normal to bully total strangers based on an overheard snippet of conversation, and we’re all having a good laugh because of course That Guy Must Suck.
Why must he suck?
Well, a total stranger looked at him, disliked his hat, and heard him mention that he doesn’t like a genre of film famous for being depressing and difficult to understand.
Ergo, he must be unsalvageable.
But it’s fine, to disguise how this is just calling someone cringe for attention online, an overly florid reference to the western canon will be provided.
That’s the same as Not Assuming Other People Are Despicable because Their Hat Doesn’t Fit, right? Referencing historic artists is the same as compassion and basic decency?
There are plenty of random white boys with shitty film opinions that they use as a disguise for eg racism and sexism but that isn’t what happened here.
Go read it again.
What happened here is a bad hat and a bit of filler dialogue you’d hear in the background of a TV show were turned into justification for shitting on a stranger for fun.
its not a joke that actually happened its in news. they havent let him come home hes still up on the wheel
I went to Bosch’s garden yesterday and he was still there