this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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A Boring Dystopia
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I'd like someone to call out for once how most media "for adults" nowadays is, by default, extremely violent and sexually explicit... call it the GoT phenomenon.
To be clear, I'm glad that media is no longer bound by the puritanical and often hypocritical FCC standards, and that subscription cable like HBO and streaming networks like Netflix have freedom of expression. But now everything aimed at adults, it seems, is also rated for adults. Where are the emotionally/intellectually mature stories that are also fun and joyous? That there are adults singing along to KPop DH in theaters as the article mentions shows that there's clearly an untapped market here (imagine a similarly bright and flashy movie with catchy music but also a decent plot? How popular could that become!). The article also calls out cozy games and other "childish" things... How much of this is because of arrested development vs a desire to engage with entertainment that isn't a deluge of blood, sex, and misery?
I'm sure some of these people genuinely enjoy their childish media because it's childish, but many are just trying to engage with something bright, cheery, fun, and not reminiscent of the nightmare that is reality.