Don’t You Know Who I Am?

A ton of times these high profile people will be giving a press conference or an impromptu interview to whoever and they take a ton of rapid fire questions. So many times someone will slip in a question like 'do you think the end scene was symbolic of the protagonists suppressed desire to felate their grandma wearing a strapon?' and they're like 'uh yeah sure I mean if you want to interpret it that way I guess' then move on. Then the next day you see stories like 'such and such actor said he wants to fuck his grandma' and then it spirals from there. I just ignore pretty much everything I read these days tbh.

Pearl Jam said they got their name from psychedelic jelly one of their grandmothers used to make. That seemed to stick for years. Later they clarified that it was just a joke but the grandmother's name was in fact Pearl.

My theory is that it only needs be true once on a TIL and then the rest of the internet will believe it to be true.

I did research!

Will no one think of the clicks?!

Well I’m convinced!

Source?

Her comment might even get deleted.

I’m really glad she didn’t somehow double down or get arsey about it!

A lot of people swear by this whole "death of the author" philosophy because it let's them ignore the literal stated intent of the author in favor of whatever pet theory they have. Which is fine, but you can't use it in a debate about theories about the work. There isn't a right answer to what you want to believe, but there often IS a right answer to what the actual author actually intended, especially modern authors in the age of information.

It’s probably just because people can be more openly gay now than they used to and they want representation in the media they consume. You couldn’t demand lesbian media without outing yourself before.

I might get a lot of flack for this, but I do think there is a growing want to be somewhere in the rainbow spectrum because it is seen as "in" right now. If you belong somewhere on that group you are more interesting, more special. At least that's the, subtle and sometimes not so subtle, sentiment I'm sentiment.

It is being pushed more and more in the media... this is a perfect example. Simply making up shit all to hook a certain demographic.

Back in the 80s, we had tons of tacked-on romantic interests added to movies for no good reason. Some action movie where the world is nearly obliterated, everyone you know is dead and a whole space army is chasing you - sure find a hiding spot and bang the girl you saved 2 hours earlier. Totally makes a ton of sense. These days certain people in the media are trying to push another narrative but it is just as tacked-on and cringy.

It is especially ridiculous when the characters and the movie have nothing to do with romance.

Not in my experience

The fediverse skews much more queer than real life does, so that may be coloring your perception

People love behind the scene movie facts. People also love subversive movie facts (see wizard of oz dark facts and rumors). People also love lesbians, so that's where these rumors come from.

we should tell them about pornhub

It’s a real shame that’s (yet another) community that has been created by someone with no intention of posting anything. That was one of my favourites and I’m tempted to create an active community… but I’m already the mod of 3 decent sized communities and 3 tiny ones. Lemmy really really needs content posters to thrive - even if they’re just stealing content from Reddit like I am!