How do you feel about the people trying to get Brooklyn 99 cancelled or arguing that people shouldn’t like/talk about it (or presumably other cop shows)? I think the cop propaganda bit is silly, but do worry that by supporting cop shows I’m supporting the police, something I very much don’t want to do
Look, I am a big fan of trash crime procedurals, like the CSIs or NCISs, all the way back to Starsky & Hutch and before. I love that shit.
B99 is a weird sitcom that happens to be about cops. It’s a moronic choice of target if the objective is social change…
…and a great target if the objective is social power within fandom.
If Tumblr fandom actually cared about cop shows being fascist propaganda, they’d go after NCIS, which is, by some measures, the most popular show on the planet, and which intentionally and overtly caters to a very mainstream pro-cop, pro-military US mindset. Shows like that have a lot of power to reinforce the status quo and thus some measure of power to challenge it. I thought it was a fascinating and positive development that we got Instinct, which is this same trite genre, but with a gay lead.
Yelling at a bunch of tumblr-ites who already hate the police for watching a show with a bunch of POC and queer characters is pointless. Zero political change will result.
Weaning Middle America off of ultra-fascist flavors of NCIS and inserting some black lives matter messages into mainstream cop shows might actually do something to change voting behavior. Might.
Ultimately, I have to question what “supporting the police” even means in this context: Not thinking that literally every cop is a monster? Not thinking that we can do away with modern law enforcement entirely? Viewing cops as interesting enough to be heroes and protagonists of fiction? Failing to performatively hate cops on the internet?
It’s not like individual cops know you’re watching cop shows, so to me, it seems like the theoretical propaganda effect on you is indeed the thing to worry about here. If that’s silly, then the whole thing is silly, and you should go back to watching B99 and not worry about any of this.
Sure, watching lots of law enforcement shows might give you a subconscious positive feeling about law enforcement, and maybe that’s a bad thing that you want to avoid. That’s very much a personal judgment call.
How much the propaganda affects you and which ways it affects you will have a lot to do with your own personal context. The whole planet watches our America Fuck Yeah superhero movies. Those things are at least as propaganda-laden as cop shows. Does it make most of the world feel warmly towards the US military? Ahahahaha. God, no.
So, sure, I think it’s worth thinking about how your personal media diet affects you–and like a food diet, one piece of junk food will not do much harm, and it’s about the sum total of what you consume–but this has to be undertaken by you yourself.
If you want to protest, go protest. If you care about change, vote. Donate money to activist groups. Volunteer offline. Don’t confuse this with personal mental spring cleaning and don’t let other people tell you they’re the same thing.
Tumblr, as usual, is conflating “Your fandom sucks! Talk about mine instead!” with political action. This is toxic bullshit. Block people who pull this.
Britney Spears invented anime in 2007 for her music video, Break the Ice, from her Blackout album. Anime is an animation style that exaggerates the size of the eyes and typically only represents the nose through its shadow. This animation style became incredibly popular in Japan, in part because the nation wasn’t large enough to provide the studio space required to create live-action films. Popular anime films include My Neighbor Totoro, Pokemon: The First Movie, and The Animatrix.
Britney Spears did not invente anime for shit you idiot. It was created in the 1980s, please shut the fuck up.
no im pretty sure britney spears created anime she was actually a huge inspiration for the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion look it up
Fun fact: the first “anime” animation was created in 1907 and was called “Katsudo Shashin”. It’s about 3 seconds long of a boy in a sailor uniform writing on a chalkboard.
Besides, anime was around a LOT longer than what Britney created. :/ Do your research on the history of anime.
no britney’s was the first
If you seriously say that fucking Britney Spears invented anime, you need to get other internet connection besides tumblr and whitegirlsarealwaysright.com because I think that’s where you are getting your dumb-ass information.
britney spears invented anime and in fact founded japan
Everyone who says Britney invented anime, please kindly shut the fuck up. Do your fucking research, bastards, and stop being ignorant.
I can’t read but the vibes this post gave me was that Britney Spears invented anime and it’s true
