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Unreality
I think this has died down over the past week, but a recent trend on Tumblr has been to create movie posters and fan art for Goncharov, a film noir crime thriller that doesn’t exist. The concept is vaguely this: a heist where everyone is beautiful and dangerous and gay.
What is the history of the Goncharov fad? It doesn’t really matter, since social media moves so quickly that the meme began and will be forgotten in a matter of weeks. Sort of like Squid Game, I guess.
What does have staying power is the ability of people to get extremely upset about harmless fan art on Tumblr. Case in point, it recently came to my attention that I am walking on very thin ice above a horrible abyss of discourse.
Specifically, people have been getting in heated arguments over how Goncharov posts are tagged. If you don’t tag a post or reblog of this meme as “unreality,” this is apparently offensive and triggering to people suffering from psychosis. Content creators who have no experience with the mental health community obviously don’t understand what’s going on, which has created less of a conversation and more of a flame war. In effect, whether or not you tag anything related to Goncharov as “unreality” has become a virtue signal. That's wild.
I’ve also started to see various artists who create tarot-style drawings include disclaimers on their art saying that they do not approve of real-world monarchies, even if none of the actual arcana are mentioned or referenced in the art. I don’t even want to know what sort of fandom discourse is going on there.
It’s been really nice to see a beautiful outpouring of art on Tumblr since people returned to the site after the Twitter debacle, but I also get the distinct sense that a finger has curled on a monkey’s paw somewhere.
What is the history of the Goncharov fad? It doesn’t really matter, since social media moves so quickly that the meme began and will be forgotten in a matter of weeks. Sort of like Squid Game, I guess.
What does have staying power is the ability of people to get extremely upset about harmless fan art on Tumblr. Case in point, it recently came to my attention that I am walking on very thin ice above a horrible abyss of discourse.
Specifically, people have been getting in heated arguments over how Goncharov posts are tagged. If you don’t tag a post or reblog of this meme as “unreality,” this is apparently offensive and triggering to people suffering from psychosis. Content creators who have no experience with the mental health community obviously don’t understand what’s going on, which has created less of a conversation and more of a flame war. In effect, whether or not you tag anything related to Goncharov as “unreality” has become a virtue signal. That's wild.
I’ve also started to see various artists who create tarot-style drawings include disclaimers on their art saying that they do not approve of real-world monarchies, even if none of the actual arcana are mentioned or referenced in the art. I don’t even want to know what sort of fandom discourse is going on there.
It’s been really nice to see a beautiful outpouring of art on Tumblr since people returned to the site after the Twitter debacle, but I also get the distinct sense that a finger has curled on a monkey’s paw somewhere.
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