I find it laughable that you think that geeks weren’t exactly as messy about every fandom update. 25 years ago Star Wars caused public meltdowns. I was there, where grown men cried, in public.
Yeah there was no shortage of people acting like the Star Wars franchise had been utterly ruined by the prequels and the OT special Edition back in the day. Same thing is happening now with the sequels.
It’s true what people say, “nobody hates Star Wars as much as Star Wars fans”.
“You Star Wars fans sure are a contentious people”
“You just made an enemy for life!”
They were the same as they’ve always fucking been, you’re just older and have a better capacity to both notice it and be tired of it, so now you see it more and have a bias because of that.
Before the internet was big we had shitloads of counter monkeys hanging out at the comic shop willing to do either one and sometimes both of these to anyone who would, or had to, listen - with the most likely person being the dude working at the comic shop. Nerds have been doing this shit over comics alone for decades.
One could argue that it’s the same nerds. The difference isn’t generational, it’s the forums for discussion. Modern platforms offer more validation (in the form of echo chambers) and monetisation in response to over-reacting to this kind of stuff.
Yeah, I did start to mention that possibility. The meme doesn’t really specifically state that it’s a new crop of people, and I do actually suspect it’s a mixture of older nerds who have gone insane and newer nerds who started out insane.
I’m sure if the internet existed at the time, there would be plenty of things to find on the wayback machine of nerds in the 50’s complaining about DC taking away Superman’s exhaustive list of super powers and making it a more manageable, consistent set. Or turning Batman from a light-hearted detective series into whatever it is today.
I hate canon debates.
“So which of these two adaptations actually happened?” …NEITHER of them. They’re fiction, man. Even most writers are making it up as the go.
The only difference now is that we have a medium that can instantly spread our view across the globe
Okay boomer.
So many bad commas
72 percent of them were on purpose.
Who cares about canon, just make your own. Star Wars episodes 7-9 are not canon for me.
That’s nothing new my friend.
Yes! Equestria girls is officially canon. Fucking deal with it.
But the board said 2277!!!
…what?
Where are you seeing this kind of reaction?
Is the complaint that young nerds nowadays can’t figure canon out or they whine about it more?
It’s not about “figuring out” what’s canon. It’s this hand-wringing, “b-b-b-but is it canon or not” bullshit. It is indeed the whining that I’m talking about.
I have only watched the first episode of the new Fallout series, but apparently there’s some kind of inconsistency, between the timeline of the games, and the timeline in the show. As I said, oldschool nerds would have been like “HMMM, BEING A SMART PERSON, I NOTICED EVERY TINY THING THAT WAS CHANGED. FIRST, DID EVERYONE ELSE NOTICE EVERYTHING I NOTICED? I BET YOU DIDN’T, BECASUE I’M VERY VERY SMART AND MY KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORE KNOWS NO BOUNDS.”
Then they would all argue about whether the version of the timeline in the new TV show or movie is good or bad.
But these kids now…they just start whining and screaming. Todd Howard literally had to make a video statement, confirming that the game timeline was not being retconned.
Nobody used to do that. It’s cringe shit, man.
I guess I blame Disney for going out of their way to ostentatiously obliterate the Star Wars expanded-universe canon, in a very insulting and apocalyptic manner. And Marvel for pushing the idea that the film timeline is the “official” one.
But it’s still cringe to get so bent out of shape. Be a judgmental, picky, annoying nerd, all you want. But at least have the decency to be smug and superior, rather than an irritating little pussy.
Canonicity debates? Laughs in C0da
