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The Black Pilling of the Masses

Every once in a while, I like to lower the velvet rope and give regular readers a sample of my premium material. Today’s post previously appeared as a Patreon and SubscribeStar exclusive. If you like it, please consider subscribing. My cherished neopatrons and I were discussing how corporate studios’ refusal to make products normal people like is black pilling the masses.

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More Millennial Than Millennials

This blog’s ongoing project to beat the boundaries of forgotten generations has drawn a surprising amount of interest. Especially posts dealing with Gen Y and Millennials. You would think these observations self-evident, but Madison Avenue has consigned these cohorts to the memory hole since they’re not longer profitable to ad targets. Also against expectations, the Gen Y category has made…

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Wizard Clip and the Reverend Prince

High strangeness enjoyers have had to endure a bit of a wait since our previous true tale of the paranormal. Today the wait is over, and fans of the weird and the miraculous alike will agree it was worth it. This account has its beginnings in the same era and region as the United States of America. Which, given the religious demographics of that time and place, makes this essentially Catholic…

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Sanderson Is Not in Audible

Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson has established himself as the king of neopatronage with his record-smashing Kickstarter campaign. And while his secret novels project earned him four times more than his publisher pays him, the oldpub gravy train turned newpub mogul has a beef with an industry player that’s not Tor Books. It’s Amazon audio book subsidiary Audible. Related: The Bravalanche…

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Two Adventures Across Eternity

One of the biggest hurdles that newpub authors face is a lack of promotional support from influencers who are nominally on our team. That’s why I make an effort to do what I can in my corner of the internet to boost likeminded writers’ signals. In that spirit of professional fraternity, it’s my pleasure to amplify this exciting news from newpub author and friend of the blog JD Cowan…

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The Nostalgia Jukebox Effect

Nostalgia for pre-Ground Zero pop culture is a subject that comes up a lot on this blog. Pining for the awesome 80s and rad 90s is such a defining feature of Generation Y that this cohort is almost solely responsible for the glut of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles retro action figures and G.I. Joe pre-faded tee shirts. Ys based their identity on the entertainment product they consumed in their…

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Who Killed Rock and Roll?

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson may have been rather tame and boring in hindsight. But in retrospect, it turns out that he did make at least one true observation. Rock and roll is in fact dead. And it died right around the time he was signing about its demise. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll be familiar with Cultural Ground Zero theory. In its simplest terms…

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Teen Drug Overdoses Double

The mental, physical, and spiritual health crises facing American young adults and adolescents took a massive turn for the worse in 2022. According to the New England Journal of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rates of teen drug overdoses doubled compared to 2018. Related: Millennials – Depressed and Disordered Related: How We Can Help Millennials…

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Millennial Hall of Mirrors

Talk to Millennials long enough, and they’ll turn the topic of conversation to their preferred pop culture brands. Discussing these corporate IPs with them for any length of time will give you the definite impression that this generation doesn’t just consume these entertainment products, they project themselves into them. To anticipate the objection, members of every generation indulge self…

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Ratioing Internet Atheists

It’s Friday, so to lighten the mood from the heavy topics we’ve been covering this week, please enjoy the following highlight reel of me ratioing internet atheists. It all started with this piece of circular cringe: The natural response was, of course … To be honest, I’d intended that meme as a fire-and-forget response that I thought might get a dozen or so likes.

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