In a now-deleted tweet, fellow blogger Alexandru Constantin made a comment like this regarding culture (this isn’t an exact quote; I’m going off of memory):
Be cooler than the opposition. Men on the right need to drop the anime, stop touching themselves, and fucking lift. Complaining about SJWs, comics, and Star Wars is lame.
There’s a lot to unpack here. While I agree with him overall, I disagree on some of the details.
Be cooler than the opposition.
On this, I agree. You have to be more appealing. You have to present yourself well. People have to want to emulate you.
[D]rop the anime, stop touching [yourself], and fucking lift.
I both agree and disagree with him here.
Where I agree: Don’t waste time on unproductive activities. Physical fitness is good — your health is of supreme importance. Lifting is very good exercise, so it’s not a bad idea.
Where I disagree: Being an anime fan isn’t a bad idea. Far from being uncool, anime is extremely trendy and mainstream; one will not be shunned for enjoying it. The key here is to be socially adept, but that applies to all people, not just anime fans.
Complaining about SJWs, comics, and Star Wars is lame.
On this, I completely agree (Yakov Merkin, another friend of the blog, goes into greater detail on this topic.) While critiquing current trends is important, critique isn’t enough. We have to act on the critique and create high-quality works more to our liking. Most of the critics continually give attention to established brands while ignoring up-and-comers due to clickbait being more monetizable, especially on YouTube. These social platforms encourage fast content, like critiques, over slow content, like original works that may take months or years to create.
As a result, people trying to counter current trends with new content wither on the vine while the bad mainstream content gets more attention than ever.
Part of the issue may be that there’s so much new stuff that one can’t cover it all, and also that the people making this new stuff will flood inboxes with requests for critiques. To that, I’d say to just pick something anyway and go from there. Not every work needs to get a spotlight, but the public has to know that there is a movement to create content that doesn’t kowtow to SJW ideology. They don’t need to know about everyone’s indie novel, but the internet’s various niches need to know that novels (and other works) that cater to them exist. The mere chance of being featured on a prominent YouTube channel will motivate non-SJW content creators to step up their game, lifting all boats.
Alexandru has good ideas here: be productive, maintain your health, and create instead of complain. However, when creating culture, non-SJWs need to meet audiences on their level and produce things that entertain people. Disdaining popular taste is precisely the mistake many SJWs make when they take over a brand, and we need not make that mistake here.
