screwthisdumbcrap [none/use name]@hexbear.net to writing@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 years agoHow do you kill a genre?message-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareHow do you kill a genre?screwthisdumbcrap [none/use name]@hexbear.net to writing@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
Seriously, how? They’ve been trying to kill of superheroes for years (Watchmen, the Boys) but nothing seems to stick.
minus-squareneebay [any,undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoa genre does not die when it has been well satirized or thoroughly deconstructed a genre dies when those who control the medium believe that genre will not make enough money anymore
minus-squareFakename_Bill [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoWell yeah. I don’t think anyone here thinks the satire itself is what kills a genre. When a work of satire becomes a cultural phenomenon and no one can take the genre seriously anymore, it stops being profitable.
a genre does not die when it has been well satirized or thoroughly deconstructed
a genre dies when those who control the medium believe that genre will not make enough money anymore
Well yeah. I don’t think anyone here thinks the satire itself is what kills a genre. When a work of satire becomes a cultural phenomenon and no one can take the genre seriously anymore, it stops being profitable.