Slowly losing my patience with some folks who insist that every single bit of cultural conservatism present in online spaces/pushed from on high in niche internet spaces is purely the result of capitalism and nothing but
Like, no, there's other forms of power differentials and not everything's inherently economic. Sometimes that gallery website doesn't explicitly want to sell out to some nebulous investor(s,) sometimes people are just really fucking backwards!
"You see, the push against Pokemon with questionable proportions is purely capitalistic, as-"
Sometimes you actually have to let Dr. Weir hold your eyes open to witness the ravages of hell in order to know what you're fighting when you're beating him over the head with a fire extinguisher. As much as it sucks to look at The Discourse it helps to know who you're fighting so that you don't automatically assume everyone with the same professed labels isn't some bona fide ally