Not talking about how good or bad it is, not talking about how much you like or hate it, talking purely in terms of "has had the largest measurable affect on making the world as a whole worse".

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Not talking about how good or bad it is, not talking about how much you like or hate it, talking purely in terms of "has had the largest measurable affect on making the world as a whole worse".
Nah, I'm talking fictional media, not straight up fake news stuff like that. Like the way you can look at the MCU or better yet 24 and measure their evil
I want to say the Matrix, just for how everybody is now red/black/whateverpilled and how it gave the weirdest guys a vocabulary to talk about their wacky conspiracy theories
Yeah, but idk if that has anything to do with The Matrix itself; more just, if they hadn't latched onto that one they would have latched onto a billion other things since it's just vocabulary. Not ideas
I think for the 4channers and other alt right nerds it's more than vocabulary, they definitely misinterpreted the movie to their ends and see themselves as the cool hacker who sees behind our fake society (none of this is the fault of the movie or it's producers obviously)
Yeah, I just... Comparing it to say, something like South Park which had a similar effect on the vocabulary of terrible pieces of shit but also had so much ideology for them, idk if it can hold up
Fair points tho
Does something like law and order count if new eps kept happening after it was already established as a presence before the 21st century?
☢️- Probably the least unique answer, but yeah honestly the MCU. The sheer scope of its reach is almost unfathomable; you can almost always guarantee that someone you meet, no matter where they are from in the world, has seen at least seen something from it.
In terms of culture, The Avengers. The movie itself is pretty good. But. It was WAY too successful and lead to everyone poorly imitating Joss Whedon's style of dialogue. It's also convinced movie executives that everything should be a cinematic universe. So now Disney is over-harvesting Star Wars, you can see Amazon gearing up to extract maximum value from Lord of the Rings, and so on. It consumes the talent and resources that would otherwise go into a wider variety of stories, it rewards executives' natural risk aversion, and it reduces the stories that do get told to an bland Extruded Genre Product.
In terms of effect on the broader world, 24 being used to justify real world prisoner torture.
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Edit: haha, should have read the earlier comments
I've hammered on this drum before, but I still think that MST3k inadvertently taught a lot of people who thought they were very smart that laughing at every tiny fault in a piece of work is funny. Then that attitude created shit like AVGN and Nostalgia Critic, and as a whole poisoned the field of humor in ways we still cannot fully escape.
Probably Idiocracy, like, the movie is straight up eugenics. It’s responsible for a ton of allegedly liberal nerds advocating for outright genocide and publishing hogshit like “why idiocracy is secretly the most realistic sci-fi movie”.
I know u already specified fiction but i still wanted to recommend the new If Books Could Kill podcast, which focuses on exactly this, if you were interested in that kind of discussion but for non-fiction books. So far they have covered Freakonomics, Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell), and The Game (book about pickup artists).
I personally knew several people growing up who joined the military and were super into Call of Duty as a kid. I don't think it's a stretch to say that it's related. The franchise is probably the worst example of US Military propaganda for children