is having nostalgia for all sorts of 80s and 90s games, movies, shows, etc.
and seeing it manifest as brand worship at conventions, online discourse splitting hairs over details of the latest installment of a franchise, fans getting so excited to be drip-fed trivial fanservice with no heart of its own that it succeeds anyway
feeling the dissonance between some of your communities condemning Netflix's vocal pro-transphobia stance and others evidently willing to look past all that to promote their new scrimblo cartoon for them (unpaid)
and looking at how these are all 20+ year old properties
and just saying to yourself "...this should've been ours by now."
and cursing the name of Disney
I feel very strongly that 20 years is perfect. That the media you grow up and influence you becomes the media you can grow up to make art about. Things that you grow up with are no longer a part of your cultural upbringing, which you can can then remix and play around with, and refine... Nah, now a corporation owns a part of you until the day you die.
And yeah of course you can take your influences and launder them, but why gives corporations a free ride to own culture, sucking money as a vampire? You made your money. Heck, you can STILL make your money. But back the fuck off of the people your "intellectual property" was crammed onto.
