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The number of “how woke is this?” threads on the MovieChat board are becoming exhausting.

posted 2 years ago by JakeSWITCH (504)
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It feels like every new film or TV series has at least one thread complaining about “wokeness”, which is constantly bumped to the top by baiting, attacks and long, paranoid diatribes.

I wish MovieChat’s moderation team would prune these types of posts back a little. While a lot of people might engage with the site via squabbling (that’s the nature of the internet, I get it), it doesn’t add anything constructive to the forum. It’s just negativity.

[–] mikethemartian (6287) 2 years ago

Whenever I start to hear lots of people starting to use the same word or expression (whatever it is) it makes me think how well propaganda works.

[–] BillHicksFan (10251) 2 years ago

More annoying than the corny joke threads?

[–] db20db (16573) 2 years ago

Yeah, it's very one-dimensional. It seems to be all about punniness.

[–] AndyKing1967 (35099) 2 years ago

At least corny jokes are harmless fun.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (73751) 2 years ago

I quite enjoy the corny jokes…puns and silliness are often very fun

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12898) 2 years ago

Go yell at GuyHaines, he's the one who keeps writing those.

[–] CraigC (7391) 2 years ago

Some folks would like to know ahead of time so they can avoid the woke crap. Moviemakers usually try to surprise the audience with it so you don't find out until after you've wasted your money. I used to try to overlook such messaging but I'm growing increasingly intolerant of it and avoid it if at all possible.

[–] moviechatterer (14184) 2 years ago

I used to try to overlook such messaging

i think thats your best bet . just ignore it .
its no big deal
you'll miss out on good movies otherwise .
Theres a lot of of other wayts a movie can be shit , so why add to that list ? you limit your choices

[–] CraigC (7391) 2 years ago

Some things are impossible to overlook.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (6931) 2 years ago

Yeah, they're excessive these days. Everyone can have their opinions, but for so many opinions to be the exact same mundane spiel is weird and boring.

[–] Stratego (29550) 2 years ago

Not as exhausting as the whining posts from the resident troll every time woke is even mentioned. Talk about negativity...

[–] AndyKing1967 (35099) 2 years ago

Which troll are you referring to?

[–] Stratego (29550) 2 years ago

The one with dozens of sock puppets who whine every time woke is even mentioned.

[–] AndyKing1967 (35099) 2 years ago

I’m guessing they flame specific film and tv boards rather than GD?

[–] Stratego (29550) 2 years ago

Hmm, some of his socks are also active over here.

[–] AndyKing1967 (35099) 2 years ago

PM me if you like, so that I can keep an eye out/avoid them.

[–] Stratego (29550) 2 years ago

Meh, there's too many of them and new ones constantly pop up. I've just learned to live with the trolling.

[–] AndyKing1967 (35099) 2 years ago

Fair enough - I’ll just look out for posters that regularly use the ‘w’ word.

[–] moviechatterer (14184) 2 years ago

perhaps the “how woke is this?” thread on every movie is a good thing.

Then all the hate and mysogeny can be contained in there and not infect the other threads for that movie.

A bit like wikipedia's "chicken page" idea .

[–] blue1981 (6989) 2 years ago

Sadly it’s a part of modern pop culture in which the message is more important than entertaining.