Better title than Velma: "The Animated Cosplay Adventures of Mindy Kaling"
The current trend of badly written derivative content is traceable back to the successes of Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey, which showed investors that fanfiction authors writing self-insertion dreck should be treated seriously. The social justice mind virus captured the fanfiction community (and geekdom generally) largely through Tumblr around the same timeframe, spreading through the subculture of geeky creatives just as geekdom was shifting into mainstream.
We are travelling down Lore Sjoberg's Geek Hierarchy, created in 2002. I predict Furries to be the next geekdom to go mainstream, with the same Social Justice ideological capture.
At least Twilight and 50 were first attempts at adaptation from print to visual. Such misses go back to the beginning of film. This rewriting of well-established visual canon is a whole new animal.
I'm speculating, but this is what appears to have happened:
Twilight & 50 Shades led to industry taking fanfic portfolios seriously.
Now fanfic authors have jobs writing scripts.
Rewriting well-established canon and self-insertion/Mary Sue characters are longstanding hallmarks of fanfic writing. What was fanfic geekdom is now mainstream writing across creative industry.
I before E, after SEE?
Thanks for the report. I don’t keep up with a lot of “Pop Culture,” so, things like this save my time.
Better title than Velma: "The Animated Cosplay Adventures of Mindy Kaling"
The current trend of badly written derivative content is traceable back to the successes of Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey, which showed investors that fanfiction authors writing self-insertion dreck should be treated seriously. The social justice mind virus captured the fanfiction community (and geekdom generally) largely through Tumblr around the same timeframe, spreading through the subculture of geeky creatives just as geekdom was shifting into mainstream.
We are travelling down Lore Sjoberg's Geek Hierarchy, created in 2002. I predict Furries to be the next geekdom to go mainstream, with the same Social Justice ideological capture.
At least Twilight and 50 were first attempts at adaptation from print to visual. Such misses go back to the beginning of film. This rewriting of well-established visual canon is a whole new animal.
I neglected to connect all the dots.
I'm speculating, but this is what appears to have happened:
Twilight & 50 Shades led to industry taking fanfic portfolios seriously.
Now fanfic authors have jobs writing scripts.
Rewriting well-established canon and self-insertion/Mary Sue characters are longstanding hallmarks of fanfic writing. What was fanfic geekdom is now mainstream writing across creative industry.