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Our culture has been seized by theater kids (hexbear.net)

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There’s a difference between someone who’s an actor and someone who’s distinctly a theater kid, just like there’s a difference between someone who’s a musician and someone who’s distinctly a band kid, and the theater kids seem to be taking over our media institutions lately. Nobody on the current snl cast seems like a normal person with a good sense of humor - they all feel deeply sheltered and siphoned through private schools and theater camps. It’s more about taste than theater in particular too - I can’t judge people for caring about drama as an art form, but too many new celebrities and comedians seem like they can recite songs from wicked and hamilton from memory.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There’s a difference between someone who’s an actor and someone who’s distinctly a theater kid, just like there’s a difference between someone who’s a musician and someone who’s distinctly a band kid

you just don't know what these people were like in older generations. these same institutions were producing the same kinds of professionals for the industry long before you were born. it's more difficult to recognize some geezer was an enormous nerd because their reveues are even older. Bruce Willis is a theater kid but instead of Wicked the man knows Bing Crosby shit

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Such a good observation.

And it's funny how the theater kid era of creatives turned out to be just as riddled with sleazebags and abusers as the earlier generations who just didn't need to mask their negative behavior so effectively because society hadn't yet progressed as far in terms of recognition of why the various vectors of abuse are bad (avoiding the censor bot by being vague but I mean there's just as manyremoveds and racists) and how to recognize those behaviors and the sorts of personalities who tend to commit them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

yeah now youve made me think of joss whedon who is the avatar of shitty theater kids and he's dominated pop culture for a couple of decades at this point

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

He's like a third generation screenwriter as well so no one could be normal growing up like that

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Good point I was thinking of a couple of cartoon dudes but Whedon is a perfect example.