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Recognition (slrpnk.net)
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[-] [email protected] 117 points 1 week ago

Well, Shakespeare is known for his writing. Do you know every face of every writer you like? Sonic is a character, not a writer. Weird comparison.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

Glad I'm not the only one. I was just thinking, "I have no idea what Shakespeare looks like," other than the caricature of him they do in TV shows.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

The only author whose face I would reliably recognise would be Rowling, and that's because she's constantly in the news for being a hateful Terf. I haven't read any of her books.

I'd probably recognise Pratchett as well.

But yes, I'm not sure what you'd expect.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Not sure I'd recognize Rowling outside of context, but I'd definitely recognize George R. R. Martin, despite never having read or watched anything he's made. He's got a very distinct look.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Well he does look like a writer. If you just saw him in the street and didn't otherwise know who he was your general assumption would be that he was some kind of writer or artist.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

He really does, now that you mention it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

You'd probably recognize Steven King also, but yeah the list is extremely small for everyone

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

You never know for sure if its King or Koontz tho.

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[-] DakRalter 8 points 1 week ago

I think my first memories of seeing Shakespeare's face was on a credit card hologram? The only image I can find is this:

stock photo showing credit card holograms, one of which is Shakespeare

But maybe it's a false memory.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Looks like a bird to me...

... Sorry, couldn't resist.

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[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago

“The younger generation recognizes 100+ Pokémon but almost no domestic bird. “

Yeah, most birds don’t spout their own name constantly though. Imagine a dove yelling “Dove! Dove!” while shitting on your head.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Pretty much every native NZ bird is named after the sound it makes.

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In addition to all the other comments on how this is just Gen A hating on Gen A+1, it's pretty easy to miss possibly the biggest reason Sonic stands out: he's fucking BLUE

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Ngl I like this. A+1. Now do we go B+1 and continue from there or A+[1-255] first?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Only until A+F, it's obviously hexadecimal.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Also those new movies were a lot more fun than they had any right to be.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Time to make a really bangin' Shakespeare video game.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It should be a strand-type game.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that'll really capture the young audience.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is this purely a visual comparison of appearance or also work like “to be or not to be”

Or did they simply ask. “Do you know who x is” and take peoples word for it if they say yes.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

If you dug up shakespeare, I wouldn't recognize him either and I'm a millennial.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Sonic was designed to be recognized. He's a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who works in a primarily visual medium.

While Shakespeare excelled with the written word, I doubt he could crouch down and rotate his body more than a few dozen RPM without getting dizzy and needing a lie down or whatever British people do when they get overwhelmed.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

This might come as a shock to you, but I don't know what Michelangelo looks like and I don't think I would recognize him. I can however name all the most prolific furry artists of our time.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

This might come as a shock to you, but I don't know what Michelangelo looks like and I don't think I would recognize him

He's the one with the orange mask and the nunchucks

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

We have a handful of portraits of one, and hours of animated material of the other. Who do you think gets looked at more? If that survey was actually conducted that was a huge waste of time.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Holy shit, people are more aware of things relevant to the time they live in and the things they actively take part in than things from literally hundreds of years ago that are difficult to establish as relevant in a modern society because it has no tangible relevance to the current era?! THE CHILDREN ARE DAMNED!

Seriously, is there anything more to these lines of thought than a fear of being outdated?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

So funny when they try to present something expected as "see how the new generations are".

We only have one portrait which is likely to be of Shakespeare. It's fairly common on books and articles, but I wouldn't expect a casual theatre fan to immediately recognize it.
But I would expect a casual gaming fan to immediately recognize Sonic, even if they've never played any of the games.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I can't remember there was a Shakespeare videogame. But I played Sonic The Hedgehog from it's first releases.

I guess I haven't missed something.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Realistically, is that a bad thing? Who cares what he looked like. Plenty of people don’t recognize people like Socrates, DaVinci, etc. does it matter if people can recognize them?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

As there are exactly zero images of Shakespeare that can be considered genuine, it would be a miracle if anyone would recognize him. Some people might recognize the one or other portrait with debatable relation to him, that's it.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

as it should be. what kid is reading shakespeare?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The most common cut off I'm seeing for Gen Z is 2012, so by that metric they're at least 13 years old. I don't know about school curricula these days, but I'd say all but the youngest 2-3 years have had a decent chance of having Shakespeare as a school assignment.

[-] DakRalter 4 points 1 week ago

My niece is 9 (Year 4) and studying Macbeth. We didn't do that until Year 10, I think. We did Romeo and Juliet in Year 8.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

What's this obsession with Shakespeare ?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I think he was Robotnik's dad?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wtf is "recognize shakespeare"?

No one knows who he was let alone what he looked like. Some people suggest that it was even possibly more than one person.

Also his writing more or less sucks. Id rather go fast any day.

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