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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2024-09-23 06:44 pm

[ SECRET POST #6471 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6471 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2024-09-24 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
There's a couple things going on here.
One is that a lot of professionally-made, widely-distributed stuff is in fact just bad. (So is a lot of non-professional stuff, but that stuff is less likely to get constantly shoved in your face and widely criticized by smart people.)

Another one is that it's a lot easier to criticize something, and even come up with ideas for how it could be better, than it is to actually make the better thing (which most good critics will readily acknowledge!) The creators can very often criticize their work just as accurately as Random Blog, but they're the ones who have to deal with the realities of following through.

And another one is that one person with a social media account is one person. They might be a really smart person! (they might be a terrible person who is wrong about everything, but if so, you hopefully wouldn't be reading their blog.) Anything mass-published is made by more than one person; even a book by a single author is going to have editors, publishers, and agents poking at it, and a movie or TV show will have hundreds. Your odds of getting dozens of people working together to average out as good as that Outlier Smart Critical Blog are pretty low! (They probably average out better than a couple dozen randomly selected critical blogs, though. there's a lot of bad media criticism out there.)