His obnoxious need to be relevant and not accepting of reality is imposing, but in a negative way.
Warhol / Chris Chan: The Lifespan of American Pop Culture, or The Suppression of Reality -
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At least he's happy
It's decently written, but from the way it's written (lots of nice, academic-sounding prose signifying nothing) Don seems to have to really reach to substantiate his thesis, which indicates it's probably not a good thesis and Chris/Warhol aren't really comparable.
For example, from the excerpt Chris posted. Don seems to be making a comparison between Warhol's fairweather fans in the art world (who embraced him then rejected him just as fast for the next trend) vs CWC's a-logs/trolls who also have tried to "distance themselves from him"/"deny and protest that they ever stood near his positions". But the situations are completely different: Warhol had a genuine if fickle audience who embraced his philosophy of art, not trolls or a-logs egging him on to provoke a reaction and soothe their own insecurities.
IDK much about Warhol but the whole thing comes across as a real logical stretch, a shower thought that should have been a locked thread on the CWCki forums in 2011 instead of a book.
Well, one has to be incredibly autistic to compare two to begin with. I mean, how many people know about pop-art and how many know about Sonichu?
Do you know how bad athletes troon out to get into the women's league and destroy everyone there? I think, this guy is just using Chris instead of HRT.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. For an English PhD of his age the guy's output is pathetic...he's Kengle but an intellectual.
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Some dude was so desperate for Chris Chan content they wrote a book to stroke his ego and to get him to slowly morph into Warhol.
Ambitious play, but let's see if it pays off.
Ambitious play, but let's see if it pays off.
We have finally reached post post post-modernity
Literally and metaphorically.
Which one of you weens published this?
All manner of ridiculous nonsense gets published in humanities academia. At least this is entertaining rather than a load of impenetrable bollocks.
Lotsa bored shut in people this last year.
Or, Godbear help us, Jimmy Savile. Oodle-oodle-oo!
This is probably the happiest (smug) he's even been since getting it on with Mia Hamm.
So it begins.
(yeah, dug this up for petty ego-stroking reasons)
I reckon once he dies or goes inactive for whatever reason, he will just transcend his status as niche internet sideshow and become enshrined as some sort of cultural/zeitgeist by-product. Our interest will certainly fade eventually as there will be no more comedic value left, but I can almost see the mainstream-ish media thinkpieces, papers and dissertations trying to dissect not Chris Chan's condition, behaviour, psychological profile or whatever this time, but his allure as an enduring real life Truman Show (or something along those lines) instead from a media studies/cultural anthropology or related field standpoint.
So yeah, Chris's relevance is prolly not going anywhere for a while. It will just switch foci
(yeah, dug this up for petty ego-stroking reasons)
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