On the one hand, yes, it's great that there's something of a right-wing version of Borat exists, if only for the value of "turnabout is fair play" and allowing the wackjobs to demonstrate exactly who they are. But otherwise, if RW art is nothing but playing a weaker version of the left-wing media's strong hand in poker, the right will lose every time, especially if it just doubles down on the same MBA garbage ("incubators") stolen straight off LinkedIn that's currently built to maintain, grow, and sustain the existing media ecoculture. If it's true that "RW is the new punk/new counter-culture" then it needs to be doing counter-cultural things for real, yes that can partner with "normie" funding mechanisms, institution building and what not, but in order to overturn the current culture, which is still cosplaying that it's "nonconformist and revolutionary" you need something that genuinely is, which is only coming from the bottom-up.
What Matt Walsh is producing falls under "infotainment" category. They're sort of documentaries (most of the run time is just interviews with various people) and it's sort of informative as documentaries should be, but you actually nailed it right on the head—the movies he made are carefully crafted ragebait, because that's what gets people to watch, which is the same as Twitter and other social media. Ragebait generates engagement, and that is all grifters want. If we ignore such people, they will vaporize. The content they make is cheap and shallow.
Nice post, algorithm brought me here, and I shall follow
I've no idea who most of the staff DW are, and have long since lost interest in them. They don't entertain, they're not doing anything different from what say Nerdrotic has done but at least Nerdrotic is out there marketing July's work and the work of others like him.
Honestly, I've a lot more respect for those like Upstream Reviews (Just found out about you guys through this article) and Infamous Reviewer Gio who do actual reviews and such and are out there working damn hard.
And writing something passable is tough work, it ain't easy. Just as making a good movie isn't easy, but what we need is for DW and others like them to actually contribute entertainment, to contribute more than just complaints about the left and the globalists. Because at times it seems like those such as Walsh aren't anti-woke but alt-woke.
But the TL;DR is that there is no point trying to uphold the concept of "right wing art" if the institutional right continues to talk about it like a political issue, but refuses to treat it as such. If they aren't willing to play the field, to at least attempt at matching the left in volume, this whole shit-show has nowhere left to go. Indies twisting in the wind, new media institutions becoming old media institutions, and then everyone wonders why the media getting made still sucks.
Walsh and the DW seem to have egos and think they are the only ones resisting the Globalists. What I don’t understand is why won’t they link up with us Indies to help prop us up against the shared enemy.
PREACH, Graham; we cannot be undone.
Matt Walsh continues to look like the personification of a Soyjack trying to cover up the soy with a beard.
On the one hand, yes, it's great that there's something of a right-wing version of Borat exists, if only for the value of "turnabout is fair play" and allowing the wackjobs to demonstrate exactly who they are. But otherwise, if RW art is nothing but playing a weaker version of the left-wing media's strong hand in poker, the right will lose every time, especially if it just doubles down on the same MBA garbage ("incubators") stolen straight off LinkedIn that's currently built to maintain, grow, and sustain the existing media ecoculture. If it's true that "RW is the new punk/new counter-culture" then it needs to be doing counter-cultural things for real, yes that can partner with "normie" funding mechanisms, institution building and what not, but in order to overturn the current culture, which is still cosplaying that it's "nonconformist and revolutionary" you need something that genuinely is, which is only coming from the bottom-up.
What Matt Walsh is producing falls under "infotainment" category. They're sort of documentaries (most of the run time is just interviews with various people) and it's sort of informative as documentaries should be, but you actually nailed it right on the head—the movies he made are carefully crafted ragebait, because that's what gets people to watch, which is the same as Twitter and other social media. Ragebait generates engagement, and that is all grifters want. If we ignore such people, they will vaporize. The content they make is cheap and shallow.
Nice post, algorithm brought me here, and I shall follow
Well said, sir!
Well said, sir!
I've no idea who most of the staff DW are, and have long since lost interest in them. They don't entertain, they're not doing anything different from what say Nerdrotic has done but at least Nerdrotic is out there marketing July's work and the work of others like him.
Honestly, I've a lot more respect for those like Upstream Reviews (Just found out about you guys through this article) and Infamous Reviewer Gio who do actual reviews and such and are out there working damn hard.
And writing something passable is tough work, it ain't easy. Just as making a good movie isn't easy, but what we need is for DW and others like them to actually contribute entertainment, to contribute more than just complaints about the left and the globalists. Because at times it seems like those such as Walsh aren't anti-woke but alt-woke.
I'll put a shameless plug in for my X rant the other day: https://astounding.substack.com/p/the-right-cant-art-but-your-reasons
But the TL;DR is that there is no point trying to uphold the concept of "right wing art" if the institutional right continues to talk about it like a political issue, but refuses to treat it as such. If they aren't willing to play the field, to at least attempt at matching the left in volume, this whole shit-show has nowhere left to go. Indies twisting in the wind, new media institutions becoming old media institutions, and then everyone wonders why the media getting made still sucks.
Walsh and the DW seem to have egos and think they are the only ones resisting the Globalists. What I don’t understand is why won’t they link up with us Indies to help prop us up against the shared enemy.