From the anals(sp) of rank, lying stupidity:
I think the image first appeared online under a caption saying “If Disney made this alternate universe Star Wars film, all the fans would love it” or something like that. Which is stupid, of course, but even worse out of context.
That was my reaction. The Democrats? The woke liberals? Antifa?
Just to clear things up from the horse’s mouth:
Apparently Elon isn’t alone on this one - “Vader was the good guy because he fought the Deep State” is apparently the latest galaxy-brained obsession of the terminally online chudosphere, right along with (checks notes) …drawing Draco Malfoy as an anime waifu?
Damn, these people are weird.
Oh, god, Malfoid … don’t remind me. Certainly a great hebe-detector, though.
Come again? The only definition of that word that I’m familiar with is a somewhat disparaging word for Jews, and I don’t think that’s what you were going for.
In any event, there’s something fitting about these self-proclaimed “alpha males” simping for a teenage boy who was groomed from the age of 8 to be a decrepit old man’s lackey, costing him his friends and family in the process and leaving him a physically and mentally broken man trapped in a life support machine.
From Hebephilia, I’m assuming. Wikipedia lists it under other uses.
What @Tamerlane said. Hebephiles are pervs who have a preference for young teens.
The one RW perv zealously promoting Malfoid that I’m most familiar with is Shadiversity (Shad Brooks), a middling Ozzie swordtuber who pivoted hard to Mormon-flavoured RW bigotry and AI art advocacy (and also put out a truly horrible fantasy novel featuring a self-insert protagonist who is a genocidaire and serial rapist of teenage girls.)
TIL that the guy who made those videos about historical medieval weaponry would have been used like 10 years ago or so is now a chud.
Yes, the weirdness goes in directions you’d never expect.
Though genderswitch fanart AND sexifying ordinary characters are both a longstanding tradition in various fandoms (and the hebe angle is totally on-brand in otakudom) , OTOH the chuds’ embrace of gender-switching specifically one of JK Rowling’s characters is oddly amusing.
You know how I know I am getting old? When I read a dozen posts about recent “pop culture” (I don’t know what else to call this) and don’t understand the bulk of it.
I don’t understand the previous comments but am I to take it that these folks are fucking weird? Maybe Walz was onto something…
Yes, definitely weird. They fetishize the literally fascist bad guys not only from Star Wars but also from history.
Musk, in particular, never demonstrates more than an adolescent, surface-level understanding of any of the pop culture he consumes or references or engages with the ideas or concepts in anything but a puerile fashion.
But I’m not sure how “recent” it is when it’s based on pop culture from 20 years ago. But I get it. Things from a quarter century ago still happened in a year starting with ‘2’, which can’t be right.
Recent as in terms like:
Genderswitch fanart
otakudom
swordtuber
malfoid
Shadiversity
Genocidaire
Anime waifu
Not the Star Wars part.
That’s not a term, it’s a media brand.
That is a term that has been in use for 30 years.
Get off my lawn!
Dammit, you saw right through my garden gnome disguise.
What it says, gender switch(ed) fan art.
One of the many YouTube subcultures like GunTube, DebateTube, HomesteadingTube, this one being, mostly, dedicated to weapons of the pre-gun age.
Don’t worry, if you dig more than surface level, you’ll find that his ‘knowledge’ of HEMA was being dunked on 10 years ago by people actually interested in the ‘H’ part of Historical European Martial Arts.
TL; DR: he’s always been a chud, but he used to confine it to being wrong about medieval weaponry while being an overweight larper trying to ‘prove’ that a double-ended dildo lightsaber sword would actually have been an effective martial weapon just like Darth Maul used just like his D&D character used.
Man, it’s almost sad we’re talking about Shadiversity now. He’s a moron, but at least he’s not a moron with $900 billion dollars.
At least 40 if not 60 years old; quick and dirty is ‘otaku’ (lit. “your home”) roughly transliterates as ‘nerd’ or ‘geek’ and was used derogatorily before being claimed as a badge of honor. Otaku - Wikipedia
Might actually only be a quarter century old. It’s just anime (Japanese animation) + the Japanization of the loanword ‘wife’ into something pronounceable by native Japanese speakers, waifu. Waifu - Wikipedia. And yes, there are husbandos too.