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- Dec 19, 2024
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"It's not enough now to just act like the world is a big goddamn magical mess and we all just need to live in the freakin moment and appreciate the little things. Hazel cut his penis off (spiritually, if not actually)."
"Hazel is not succeeding as a bright and earnest white man who loves media. He's succeeding as a cool quirky big sister figure next door who wears baggy hoodies and has a cool collection of PSX games and anime on old VHS tapes."
"Do you think that perhaps the new wave of media literate video essayists are in fact not an embrace of personal subjectivity and idiosyncratic, but instead the strongest rejection of the validity of personal experience in the history of online culture? Are you watching personal accounts of the past? Or are you watching revisionist historical narratives spun from on high, sweetened with sentimental narrativisation through personal proxies, who are either presented as relatable, mentorly, or idealised fantasies?"
"Transsexuals cope with their plight by narrativising their past life history in the light of new recieved context. An individual tranny video essayist is doing this for themselves. All of them taken together are doing this to the world."
"Hazel exists to tell you that 4chan used to be a radical punk anarchist leftist space that was queer as heck and old internet culture was all about living in the moment hopepunk lo-fi-ing your penis off."
"The defining experiences of actually being better than everyone else are negative. They are rage. Frustration. They are having actual hard answers to serious questions which do not degenerate into soft puddles of sentimental pseudo-romanticism."