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DAE feel a bit out of the pop culture loop using Lemmy as their primary social media? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I love interacting with you all very much, and I know there's a lot of important political issues in the world going on right now. I love my Linux Mint setup, I support Palestine and trans people, and I've blazed through all of OG Star Trek, TNG, Voyager, and am now on DS9.

But I also want to discuss Luka to the Lakers and Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile and getting 5 Grammy's, a tour, and a Superbowl halftime show out of it, you know? I wanna talk about your country's Eurovision entries. Am I just not in the right communities?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Even when I was still on Reddit, I needed a friend to explain to me that Funko Pops don't do anything - you just have them.

So really I think it's just me.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I think this is a problem with the Fediverse in general.

Search Kendrick Lamar on BlueSky and it's filled with people celebrating it, breaking down different aspects of the show, and making memes. Search the same on Mastodon and you get news articles about the show and the occasional personal post. A majority of the posts have 0 engagement on most of the posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

There's indeed only one post on [email protected] with 25 votes and 0 comments

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only when it comes to hearing about new games. For all the people I see in random non-game threads that mention games or get game references, there's next to no activity in the game-related communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I feel that. I find it funny that the retro gaming communities here are more active than the regular ones lol, unless a big gaming company does something shitty (as they are always doing).

I once thought about making a post about how funny it is that Godzilla, the embodiment of the horrors of nuclear war, and Hatsune Miku are now in a game doing the griddy together. But then I realised I didn't want to get absolutely roasted for playing Fortnite with my friends every now and then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if there should be a more generic pop-culture discussion thread to get it started. I know I enjoy a few aspects of pop-culture and would like to discuss. If you start it people will join

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is what I'm kind of thinking too, like a r/popculture chat, but less related to celebrities and more about general non-political happenings. Maybe I'll message my instance admin and see what hosting something like that entails.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Well if you host it people can join.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Not your admin but I suspect you can just go ahead and make the community. It’s part of the default lemmy kit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You don't need to ask, just create it! You may need to use the web interface to do so. I've never tried to create a community using a mobile app.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

OP, this is a pop culture reference. Your lemmy account will now be revoked. 🔫 Hand it over

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I find that I see memes here about a week before my wife shows them to me (presumably from reddit)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The memes here are definitely in 3008.

But you can't really...discuss a meme, if you know what I'm trying to say (sorry I just woke up). In my post I gave examples of world events as my "pop culture". I'm not really discussing memes around a water cooler, you know?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

There is [email protected] for USA news without politics.

Not sure if there is anything similar for world news.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is a bit mean. Just because I want to talk about the WEIRDEST trade in the modern NBA (that has collusion vibes all over it), doesn't mean I am vapid and shallow.

I volunteer a lot in my community and mutual aid spaces, and things have gotten a lot worse since the pandemic. Talking about so called "vapid" social topics is how a lot of us avoid burnout.

Also if you watched Kendrick's Superb Owl performance, saw the message he was trying to portray about black empowerment, how ANGRY the establishment MAGAbros are over it, and still think of it as mindless drivel...maybe you're part of the problem.

Things don't have to be academic to matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I do miss /r/NBA. But I also miss my local NBA team being good. 😄

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Agree with you. Sports and pop culture should have their places.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

God forbid people enjoy light hearted and mindless entertainment. Do you think they must be focused on whatever you think is important all of the time?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t know about that.

Pop culture allows people with a voice/audience to have their say which influences the cultural zeitgeist.

Take Kendrick Lamar since I’m a huge fan and OP mentioned him specifically.

In 2018 he earned a Pulitzer Prize for Music, making history as the first non-classical or non-jazz artist to win. The Pulitzer board praised the album Damn for its “virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African American life”. Essentially, the album was recognised for its deep storytelling, social commentary, and innovative musical composition.

It’s incredibly reductive to label all pop culture as mindless drivel. When if you look, there are actually many artists who have a message to spread and are socially conscious.

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