• PattyMcB@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    Uhh… aside from superman (which i haven’t seen and can’t speak to) most of those are fairly “woke”

    Not that I have a problem with that.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.world
      OPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      The point is that they’ve always been ‘woke’, and it’s insane that people think that ‘now’ they’ve changed to ‘become’ woke.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    482·
    6 days ago

    Star Wars: Fighting space Nazis

    Superman: protecting people from Lex Luthor; evil billionaire

    Star Trek: Post scarcity society where all humans are treated as equals and nobody “gets” to be a billionaire (Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism)

    Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once

    Marvel: “Evil is bad, how about let’s not genocide” (ignoring the billionaire worship w/ Iron Man)

    X-Men: always been an allegory for LGBTQ+ and disabled folks

    RATM: I mean, it’s in the name.

    Starting to see a theme here hmm

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    343·
    6 days ago

    If by “woke” you mean scientific intelligence, reason, truth, honour and compassion, then I’m all for it.

    • Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      5 days ago

      Doesn’t woke just mean being aware of issues in your society?

      I don’t really see what scientific intelligence has to do with that tbh.

      • queueBenSis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        61·
        5 days ago

        not specifically scientific intelligence, but more so trusting the scientific process that has been developed over centuries, and not refuting all scientific claims that conflict with specific political motives (i.e: believing that climate change is real and heavily influenced by humans and that we should stop polluting == woke. not believing in climate change because Big Oil lobbies ethically compromised politicians that then tell their constituents that climate change is a hoax; being one of those easily manipulated people == anti woke)

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      5 days ago

      We can legitimately level a lot of hate at Hollywood and a large swath of “content creators” online for escalating the very idea of “woke” into positions so delusional or terrible that I’m still not convinced it’s not just psyop all the way down. They made the idea of progressivism and social good seem cringe, socially out-of-touch, ham-fisted and unrealistic.

      I’d love to see less “recast famous story in new races for controversy and profit” and more original stories that show actual struggles that various groups face because of their ethnicity or other identities. (I’d love to see a superhero movie that goes after corrupt healthcare company CEO’s but someone already tried to make that story on their own.)

      They shot themselves in the dick for the express purpose of creating drama and engagement while trying to appeal to their mental image of “liberal america” in pursuit of profit, not ideals.

      Honestly, the new Superman movie is a bit of a breath of fresh air, it delivers a powerful social message without falling into the tired tropes and doesn’t sugar-coat it, you know EXACTLY who they’re targeting and who they represent. But they’re also not trying to pander to both-sides. They kept Superman consistent to his values and showed that bad things are in fact, bad. And bad guys exist and are bad. (And they’re usually the wealthy elite.)

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    5 days ago

    Movies and TV shows are modern art forms, and as such are created by artists.

    Artists have almost always been politically left of centre, usually wildly so.

    Video games have likewise been ‘woke’ for a long fucking time too - but don’t you dare try to make that point to GamersTM.

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    331·
    6 days ago

    Well yeah, they’re all woke now. They used to be woke before too, but they’re still woke now as well, as they should.

      • Denjin@lemmings.world
        151·
        6 days ago

        Woken was first used in the 1930s to encourage black Americans and other minority groups to be aware of the prejudice and discrimination against them by white Americans.

        It’s more like the term hadn’t become a catchall phrase for the right to dismiss all forms of injustice without having to engage with the actual issue.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          3·
          6 days ago

          It’s especially pathetic seeing European right wing politicians use the phrase. It’s always fun to challenge them to define it because they can’t.

  • AlexLost@lemmy.world
    14·
    5 days ago

    Little babies getting their feelings hurt. If only they could read and understand that woke is a form of being awake/aware and their self owns by making fun of it is blatantly hilarious. Only the media and the right get all up in arms over woke, the rest of us just call it reality.

  • ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world
    202·
    6 days ago

    They can’t grasp that these things have not changed, but they joined the bad guys so their perspectives changed. They can’t see the billionaires gilded puppet strings manipulating them.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 days ago

    I reckon there is right wing propaganda to normalise vitriol and de-empathise the public to pave the way for full fascism. Many of these accounts complaining about supposed wokeness are probably bots.

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
      20·
      6 days ago

      graphics person here - so what you want to get is krita or gimp, krita has better UI, gimp is more versitile. Or photoshop if you feel like uhh, borrowing it from adobe (don’t give them money they have enough)

      • put them meme into the software or your choosing

      • now if you can find a tool that says something like “healing” “spot healing” “patch” or “clone stamp” you can use them to remove the text that’s already there, all those tools work a little differently but can get you where you want to be, so play around with them and find your favourite

      • alternatively if that sounds too advanced you can brute force it, it won’t look as seemless but it will get the job done. make a new layer, select a brush with soft edges and ~80% opacity, and then use the eyedropper tool (usual shortcut should be holding alt and clicking on the colour you want) and remove the text by covering it with the same colour that surrounds it. You’ll notice how eventually the colour you sourced doesn’t blend in, then what you need to do is grab a new colour that’s nearby. Rinse and repeat until fully covered and blended

      • add text

      • if your text overlaps some parts of the image you don’t want it to overlap you might find yourself wanting to erase a bit of it and not being able to. That’s because the text is still text, fully editable. To change that you can either convert it to a normal layer (usually done by right clicking on the text layer and looking for something that says “convert”) or (and that’s the better option if you want to keep the text editable) you can apply a mask onto the text layer (should be a button for it next to “add layer” button), then as you have the mask selected draw with pure black over the elements you don’t want the text to cover

      i’m basing this mini-tutorial on photoshop so exact names and places of the tools you want might be different, but the process should be the same across most if not all image editing software

        • PugJesus@lemmy.world
          OPEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          Uh, I don’t know, Facebook possibly? I don’t label the origin of things I download. There seems to be a signature of some sort as ‘SW HG’, look that up, I guess.