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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why would you want to be compared to a greedy sociopath who destroyed the planet's ecosystem and represented unbound industrialist/capitalist greed? Sure, he eventually figured out that what he was doing was wrong, but by that time it was too late and the world was fucked. It's like getting horny for BP executives in 2070 because they said sorry and discovered the error of their ways but only after oil was no longer profitable due to 90% of the planet being uninhabitable.

[–] knolord@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Well, first: It was meant as a simple humorous comment, not hornyposting for oil barons/industrialists. If I haven't made myself clear, my bad.

And: Even then, OOPs reaction was overreacting and giving the Internet, and Tumblr of all places, a wide attack vector.

(Btw - even when in 2070 the oil executives were to see their consequences, they would put the blame towards the common people, like they do today with things like "the CO2 footprint" as in "blaming the people instead of themselves, the aviation and maritime freight industries")

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Fandoms usually outgrow their characters and became more about the aesthetic, with the fanfic versions acting totally different than the original character. Sometimes they view their made up lore as more "canonical" than the source material. Considering the onceler came from a movie on the high end of mediocrity at best, the aesthetics and Tumblr emo boy version matters far more than the shortsighted capitalist character in the movie