There's something about it which is so like, facsimile? Like rather than come up with jokes and then write sketches about them, it's like someone took a bunch of cultural bugbears of the mainstream 00s and then shaped sketches in order to fit into them. They're all just so empty of any creativity.

Yeah, the thing about it is that it's not just that it's offensive, it's also incredibly lazy and poorly written.

I have heard comedians say that the pair were just failed actors who thought being comedians would be easier, and that they had no respect for the actual craft, which I think shows.

Like dude, I'd also want to consume the souls of my dumbass elders if I got killed and made to abandon my entire life for your retirement home larp. You're telling me that your traditions mean I have to follow your every command? You think vaccines are some magical potion used by mortals.

Someone gets embraced into the Camarilla to basically be a manager for them, immediately realises that they have lost their life, hopes and dreams for a bunch of people too old to understand how phones work, is forcibly mind controlled by them, and people wonder how they end up joining the Sabbat.

A Disco Elysium style game starring Iqbal Khan as he overseas Operation Antigen with SO13 would be a fucking awesome WoD idea. Loads of angst, maybe he gets confronted with his embraced children, would rule.

Had way better Hunter groups too, like the Barret Commission which is like people in DC trying to keep vampires out of politics with very political thriller vibes, or Maidens Blood who are a sorority preventing vampires from preying on college campuses and have like a half MeToo half Buffy vibe.

Hunter: The Vigil did a much better take on hunter orgs if you ask me, where like, sure there's corruption and self-interest but humanity's main strength is through being social and people who are in the know and are trying to do something are actually sincere in their actions...

WoD has always had a real anti-social streak but they kinda made it worse with 5th ed hunter stuff, which is weird because they also reverted to what everyone wanted hunters to be in the first place (normal people who beat monsters by being better organised and smarter.)

It's always been a bit of a problem, but they really fucked it up with V5, because they went full on into the Anti-Bedtime Action vibes and now literally every hunter org is portrayed as being like completely corrupt and only the naive believe is at all reformable.

For sure, although I think it's more the most effective delivery platform for the general cultural trend of the fandom ouroboros rather than it being a specific tumblr thing. Like if it didn't exist, the same trends would just have emerged on slightly less well suited sites I think.

Honestly the only part of his whole turn that is half-way surprising is the far right Christian stuff. I would have assumed he would go more like woo-woo David Icke style.

It also seems that Charles actually has political views as well. Even if as a republican I would like him replaces, I do actually respect he seems to believe in things.

It seems like Liz mostly turned herself into some kind of secular pseudo-saint. She was just the pope of arbitrary "Britishness."

You can claim to believe something in your secret heart of hearts, but if you do not act on that belief, you don't actually hold it.

I mean, I think it's pretty clear that they do. After all, if no one in the party actually believes this, they would stop it. The average Labour MP is on board with Starmer's program, or they would be doing something about it.