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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter)
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Analyzing the art, craft, and skill of narrative on YouTube + Vimeo. Currently disabled.

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pretend I edited this to make the second word "racism"
Anakin in Attack of the Clones with a big red cartoon "X" atop his face and beneath, the text: Supports Fascism
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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(nodding sagely)
Text reading: When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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loved seeing this in the credits for Pluribus
Text reading: This show was made by humans.
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Well, Shelby Foote is in it a lot, so that should give you some idea.
Text reading: Foote speaks of the men who fought for the South as if they were not historical figures, but old friends – a method that made him a fan favorite upon the documentary’s release. It’s also what made him so dangerous as a historical source. This cozy brand of storytelling allows Foote to create deeply sympathetic portraits of men who fought to preserve slavery. In one of his most alarming assertions, Foote proclaims that “the war produced two authentic geniuses”: Abraham Lincoln, and Nathan Bedford Forrest.[3] The former slave-trader Forrest oversaw the infamous massacre at Fort Pillow, in which Confederate troops murdered an estimated 200 Black Union soldiers who were trying to surrender.[4] Forrest would go on to become the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a fact Foote neglects to mention when he thrills at the memory of once twirling the general’s sword over his head. And Foote wasn’t done yet. In a 1999 interview with the Paris Review, he stated that he would certainly have fought for the southern cause had he been alive during the Civil War. “What’s more,” he added, “I would fight for the Confederacy today if the circumstances were similar.”[5] In an interview for the 1998 book, Confederates in the Attic, Foote told author Tony Horwitz that he was dismayed by “the behavior of blacks,” who “are fulfilling every dire prophecy the Ku Klux Klan made. It’s no longer safe to be on the streets in black neighborhoods. They are acting as if the utter lie about blacks being somewhere between ape and man were true.”[6] Everything that Ken Burns gets right in this documentary – the music, the imagery, the storytelling – is powerfully overshadowed by everything that Shelby Foote gets wrong.
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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it's baseball, baby
A graphic for Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, a game for the 3DS.
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Every single Reasonable middle ground people try to push for with examples of how they use gen AI/LLMs in a good way is arguably even more embarrassing to read about than the slop maximalists
An image from The Simpsons in which Homer responds to Kirk Van Houten showing off his race car bed, but instead of his line from the episode, the text on the image reads: I use my own brain to create things.
November 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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censorship leads to ignorance :'(
A YouTube search result with a clickslop thumbnail for a video titled: WHY SCHOOLS DIDN'T TEACH THIS?! TRUTH about the White Slave Trade | REACTION
November 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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fake country
Text reading: There have been calls to evict Prince Andrew from his 30-room mansion, the Royal Lodge, after it was reported that he has not paid rent on it for two decades. Why does he not pay rent ? Andrew has leased the Royal Lodge from the UK state’s property empire, the crown estate, since 2003. As part of this deal, he pays the crown estate rent of “one peppercorn (if demanded) per annum”. This is a historical term and does not mean he pays an actual peppercorn. This formulation of words helps to make the lease agreement a legal contract, but it is just symbolic. In reality, he pays no rent.
October 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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A Beautiful Mind
Text of a Bluesky post reading: Kind of important that this happened after the Allies you know, defeated the Nazis and charged surviving leaders with war crimes, executing several. Also, if you don’t like Operation Paperclip, you’re really not going to like Operation Osoaviakhim, which was larger and less successful.
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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this website's domain name is literally "wehrmacht"
Text reading: Waffen-SS Uniforms Replicas of Waffen-SS uniforms and accessories. This is our Waffen-SS uniforms section, you will find Tunics, Trousers, Shirts, Great Coats, Smocks, Breeches and other army uniforms like the Allgemeine-SS and Panzer-SS units. Our products are designed for museums, collectors, re-enacment and other theatrical purposes, as well as cinematographic and television productions. The sale of this material is not intended to advocate any totalitarian state or any past, present or future political ideology. We warn that some of the symbols that appear can hurt feelings to people or groups.
October 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Nationalize Adobe
Price points for the Adobe Creative Cloud Standard plan showing that for the "Annual, billed monthly" tier there is text below reading: Fee applies of half your remaining annual commitment if you cancel after Nov 07
October 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Text reading: "Reporters are strange. You're all so sensitive. Just like actors. Hollywood and the press are truly destined for each other." -- a publicist for "All The Presidents Men"
October 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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stumbled across an example of a classic "web 1.0" site
A banner on a Geocities-esque site reading: MOOSECHICK NOTES THE NORTHERN EXPOSURE ARCHIVES
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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damn, they were posting *anything* on 2009 BoingBoing
Text reading: Brianna Wu's latest art project is the cover art for the magazine "Crossed Genres." Frank Wu explains, "Brianna went to University of Mississippi, where a famous race riot took place – thus the building is the Lyceum, where you can still see the bullet holes in the columns. As one of the lone liberals on campus, Bri wanted to do her own comentary on it. So… we see Martin Luther King hit with a rocket, but it's ok – because he's a Terminator. And we also see KKK members, but they're all sexy ninja girls in skimpy white outfits, and now that MLK is free at last from his fleshy shell, he's going to kick their butts. Sixties girls in go-go boots and jetpacks fight alongside." Crossed Genres cover art (Thanks, Frank!)
October 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I do know of one person with industry experience who's tackled controversial subjects with sensitivity and wit, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a job currently.
Brianna Wu's baffling art of a buff Schwarzenegger MLK, Jr. with "sexy" ninja go-go female KKK members.
October 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A lesson in examining critical consensus, from Ebert's excellent review of Triumph of the Will:
Text reading: Have you seen it recently, or at all? It records the gathering together, in September 1934 in Nuremberg, of hundreds of thousands of Nazi Party members, troops and supporters, to be “reviewed” by Adolf Hitler. Reviewed is the operative word. Great long stretches of the film consist merely of massed formations of infantry, cavalry, artillery groups and even working men with their shovels held like rifles. They march in perfect, rigid formation past Hitler, giving him their upraised right arms in salute and having it returned. Opening sections of the film show Hitler addressing an outdoor formation, and the conclusion involves his speech in a vast hall at the closing of the congress.
October 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Retweet to scare a congressman
An image of the Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio 4K8, a video switcher.
October 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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An iconic tweet from @BonnieElephant, altered to read: I dont accept criticism or roasts from people who use the AP Stylebook
October 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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An image of a scene from Andor Season One, Episode Seven: Luthen Rael telling Mon Mothma that they need the Empire to escalate and retaliate to provoke citizens into action.
September 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Why are so many people saying "root beer"?!

Anyway, I want to remind people of Coca-Cola BlāK, which I haven't seen anyone talk about here yet
An image showcasing the Coca-Cola BlāK bottle design.
September 15, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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oh.
A search result for "Torres" + "Lockheed" marked "3 days ago" about Rep. Ritchie Torres owning stock in weapons companies.
August 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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"Nobody thinks ‘it’s more accurate’ lol"

"Instead Luke is clearly using the Mount as source material"

You are literally arguing something like the early 1900s state of the field
Text reading: Most modern commentators and exegetes have believed that Matthew's Sermon on the Mount (hereafter SM) was composed by the author of the rest of the First Gospel. The First Evangelist, drawing upon Q, Mark, and his distinctive tradition, M, forged the discourse in accordance with his own aims and interests. This is the common opinion not only about Matthew 5-7 but also about all the major Matthean discourses, which are usually taken to be five in number: the SM, chapters 5-7; the missionary discourse, chapter 10; the parable discourse, chapter 13; the community discourse, chapter 18; and the eschatological discourse, chapters 24-25. l On the other hand, the Lukan counterpart to the SM, namely, Lk 6:20-49, the so-called Sermon on the Plain (hereafter SP), is widely regarded as a speech which Luke only lightly retouched: it brings us very close to Q. THE THEORY OF HANS DIETER BETZ This is not, however, the only view that has been taken of the matter. Hans Dieter Betz has recently outlined six different ways one might explain the relationship between the SM and SP. 2 (1) The majority opinion already introduced holds that the SP is close to Q while the SM is a Matthean expansion. (2) The SM is close to Q, the SP a Lukan abridgement. 3 (3) Both the SM and SP are different redactional elaborations of
July 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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looking at this, I guess one could make a case that, in comparison, Bluesky isn't quite there yet
Text of a tweet reading: My friend fucking killed himself because White people are literally being ethnic cleansed, and you sick fucking people can't comprehend that without going "hahah you're scared of porn, hahaha you're scared of BBC" You're a sick fucking person spreading a gen*cide ideology
July 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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You can't do that weaselly "45 - 47" thing in court
Text from a legal document reading: 1. Plaintiff President Donald J. Trump (“Plaintiff”) is a private citizen of the United States, a resident of the state of Florida, and is the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America.
July 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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This is Miyazaki's famous criticism of anime: that "the industry is full of otaku" (anime obsessives). He's talking about people who don't bring anything external to their work—and, perhaps worse, depict humans based on how they've seen characters act in anime.
A screen capture of Hayao Miyazaki at work at Ghibli, with a subtitle in Japanese.
July 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM