Willy Wonka is a true American businessman. A child is about to die horribly and all he can think about is loss of product due to contamination.
Edit: Ok I looked it up since I wasn’t sure if Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is set in the US or UK. Apparently it’s inspired by factories in the UK but the actual setting in-universe is ambiguous in the original book, though both movies set it in (IIRC) London. Reading it as a kid I definitely imagined it taking place in the US though, not sure why but the story just “sounds” American, what with the copious consumption of sugar and the seemingly total lack of government oversight on businesses.
Exploitative first half of 20th century factory working conditions with steampunk aesthetics scream Britain for me.
Thinking of America just shows that the reader has no proper contextual (historical) knowledge. Britain was on its zenith, literally the first superpower that existed ever. Literally had sway over colonies larger than the US.
Being cocksure and clueless kind of go badly with each other interpreting imaginative work from the last century or before.
I think it was in his biography that he said he dreamed of working at Cadburys, a famous British chocolate company. I’m not 100% if he explicitly and directly connects that back to CatCF though.
tbh, reading it as a British kid, I saw and interpreted lots of allusions to American culture and I think it was intentional. He always seemed a bit of an America- and Anglo-phile, and I definitely saw that in his gun slinging kids and used car salesman father’s amongst others.
Is the last panel meant to represent people rushing in anger to hate on femboys or people rushing in horniness to see femboys? Because if the latter then I’d agree as I’d fall in that bucket.
They’ve maneuvered themselves to the point where they’re just another cable to cut. I’m about to hop in my big ship and cut the cable holding it to the dock. It’s the high seas for me!
It’s not all black and white though. People in the 2000’s didn’t know that you can make a living off content creation, but people who have adopted this style usually can and will (or should) turn more effort into creating high quality videos.
Isn’t that exactly the point of the meme? Internet 20 years ago was about sharing mostly. Internet today is about monetization mostly. And content quality isn’t what makes you big, it’s your ability to game/abuse the system
“High quality” can come in the form of investing time into research, or creating visual aids that present information clearly. But it also often manifests as flashy title cards, pointless special effects, derivative humor (like frenzied jump cuts to movie clips and memes every few seconds), unnecessarily rambling intros, superfluous wall-to-wall music. I feel like many of these features are borrowed over from classical TV, to give the veneer of a highly produced “professional” product, when democratized internet media’s greatest strength is to actually free us from these conventions.
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