I’m done arguing against the single argument you’ve made time and time and time again. For my rebuttal, simply look four comments up from this one. Goodbye.

There is fan merch of The Room. Theme parks don’t need a popular franchise connected to be popular, so long as there’s a rollercoaster and something fun for the whole family. People will happily spend money on nostalgia and fitting in with others, or on gifts for someone you think likes the thing.

All of this is, once again, an appeal to popularity. It has nothing to do with the quality of the books. And you saying the book isn’t bad despite bad plot, world, characters and implications just condemns your judgement.

First, it’s only a measure that people consume the media, not that they enjoy it. Hate-watching is a thing, as you can tell from a comment higher up. Or they watched because someone else wanted to watch (or they thought someone else wanted to watch).

Second, enjoyment does not reflect quality. People can like bad media. I like the second D&D movie, and even I can only rate it’s quality as “fine”.

Third, even at the height of its popularity and among its strongest fans, there are flaws galore in the books. Even ignoring the racism, sexism, ablism, slavery, “ugly is bad” mindset, and all that, there’s also stupid plot decisions and lazy world building. Of all the fanfics on AO3, well over a third of them are fix-fics.

I do think a lot of that popularity was because it came out when internet forums were a novelty. If you’re used to only one or two people liking the same book as you, then you see thousands liking the same book, that book must be popular.

Then the popularity fed itself. Movies, merch, games, everything was done to capitalise on the “popularity” of a new series, and this introduced it to a new audience. Media started to talk about the new book series that people were going mad for. People who didn’t read the books wanted to find out what everyone was talking about. Time passes, and people look back on the books with nostalgia goggles. Even you, when defending the book, can only point to its popularity as an argument.

The actual book doesn’t matter. It’s popular because it’s popular.

The rule of law

There’s a Mitchell and Webb sketch about the Apprentice being full of idiots, for an audience of idiots. At the end, they note there are some non-idiots who watch out of a sense of irony.

“And remind me, how do these ironic non-idiots show up in the ratings?”
“They show up the same, my friend.”

So I’m not feeling much better knowing this is a mod abuse done ironically.

Nah, but I suspect it.

…Can we pretend I was calling Not Dr Wesker submissive? Please?

I’m serious about the new “no victim blaming” rule. This is a safe space. This isn’t Ye Hippie Dippin’ Bastards where the village idiots are allowed to weigh in with their acronyms. Victim blaming is a banable offense now.

That is a direct quote from a pinned mod message.

My suspicion is that the sub is so tightly wound against “victim blaming” (aka, “not instantly agreeing with OP”) that any correction is seen as opposition. My other suspicion, from looking at the comm and how often they mock this one, is that they tried and failed to play the victim here, and decided to make their own mod abuse comm with blackjack and hookers. PTB

Trans rigs!

Strange choice to be apathetic while trying to incite a mob.

Dang, the advertising for Coyote vs Acme is going hard.

It’s a play on Roguelike deckbuilder vs Rogue like(ing a) deckbuilder.

Ironically, AI fits the description of a philosophical zombie.

This isn’t meant to be eaten. This is meant to have clickbait headlines written about it so Dominos gets free advertising for their mid pizzas.

To everyone who struggles with their left and right, take solace in the fact you’re better at telling the difference than tankies. No, the authoritarian dictatorship with anti-LGBT policies is NOT “left-wing”. Just because you call yourself communist doesn’t mean you actually are.

Now draw her having an existential crisis on a bouncy castle

You know the classic “I’m not racist but” lie racists tell? A lot of people with bad opinions try to pre-emptively cover their ass with a lie, then go “but” and share their actual opinion. Reading through the examples with this in mind… Yeah, I’m glad she’s no longer a mod. Good call.

A ghost-type bra to hold your boo-bies