>>4948
>Darkness is more complex than that.
indeed just that there is a problem commonly attributed to it and it´s...

>Though I'd say that it can become muddled.
this right here. As soon as the consumer of that dark tone piece relies on certain elements, the interpretations from them can rip that concept away completely.

>Have vampires been ruined by Twilight?
nope but anything that is touched by that franchise always get applied to that infamous concept, well deservedly so.

>Can their be a darkness that is untainted by devniart and cupcakes tier trolling. Yes, but I can understand aversion from those works.
fair enough. The problem mostly relies that the most famous material known on the internet is written of fanfics from teenagers and a medium to expose their frustrations or that sense of feeling superior and cool from the rest. Nowadays, social media exists for expressing those emotions but I don´t want to enter into the consequences that this practice can imply to the real world. I don´t need to go further than this

Although edginess can be executed amazingly well and boy, I sure enjoy that material to this day quite a lot.

>I cannot blame one's aversion to such clashes of the personal on a chan ponychan and to a lesser extent some aspects of earlier mlpg certainly show that path
>yet the vail has been lowered here.