>>572 >It always annoying to me when people treat anything dark as "just a phase" and born from teen angst and depression.
Basically, most people do not want to realize that depression is not something that you will just find in your teen years. The midlife crisis also comes to play, it also comes when your family has to face their ending, when you are fired and don't know what direction to take next in your professional life. That's when your personal comfort gets menaced and you face a territory unprepared and maybe taking the consequences over the edge at times(suicide). It's a matter of time for the people to reconsider the topic.
>As you say, social media and the 2000s emo scene really ruined it, but their are still things out there with way more depth then what it often gets credit for. A lot of people would scream "emo goth!" at the mere mention of Robert Smith, without understanding any of his work or the deeper meaning of his songs versus the stupid self harm stuff that was pushed in the mainstream way afterwords.Never been into the guy, but I at least can tell the difference.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgNx89B8Y4[/spoiler] Always considered emo for dark stuff....ufff let them be judging the book by its cover. Not trying to shill him or anything but this link is pretty much what I meant with dark ambients and trying to find some comfort with them. I just put him because he is the most direct reference I can put on my finger that media has covered. And one of the reasons why darkness was so attractive in the 80s yet, few people can actually master it. When it's done incorrectly, it gets really bad but when you put it a little bit more formal, then it becomes trascendental. Well you can see the results and get an idea of it.
>In my partial defence, I'm not really into social media. Other then YT I don't really visit that many social media sites too often. Add me to the counter of those people. >Example: one of the times I've atually considered writing a fanfic is an idea I had where Twilight Sparkle is visited by a sentient pancake that engages her in a philosophical debate on the nature on Equestria itself. The pancake causes Pinkie Pie to grow a 3rd hoof that slowly hijacks her mind. among a buch of other things that happen over the course of a singel night. Though I want the charachers to be reacting seriously to said situations, that's what makes it even funnier, rather then just random for the sake of random Depends pretty much on the execution and dynamic you can get from it. The comedy that could be taken from it is by Pinkie Pie just being Pinkie despite the odds or the others basically have good puns or catch between the lines.
>I cannot stand the how social media centered our society has become. I feel like an outcast too at times because of it.
