• James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
    79·
    20 hours ago

    This is hilarious to me so I looked up the original article and I am pretty sure that it is largely written by AI.

    Also, not that it needs or deserves any kind of analysis, but the central premise (as much as I can decipher from all the ChatGPT fluff) appears to be: “Because Trekkies are conservative, Star Trek is doing everything it can to make men hate it.” which obviously makes no sense. Why would a company create a piece of media knowing it would be unpopular with it’s core demographic?

    Anyway thanks for the laugh, OP.

    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      51 minutes ago

      Why would a company create a piece of media knowing it would be unpopular with it’s core demographic?

      <Looks sideways at Disney and Star Wars>

      But that’s a whole other bag of worms

    • SocProf@masto.aiOP
      41·
      20 hours ago

      @Kirk Gotta appreciate the thinly veiled “great fan replacement” theory. How very subtle. I’m sure the author (whoever that is) felt ever so witty.

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
      26·
      19 hours ago

      Well the reasoning in the article has nothing to do with the audience being conservative. It’s: Star Trek has a mainly male audience. Males are conservative. Then they show some picture how males went more conservative some 50 years(!) after it aired… I’m speechless. Maybe AI “reasoning”. Or just very, very stupid.

        • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
          8·
          17 hours ago

          Yeah, and super weird to write something like this about Star Trek of all the fiction out there. I can’t remember any episode where stupidity is portrayed as good or acceptable?! I mean the whole point of TOS is all the characters who are lined up on that picture, being clever in very different ways and combining that to have some fun in outta space…

    • Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish
      12·
      19 hours ago

      Weird. My stay at home mom and favorite aunt watched it back when TVs had 5 stations on a dial. They introduced me, female, to it at a young age. None of us are Trump voters.

      The only dislike expressed was for the Spock’s brain episode. They still talk about what a terrible episode they thought it was.

      Where is this article getting their demographic numbers, wishful thinking? The wiki says it’s always been a diverse viewership with a slight skew to male.

      • usernamefactory@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Where is this article getting their demographic numbers, wishful thinking?

        Oh don’t worry, it’s very scientific:

        If you think I’m underestimating the number of Trek’s female viewers, scroll through the comments on any Star Trek-related content anywhere on the internet. Then count the number of female commenters. You’ll see a lot of guys named Steve, but you won’t see many Jennifers.

      • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
        10·
        19 hours ago

        Consider yourself blessed to be unaware of the entire digital media ecosystem that targets insecure white men via their preferred fandoms and is dedicated to blaming women and minorities for their issues.

    • thegr8goldfish@startrek.websiteEnglish
      11·
      19 hours ago

      It seems the only data provided about the demographics and political leanings of the fandom are anecdotal accounts from social media. Do you think it ever occurred to the author that they might just have an algorithm that recognizes their preference for shitty content?