Motherfucker literally just watched Gurren Lagann and thought the Anti-Spirals were the good guys and had a coherent point, and then made up an ideology about being the Anti-Spirals IRL.
I’m just thinking the timeline lines up for this person to have literally just watched Gurren Lagann in 2009 or 2010 (it was airing on the sci-fi channel in the US then, and the US release of the movie DVDs was in mid-2010), gotten obsessed with the villain’s “evolution will destroy the universe maybe, so all living things must be culled and subjugated or exterminated completely so that stagnation and misery can last forever” bullshit and thought it was deep and meaningful enough to make a video essay about it that got completed and released in 2011.
When Roiland was around the shows ideology was cruel nihilism, specifically about how caring made you stupid and weak and ugly. South Park type shit. With him gone Harmon has made it more ideologically about existential absurdism: the characters, in the face of infinity, find meaning in their relationships with each other. Still full of fart jokes and Rick being a piece of shit but it’s less callous about caring.
Motherfucker literally just watched Gurren Lagann and thought the Anti-Spirals were the good guys and had a coherent point, and then made up an ideology about being the Anti-Spirals IRL.
i was reminded of Rick n morty’s fart guy
I’m just thinking the timeline lines up for this person to have literally just watched Gurren Lagann in 2009 or 2010 (it was airing on the sci-fi channel in the US then, and the US release of the movie DVDs was in mid-2010), gotten obsessed with the villain’s “evolution will destroy the universe maybe, so all living things must be culled and subjugated or exterminated completely so that stagnation and misery can last forever” bullshit and thought it was deep and meaningful enough to make a video essay about it that got completed and released in 2011.
oh i didn’t even consider the timeline. i couldn’t bring myself to click the link lol
Honestly Rick and Morty may have a more coherent ideology.
When Roiland was around the shows ideology was cruel nihilism, specifically about how caring made you stupid and weak and ugly. South Park type shit. With him gone Harmon has made it more ideologically about existential absurdism: the characters, in the face of infinity, find meaning in their relationships with each other. Still full of fart jokes and Rick being a piece of shit but it’s less callous about caring.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I was going to call them Madara Uchiha for essentially the same point in the same aesthetic.