cognitivedissonance - 2019-03-10
The Br'er Rabbit stories were basically Western African religious myths transliterated into the slave idiom. It's a lot like how voodoo is Western African religion hiding behind Catholic iconography.
Disney really didn't have an understanding of anything subtextual at all.
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cognitivedissonance - 2019-03-10 There was also a lot in Mary Poppins that spoke about Travers' lesbianism, but, again, Uncle Walt didn't have the context to grasp it.
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blase - 2019-03-10
So how does YouTube's 'recommended' algorithm work? Just a few hours ago I was searching for this as a metaphor for arguing with creationists
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Raggamuffin - 2019-03-10 they must have changed it recently because it's been super aggressive lately. Like if I watch one video about cars my recs are nothing but cars for the next 2 days
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casualcollapse - 2019-03-10 Are you saying you couldn't find it organically through searching?
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blase - 2019-03-10 No, I'm saying I'd looked at videos on this same topic just a few hours before it went up on here. (Or is there some sort of hive mind thing going on?)
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casualcollapse - 2019-03-11 Well yeah because of the defunctland video..
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