Additionally...

[andr0meda]

This video by D'Angelo Wallace about the "irony epidemic" or "toxic unseriousness" or what have you is everything to me now because it has perfectly articulated something I have been thinking about for months.

Watch on YouTube

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[kossai]

yeah ... there is even trend of turn artworks into simple memes , to point of people not even know who original artist was at all . that just hurt artist , not show appreciation - but to ask for more serious engagement and appreciation is " buzzkill " .

oh , mouthwashing is hard to get through sometimes , downright nauseous . hard to call enjoyable in sense of fun , even for horror fans , but most certainly poignant . dreadful , but wonderful .
... and yet some people really voice jokey conclusions about curly , for example . would not take very much look at game to understand how cruel that is , and even worse with full knowledge .

[andr0meda]

Oh, I remember that. Art theft for memes was a problem on Tumblr in the 196 tag. People would just steal art from Pixiv and put their own jokes in impact font all over it. They were rarely even funny jokes, either.

I appreciate it when horror games make my skin crawl, and Steam says reviews are overwhelmingly positive... perhaps I'll try Mouthwashing sometime and let you know my thoughts :)