I've been commenting near-daily on this sub for over 5 years now; I don't know if I can claim that veteran flair like others have, but I am here a lot. There's other film subreddits like r/flicks and r/truefilm that talk more in-depth about them, but there's no other sub that talks about new film and the latest releases. I adore this place and see it and r/television as a way for me to geek out and talk in-depth about my favorite topic: entertainment.Lately it feels as if a light has been switched and the content of the sub has drastically gone downhill in what reaches the front page.Memes and image posts. This is the big one. A lot of people clearly want meme content because it's highly upvoted in a short amount of time with a lot of simple comments. But this could also be an easy way for spam accounts to gain the karma they need to start annoying other subs before the account is shut down. The sheer amount of memes we have now was so bad that the mods actually did address this when Will Smith Genie first got revealed for Aladdin. It's nice that you picked up the Kubrick collection, but taking a picture of your new DVDs isn't really what this sub is about.Fanart. Love a beautiful drawing as much as the next one but it has become an easy way to gain karma or editorialize titles. Remember, a lot of the posts aren't actually theirs, just something they found somewhere else on the Internet. Or they are in the vein of r/pics such as, "I'm a recent college graduate who can't find a job and is going to be homeless tomorrow, please hire me! Here's a drawing of Pikachu."Circlejerk and hatejerk topics are talked about quite a lot and need a heavy overhaul. The sub hasn't had the crazy amount of tangentially comic book-related rumors in awhile, but you know what's been around a lot the past few months? Keanu Reeves (and by extension Bill & Ted and John Wick). Brie Larson. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (still). Some of them were even already circle jerk topics that just get ignored now such as Stanley Kubrick.Common Reddit-isms that were typically avoided like "DAE," trying to find what a movie is based on a line of dialogue (r/tipofmytongue) and someone unironically using "gem." This is more nitpicky, but still felt worth mentioning.Many of these problems come because either the new sub base is not glancing at the rules or there is less strict enforcement of the rules and I missed a post about that.For all of the heated arguments and hot takes that aren't really hot takes, or diatribes about Last Jedi, I still loved it all. I feel like the sub is going in the same direction r/gaming is, where it's just incredibly simple content upvoted simply because you can look at it for a second and look away. And those who are actually wanting discussion are talking about the same things.I thought we should have a shitpost Sunday megathread since it has the least amount of "regular" content, and there's an audience for the memes who may not vibe with r/moviescirclejerk.But it's up to the mods and the user base as a whole to figure out where this sub is going. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2YtaevQ
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