> What normies are fairly noticing in these corps is moderating not by the overton window of the normal consumer, but by the overton window of the managerial class who run the business
Now the question is, why is the managerial class so weird and creepy? The Gemini images didn’t come out of left field—that’s what Hollywood movies look like these days too. Random non-white people in contexts where it makes no sense, or racially balanced friend/family groups that don’t map onto how people actually associate in real life.
My family looks like one of those Gemini images—my brother and I are south Asian, my wife is British American, her brother is Samoan/black/Asian, his girlfriend is Filipino, and my sister in law is Taiwanese. But it’s a fluke—you don’t see that much mixing organically pretty much anywhere. The overwhelming majority of people are in same-race marriages and have homogenous circles of friends. The world still looks like Friends or Seinfeld, not whatever Hollywood is showing recently. So it’s very creepy to me that there are a bunch of people in Hollywood deliberately making casting choices with these unrealistic representations—or, as in the case of Gemini, inserting hidden text into prompts to achieve that effect—as if somehow my family is better than one that’s all white or all Filipino. The contrived nature of it makes race seem like a big deal, instead of something irrelevant, and it’s creepy and weird.
Now the question is, why is the managerial class so weird and creepy? The Gemini images didn’t come out of left field—that’s what Hollywood movies look like these days too. Random non-white people in contexts where it makes no sense, or racially balanced friend/family groups that don’t map onto how people actually associate in real life.
My family looks like one of those Gemini images—my brother and I are south Asian, my wife is British American, her brother is Samoan/black/Asian, his girlfriend is Filipino, and my sister in law is Taiwanese. But it’s a fluke—you don’t see that much mixing organically pretty much anywhere. The overwhelming majority of people are in same-race marriages and have homogenous circles of friends. The world still looks like Friends or Seinfeld, not whatever Hollywood is showing recently. So it’s very creepy to me that there are a bunch of people in Hollywood deliberately making casting choices with these unrealistic representations—or, as in the case of Gemini, inserting hidden text into prompts to achieve that effect—as if somehow my family is better than one that’s all white or all Filipino. The contrived nature of it makes race seem like a big deal, instead of something irrelevant, and it’s creepy and weird.