It's Orius again with another (not really) hot take!
Usually, I'm not a fan of MovieBob (Chipman). I find him kinda dismissive and snobbish at times, and if I do play his videos, it's playing in the background because you can only listen to Animal Crossing music for so many times in the game before it starts to get grating.
But on this point? Yeah, I'm glad this video exists, since I grew up on the Power Rangers (still didn't bother to watch the live action movie because I didn't like Power Rangers
that much).
But it's not just about Power Rangers either, it's also about older generations' dismissal of younger generations' TV shows and video games.
"Why, in my day, video games used to be good! Why, in my day, TV shows used to be good!" FYI, on a related note, Bob, a Gen Xer, thinks that the '90s sucks, and while I agree to a certain extent, the '90s consisted of some of my favorite cartoons of all time (Powerpuff Girls, Hey Arnold, Samurai Jack, Recess, Rugrats, etc, etc.) As someone who sometimes inadvertently dismisses a younger generation/Gen Z entertainment, I'm at fault as well in terms of eye-rolling
some reboot or adaptation of some Spongebob cartoon (or similar entertainment) I got too old to enjoy. But having been on the receiving end of such snobbery... yeah, it doesn't feel good to have some older generations think that what you grew up with was dumb, and that somehow you were stupid for enjoying such inferior entertainment compared to their superior entertainment (by the way, the '80s had plenty of crap as well).
I mean, sure, like all things, there are exceptions and sometimes it's worth calling out on the things younger people enjoy, like Logan Paul's toxic behavior. But on the other hand, you have (quite) harmless stuff like TikTok and whatever social media kids are into nowadays, and yeah, I get it, it's fun to make fun of those things (and twerking and dabbing)... but it's just kids adapting to a new form of entertainment nowadays, like how we were into Gameboys and N64s. I remember when I had a MySpace page back then, so if kids get into Facebook nowadays, I could hardly blame them even if it's not my thing. And so, I might refrain from the kind of attitude from now on where I go,
"What dumb stuff are kids into these days, Facebook or some crap?" That's just... not really a nice thing to say.
But to bring this post back to its initial point, yeah, a lot of entertainment kids enjoy nowadays do fail to entertain me in one form or another, but I'll try not to thumb my nose up at those entertainment like some know-it-all snob from now on... unless it's genuinely bad no matter what generation you grew up in... like 50 Shades. There's a fine line between "it's dumb but in an enjoyable Power Rangers kind of way" and "it's bad writing
and so cringeworthy that I couldn't picture how anyone of any age could enjoy this... Then again, I used to write fanfiction, so I guess I
could picture how certain demographics could enjoy 50 Shades...