Also, something I appreciate (with a big asterisk) about Koreans is their dedication to cancel culture. You get the Mark of Cancellation on you and you have to get on your knees and apologize for existing before things get really out of hand.
Social platforms have started to automatically apply labels to distinguish AI-generated images, videos, and music from those made by real, human creators.
But you know what would be better? Letting us filter out the AI slop.
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I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“
But trivializing the Gwangju massacre is basically baked into shitty conservatism at this point. The actual death toll numbers is a decades-old politicized fight. It's why the region itself is a liberal stronghold; nobody likes being told you deserved it or that the violence you saw was fake.
That said, part of why Korean conservatism is so insane at the moment is (like everywhere else) because of AI brainrot and a general disregard for truth
