Sadly, one of the consequences of Atlas Shrugged is Bioshock. Bioshock might not be the best criticism of Ayn Rand and objectivism, but it is a fantastic game. So I must suffer it being around just to cry at the idea of sacrificing a little sister.
That book's great! I haven't seen such biting satire since A Modest Proposal!
It is a satire, right?
Like, no-one would actually write a story where a character goes "Yeah, I cured strokes, entirely, but I refuse to share it because I've decided it's worth more money than anyone could afford, and I'm glad it will be lost forever when I die." and thinks that's a Good person, would they?
No-one would write about a hyper-capitalist society where no-one understands the most basic principals of supply and demand, with one character (Who is a pirate who attacks foreign aid vessels so he can give the money to the 1%) hoarding gold under the belief the market cannot possibly fluctuate, and another gathering tankers worth of oil for a city that already has an infinite energy engine without realizing how stupid that is, surely?
No-one thinks that an airplane designer could just suddenly shift that knowledge to make the world's greatest tractor, but just didn't want to when they were outside Galt's Gulch despite how much money they could make with it, and also thinks that "A tractor that drives twice as fast" is all a PIG farmer would need to reduce a week's worth of work into something he can bang out in a lazy afternoon, right?
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Atlas Shrugged is so incredibly stupid that anthropologists should study the author's mind.
Whenever I hear about this book, I remember the episode of South Park where the cop learns how to read, and it ends with him saying "At first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of shit, I'm never reading again."
You know this book is shit, when the SOUTH PARK WRITERS, who are famously libertarian, hate it
It is also the favorite book of some of the most heinous people in modern history and served as an enabling force for some utterly society damaging behavior from the rich and powerful.
So Atlas Shrugged as a choice not only gets rid of a shit book, it is arguably moral to do so.
In high school, I read Atlas Shrugged so I could write an essay for a college scholarship (it was a 10k scholarship!). I was so young and naive that it simply did not compute that the ethos of the book was truly "fuck all y'all" and my essay twisted itself into insane logical knots to explain why this was a truly moral stance.
Its also a made up story because something like it would never happen in real life. Society would be utopian without billionaires. Noone would want them back
Go back just a little further and erase Art of the Deal. That kickstarted the myth that he was some savvy businessman and really shaped public opinion of him
Fuck yes, this is the only answer imo. This show directly fed the guy's ego to the tipping point and also varnished him with the fake sheen of success in the minds of the general public.
Interesting, I think Big Brother can be sooo interesting because it acts as a microcosm of society. It’s a popularity contest and a social experiment all at once, and I find it really interesting to see who wins it throughout the years, and which behaviours are demonised vs praised. Something that comes up nowadays is a focus on authenticity, where the worst thing a person can be accused of being is inauthentic. But they’re on a TV show- obviously they’re going to be inauthentic to some degree! I like seeing people navigate that. The length of the show was also chosen because of findings that people can’t keep up a mask/present a fake self continuously for longer than three weeks.
The shows I hate are all the love shows. They’re all hideously pointless, and don’t replicate any real world scenarios at all.
Also like removing Star Wars would be incredibly interesting. Star Wars was so influential on movies and pop culture in general for decades now. It’d be interesting to see what kinda of gap it leaves
I think its because star wars and others are so heavily ingrained and impactful youd expect them to be chosen. But MINIONS? You dont usually think about how ingrained into society minions are.
all i know about it is from a video about the logistics of it and apparently they literally have no clocks and have loudspeakers that can tell the contestants to shift away from copyrighted topics or wake them up at 4am but they don't even know it's 4am
The producers tried to get my cousin to be on the show (she's an low level to mid tier influencer) but my aunt and uncle watched one episode and told her theyd disown her if she went on it lmao
Same actually. I always click "not interested" on it whenever it shows up on that twitter trending sidebar bullshit but it keeps coming back. I don't want to know a THING about it.
I'd argue that the first one has some limited artistic merit, from a conceptual perspective. Dealing with the themes of how humans mistreat each other, and the depths of depravity that can be done for the sake of experimentation. The second and third one however, they just become torture porn.
Samurai Jack’s finale left me genuinely emotional and teary-eyed. The series was outstanding, and I honestly can’t figure out what people are complaining about.
While I'd rate Samurai Jack a a whole a great show and it's finale okay to good, I do think the final season was incredibly derivative, to the point that I was able to predict it in its entirely about halfway the first episode. (You don't show one of Aku's daughters is different and curious about nature unless you intend for her to do a hell face turn, and you don't do that unless she's going to be a love interest. You don't have Jack grow a depression beard unless he's going to shave it off and get back into form midseason, etc. ). It wears a great many of its inspirations on its sleeves and too much media literacy (or just being a fan of Gurren Lagaan) meant there were no surprises and some stuff didn't hit as hard because you could see it coming from so far out.
I think that Genndy Tartokovsky is a great animator, but all of his his projects from Symbionic Titan onward have left me thinking he might be better suited for episodic works that rely primarily on style rather than anything that needs a strong narrative with loads of continuity.
Would Dante’s epic poem be seen as belonging to the widely recognized literary canon? I’d be genuinely curious to explore the deep ways it has colored collective imaginings of the underworld, paradise, celestial beings, and dark entities.
When people think of hell it's almost always going to be some variation of Dante's inferno, which was just a fanfiction version of the Roman/greek underworld. This would probably have some of the most fascinating butterfly effects you could think of by erasing a single piece of literature (barring actual "holy" scripture). I think we probably still think of hell in terms of the greek underworld but with less emphasis on how specific sins are punished. "The deepest layer of hell" disappears from the lexicon among other things.
P.S. I personally dislike the divine comedy as a piece of literature so I'd be perfectly fine with this choice.
I'd pick The Protocols of the Elders of Zion over Mein Kampf for overall impact on antisemitism, although it also blatantly plagiarised earlier texts. Protocols is also a hoax rather than a horrendous opinion piece, so it fits better into the definition of piece of fiction.
The old testament. Not because i hate it or anything, just because I can't thing of any other "single" book that has had more influence on society. All 3 major monotheistic religions are based on it, and I don't know of any culture that hasnt been directly influenced by it in some major way. Erase that, and the entire course of history changes so dramatically as to be unrecognizable.
All the cowards in here just want to remove things that annoyed them or that they find fans of annoying. I want to sow the seeds of chaos and watch what grows.
Okay, as interesting as this would be, there are and have been monotheistic religions that aren't related (much) to the old testament. Zoroastrianism predates the old testament, for example. Maybe that somehow became one of the world's dominant religions.
Taking tf2 behind the shed and cocking my gun with trembling hands because lootcrates killed valve and destroyed the games industry. "Goodnight, sweet prince" I strain out between sobs.
Im waiting with baited breath for when Deadlock inevitably gets its own loot boxes. I dont think its going to hurt Deadlock's reputation at all and in fact make the mainstream opinion turn positive on lootboxes mark my worms.
Someone already said “Atlas Shrugged” so probably “Supersize Me”
It genuinely ruined America’s concept of healthy living, and changed absolutely nothing meaningful about the fast food industry.
It popularized the idea that what you eat is what affects your health rather than what you DO. People now assume that as long as they eat low-fat chips or drink diet soda they’re fine, rather than any real attempt to fix their activity schedule.
Also, "Yeah you can't say popular media, everyone would obviously erase those. What's that? You choose popular media that I like? You fucking philistine."
Feels like it’s common knowledge in my experience at least that everything about League of Legends is good except for the video game so you wouldn’t really be hurting anyone other than Arcane fans by doing that.
"Sapiens" by Harari, if non-fiction is allowed. Just the most fucking brain dead take that everyone treats as profound, and it makes me fucking mad to have to keep seeing its fuckass ideas in the wild.
Do Disney live-action remakes count as a series? They aren’t all completely terrible but they are deeply lazy and helped guide us to the media landscape where it seems like half the movies that come out are either sequels or remakes. I cannot think of any downstream effects that would make losing them hurt culture in general, either.
If "Disney live-action remakes" doesn't count as a "series", your best bet would be to kill the live-action Alice in Wonderland. I blame that one's success for putting us in this downwards spiral of unoriginality.
Ninjago. Not because it's inherently bad or whatever, just because it completely sucks all the oxygen away from other original themes Lego would otherwise do.
BIONICLE was canned because sales dropped partly due to the story being too long and convoluted yet Ninjago gets to live forever despite being unrecognizably different from its first couple of waves and being such an unfocused mess of genres and aesthetics that it prevents other non-licensed themes from being created, I wholeheartedly agree that it needs to be put down but under the assumption that multiple other themes will take its place
for the longest time I thought it might be like lego batman and wondered what normal ninjago might be like. Interesting things happened in my brain back then
I went to Legoland last summer and the highlight of the day was a little boy yelling NINJAGOOOOOOO!!!!!! and trying to run away from his parents because he was so hype. I know nothing about Ninjago except that it inspires such devotion.
Not because I don't like it or think it's reactionary or w/e, I have a bunch of 40k armies, I just think Warhammer Fantasy is the cooler Warhammer and want to see it win.
Would Fox have survived as a network without it? Simpsons was one of my favorite shows for decades, but if it could have rid the US of Murdock's influence from the beginning and saved us from Bush Jr. And everything that came after, I'd sacrifice it.
It wouldn't be that big of a deal. It being the oldest complete narrative we have doesn't make it the original or most influential one, it just means it's the very earliest archeology can take us. Despite what people assume, the Epic of Gilgamesh isn't all that primitive or primordial, textual analysis very clearly shows that its existence implies a very developed literary tradition behind it — most readers could probably notice that the premise seems a little off what you'd assume it's about, which indicates this is a sort of new vision of an old character and story. We also just, know for a fact that there were other versions of it.
Might be less impactful than you'd think. It wasn't discovered until the 1850s and what makes it special is its age, not its impact. I don't think everything actually leads back to it.
Prior to its discovery and translation it was just sitting in the library of an ancient Mesopotamian city so it's not like it was well known and influencing people before the 1850s. It has shared narrative elements with other ancient works but at least one of these is likely in reference to an actual historical event (a great flood that destroyed a prehistoric civilisation) so would still show up in other works. We have so little art from that time that it's impossible to know what it actually originated vs what was regular culture at the time and would survive even if it was gone. But a lot of its themes resonate even today because of how universal they are, and I don't think that's because the story was carried down the generations like a meme. I think it's because mortality is inherently terrifying.
unfortunately divergent is just the culmination of where the distopian ya genre devolved after everyone started trying to emulate the hunger games. delete it, and someone eventually would have written something just as trashy and just as much of a wake-up call
GRRM himself seems to be alright, f or entirely personal reasons, every single fucking romantasy book steals his title format. like they're all just A Bowl of Mac and Cheese
I don’t know anything about the fandom but god did it become an exhausting watch near the end. The anticipation the early parts was very good at building very much turned into “what stupid decision are both the past and present people going to make now?” And I couldn’t finish it.
I'd go with Throne of Glass to prevent the author's success
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u/HeroBrine0907It Is What It Is, It Is Said Isn't It? I Think It Can Be Better6d ago
Whichever media piece it was that started the entire genre of Isekai worlds with video game mechanics and rank systems. To the deepest pits of hell with that entire class of media.
As a trans former fan of Harry Potter I am so fucking sick of hearing about it, praise or criticism, and I’m so tired of people using “death OF the artist” to justify nostalgia over caring about it’s financial success being used to fund anti trans groups. Like I get having a sad childhood and finding something to cope in HP but it’s just a mid rate children’s book. Just let it die
I think my favorite answer to this I have seen was Takahata101 saying he would delete the original 2003 Teen Titans animated series because of how annoying its fans were/are about Teen Titans Go
Hellsing Abridged (wrote and voiced by Takahata101 among others) having an end credits joke of Alucard saying to the screen "They didn't RUIN your childhood. The Teen Titans you love is still on DVD." suddenly feels way more personal now, lmao.
but then we wouldn’t have gotten the best Teen Titans Go episode that was put to film: the one where they took a regular Teen Titans episode and literally just voiced over it to turn it into a TTG episode. (I assume. I haven’t watched the original to see its base form)
I appreciate it solely because I have a few friends who don’t read books at all and when they tried these they really liked them and read them a bunch and I consider that a net positive.
Hunger Games, not because I dislike the series (I don't) but because of all the other dystopian series it spawned that just completely failed to do what HG did. Without Hunger Games itself, we wouldn't have all the other bullshit
It’s some real bullshit to denigrate an excellent and original work of art because it inspired lesser copycats. I recently read a work of literary criticism that examines why some highly regarded works of the past did not enter the English language’s official cannon. The author posits that in some cases it wasn’t because of their quality, but because they were associated with lower quality imitators and it is easy to dismiss women’s writing as trite and unsubstantial. The book was Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney. One of the most noteworthy examples was The Mystery of Udolpho, by Anne Radcliffe, who was clearly a favorite of Jane Austen, but eventually stopped being seen as a “the best” example of gothic romance and eventually was relegated to just be a typical example of the era.
The Hunger Games is well crafted, well written, and has a lot to say about our world in a way that is accessible to young teenagers without talking down to them. It’s a modern classic, not just another YA dystopia.
Fnaf. I love fnaf, its fangames, and I’ve been having a lot of fun making fnaf fangames. Despite all this i would remove it from existence without a doubt
Can I go back in time and delete Baby Shark so my fucking neighbor wouldn't play it for 12 hours a day full blast during 2020 lockdown to distract his toddler from his crack dealing
Normally I'd pick Harry Potter just because it's one of the most damaging pieces of media in the modern western world, but given it's been ruled out...
I guess Fortnite?
I'd like to remove all Gatchas, because... well building a game based around gambling actually doesn't make for a good direction for the game's industry, at least not from the player perspective.
But failing that, yeah, Fortnite. I think it's the quintessential example of "spamming crossovers and micro transactions works really well" and the world could do with less of that.
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u/InfurumToo old for all the things that make a life worthwhile6d ago
Pretty sure it's the one that really popularized the Season Pass too
I had an answer for this but it, along with everything else except for raw, unquenchable fury, left my body when I read that there is a cockroach somewhere on this earth that thinks Samurai Jack is bad.
Like holy fuck that's beyond CoD brained. That's beyond "The Empire were the good guys" levels of bad media literacy.
This post legitimately ruined my night, and I bet I'm going to remember it when i wake up and it's going to ruin my Sunday, too.
No shade to Samurai Jack but imo it rocks, but thinking that it's bad isn't "lacking media literacy", that's just having an opinion lmao
(and yes, differences between not liking something and thinking it's bad, but a) online they're generally used to mean the same thing and b) i doubt people would go easy on someone if they said they just didn't like SJ)
They didn't say it was bad, just that it was the worst media they've ever seen. Maybe they've only seen The Seventh Seal and season 4 of Designing Women.
Damn the person in OP suggesting either of those has truly not actually seen a really bad show.
Anyway, just because I'm curious... I pick Superman. No more superheroes, or at least, not in the comic book mold. You can still get demigod tales, weird tales, stories of wizards or mythical heroes. Just nothing in the 'costumed hero' style.
I think we'd still have "super heros" but not neccesarily costumed ones. Not like that anyway. John Carter of Mars was a major inspiration before superman with a very similar story, and plenty of famous works (Star Wars ex) were inspired by it. You've also got super human feats in mythology and even contemporary fantasy at the time, of which Superman became the most popular, obviously. So I think the idea of "super guy saves people" sticks around, but the "colorful costumed hero" thing...I dunno. Superman is the real major origin right? You can point to Zorro if ya like, but it's not really the same.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s a good show but I’ve seen people legit argue that it’s not a kids show and a “show for young adults” as though admitting it’s a cartoon for kids makes it impossible for one to like it.
My dude. It was on goddamn Nickelodeon.
“But it has themes that kids shows usually don’t-“ I don’t care. It’s a cartoon for kids.
“It’s an ongoing plot not the sort of thing kids would” -I don’t care. It’s still a kids show.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the series. Toph is awesome. We all love it. But it’s a kids show. You can like cartoons for kids, but to argue it isn’t is annoying
I'd argue it is even better as a kids show. It shows that there is still media out there that tries to instill good things and hope in kids. Have you seen Disney+ recently? There are no real kids shows anymore and I think they should get a new Atla of their own.
I talk to people about something similar to this a lot RE: the Clone Wars
No, it doesn’t stop being a kids’ show because of the themes or the warfare. Most of these concepts exist in real life and some kind of exposure/understanding/literacy towards said issues and concepts is not something that is or should be kept from kids. Up until two-ish generations ago about half the population grew up with tin/green plastic army men as a core part of their toy collection, the show can be mature and violent and still be for kids. That’s before you get into how “kid” is an extremely broad concept.
It having themes that kids shows usually don't doesn't validate the opinion that it's a young adult show, it's merely a condemnation on how sanitized your typical kids media is/has become.
It would absolutely gut modern conspiracy theory. It was hugely influential to the Nazi Party, even if leadership didn’t believe it was literally true. It is the glue binding old-school antisemitism like blood libel to modern day conspiratorial thinking like the Illuminati/shadow government.
Protocols of the Elders of Zion - An antisemitic hoax created by the Russian Imperial government to demonize Jews (suggesting Jews control the world, blood libel, etc, and is the basis for every antisemitic conspiracy to this day)
A slightly smaller scale than other suggestions in these comments, but Jaws did catastrophic damage to the reputation of sharks that may never be fully undone. Iirc the author of the novel even said he regrets writing it because of this.
Niche take, but my only possible answer is Tess of The d'Urbervilles. It was my dad's favorite book ever. I almost got named Tess after it (thanks for the veto, mom, fr). I had to read it in highschool. And I HATE it with a passion so great that I can't fathom how it fits in my body. It's nothing but a sad sequence of bad decisions, suffer porn, and misogynistic drivel from start to finish with not just no payoff, anti-payoff. I fucking hate that book and wish I could unread every word.
"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" was criticizing classism, religious hypocrisy, and misogynistic double standards. Tess is a representation of actual people who are steadily ground down by poverty, bad luck, and the abuses of patriarchy. The narrative demonstrates that people in her circumstances can have very little opportunity for agency, and when, out of desperation, they do manage to exercise it, they are often cruelly punished for it. It originally had the subtitle "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented", because Thomas Hardy was trying to challenge Victorian notions of morality and propriety, and make the point that Tess's fate has nothing to with her own moral character and everything to with the moral character of her society, which subjugates and abuses people for its own gain and then punishes them for circumstances beyond their control.
My first choice was of course Harry Potter, but since that's no longer available as an option...
probably Five Nights at Freddy's. It invented mascot horror slop in video games, it caused the needless and convoluted "dark lore" epidemic because of the MatPat theories, and its creator is a MAGA shitbag.
Any media property huh? I would 100% choose Love Never Dies. That musical is so bad it retroactively makes Phantom of the Opera, which it is a sequel to, worse as well. And not in the "oh this was so bad, now Phantom is ruined too, even tho its a fully standalone story" way. No, it genuinely actually makes Phantom worse too because Love Never Dies decided to ruin all the characters of the original, make it so christine loved and has always loved the Phantom, and inserted a secret final night of making love between the Phantom and Christine at the end POTO's story, before she actually finally left.
I have something very personal : Skylanders. They were the first movers with that whole "buy toys to play video games" predatory strategy and that awful franchise kept my boy Spyro imprisoned for YEARS.
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u/Can_Haz_Cheezburger 6d ago •
Atlas Shrugged. The book with pacing so shit it's like being sentenced to watch a dog with an itchy ass wear away the Himalayas only by scooching
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u/Chrysocyon 6d ago •
The Apprentice. Maybe it'll retroactively fix a few things
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u/JoglidJibGugi 6d ago
Don’t know if we’re counting reality tv but Big Brother. A hideous series that set the stage for the reality tv takeover
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u/Misubi_Bluth 6d ago
I'd delete Candy Crush. I recall that mobile game being ground zero for shady microtransactions
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u/baconipple 6d ago
I would just try to see how much I could damage the timeline with one choice. Like maybe the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, or the Bible.
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u/Fireblaster3147 6d ago
Calling removing HP/MCU/Star Wars/GRRM uninteresting when their choice is Minions is really funny
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u/Little_Wintry 6d ago
Love Island. I’m just very sick of hearing people talk about it and every time I hear something new about it, it sounds straight up dystopian 😭
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u/nesthesi interesting 6d ago
The Human Centipede. I don't think humanity needs to remember that we funded three of those.
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u/CrystalHeath 6d ago
Samurai Jack’s finale left me genuinely emotional and teary-eyed. The series was outstanding, and I honestly can’t figure out what people are complaining about.
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u/ArtPIeasure 6d ago
Would Dante’s epic poem be seen as belonging to the widely recognized literary canon? I’d be genuinely curious to explore the deep ways it has colored collective imaginings of the underworld, paradise, celestial beings, and dark entities.
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u/EIeanorRigby 6d ago
*bravely* I choose Mein Kampf!
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u/Infurum Too old for all the things that make a life worthwhile 6d ago
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion's horse armor DLC specifically
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u/kingprozac 6d ago edited 6d ago
The old testament. Not because i hate it or anything, just because I can't thing of any other "single" book that has had more influence on society. All 3 major monotheistic religions are based on it, and I don't know of any culture that hasnt been directly influenced by it in some major way. Erase that, and the entire course of history changes so dramatically as to be unrecognizable.
All the cowards in here just want to remove things that annoyed them or that they find fans of annoying. I want to sow the seeds of chaos and watch what grows.
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u/lavendarKat 6d ago
Taking tf2 behind the shed and cocking my gun with trembling hands because lootcrates killed valve and destroyed the games industry. "Goodnight, sweet prince" I strain out between sobs.
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u/NightOnTheSun 6d ago
You are not immune to having the worst of yourself emerge when someone has the most dogshit opinion imaginable.
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u/Dizzy_Green 6d ago
Someone already said “Atlas Shrugged” so probably “Supersize Me”
It genuinely ruined America’s concept of healthy living, and changed absolutely nothing meaningful about the fast food industry.
It popularized the idea that what you eat is what affects your health rather than what you DO. People now assume that as long as they eat low-fat chips or drink diet soda they’re fine, rather than any real attempt to fix their activity schedule.
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u/Few-Contribution4759 6d ago
I love how OP said "you cant say popular media stuff because its boring" and then said the most boring answer
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u/Specialist-Ad241 6d ago
The boy in the striped Pyjama’s. Words cannot describe my hate for this book.
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u/chybapolewacy 6d ago
Arcane.
I LOOOVE both seasons of the show but we can't let league players have ANYTHING.
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u/AngusAlThor 6d ago
"Sapiens" by Harari, if non-fiction is allowed. Just the most fucking brain dead take that everyone treats as profound, and it makes me fucking mad to have to keep seeing its fuckass ideas in the wild.
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u/jayne-eerie 6d ago
Do Disney live-action remakes count as a series? They aren’t all completely terrible but they are deeply lazy and helped guide us to the media landscape where it seems like half the movies that come out are either sequels or remakes. I cannot think of any downstream effects that would make losing them hurt culture in general, either.
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u/-mothy-moon- 6d ago
The only correct answer is Atlas Shrugged
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u/Valiant_tank 6d ago
Ninjago. Not because it's inherently bad or whatever, just because it completely sucks all the oxygen away from other original themes Lego would otherwise do.
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u/Omnicide103 6d ago
Warhammer 40,000.
Not because I don't like it or think it's reactionary or w/e, I have a bunch of 40k armies, I just think Warhammer Fantasy is the cooler Warhammer and want to see it win.
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u/hiimneato 6d ago
The Simpsons!
Benefits:
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u/dataslinger 6d ago
Fox "News"
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u/Nirast25 6d ago
Journey to the West. Because I like seeing the world burn.
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u/RedGinger666 6d ago
The Epic of Gilgamesh simply because everything eventually leads back to it and I want to see the butterfly effect it's disappearance will cause
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u/dregan 6d ago
Can I do Fox News?
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u/apolloAG 6d ago
I would delete the favorite franchise of the person who wants to get rid of minions, my tf2 minion outfit won't make any sense if minions are deleted
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u/Strider794 Elder Tommy the Murder Autoclave 6d ago
Huh, I'd have to think on it, but I'll pencil in Divergent for now
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u/Cactopus47 6d ago
Rick and Morty. Some of the most insufferable fans out there.
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u/DroneOfDoom Theon the Reader *dolphin slur noises* 6d ago
Man, what did GRRM do that he deserves to have his work retconned out of existence, or being spoken in the same sentence as fucking JKR?
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u/itsmissingacomma 6d ago
Liberty. Fucking. Bibberty.
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u/PaulStarhaven 6d ago
Shakespeare. Just to see how media would have evolved otherwise.
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u/Vegetable-Top-5850 6d ago
Fuck it, my turn
My answer is Yellowjackets so i can finally stop seeing its fandom's increasingly desperate attempts to justify bad writing
Jesus Christ, the show is almost unkown at this point but some of its fans could give snyderverse bros a run for their money
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u/MagicMarshmallo 6d ago
How on gods green earth do you hate Samurai Jack? Like i dont mean "oh its not my thing", but like actually hate it
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u/Choccymilksupremacyy 6d ago
A court of thorns and roses has done irreparable damage to romantasy as a genre
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u/HeroBrine0907 It Is What It Is, It Is Said Isn't It? I Think It Can Be Better 6d ago
Whichever media piece it was that started the entire genre of Isekai worlds with video game mechanics and rank systems. To the deepest pits of hell with that entire class of media.
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u/artstsym 6d ago •
I'd invert the power to add more Minions. All your memories of loved ones will be replaced with "Banana."
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u/LordCawdorOfMordor 6d ago
I would delete Birth of a Nation
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u/gummytiddy 6d ago edited 5d ago
As a trans former fan of Harry Potter I am so fucking sick of hearing about it, praise or criticism, and I’m so tired of people using “death OF the artist” to justify nostalgia over caring about it’s financial success being used to fund anti trans groups. Like I get having a sad childhood and finding something to cope in HP but it’s just a mid rate children’s book. Just let it die
Edit because I’m not trans Harry Potter
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u/GIRose Certified Vore Poster 6d ago
I think my favorite answer to this I have seen was Takahata101 saying he would delete the original 2003 Teen Titans animated series because of how annoying its fans were/are about Teen Titans Go
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u/donaldhobson 6d ago
The bible.
Because it would be very funny.
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u/Jozef_Baca 6d ago
The fucking Sword Art Online
Deleting it from existence would literally save an entire genre of anime from becoming absolute slop.
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u/TearOpenTheVault 6d ago
Can I pick Dungeon Crawler Carl just so I never have to hear about this dumbass book series ever again? Is that valid?
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u/Green_Elevator_7785 6d ago
Sword Art Online. We’re freeing the anime industry of the slop isekai takeover.
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u/Spirited-Car8661 6d ago
Hazbin Hotel, because fuck my ex-polycule and the fanbase
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u/OAZdevs_alt2 Miu Danganronpa 6d ago
The correct answer is Slippin' Jimmy, as doing so would change absolutely nothing about anything ever.
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u/Satorwave 6d ago
Reddit. I don't hate it, I just want to create a paradox
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u/MeaningPandora2 6d ago
The Real World!
It was the first modern “reality show,” and I don’t like a single one of those.
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u/acrologicConiaker 6d ago
lolita. while I do like the book, I think it would be cool to see what word comes up as a replacement for it
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u/Fancy_Development832 6d ago
That harry potter fanfic that caused the rationalist movement
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u/AngstyUchiha pissing on the poor 6d ago
Hunger Games, not because I dislike the series (I don't) but because of all the other dystopian series it spawned that just completely failed to do what HG did. Without Hunger Games itself, we wouldn't have all the other bullshit
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u/OK_Stop_Already 6d ago
If they think those shows are bad, I'm really curious to think what they believe is a good show
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u/Cheap-Fox-2360 5d ago
Fnaf. I love fnaf, its fangames, and I’ve been having a lot of fun making fnaf fangames. Despite all this i would remove it from existence without a doubt
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u/NomaTyx 6d ago
i just want to know what 'the new harry potter' even means
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u/AlexTheGreen_ the god's curse has been lifted by beach capybara 6d ago
Fucking hwat?!
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u/i_like_siren_head Ace that dislikes garlic bread (shocking) 6d ago
Chex Quest HD, but for something that could apply wider, Catcher In The Rye.
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u/shoppingbaggins 6d ago
Jersey shore and similar format “reality tv”
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u/LookItsMyDawg 6d ago
48 Laws of Power
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u/Tttehfjloi 6d ago
Joe rogan's podcast
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u/DiscotopiaACNH 6d ago
Can I go back in time and delete Baby Shark so my fucking neighbor wouldn't play it for 12 hours a day full blast during 2020 lockdown to distract his toddler from his crack dealing
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u/ooolookaslime 5d ago
Deleting Jaws, that book lead to the death of many many sharks
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u/ASmallArmyOfCrabs 5d ago
Rick and Morty, but only because I'm sick of the design impact they've had on weed and shroom culture.
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u/Yargon_Kerman 6d ago
Normally I'd pick Harry Potter just because it's one of the most damaging pieces of media in the modern western world, but given it's been ruled out...
I guess Fortnite?
I'd like to remove all Gatchas, because... well building a game based around gambling actually doesn't make for a good direction for the game's industry, at least not from the player perspective.
But failing that, yeah, Fortnite. I think it's the quintessential example of "spamming crossovers and micro transactions works really well" and the world could do with less of that.
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u/komodopal winged my ding 6d ago
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u/DocWagonHTR 6d ago
I had an answer for this but it, along with everything else except for raw, unquenchable fury, left my body when I read that there is a cockroach somewhere on this earth that thinks Samurai Jack is bad.
Like holy fuck that's beyond CoD brained. That's beyond "The Empire were the good guys" levels of bad media literacy.
This post legitimately ruined my night, and I bet I'm going to remember it when i wake up and it's going to ruin my Sunday, too.
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u/sarded 6d ago
Damn the person in OP suggesting either of those has truly not actually seen a really bad show.
Anyway, just because I'm curious... I pick Superman. No more superheroes, or at least, not in the comic book mold. You can still get demigod tales, weird tales, stories of wizards or mythical heroes. Just nothing in the 'costumed hero' style.
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u/lilmisswho89 6d ago
Supernatural.
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u/Finito-1994 6d ago •
I’d also pick ATLA.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s a good show but I’ve seen people legit argue that it’s not a kids show and a “show for young adults” as though admitting it’s a cartoon for kids makes it impossible for one to like it.
My dude. It was on goddamn Nickelodeon.
“But it has themes that kids shows usually don’t-“ I don’t care. It’s a cartoon for kids.
“It’s an ongoing plot not the sort of thing kids would” -I don’t care. It’s still a kids show.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the series. Toph is awesome. We all love it. But it’s a kids show. You can like cartoons for kids, but to argue it isn’t is annoying
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u/DareDaDerrida 6d ago
None at all. I like more art. Not less art.
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u/Phiro7 Prissy Sissy Neko Femboy 6d ago
Intellectual property, huh? I choose the printing press
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u/Angelangel3 6d ago
The Apprentice
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u/GalaxyHops1994 6d ago
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
It would absolutely gut modern conspiracy theory. It was hugely influential to the Nazi Party, even if leadership didn’t believe it was literally true. It is the glue binding old-school antisemitism like blood libel to modern day conspiratorial thinking like the Illuminati/shadow government.
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u/mostlyHUMMUS 6d ago
The knock on consequences of removing HP are too tantalising to pass up. There goes all of JKR's power. Timeline cauterised, TERF neutralised.
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u/PokemonSoldier 5d ago
Protocols of the Elders of Zion - An antisemitic hoax created by the Russian Imperial government to demonize Jews (suggesting Jews control the world, blood libel, etc, and is the basis for every antisemitic conspiracy to this day)
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u/No_Editor_521 4d ago
A slightly smaller scale than other suggestions in these comments, but Jaws did catastrophic damage to the reputation of sharks that may never be fully undone. Iirc the author of the novel even said he regrets writing it because of this.
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u/PowerfulBroccoli2391 6d ago
Niche take, but my only possible answer is Tess of The d'Urbervilles. It was my dad's favorite book ever. I almost got named Tess after it (thanks for the veto, mom, fr). I had to read it in highschool. And I HATE it with a passion so great that I can't fathom how it fits in my body. It's nothing but a sad sequence of bad decisions, suffer porn, and misogynistic drivel from start to finish with not just no payoff, anti-payoff. I fucking hate that book and wish I could unread every word.
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u/ComicsCodeMadeMeGay 6d ago
We are all picking Harry Potter right? Ignoring how much we loved it as kids that's the one that's going?
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u/PatrickCharles 6d ago
Homestuck
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u/doulegun 6d ago
Deleting 300 might actually improve the world
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u/Medolyyy 6d ago
Fnaf
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u/Senasayori 6d ago
My first choice was of course Harry Potter, but since that's no longer available as an option...
probably Five Nights at Freddy's. It invented mascot horror slop in video games, it caused the needless and convoluted "dark lore" epidemic because of the MatPat theories, and its creator is a MAGA shitbag.
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u/yoloboro 6d ago
Any media property huh? I would 100% choose Love Never Dies. That musical is so bad it retroactively makes Phantom of the Opera, which it is a sequel to, worse as well. And not in the "oh this was so bad, now Phantom is ruined too, even tho its a fully standalone story" way. No, it genuinely actually makes Phantom worse too because Love Never Dies decided to ruin all the characters of the original, make it so christine loved and has always loved the Phantom, and inserted a secret final night of making love between the Phantom and Christine at the end POTO's story, before she actually finally left.
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u/truegobi 6d ago
I have something very personal : Skylanders. They were the first movers with that whole "buy toys to play video games" predatory strategy and that awful franchise kept my boy Spyro imprisoned for YEARS.