losing my goddamn mind that i woke up today in a world where somehow by some wild goddamn twist of fate's dagger, the edgy escapist-funded early-2000s smash bros parody series There Will Be Relevant is relevant again. i waited with baited breath for every single episode of this god damned show and now zoomers are gonna discourse about how many times the r-slur gets dropped
(i have no idea how many times the r-slur gets dropped, i just assume it's A Lot because 2009)
https://youtu.be/c3gkWAJWWN4
just scrubbing through the video and hooooooooo boy this series has not aged well at all. it's early 2000s male nerd psychosis crystallized at the barest dawn of its cultural dominance. it's a showcase of bad tropes and mean caricatures that read today like a fever dream premonition of zack snyder's justice league and the rise of the marvel movie.
so much early 2000s nerd media is like this, desperately clawing for recognition just a few years before its ilk would take over the fucking world
edgy kirby
that they turned kirby into a hannibal lecter knockoff really says everything you need to say about online nerd culture in 2009
i will say just by virtue of everything being physical, there are times when this is somehow more dynamic even than actual marvel movies. like idk it's cool that people bruise and bleed when they get punched. grading on a curve here