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amdistthemists:

Everyone- eat the rich! everyone on the Titan was a self entitled rich person (except that poor kid rip)! They shouldn’t have exploited the victims of the Titanic!

News sources everywhere-

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Why do I keep seeing James Cameron all over my news (I know these are both Insider, but I have been seeing James Cameron in the news for days from several different outlets, I’m just lazy) Listen, I know he did the time and made the movie but how is he any different? Rich white guy? Profited off of the exploitation of the tragedy of the Titanic? Self entitled expert? Bleh I’m over seeing his crusty wannabe Saruman face all over my phone. Go back to the Avatar movies and think about what you’ve done.


Image descriptions- two news articles, one titled “James Cameron estimates he’s spent more time with the Titanic than the ship’s actual captain after 33 voyages to the wreckage” and “The Titan sub was likely trying to surface and the passengers probably knew the hull was starting to crack before it imploded, James Cameron says.”

A news article titled James Cameron on Titanic Submarine Loss: “Struck by the Similarity of the Titanic Disaster Itself” and a lovely hands rubbing meme with the text “James Cameron eyeballing the opportunity he never thought would come: Titanic 2”

…I’m writing this under the assumption that you don’t know any better, because hoo boy is this a bad take

James Cameron legitimately numbers among the small handful of people most qualified to talk about the Titan disaster. The reason why is because being a filmmaker is almost a side project compared to his very real contributions to submersible design, oceanography, and undersea exploration. Cameron has spent decades in the field of undersea science and submarine engineering. He co-designed a submersible called Deepsea Challenger which he personally took to the Challenger Deep, the lowest point of the Marianas Trench and the lowest point on Earth, alone; the first and to date only person to have ever done so solo. His hyperfixation is not the Titanic, it’s submersible engineering and undersea exploration in general.
Here’s him being presented the Nierenberg Prize (for contributions to oceanography) in 2013:

Note that in the above interview he literally says that he made Titanic essentially just to get the funding to go to the wreck site (and to have the funding to continue to do so decades onward). He’s made 33 dives to the wreck of the Titanic.

The reason why he appears in the news is not because he wants to talk about the disaster. It’s got little to nothing to do with him having made Titanic (though that is tangentially related). It’s because everyone knows that he is an actual, legitimate expert on the issue of submersible engineering (as well as both diving and diving to the Titanic wreck in particular), and so they bombarded him with interview requests and requests for comment. He specifically did not respond to any such requests until after the deaths of the passengers had been confirmed, because he knew that the sub had imploded and they were all dead, and he didn’t want to be insensitive and drown everyone’s hopes by telling everyone that the search and rescue was pointless. Here’s him on ABC News next to his friend and associate Dr. Bob Ballad, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, who is probably the only other person more qualified than Cameron to talk about the recent disaster:

TL;DR: James Cameron is not being interviewed because “he made Titanic”; he’s being interviewed because he’s a well-known and verifiable submersible engineering and undersea expert.

the-meme-monarch:

pigeonperch:

the-meme-monarch:

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THERES A CYAN HEART EMOJI NOW 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 ARE YOU SEEING THIS 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵LOOK🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

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when i said “are you seeing this” i meant it genuinely and it turns out the answer is a resounding no

fallout-lou-begas:

in the latest Defunctland documentary Kevin Perjurer tries to figure out who wrote the four-note Disney Channel “theme” that played in all of their jingles from 2002 onward, and he does eventually get an answer and it’s extremely touching, but then Kevin says that In the end, the production of the work is only half of the process, and maybe all that matters is someone, somewhere, got something from whatever you created. And in the case of the Disney Channel mnemonic, that is indisputable. In the minds of thousands if not millions of people, this music evokes feelings and memories often long lost, and this is not just a comment on the Disney Channel mnemonic but the conclusion of Kevin’s self-reflection on whether he makes “real” art or is a “true” documentary filmmaker or not because of how difficult it is to feel legitimate as a “content creator” or a “youtuber.” and i am crying real tears from this documentary because by the end of it i had finally realized that i recognized almost every single disney channel bumper and promo and inter that he used for footage because my sister watched a lot of disney channel from that era when she was 5-10 years old, and i remember this footage because i watched her watch it, and i suddenly remembered this part of my childhood more vividly than i thought that i ever would or could remember it again. and i realized that i am someone somewhere getting something from what kevin perjurer has created. and not just
“something” but something that i thought that i had lost and would never get back

amristudioart:

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It’s Usagi Tsukino dressed up as Cinderella ~ her birthday is June 30. In the episode in Sailor Moon Super when it’s her birthday and she wants a pair of glass slippers. Mamoru gets them for her but then the moment is ruined by a monster that transformed from the slippers and then steals Usagi’s pure heart!!

emi–rose:

dragonomatopoeia:

i’ve died on smaller hills, so i can’t judge. but i do think it’s funny whenever posts about the proper definition of a poor little meow meow circulate, considering none of them mention that the origin was a kpop fan’s absolutely bonkers tweet about not being able to protect a full grown man who was getting backlash for including audio from the jonestown cult leader jim jones in one of his songs

I was clearly not at the devils sacrament what the fuck

a-very-fond-farewell:

squidwujun:

siegesquirrel42:

gemstone-gynoid:

I heard reference to something about how all anime are required to have good looking cabbage because of That One Time. So simply looking up “anime cabbage” I found the source.

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Some harem anime way back in the day had an episode where the characters cooked, and they animated cabbage so terribly like this it left a bad mark on the anime community forever. Apparently this is part of the reason why all food usually looks good in anime, even moreso than the regular show sometimes. With cabbage being especially well drawn.

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A complaint, apparently in a paper.

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The first show when released internationally was reanimated in this part.

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And high quality or low quality cabbage is sometimes referenced.

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I learned of this because the most recent Hologra episode has noel eating cabbage, tearing apart a fine quality cabbage into two low poly halves.

i love learning about other cultures’ memes, especially like this

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