“Will make the super bowl look like a puppy show. -Q” from Q post 2843, date? Feb 20, 2019
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What comes to my mind from that "puppy show" is actually something called Sad Puppies, and connected to the I presume rather obscure science fiction award, unless you are an older SF fan because it used to mean something more back in the day. The Hugo Awards, given during the World Science Fiction Convention. Because when one author started a movement trying to change that award back to something given to actually good works, instead of something mostly based on politically "correct" authors now over a decade ago the backlash seemed to be way over the top considering how frankly obscure the whole thing had become by then - mostly because how politicised the whole thing had become years ago, meaning that most people who had once known about the prize had given up checking the works that had won it because they no longer had any guarantee to be good.
This is what wikipedia claims about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies
And this is what Larry Correia, who started it, tells about what really happened. He and a few other authors tried to save the award, turn it back into something readers would look at in order to find new authors to read...
https://monsterhunternation.com/2015/08/24/sad-puppies-3-looking-at-the-results/
Please read both.
The whole backlash to the effort was, as said, way too big to really make sense. The assumption was that a few rich authors, especially George R. R. Martin who wrote the books the television series Game of Thrones is based on (and who got rich enough that he probably never will finish the book series as he is said to be somebody who mostly works only when he has to, for money), may have been the ones who gave the money to push the Wikipedia idea and get surprisingly many stories about that in rather big newspapers, but from what we know now - the whole attack might have been pushed from higher up in the political foodchain, for whatever reason.
Larry Correia, BTW, is a very good author, if you like action packed science fiction and fantasy stories.
Thank you for your detailed reply.
I think Q confirmed what you said in your first sentence in his post 2869, when he asked:
I hadn’t even heard of that sad puppies affair, but as someone who came into this thing via gamergate, I believe it.
Not most people have heard of it, unless you are a science fiction fan. I doubt all that many people who were not even bothered to read those MSM articles about the affair. As said the size of that backlash back then seemed to make no sense, but with the hindsight we have now, maybe it does. As well as gamergate, from what little I know about it.
The beast wanted to squash all attempts by people to change their entertainment back to something actually entertaining because they didn't want to give up one iota of the hold they had gotten of it, as it has presumably been one of the parts of their attempt to change culture permanently. "Politics is downstream from culture", as Breitbart said.
Yep makes perfect sense and fits right in the lineup with gamergate. They must have control over all places we might go to escape their idiocy.