"Confronted with a massive surplus of content that is being shoved into our faces at all times, which is harder than ever to avoid or even limit, we need new ways to process it all as it accumulates, and gooning is one such response to the excess."

you'd probably like Sachin Benny's substack! summerlightning.substack.com

yes exactly!

great points. might be more accurate to say that slop appears for no *good* reason (at least from the viewer's perspective)...ie a lot of slop is serving a clear purpose for the party who is pumping it out

and point 2 deserves its own essay...slop friendly environments

LFG

thank you Noah! so glad you enjoyed this one, had been building up for a while