I think the Reaganite 80s were the perfect moment for Miller's sick fascist superhero fantasies to be received as 'artful,' and 'literary' or what have you.

Batman comics had been hard-boiled pulp detective stories since the 70s but that tonal shift is specifically associated with Miller, oddly enough.

YEEEEAHHH

also I like how it often gets framed as "start with Ghibli and then you can work your way up to the degenerate seasonal stuff." yeah once you've seen good accessible stuff everyone likes you'll be more receptive to the latest fetish/ isekai garbage, which is of course when you are a True Anime Fan

like telling someone to start with the AFI top 100 and then they'll be ready to watch Jurassic World Rebirth

If you become enough of a big name on YouTube you might even get your awful novel or movie or whatever greenlit.

The liberal version of the Steve Bannon failed writer/artist thing is to take a crack at making vapid video essays.

Overlaps with the Games era fear of John K. himself