Hey, so do yall remember Slogwell "Slog" Victor Thomas, the inventor of SPUD and his "eat everything" philosophy?
This guy?
Well, it turns out the new Dungeon Meshi anime has a character who is basically a less evil version of this guy named Laios.
Broadly speaking yes popular culture would be a thing as it has always been, but I'm of the opinion that with this level of historical divergence what it looks like would be so radically different we wouldn't really be able to draw any useful comparisons to our own.
If you have stuff like a surviving Byzantine or Ottoman empire, or parts of France remain independent, then history changes so much that pop culture is impossible to predict imo. These worlds might not even have any equivalent of pop music or animation studios.
I don't really buy into the theory that antihero characters would be less popular. The 90s saw such a massive explosion of anti-heroes that "90s antihero" is the name of a whole trope, and from what info I was able to find on the subject, no 9/11 would have likely resulted in this being even...
Is that even a fan theory at this point? I thought it was all but confirmed.
For me it was stormfront. Not just because she was a nazi, there was something deeply enraging about her whole fake grrrl power persona.
Although I must say I've always had a fondness for the more mundane kinds of...
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I guess I can add this show actually releasing and not being cancelled to my pop culture utopia timeline
Wow that's a giant list.
I've never heard of this before. How was Amphibia changed to be more like the loud house?
Based on my experience it's quite a bit more popular OTL rather then needing to catch up, at least going by things like demand for books.
I'm pretty sure Dana Terrace herself has...