Another SFW community: !guitarporn@sfw.community . Whether you have a large collection or just that one special piece of gear that you love, this is the place for you to show it off.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The “implied perverse thrill” seems a bit of projection on your part

    You can read the critical reception of the film yourself here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_(film)#Critical_response

    A sample of adjectives: “nasty”, “nihilistic”, “mean”, “insinuatingly creepy”, “derivative”, “loathsome”, and, yes, “perverse”

    “visually appealing/stimulating images that have no context and at best provide a simulacrum of interest in the object or activity”

    what a silly self serving definition. “porn” has a particular meaning which you can look up in the OED, Cambridge, Websters etc. Definition 3 is how it was used - with negtive connotation - for “torture porn” and (the example in MW) “the pornography of violence”.

    The extension of that to mudane everyday things (food, cars, guitars) and especially when the material shared typically falls well short of “sensational” is just a lazy habit that reddit picked up (and other online spaces too) that I, and clearly others in this thread, think Lemmy wouldbe better without. etto…

    • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, it’s a bit self-serving. Thing is, I could not think of other term to convey this idea as succinctly. Maybe “Fetish” would be better, but it would still carry sexual connotations.

      • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Why does everything have to be sexualised and sensationalised? That’s encouraged on Reddit, and any other profit driven social media, because they’re bending over backwards to bleed you dry of engagement. It’s thoroughly unpleasant.

        Lemmy has a chance to be something different. BestGuitarPics is what you’re actually curating. Or AwesomeGuitarPics if you want a little something extra. Jamming “Porn” on to everything just to try and stir a sense of interest is just sad.

        • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          “Best Guitar Pics” is dull and completely unimaginative. It’s the “Microsoft Approach of Naming Products ™”; which does not allow itself to take any risks and ends up being soulless, corporate, empty. Or to use a more contemporary reference: it’s the type of slop that ChatGPT would produce if someone asked “suggest a name for a community for people to share pictures of guitars”.

          • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            “Best Guitar Pics”

            merely an example. Be sure to let BestOfLemmy etc know…

            “dull and completely unimaginative”

            and your solution is to tack “Porn” on the end? oh dear