Ulorian - Agent of Chaos
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It is a pejorative term. That is what I said in the post that you are quoting. It means taking something interesting and reducing it to pablum.Except that you are ignoring the contextual meaning of the word "Disneyfication" which has been used repeatedly, over and over again, for years, particularly by a particular brand of grognard, as a perjorative term to mean infantile, immature and bad.
Wide eyed proclamations of only meaning the word in a specific sense is pretty trolling 101.
Should the poster have used that term? I don't think so. It's unnecessarily inflammatory. But it's use indicates that the user feels strongly about the subject. Not great, but I can understand.
The response to this statement is what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is that I find it unlikely that most if not all of the responders don't (edit: I'd left out the don't here...) know what Disneyfication means. But instead of responding in a direct way, addressing the obviously intended use of the term and what the user was implying when they said it, a more passive aggressive approach was taken. Pretending to not understand and saying things like 'but which style of Disney art do you mean? There are so many...'. To me, this is a dishonest way of handling things. I know some people have issues with confrontation or speaking up for themselves and acting like this feels safer. I get that and empathise with it. The reality though is that if a person has a problem with a statement, the outcome is much better for everyone if that person simply comes out and say exactly what their issue is rather than beating around the bush.
To be fair, I think there were some more reasoned responses to the original posts; I'm just addressing the, in my opinion, not so great responses.
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