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New Media Are Evil

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New Media Are Evil	comment	There's always going to be The New Rock & Roll, that new fad or thing that causes whippersnappers to act all crazy and wild like they've all gone bonkers. Typically, this is a fringe phenomenon, and political and religious radicals will be bewailing the development while the media just reports on it. With New Media (Internet, social media, blogs, etc), even professional journalists throw objectivity to the wind and argue that "New media are evil!, in speculation-filled, inflammatory, headline-grabbing rants. This is by no means limited to the Internet, although the sheer density of information we receive today can make it seem that way. This trope is about new media throughout history, from written words being developed, to printing, to radio and recordings, to TV and computerized communications. The motivation to demonize a new medium can go much deeper than the desire of the media itself to make headlines. In our giant, pan-corporate world, there's a good chance that some news outlets are owned by a guy who owns a major recording label or magazines. All of a sudden HQ's interest in stories about devious pirating activities and free blogs which are stealing news readers' attention away becomes quite noticeable. To an audience generally uninformed about what the New Media is like to begin with, whether or not the story is true is irrelevant: the ring of truth is what becomes important. Bear in mind that the impression given can largely be due to ignorance, the Cowboy BeBop at His Computer misstep taken by someone who is already predisposed to distrust this "Cowboy Bebop" character in the first place. Take the Internet as an example; though it has come to dominate our lives today, it had a much greater mystique in The '90s when it first became mainstream. People taking up professions in the media industry as a career and most of the people involved today still don't have a full grasp on what the Internet is, so when the assumption is that It's A Small Net After All, all of a sudden every little instance of graphic pornography or 4chan vandalism ends up speaking for the Internet as a whole. This mentality decreases a great deal once the industry and society have adjusted to major technological advances and sees them as the norm. In other words, when the Medium stops being New, it stops being Evil. Almost every new medium of communication or expression that has appeared since the dawn of history has been accompanied by doomsayers and critics who have confidently predicted that it would bring about The End of the World as We Know It by weakening the brain or polluting our precious bodily fluids. The same thing has happened to basically every type of media in history, making this trope as old as mankind itself. Writing itself was hugely suspicious for example, as people feared that it would cripple the ability to memorise things, as this was now no longer needed as everything could be written down. This isn't necessarily just "old man yelling at clouds", however. After all, Appeal to Novelty is a common fallacy, and sometimes new inventions come under fire not because of an unwillingness to change, but because the change that they bring are legitimately losses in terms of factors like art or information. Just because a particular example is listed below, it wasn't necessarily put there to ridicule those who think the subject is bad. Most often, though, the new medium allows a new freedom or added features that makes for more opportunity. This is Older Than They Think, as you can see from the very first examples. Supertrope to Social Media Is Bad and Digital Piracy Is Evil. See also: Theatre Is True Acting (comparing new mediums to "classic" stage acting), murder.com, Everything Is Online, Clickbait Gag, There Should Be a Law, TV Never Lies, Media Scaremongering, Books vs. Screens, Cyberbullying, Bad Influencer, and Appeal to Tradition. The opposite usually ends with Old Media Playing Catch-Up. If books or other forms of written communication are portrayed as superior, it may also be an example of The Power of Language. Compare and contrast Digital Horror. The inversion of this trope, when new media develop a similar attitude toward the old boys' club, is Old Media Are Evil. Don't forget that Old Media was NEW back then.
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New Media Are Evil / int_10d303a2	comment	In Shin Megami Tensei IV, the angels consider any book that tells a story this. This is not really new media. The angels cast a portion of humanity they considered "worthy" out of modern-day Tokyo and made them think they were living in a medieval type of society.
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New Media Are Evil / int_1106ab9b	comment	In DCeased the Anti-Life virus is widespread through the use of the internet and cell phones, with 600 million people being affected almost instantly.
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New Media Are Evil / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: One episode has a killer who stalked and become obsessed with his victim on an obvious Second Life rip-off. The crucial clue to finding his kidnapping victim was to find the cabin he built for her in-game, in a location identical to the real-world cabin he built to keep his targets in. That's right, the guy modeled a lake and the attending geography so carefully, and placed his model cabin (also scrupulously accurate to the real-world version) exactly where it was in real life, and on top of that, the Second Life rip-off had such a perfect lighting engine that the detectives found the cabin by dawning the virtual sun and then seeing how the shadows fell and oh my God. In another episode, a kid claimed to have run over and then murdered a woman in a red dress because she looked like a prostitute out of a suspiciously GTA-esque video game, to the point where he was loudly describing the murder on the witness stand while his thumbs were furiously moving around in his lap and supposed mimicking the buttons one would push in the game. Inverted, because the A.D.A. saw right through his bullshit. There's also an episode where a teenager has been murdered. As they investigate her life, they discover that she had sex with men for clothes (and later for money.) They then discover her profile on a website people go on to find casual sex partners (not for pay) and one of the detectives states that it's a "small step" between having casual sex with people you met through the internet and becoming a $500 a night underaged call girl. "Chat Room" also demonizes the internet, with parts of the episode dedicated to Stabler's unease about the world wide web, equating the family's computer with a window for perverts to potentially sneak in through to take advantage of his children. In the episode "Web", a teenager is making child pornography starring himself and putting it up on the internet, and making huge quantities of money from it. The teenager was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, but several lines in the episode imply that this kind of thing happens all the time and your children may start doing it at any moment (Stabler: "Used to be kids were safe when they were at home.") You got to admit that they do think that teenagers are intelligent people. So intelligent that they would know how to make their own website and learn the 4 main web-scripting languages in a very short time. Subverted to an extent, however, in an episode where a mentally-challenged teenager is suspected of killing one of his foster sisters as a result of his fascination with a fantasy role-play computer game, with some elements of the crime scene reflecting his interest in the game. The detectives rule him out, however, because he identified with the hero character, not any of the villains; he was acting out his interest in the game to try and protect her, not to harm her. Played painfully straight in "Intimidation Game", another "video games are evil" episode that equates all gamers with delusional terrorists and rapists.
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New Media Are Evil / int_158b0cbb	comment	One example of something good coming from this trope: Fred Rogers hated TV because the first time he watched it, he saw people throwing pies at each other and wanted to make something better out of it. He succeeded.
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New Media Are Evil / int_1b1c2c8a	comment	The Social Network subverts this and plays it straight. It's somewhat admiring of the technology we use today, and acknowledges the influence it has on society and why people would use it, but also notes how the people behind it usually don't have the best ideals...
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New Media Are Evil / int_1b7f85df	comment	A more balanced, less obvious example: the antagonist of the second season of K is a King who builds an app that allows users to get powers from him without actually meeting him (as the other Kings require, since they recruit their Clansmen personally) or even being aware of Kings and the Slates from which they get their powers. As such, he has a much larger base of fighters, who operate mostly anonymously. Jungle "missions" (taken on for points that can be collected to gain greater powers) include basically trolling the other Clans, as well as planting small things like fake fruit and plushies in public locations — that have bombs inside. Or distracting all of the employees in a mall so that a robbery can be committed. Or helping a higher-ranking member get past security into a school so that they can try to kill someone inside. So really, he's weaponized the dark side of internet society. However, the core members aren't shown as bad people, and it's not the technology that made them do bad things — one of the main characters is an expert hacker who infiltrates Jungle and is instrumental in stopping them from destroying the world.
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New Media Are Evil / int_1cca7165	comment	Cyberbu//y (2011) seems to behave this way toward social networking sites. While the main moral of the film is supposed to be about all the damage cyberbullying and internet harassment can cause, it really seems to be more like "social networking sites are evil".
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New Media Are Evil / int_1fc7499e	comment	Reaper Man, Soul Music and Moving Pictures featured Shopping Malls, Rock Music and Film as their respective Big Bads. The author later acknowledged that this came off as a little reactionary, let alone formulaic, leading to books where inventions like space travel, the newspaper, the clacks network, and Hex, the Unseen University's computer, while not entirely without their problems, push Discworld from pseudo-medievalism into pseudo-steampunk.
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New Media Are Evil / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: An episode where Reed, a blogger, tried to get Mac to give information on the Taxicab Killer. Mac refuses, so Reed proceeds to make something up. This whips up hysteria enough that three cabbies murder some random cabbie that they suspect to be the killer, except he was a cop. Considering that bloggers like Charles Johnson made their bones exposing malfeasance in old media, this is Anvilicious with a corrupt anvil. And just to drive it home even further, he's the next victim, or is he? It should be noted that Reed's original role in the series was as Mac's long-lost stepson, so there's definitely other tropes at play here. Still, there's probably a bit of new media hatin' in the mix. It also features a subversion: In "Down the Rabbit Hole", the team discovers that a Psycho for Hire is using Second Life to find info on her targets. She doesn't conform to the "Internet Stalker" archetype at all, and it's made quite clear she doesn't care for the game as anything more than a weapon (as revealed in a sequence where she uses a virus to crash her own server). Plus, it's revealed that Ross is an avid player. Another subversion in a more recent episode — a Chatroulette-like program alerts the CSIs to a murder before it's discovered (allowing them to be assured that they'll get the best possible evidence); Mac and Jo both experiment with the program and find it to be interesting, rather than harmful. Jo even uses it to show New York to a serviceman in Afghanistan. Later still, being signed up to a Facebook Bland-Name Product as part of a joke is what puts Mac back in touch with an old friend, who ends up being his Love Interest (and occasional Damsel in Distress) for the remainder of the series. Since the episode's plot involved a fake profile being used by woman to trick the victim (her soon-to-be-ex-husband) into having an "affair" (to use against him in the divorce), which indirectly lead to the murder (the victim saw through it, but jokingly said he'd have her killed so she took opportunity to murder him during the robbery at the start of the episode, thinking she could frame the robbers - unfortunately it was staged by their daughter, who was sick of both of their crap) this was probably an attempt to avoid this trope.
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New Media Are Evil / int_227431b6	comment	In Runaways, to prevent the Runaways from going to the police to reveal their evil plans, evil organization "Pride" frames one of them for murder, using the MMO he was playing as justification for why he may have done it.
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New Media Are Evil / int_238849d4	comment	Contagion (2011) deliciously follows this trope. As a new global pandemic spreads, Alan Krumwiede is an intrepid freelance internet journalist with his own popular self-published news blog. He plays on the trope of the "lone, intrepid reporter breaking the story!" and firmly believes that Old Media Are Evil. In his posts, he vilifies the government agencies trying to deal with the outbreak, making it more difficult for them to enforce a quarantine. Stirring so much paranoia about government conspiracies and evil big pharmaceutical companies makes him into an internet celebrity, and soon this... self-employed outsider journalist with no credentials is a guest on every national TV news channel and is being put into live debates with CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta. However, instead of posting a report that the government already has a vaccine and is withholding it or something... he tells his thousands of readers that the virus can be cured by taking an over-the-counter herbal remedy, Forsythia. As it turns out, he's bought up massive amounts of stock in national Forsythia manufacturers and is just trying to profit off the disaster. Adeptly manipulating the Old Media Are Evil trope, the more that national officials on TV state he's a crackpot, the more people think they're just trying to cover him up. When the CDC eventually manages to produce a vaccine, he starts saying its unsafe, trying to keep people buying Forsythia.
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New Media Are Evil / int_2588eeb0	comment	Dr. Phil has this trope every few episodes, usually focusing on 1) Children who are kidnapped by some stranger they met on the internet and 2) Children who spend too much time on the internet or texting.
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New Media Are Evil / int_263d5756	comment	Thanks to Live Free or Die Hard, we learn that using the internet, you can shut down the world! (Except, apparently, the BMW SOS call center.) In fact, there are viruses designed to damage power plants, waterworks and nuclear reactors. This may be a serious problem in the future.
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New Media Are Evil / int_277c2476	comment	Later interviews on the subject have Moore clarify that while he does view a series like Harry Potter to be a less challenging and safer work than, say, Performance, he doesn't hold that all modern culture is a nadir. However, this is compounded by the post-60's world of the League featuring fewer literary and alternative media characters. So while we know Moore doesn't indict everyone with this trope, it's hard to know who he would cite as an aversion.note There remains an argument that the literary or written down versions of drama and oral tales by their very format should be judged as less restrictive than film or acted-out drama and tales. This viewpoint argues if we were to say British fiction is worse today than the Victorian era, we compare the books of then to the books of now instead of the books of then to the films of now and etc. However, Moore's League has been open to all fiction, but uses far more British film or television references than book references in later volumes. This has led some to find Moore's comparisons a bit unbalanced.
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New Media Are Evil / int_2a842e3a	comment	The Doctor Who Expanded Universe novel The Gallifrey Chronicles features a vignette set in The '80s, in which an alien intelligence introduces a device that's like a mobile phone, but much smaller, strangely streamlined, and with a screen, to a school playground. The children become fascinated, and then antisocial and withdrawn, as the alien radiation brainwashes them. They also start, somehow, talking in a way that skips vowels and uses numbers instead of homonymous words. Yes, the texting generation is an evil alien plot! (Author Lance Parkin may have had his tongue firmly in cheek.)
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New Media Are Evil / int_2ad4ca99	comment	A number of musicians, including David Byrne and Andy Partridge, have expressed disdain for Spotify, with the former penning an op-ed in the Guardian saying that streaming would kill creativity. While that has some bluster the main complaint is the low royalties with these streaming services. Since this affects the livelihood of musicians, it could impact how they work when they get creative.
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New Media Are Evil / int_2b6ff783	comment	ClickHole parodies Video Game related moral panics with the steadily more and more absurd The Ability to Play as Bowser Has Made Our Society More Evil.
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New Media Are Evil / int_2ba48a26	comment	Castle has an episode where a killer believes and acts out on this. He was cyberbullied in high school before any precedents were set, meaning the kids who he believes ruined his life weren't charged. Therefore, he targets "Snapomatic" (basically Instagram, with a bit of Snapchat thrown in for flavor) celebrities, even using apartment-sharing programs and 3D printers. His ultimate plan involves capturing the creators of Snapomatic and subjecting them to torture in the high school where he was bullied, all under a live feed on Snapomatic where users can vote for which one survives to prove how corrupt New Media are making America. He is called out on this by the main characters, who maintain a more balanced view. The very minor subplot of the episode is Castle filming a "web-mercial" for his latest book because of the positive power he believes the internet has.
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New Media Are Evil / int_2cd28570	comment	Serial Experiments Lain focuses on a strange, distorted and malevolent version of the internet called The Wired. Though notably it also explores the positive side; Lain remains connected to her loved ones because the Wired continues to exist, in the end. The evils of the Wired are largely related to the issue of how an expert information manipulator can use misinformation and people's desires to elevate himself into an object of religious worship.
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New Media Are Evil / int_30b255fb	comment	Supergirl story arc "Good-Looking Corpse" has a guy launch an attack on the entire DCU metahuman community by creating a Foursquare-esque smartphone app for people to post metahuman sightings so villains can then track them down and attack them.
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New Media Are Evil / int_33fd91eb	comment	On a similar vein, Hackers has made the subject of at least one geek drinking game for many reasons, the demonization of the culture mentioned in the movie title included.
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New Media Are Evil / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck villain Quackerjack hates video games because he blames the video game industry for putting his traditional toy industry out of business. His first major appearance in the series was to use weaponized toys to attempt to destroy the popular video game franchise "Wiffle Boy".
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New Media Are Evil / int_36a99a80	comment	Most recently, AI generated images have garnered much attention now that AI algorithms can produce pictures that can feasibly have been created by humans. While a lot of people are OK with them so long as they are only used for laughs, such as by generating a dashcam image of a car crashing into Shrek or an expressive oil painting of Jesus scoring a slam dunk in basketball (with some suggesting that AI-generated images come with irremovable metadata that flags them as such), plenty of artists have somewhat rightful concerns of spending hours of their time laboring on an incredibly detailed drawing, only for someone else to generate something that looks to be on the same/a higher calibur simply by typing "Armored knight on a white horse with dappled light coming through the trees, digital art" into a search bar and saving the first result. Those who take commissions also face the issue of people using AI to undercut their services. Not helping that someone actually won an art competition using an AI-generated painting.
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New Media Are Evil / int_3ab7c208	comment	Napster Bad: A lot of shorts feature the characters complaining about the threat that this new "interweb" invention poses to life at large - specifically, the series was made to mock Metallica over their anti-piracy stance, back when pirate sites like Napster and Kazaa were all the rage.
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New Media Are Evil / int_3ac87b1a	comment	I Think I Love You: Petra's mother believes that if you watch TV for long enough, television rays will destroy all your organs.
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New Media Are Evil / int_3f3abe9	comment	Played with on the Rick and Morty holiday episode "Anatomy Park", where Jerry takes away the family's phones for a day of socializing with their family. At the end of the episode, everyone enjoyed themselves even without their devices, deciding to take a break and check on them once more. This happens to be when Rick steps in (who, mind you, had been absent for most of the episode) and chastises the family for being on their phones.
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New Media Are Evil / int_3f4c0009	comment	In one The Family Circus strip, the kids assert that the thought-provoking power of any medium is proportionate to how much is left to the imagination. To wit, television broadcasts images and sounds so viewers don't have to think, radio broadcasts sound and leaves viewers to imagine the visuals, and books force readers to imagine what the words are describing.
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New Media Are Evil / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin's father speaks negatively about TV, computers and the internet (which was in its infancy during the strip's run). He also believes transportation should have stopped with the bicycle and rants about too many choices at the supermarket. In one of his notes, Watterson himself called TV "the favorite drug of the 20th Century". Watterson has made none-too-subtle attacks on comic books — or at least The Dark Age of Comic Books, which was in full swing at the time — where they are portrayed as absurdly violent and bloody. This attitude was mocked in a Sunday strip, where Calvin reads a Dark Age send-up comic book that ends with the '90s Anti-Hero getting his spine violently shattered by a villainess's ray gun. Visibly rattled from the intensity, he leaves to watch something on television, only for his mom to turn it off and tell him to read something because "there's too much violence on TV".
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New Media Are Evil / int_413aa2f7	comment	At chapter IV of the Second Part, Don Quixote and Samsom Carrasco discuss Fallen Creator (In-Universe). Don Quixote notices reputed writers that lost prestige when they publish their works on the new printing presses. Carrasco explains that a printed book makes easier to explore for any kind of error, and Fan Dumb is always the envy of great creators, because they have never produced a book. (Incidentally, Cervantes get a lot of critiques because the first part of Don Quixote was plagued with SeriesContinuityErrors).
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New Media Are Evil / int_41dd6f66	comment	Punchline uses her web-presence to spread (what she believes is) the Joker's message, while simultaneously presenting herself as an unfortunate victim of the Joker's manipulation, rather than a dangerous criminal in her own right.
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New Media Are Evil / int_4249cc3a	comment	Candorville has it both ways — the anthropomorphized "Mainstream Media" is a loudmouth and a fearmonger, but "The Internet" is paranoid and dubiously sane.
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New Media Are Evil / int_42ad7fd4	comment	eXistenZ: There's a whole cult which regards eXistenZ, a new virtual reality gaming platform made from Organic Technology, as evil incarnate and its inventor Allegra Gellar as a demoness who must be killed to prevent the game's dissemination. After it's revealed that most of the movie was itself a virtual game called tranCendenZ, it turns out that the two protagonists were members of such a group, with their emotions seeping into the plotline of the game.
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New Media Are Evil / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill episode "Lost in MySpace" double-subverts this. One of Hank's co-workers gets so into MySpace that her performance at Strickland Propane suffers, which brings her into conflict with the hard-working Hank. She sets a Flash Mob after Hank and they decide to beat him up, except that they attacked Buck Strickland instead, which gets her fired. At the end of the episode, Hank tracks the woman down (using MySpace) to talk things out and she explains that she was just looking for a way to make work more fun; Hank convinces Buck to re-hire her as Strickland's social media manager and everyone's happy. Thus the episode's "villain" isn't social media itself but the unhealthy obsession with it, leading to a standard "All things in moderation" Aesop. This is played with when Hank expresses disappointment about how all of the violent video games Bobby plays don't affect him, wondering "What's the point?"
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New Media Are Evil / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Reaper Man, Soul Music and Moving Pictures featured Shopping Malls, Rock Music and Film as their respective Big Bads. The author later acknowledged that this came off as a little reactionary, let alone formulaic, leading to books where inventions like space travel, the newspaper, the clacks network, and Hex, the Unseen University's computer, while not entirely without their problems, push Discworld from pseudo-medievalism into pseudo-steampunk. Lampshaded in The Truth, which concerns the invention of the printing press and rise of the newspaper. The Patrician is wisely concerned that this is going to be yet another Sealed Evil in a Can, and is surprisingly pleased when it's not. Further discussed in later books, where it's noted that the same people who were hysterical about the Clacks (telegraph system) now use it to complain about the latest "threat" to society.
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New Media Are Evil / int_47f99838	comment	Engrenages had a murder-of-the-week in its second season in which a stereotypical alienated teen boy murdered his slightly older online girlfriend after they met face to face and she rejected him for being too young, then killed himself. However, the general tone of the ep didn't condemn the internet so much as his parents for not noticing how screwed-up he was.
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New Media Are Evil / int_4d8e5ec	comment	The infamous "Bloggers" sketch on The Daily Show, in which Stephen Colbert reveals increasingly sordid details about his own life in order to keep attack bloggers from getting the scoop. For a start, his real name is Ted Hitler, (Direct Grandson, but presumably no relation to Edward Hitler), he smuggled drugs in college and he drunkenly killed and ate a panda...
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New Media Are Evil / int_4f89d268	comment	Within days of the introduction of PokÃ©mon GO, news outlets passed along a number of stories relating to it, including people being robbed while playing the game, a woman stumbling on a dead body, and people playing in inappropriate areas such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In most cases the problems encountered stemmed either from a lack of common sense while playing or were risks one would take by simply going outside. Political cartoons depict GO players as dull and colorless people blindly enslaved to virtual monsters (specifically Pikachu) on their phones. As you can tell from the links provided, GO players respond by pointing out the irony of this trope applying to a game intended to get people outside and socializing. PokÃ©mon, in general, has always had trouble with religious groups who claim it's evil. In Latin America, there was a Christian panic in the '90s about how it was supposedly satanic or homosexual. There was a preacher by the name of Josue Yrion who became infamous for, among many outrageous claims involving cartoons and videogames, that the word Pikachu meant "I, Satan, am your God". The Islamic world also fell for the panic. According to the book The problem with Islam Today by Irshad Manji, a Saudi cleric thought PokÃ©mon was part of a Zionist conspiracy, with the word PokÃ©mon meaning "I am Jewish" in Japanese. note It's not even close. If you wanted to say "I am Jewish" in Japanese, you'd say something like "ç§�ã�¯ãƒ¦ãƒ€ãƒ¤äººã�§ã�™" - "Watashi wa Yudayajin desu".
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New Media Are Evil / int_526d4c5c	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic, the Sand People of Tatooine do not keep written records for the same reasons Socrates mentioned — to write it down cheapens it and makes it something one can remove from the tribe. Of course, another reason for it could be that their ancient ancestors revolted against the Rakata, and slaves are often prevented from literacy. Having no written language prevents having any knowledge turned against them. They also have a Berserk Button for any outsider attempting to interpret the words differently than them, as they feel it can potentially twist the story for future generations. This is carried further elsewhere in the expanded universe: Sand People maintain all of their stories through a master-and-apprentice system of storytellers. If the apprentice ever mispronounces a word or makes a mistake while retelling a story, the master kills him or her on the spot. Once an apprentice can recite all of the tribe's stories word-perfect from memory, they become the new storyteller and the old one walks off to die. So theoretically they don't need new media, but in KOTOR HK-47 remarks that errors are likely to have crept in over time despite this, and that in any case the original legends are based on primitive peoples attempting to explain real-world events they could barely comprehend by mythologizing them, so even if they've been remembered completely accurately from the original source, they're still not fully accurate history. (Don't suggest this to the storyteller or the entire tribe will try to kill you.)
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New Media Are Evil / int_535b1f71	comment	The Detective Comics storyline "Riddle Me This" is basically "The Riddler has a podcast now". He uses it both to taunt Batman and as part of a campaign of pushing people into becoming murderers.
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New Media Are Evil / int_58e5057c	comment	Head Trip warns about the dangers of games. Like eating only cherries and fearing the ghosts after Pac-Man. "Error: Jack Thompson not found."
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New Media Are Evil / int_59ef2cea	comment	Yellowstone: Native American history professor Monica has scheduled to conduct her class in the campus park one day, but when she finds her students silently browsing their phones while they await her arrival, she abandons her lesson plan to delivers a scathing and self-righteous diatribe about how stupid the students are for having their noses stuck in their phones rather than appreciating the natural beauty of the... campus park. When her students just stare blankly at her in response, she hisses, "What a waste of my fucking time!" and storms away. Class dismissed?
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New Media Are Evil / int_5b95bc94	comment	One of the radio stations in Grand Theft Auto III has a person call in to say how evil telephones are, and is promptly asked about it by the host of the radio show. "Citizens Raging Against Phones" — she's calling from a payphone and concedes that it's been hard to organize meetings. In III's chronological prequel, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, another organization, Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And Peoples' Safety, has radio advertisements talking about the dangers of children going on the internet. (see page quote)
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New Media Are Evil / int_5d3af8f7	comment	Luann: One strip involves entirely unspecified fears. Later, Gunther's girlfriend Bets is the only character shown to spend any time using social media, and her use is largely protrayed in a negative manner.
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New Media Are Evil / int_6059ad6b	comment	Called out by xkcd in "Isolation", pointing out that people have been saying that media isolates people from the world since the 1840s if not earlier.
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New Media Are Evil / int_61cd34df	comment	Drea's grandma in Harmonic Feedback is terrified of the internet. She talks about a woman murdered by a man she met "on the computer" and is convinced hackers will break into Drea's mom's computer and steal her information. When Drea says that only happens to people who answer scam emails and download viruses, she becomes even more anxious, since she hasn't heard of viruses.
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New Media Are Evil / int_61f6778f	comment	Where The Side Walk Ends: In the poem, Jimmy Jet and His TV Set, the eponymous Jimmy is a young boy who watches so much television that by the end of the poem he's turned into a television set and is in turn watched by other people.
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New Media Are Evil / int_673bc211	comment	The 2013 stage musical's equivalent song, "Vidiots", is a cheekier take on the trope. It's about the perils of using electronic media to babysit unruly kids (this Mike Teavee is an outright Enfant Terrible; his mom has tried everything else to keep him under control and has since given up). While it makes a valid point that a diet of only instant gratification media won't do much for a kid's mind and life in the long run, it also invokes more hysterical fears for laughs — "And then like some barbaric Huns/Our toddlers all are packing guns/Now children curse and smoke cigars/Our nurseries now have prison bars..." — and even pops in some Hypocritical Humor with the lines "But OMG will this destroy/The art of conversation?" The version of the song from the 2017 Broadway transfer trades some of the most humorous fear-mongering to double down on this trope.
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New Media Are Evil / int_68ea0c85	comment	Bakuman。 doesn't explicitly say that the internet is bad, but every time it comes into play, it's portrayed in a negative light; First when Smug Snake Nanamine attempts to create a popular manga via online committee, and then again when internet-goers catch wind of Mashiro and Azuki's marriage plans, leading to a massive backlash and wave of hate that jeopardizes Azuki's chance of getting the female lead VA role on Reversi.
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New Media Are Evil / int_6944ab7b	comment	Similarly, his young adult short story "Someday" features a world in which voice recognition was so accurate and omnipresent that nobody bothered to learn how to read or write. The story is about two boys discussing creating a clubhouse with members using a "secret code" which is nothing more than written English.
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New Media Are Evil / int_6a277a58	comment	Videodrome deconstructs this trope by revealing the literally evil new media of the title to be an Evil Plan orchestrated by the Moral Guardians. Videodrome torture porn induces nightmarish visions, lethal brain tumors, and occasional mutations in viewers: the shadowy figures behind the transmissions plan to use this as a means of culling "immoral" members of society.
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New Media Are Evil / int_6ae1d164	comment	The whole arc with ForceFlow, Tash Arranda's Holonet-friend in Galaxy of Fear, appears to be teaching the Aesop that one should not put too much trust in Internet-friends you know nothing about. (He's the Big Bad.)
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New Media Are Evil / int_6b056d6e	comment	Not necessarily evil, but Mick and Josef in Moonlight bemoan the modern Internet-based catalogs for High Class Call Girls. They preferred the "good old days" of driving by girls standing on street corners or old-school brothels. For some reason, they assume that these things don't exist. They do, they're just not "high class". Then again, we're never shown them (even in flashbacks) visiting prostitutes, so this is likely more of a Nostalgia Filter.
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New Media Are Evil / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	In an episode of Jackie Chan Adventures, Uncle, who is a real wizard and not technology-savvy, embraces the internet for the first time. After everything on the screen disappears, he concludes that the internet is evil and a creation of demons, and proceeds to literally "crash" Jade's laptop. He later cast an entire exorcism spell after his fax machine began printing for the first time. In his defense, the first thing it printed was a symbol for a medieval cult that used evil magic.
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New Media Are Evil / int_6ec470bb	comment	Around the 13th century, Chess was considered a game of the devil, and forks were a devil's instrument. The fork argument makes some sort of sense; it looks like a pitchfork, and the devil loves those. But chess? Some also believed that it encouraged gambling and were offended that it allowed commoners to kill kings. (Allegedly, that's the reason even today, chess only allows forcing the king into surrender.) It contains forks.note Those not familiar with chess terminology, moving a piece so it threatens two of the opponent's pieces in such a way they are forced to save only one and likely sacrifice the other is called "forking". The idea that chess encouraged gambling became such a prevalent thought because people used dice to make sure the game went faster, the church found gambling to be a devil's thing. According to some sources, dice were used to determine who makes the next move, making the game luck based, but the familiar no-randomness form was fully acceptable. In 1254, King Louis IX (the holy one) forbade his siblings to play the game of chess. The promotion was also seen as controversial because it allowed every pawn to be promoted into a queen. Since the queen was the king's wife it would mean that a king could have more than one wife and the idea of even someone being able to have more than one wife was considered to be a perverted thought at the time as people were firmly rooted into Christian faith. (In its Persian root the queen is a minister. Thus, the pawn gets a promotion. Similarly, bishops originally were war elephants, but that's another story.) It also came to Europe from Persia — a Muslim country (Check Mate is from Sha-Mat, Persian for "the king is dead"), and the Persians had in turn learnt the game from India. The fact that the Queen is the most powerful piece was also controversial in some cultures for being unfeminine or emasculating the King. Alternate, gender-neutral titles like "the King's advisor" were used for the piece until the 15th century (see note about Persia, above).
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New Media Are Evil / int_7616a253	comment	Ã—Ã—Ã—HOLiC has a more sympathetic/realistic example of this trope: one of Yuuko's customers is a housewife who is spending all of her time on the internet, to the exclusion of everything else, including her family, and Yuuko ends up smashing her computer... though she notes that it was all up to the housewife; that she should do what she wants to do, not what her family want her to do. She even notes that if the housewife really wants to go back online, there's nothing preventing her from just buying another computer.
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New Media Are Evil / int_76375c6d	comment	Referenced in P.N. Elrod's The Vampire Files, which are set in the 1930s. One editorial Jack reads during his nightly newspaper-binge addresses the then-hot controversy about whether having radios in the home is contributing to the downfall of civilized society.
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New Media Are Evil / int_7d3d9346	comment	In III's chronological prequel, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, another organization, Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And Peoples' Safety, has radio advertisements talking about the dangers of children going on the internet. (see page quote)
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New Media Are Evil / int_7e1c656b	comment	In Scream 4, the killers' Motive Rant is a lengthy diatribe about how the internet has created a new breed of Famous for Being Famous celebrities, leading them to stage a massive killing spree, film it, and upload the video to the internet so that they can become famous. Jill specifically sought to emulate how her cousin Sidney had become a celebrity after being the survivor of multiple killing sprees in the prior films, and wanted her own 15 Minutes of Fame.
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New Media Are Evil / int_8434a7aa	comment	The Net (1995) is largely composed of hysterical handwringing over how easy computers and the Internet supposedly make it for one's identity to be "deleted" by "hackers". Apparently, it takes place in a world where no-one carries a driver's license, and everyone's brain is online with the security of Wikipedia.
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New Media Are Evil / int_84823809	comment	Episode 146 of Kaeloo was about Kaeloo learning about smartphones from Stumpy. While she does learn that they have some benefits, like being able to watch movies, listen to music, and read the news, she primarily encounters problems such as violent mobile games, scammers, and the fact that being on the phone is a waste of time.
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New Media Are Evil / int_852db1be	comment	In Small Persons with Wings, Mellie's parents don't own a computer because they think it sucks your soul, even though Mellie has used computers at school and nothing bad has happened.
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New Media Are Evil / int_85b79d17	comment	Black Mirror is pretty much New Media Are Evil: The Miniseries. At least in the earlier seasons, the later seasons tend more towards Science Is Bad. The very first episode, "The National Anthem", has this occur In-Universe as well. A popular, well-loved British princess (an Expy of Princess Diana and Kate Middleton) is abducted, and the kidnapper makes a strange demand: the Prime Minister of the UK must have sex with a pig on live television by 4:00 PM to ensure her safe return. Much of the episode features the public's reaction to the news; they think it laughable, then important, and ultimately disgusting—but they can't turn away. It's ultimately revealed that the whole thing was a publicity stunt by a Mad Artist who was out to prove this trope; he does so by releasing the princess before the deadline, correctly guessing that everyone will be too glued to their televisions and computers to notice that she's been freed. "Fifteen Million Merits" depicts a dystopian future where people are continually bombarded with advertisements while doing pointless work to buy pointless stuff, with an ersatz The X Factor and a chance at stardom being the only way out for many people. "The Waldo Moment" shows how a crude cartoon character runs for a by-election in the UK and rides to success on a wave of social media hype and cynical populism. Things go From Bad to Worse. "Nosedive" depicts a Crapsaccharine World where people rate each other on a Facebook-style app. Your rating defines everything about your life from where you can live or work to your priority for hospital treatment, and people have become narcissistic and status-obsessed as a result.
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New Media Are Evil / int_86e041e3	comment	One episode has a killer who stalked and become obsessed with his victim on an obvious Second Life rip-off. The crucial clue to finding his kidnapping victim was to find the cabin he built for her in-game, in a location identical to the real-world cabin he built to keep his targets in. That's right, the guy modeled a lake and the attending geography so carefully, and placed his model cabin (also scrupulously accurate to the real-world version) exactly where it was in real life, and on top of that, the Second Life rip-off had such a perfect lighting engine that the detectives found the cabin by dawning the virtual sun and then seeing how the shadows fell and oh my God.
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New Media Are Evil / int_8c5f856b	comment	Played with in Being Human (UK). Ivan mentions offhand that he can pass along messages to the other vampires in Bristol easily, because most of them follow his Twitter feed. A later episode has a vampire use YouTube to distribute a video of Tom and George transforming into werewolves. This backfires when the people who see the video chalk the whole thing up to special effects, and it completely fails to throw the human world into the panic he anticipated. On the other hand, that same vampire seems to consider new media as a potential tool humans have to stay connected and win against any vampire attacks ("If you try to attack them, they'll have an army together within minutes. Over Twitter.") and his desire to take advantage of it is just his view that it's a powerful tool for anyone.
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New Media Are Evil / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS occasionally subverts this with Timothy "Elf Lord" McGee, who's up on video game culture and plays an MMORPG. Although he is mocked for this, it has come in useful more than once. At one point (when his "Elf Lord" status is first revealed), the murder mystery revolved around an MMO (thus adding a straight example to the subversion), and in another case, he was able to identify the model of the suspect's car, based off of a kid telling him it was a Kuruma (the GTA equivalent). A recent episode involves a narcissistic killer with a theatrical bent communicating through a thinly veiled YouTube Fictional Counterpart — but when the fake YouTube is mentioned, all the characters (except, naturally, Gibbs) are familiar with it and consider it more or less harmless. "lonelygirl15?" "Evolution of Dance?" "Numa Numa kid?" Before we even get to see the cryptic killer video, there's a good bit where it's just Abby dancing along with Dragostea Din Tei...
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New Media Are Evil / int_8e66759b	comment	All the World's a Stage: Erast Fandorin thinks the "cinematograph" will render theatrical productions obsolete (the novel is set in 1911).
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New Media Are Evil / int_8f99cb4c	comment	Another Disney series, American Dragon: Jake Long did an episode which rips into blogging: when Jake goes online and vents about his annoying teacher, every magical creature in the city immediately assume he's putting out a public contract on the man's life, and the assassination attempts commence. This may be an example of Be Careful What You Wish For.
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New Media Are Evil / int_9518407	comment	CSI: Cyber: Elsewhere in the CSI-verse, this show lives and breathes this trope. The premise is that crooks and psychos are constantly misusing the internet and online technology to endanger innocent people, either for profit or For the Evulz; the series plays this for Paranoia Fuel, as this article discusses. (It can happen to you.) CSI: Cyber is basically New Media Is Evil: The Series. It's not content to say because Everything Is Online baby monitors can be hacked, it goes to the extreme of saying "The Internet is full of child rapists and baby killers, those who cause untold death to get off on it and impress those they don't even know, their efforts to annihilate the world is imminent and inevitable, be alarmed, be afraid, code black, code black." Or short version, making the Anonymous Troll an all-powerful hacker terrorist.
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New Media Are Evil / int_96489951	comment	In Agent USA, an evil television set known as the Fuzz Bomb is traveling around the country turning the citizens into static zombies.
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New Media Are Evil / int_9d7264f	comment	There's an episode of CSI: Miami where a video game company secretly provided assault rifles to college students so they could recreate not-GTA in real life to drum up publicity for the game. The harshest of the players is the Gamer Chick who's participating because it's literally the only way to get boys to pay attention to her in this age of video games.
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New Media Are Evil / int_9e8a9449	comment	The horror film Antisocial takes this to fairly absurd levels as a Facebook-lookalike called "Red Room" — complete with a Mark Zuckerberg expy — is ultimately found to be responsible for a contagion spreading across the world that makes you violent, makes you bleed black blood from your ears and nose, and ultimately makes your brain explode out the back of your head. This is because the creators of Red Room encoded subliminal messages in the site that make you want to check it and post things there more often, resulting in your brain growing a tentacled mass that gives your brain a biological wi-fi signal that connects to all other Red Room users. If all that isn't quite anvilicious enough for you, it turns out at the end that the virus also brings its victims back from the dead as mindless shambling zombies.
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New Media Are Evil / int_9fa025d	comment	This seems to be a pretty big plot point in Mother 3, as it concerns an evil dictatorship slowly transforming a quiet rural culture into a full-fledged technological cityscape. Most blatant are the "Happy Boxes", which look like television sets or computer monitors, and anyone that doesn't own one has their house struck by lightning multiple times. Naturally, being the Only Sane Man in this situation, Lucas is one of the few that doesn't have one. Itoi himself in this interview states that the Happy Boxes don't represent TVs or computers or anything. They're just abstract things. This happened before in the form of Midnight Radio so that whenever it happens it's whatever the New Media at the time is.
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New Media Are Evil / int_9fa7d06a	comment	Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: When Itoshiki Nozomu realizes that the Cute Mute of his class, who is only able to communicate through text messages, is actually a Troll, the kind of person who badmouths him on the internet but then behaves politely in every-day life so he cannot get angry at them, he summarizes this trope as the conclusion:
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New Media Are Evil / int_a5468e3	comment	Elsewhere in the CSI-verse, this show lives and breathes this trope. The premise is that crooks and psychos are constantly misusing the internet and online technology to endanger innocent people, either for profit or For the Evulz; the series plays this for Paranoia Fuel, as this article discusses. (It can happen to you.)
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New Media Are Evil / int_a609791a	comment	A Scooby-Doo comic once used as villains a gang of counterfeiters who were staging the haunted house masquerade to cover for their true operation... making counterfeit cassette recordings of popular music bands, which they would then supply to unscrupulous music stores.
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New Media Are Evil / int_a656a587	comment	Lampshaded in The Truth, which concerns the invention of the printing press and rise of the newspaper. The Patrician is wisely concerned that this is going to be yet another Sealed Evil in a Can, and is surprisingly pleased when it's not.
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New Media Are Evil / int_af872a82	comment	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century by Alan Moore as it continued started showing off some Author Tract on this subject. Starting within the pages of The Black Dossier and Century: 1969, the world of the League started being portrayed in a more pessimistic and problematic way than it had before. Alan Moore in his views takes on that a lot of human culture isn't challenging or advancing as much as it should be. This is reflected in his on-page treatments of major post-midcentury franchises: Ian Fleming's James Bond is portrayed as disloyal to the Crown, incompetent, and repulsive, while Harry Potter was made into a murderous Antichrist figure and his world was accused of plagiarizing older literature. Superheroes as a whole are represented as a group of old people constantly getting their image banked off of by unscrupulous businessmen. Later interviews on the subject have Moore clarify that while he does view a series like Harry Potter to be a less challenging and safer work than, say, Performance, he doesn't hold that all modern culture is a nadir. However, this is compounded by the post-60's world of the League featuring fewer literary and alternative media characters. So while we know Moore doesn't indict everyone with this trope, it's hard to know who he would cite as an aversion.note There remains an argument that the literary or written down versions of drama and oral tales by their very format should be judged as less restrictive than film or acted-out drama and tales. This viewpoint argues if we were to say British fiction is worse today than the Victorian era, we compare the books of then to the books of now instead of the books of then to the films of now and etc. However, Moore's League has been open to all fiction, but uses far more British film or television references than book references in later volumes. This has led some to find Moore's comparisons a bit unbalanced.
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New Media Are Evil / int_b0fc9724	comment	As early as 1980 or so, Saturday Night Live parodied the paranoia that the recording industry demonstrates any time something new appears that consumers might spend money on besides records with a short film (allegedly funded by the industry) that demonized video games to a ridiculous degree. "Why spend eight dollars playing Pac-Man when you can buy this Juice Newton album instead?"
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New Media Are Evil / int_b1cd32bb	comment	Averted in an episode of Muppet Babies (1984). The babies all play video games, but Piggy and Gonzo keep hogging the system in a fierce rivalry over The Tale of Imelda. In addition to featuring some surprisingly obscure gaming references, the Aesop of the episode is about sharing and good sportsmanship, as opposed to there being anything wrong with the games themselves.
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New Media Are Evil / int_b2bf1826	comment	Touched by an Angel: It tackled the Internet in "Pandora's Box", but to its credit subverted the trope. After the family-of-the-week's daughter was rescued from an online predator, Monica explained that the Internet isn't inherently bad and can (and should) be used for good instead of evil. Played straight in the episode "Virtual Reality" where video games are apparently tools of Satan that makes children do horrible things.
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New Media Are Evil / int_b3710357	comment	On that note, there was backlash against the original TRON film by people who felt that using CGI for special effects was "cheating". Most notably, the film was disqualified from being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Special Effects because of this.
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New Media Are Evil / int_b611aafc	comment	When iTunes became popular, there was much hand-wringing from musicians (such as AC/DC, who kept their songs off of the service for years before finally relenting in 2012) and music enthusiasts that it would kill off the album by allowing people to cherry-pick the songs that they wanted. This article, for instance, hysterically bemoans that young music fans today will never be able to listen to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band "properly" because everyone will just buy their favorite songs instead of the whole album. On the other hand, some iTunes songs can't be purchased on their own in a deliberate attempt to get people to buy the whole album even if all they want is that one song. Interestingly, the advent of digital music purchasing has led to the resurgence of an even older phenomenon — singles and EPs, released in closer proximity, are becoming more popular than the longer full-length albums that were made possible by CD technology, and allows artists to dominate the charts. Kid Rock's refusal to put his albums on iTunes had the curious side effect of making One Hit Wonders out of two anonymous, studio-only "karaoke" bands: His single "All Summer Long" was climbing the charts without being available as a digital download, but this led to people downloading soundalike Cover Versions since they couldn't get the original: Versions of the song by Hit Masters and The Rock Heroes made the Billboard charts on the strength of downloads, with the "Hit Masters" version even briefly overtaking Kid Rock's version.
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New Media Are Evil / int_b6172f9c	comment	MGMT have "She Works Out Too Much" and "TSLAMP". The former is about a woman who is concerned with her physical appearance online to the point where it damages her relationship, while the latter (an acronym for "Time Spent Looking at My Phone") is about phone addiction.
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New Media Are Evil / int_b6b24d18	comment	Parodied in The IT Crowd, where an incredibly over-the-top spoof of the "you wouldn't steal a blank" anti-piracy PSA is shown when the characters are sitting down to watch a film. Even better, it was a pirated film.
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New Media Are Evil / int_b6c8dea	comment	Wiley Miller, artist of the newspaper comic Non Sequitur, has gone on record about his belief that the Internet is ruining society, and he's taken several potshots at it in the comic. He has particular vitriol for webcomics. You have to wonder if he's even aware that you can read his comic online. Wiley was already criticizing computers back in 1992, but by the early '00s he started in with tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theories. Arguably Wiley also has a grudge against cellphones, too, but we must admit he managed to be funny despite being Anvilicious and to some degree he does makes sense — people can be media zombies, but that's mostly due to media aiming at the Lowest Common Denominator. But Wiley appears to hate the internet to the point that he'll sacrifice humor in favor of rant — it's Serious Business for him.
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New Media Are Evil / int_ba28c416	comment	Kairo is built around the supposed nature of computers as alienating devices.
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New Media Are Evil / int_bc758ea9	comment	Exaggerated by Tiny Toon Adventures, which had several Take That! jabs at videogames as being a mindless, corrupting waste of timenote That cartoons themselves have faced the exact same accusation from Moral Guardians for decades was apparently lost on the writers., taking its criticism of them into outright vitriol on occasion. Of course the show had plenty of games based on it. Even better, Steven Spielberg is a gamer himself. He was reported to have visited Sega's headquarters on occasions and played their games before anyone else, and eventually went on to develop the game series Boom Blox.
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New Media Are Evil / int_c353ea41	comment	In the second Jurassic Park novel The Lost World, one of the characters comment on how the Internet is the doom of all civilization because it will "make everyone have the way of thinking about everything and force conformity." (!!) Then again, this statement was said by a character well-known for being an opinionated jerk who's right less often than he thinks he is. Then again, his point was more about evolution and extinction through behavioral change (of which the book discusses and meditates on at length), and how small groups in isolation evolve faster, and the internet essentially removes isolation from the vast majority of humanity.
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New Media Are Evil / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Zig-Zagged in "The Idiot's Lantern", which, while clearly taking place in the past of 1953 London, discussed the advent of television as the new media of its day. On the one hand, Gran comments on how television turns one's brain to soup not long before having her face and soul eaten by the villain, who lives in television screens. On the other hand, the Doctor marvels at the invention of Technicolor as part of what makes 1953 great year, and ensures that millions of people can safely watch Queen Elizabeth's coronation on television. Most of the episode's criticism is instead aimed at the regressive elements of The '50s culture. "The Bells of St. John" opens with a speech about the dangers of wi-fi and features an evil wi-fi network which, when connected to, uploads the user's soul to a server to recreate the villainous Great Intelligence. "Resolution" has a Cutaway Gag where, after the villain brings down the communications of the entire UK, having commandeered the bandwidth for its own purposes, a mother and her two sons are shown as utterly horrified that the Internet is down on New Year's Day, meaning they might have to actually talk to each other. "Spyfall": During his New Era Speech, Corrupt Corporate Executive and tech mogul Daniel Barton makes it clear that his Evil Plan is only possible because of how willing people are to share every facet of their lives online, where corporations like his can suck up their data.
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New Media Are Evil / int_c6a7aaf1	comment	In CrÃ¼e Ball, this is the initial excuse given by Craig for his crusade against Heavy Metal music.
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New Media Are Evil / int_c6b738c4	comment	During the 2016 Road To Best In The World, Silas Young campaigned against video games, which he claimed were killing wrestling.
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New Media Are Evil / int_c75ae76b	comment	The Dick Tracy newspaper comic did a story arc where they essentially shilled for the RIAA, portraying people who pirate movies and music as not only being literal thieves (they beat up guards and steal stuff out of warehouses so they can... make bootleg copies of it), but equivalent to drug dealers, including making ridiculous, over-the-top new villain characters in the style of characters like Babyface to represent internet piracy. It even included panic-mongering in the form of notes to parents that "If your kids download music, you can pay the price!" with an image of a cop car zooming up to a house with its siren running, presumably so the cops can kick in the door and slam the parents to the floor, handcuffing them and hauling them right to jail because their daughter downloaded "Slave 4 U".
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New Media Are Evil / int_c785e1d4	comment	Henry Danger had a three-part special (beginning with "A New Danger") where the villain Rick Twittler believes this about social media and feels guilt that he helped to make it such as he created a social media company. Due to this, his plan was to shut the internet down forever.
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New Media Are Evil / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds devoted an entire episode to a killer who targeted victims based on their Twitter feeds, and portrayed the Twitter users as drug addicts. (The episode also took time out of its schedule to blast the concept of "selfies".)
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New Media Are Evil / int_cd6bad8a	comment	The Twilight Zone has zigzagged this trope throughout its existence. In its first incarnation, it was largely averted, especially because Rod Serling himself understood the hypocritical nature of complaining about television by using television. He instead viewed TV as a useful tool for sparking discussions and providing warnings about the future. Nevertheless, some of the later incarnations of the show did use this trope: "How Much Do You Love Your Kid?", from the 2002 revival, takes pot shots at reality television. A woman's son is kidnapped, and she's forced to play a twisted game on live television to get him back. She must solve various puzzles to get clues to his location — if she can't find him in an hour, he dies. When she contacts the police, they tell her it's all legal, and most of the people involved are completely uncaring, thinking that her agony makes for good TV. The host of the show himself is something of a subversion, though, as he seems like a decent guy who's just doing his job. "The Wunderkind", from the third revival. A political strategist works to get a child elected President of the United States based on his popularity on YouTube, which is specifically name-dropped. The kid, who quickly proves to be an Enfante Terrible and President Evil, wins because of his mastery of social media and unconventional ideas (a rather thinly veiled take on a certain businessman's presidential win in 2016); he even gets elected on a policy of "free video games for everyone". Somehow the entire country is too stupid and addicted to social media to realize that the kid is a brat (and the few people that guess the truth are powerless to do anything about it), which ultimately leads to a Downer Ending in which the President decrees that adults can no longer be doctors, leading apathetic, gaming-addicted kids to become the country's only medical staff.
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New Media Are Evil / int_cf3e7a82	comment	In a 1950s Superman film serial, Lex Luthor has a television station.
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New Media Are Evil / int_d036e404	comment	Oryx and Crake basically has the Internet cause the complete destruction of human society.
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New Media Are Evil / int_d15f97e6	comment	"Digital Deceit" by After Forever on their 2004 album, "Invisible Circles", depicts the Internet as a dangerous place of idle escapism and meaningless, empty relationships with fake people that only gives a temporary reprieve from the protagonist's hard life and can trap her in a digital make-believe world. Fast-forward to 2015, when Floor Jansen threw a hissy fit when Facebook mistakenly blocked her page with 160000 followers...
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New Media Are Evil / int_d26874b6	comment	Many of the later books in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid feature in a way or another some form of anti-technology Author Tract. Susan (Greg's mom) often tries to ban technology in her family or even the whole town, and some smaller subplots are often linked to the usage of it (for example, in The Meltdown a lice outbreak in Greg's school is blamed entirely on a Selfie Fiend).
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New Media Are Evil / int_d2e2ca76	comment	Played for laughs on an episode of The George Lopez Show. Max befriends a girl his age online. George is convinced that she must really be a sexual predator and takes over communicating with her in an attempt to lure her out. Cut to the girl's house, where her father and uncle are also convinced that her new friend is a predator and are trying to lure him out. (Both sides even comment that "there's no way a real kid would type like that" to their children). Once the adults meet up and realize that there's no actual pervert involved, they agree to let the kids resume their friendship and even help arrange a supervised real-life meeting between them.
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New Media Are Evil / int_d4222dba	comment	The Batman (2022) : The Riddler shares in advance his plan to flood Gotham in his website and the users in turn give him advice on how to do it more effectively, with some even taking arms to actively contribute to his little terrorism display.
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New Media Are Evil / int_d58a2625	comment	The word "novel", meaning a story, comes from the older meaning of "something new and unfamiliar". Before the 1600 people publishing fiction tried to dress up embellished legends as true history (e.g. the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood) or obvious and deliberate allegory (e.g. Utopia), but improvements in literacy, trade, and communications created a market for entertaining fictional stories set in the present day. In England during the 18th-century novel-reading became widespread, with many novels being specifically targeted at women, and this triggered a slow-motion moral panic that lasted for much of the century.
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New Media Are Evil / int_d778700a	comment	In the BBC reality show I Survived A Zombie Apocalypse, the virus that created the zombies came from an 'untested new Wi-Fi grid' that mutated some of the British public and was transmitted through their smartphones.
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New Media Are Evil / int_db418e95	comment	This was brought back as a gag in Batgirl story "The Darkest Reflection", where common criminals mapped out the various Gotham vigilantes so they knew when to lay low (Truth in Television as people have attempted to do this against pedophiles).
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New Media Are Evil / int_dd069325	comment	The character Batavus Droogstoppel of Max Havelaar considers theatre to be evil due to the fact that everything played on it is a lie. Ernst Stern, the character that writes the book for him because even he considers his own style to be dry, he decides to add more romantic snippets about the heroes that saved poor people and tragedies in his book that should go about the coffee trade and how to help the future coffee men for the days to come. When Batavus Droogstoppel realizes this he is mad and goes as far as to show him that romanticism is futile by analysing a theater piece. It should be noted that the author considers Batavus Droogstoppel to be morally wrong.
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New Media Are Evil / int_ddf0a46c	comment	Chainsawsuit headlines: "Guitar Hero implicated in child death last week". Later sums up the whole dream in 3 panels. Also, "laws and order: cybertime".
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New Media Are Evil / int_de5a848d	comment	In Japanese film Good Morning, the bratty kid is pestering his parents for a TV, but the adults in the neighborhood have a contemptuous attitude towards television. By 1959, TV was really catching on in Japan, and there as in the USA it was seen as a threat to motion pictures.
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New Media Are Evil / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: Ten-year-old Henry is the only one in the cursed town of Storybrooke who put together who was who under the Laser-Guided Amnesia and used a book of fairy tales to help unravel the mess. His adopted mother (the Evil Queen) wanted him to put down the fairy tales so she could go back to bullying the townsfolk without distraction. So, she burns down the playground and "compensates" the boy with a video game system (because, of course, playing those games will make sure he never thinks about storybooks or fairy tales...) Would have probably worked better if the kid's game of choice didn't turn out to be Space Paranoids. Later downplayed and subverted. On the one hand, once the cursed fairytale characters retrieve their memories, many of them are actually grateful for the new media and technology at their disposal. On the other hand, in Season 3B when Henry gets his memories rewritten as if his birth mother raised him instead of his adopted mother, he is more interested in playing video games than reading books, indicating that even though he's content with his new life, he's not quite himself.
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New Media Are Evil / int_dea46f95	comment	The Bruce Willis film Surrogates has a generous offering of this, to say the least. Basically, the robot surrogates stand in for just about everything wrong about New Media and how's it preventing social interaction and true "humanity." The original comic book has this as well, particularly when the protagonist asks his wife to have dinner with him... and she immediately heads to her room to connect with her surrogate. When he tries to stop her and ask her to have dinner with him physically, she angrily tells him that he may be happy with his Real Life appearance, but she isn't. At the end of the story, after he lets all the surrogates be shut down, he comes home to find that she committed suicide.
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New Media Are Evil / int_df277244	comment	American Gods: The God of the Internet and the Television Goddess Media, while no more evil than the old gods, were callow and vapid in comparison.
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New Media Are Evil / int_e1ec0e62	comment	And it's probably enough just to say this: Oh dear lord, the "Special Reports" on the night of Grand Theft Auto IV's release... The British Sun Newspaper (evidently worried that it was failing to meet its PÃ¦do Hunt quota) ran a report on the satirical "Child Beauty Pageants" site that you can find on the in-game internet, which automatically redirects you to the FBI homepage and give you a four-star wanted rating. Apparently, including this was sick (and possibly wrong), and it would inevitably lead to people looking at these sites in real life.
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New Media Are Evil / int_e293455a	comment	Obligatory Buffy the Vampire Slayer example from the first season with "I Robot, You Jane", in which the boy Willow meets over the internet turns out to be the demon Moloch the Corruptor. Although to give it its due, the web becomes evil because a demon imprisoned in a book during the medieval ages was inadvertently released onto it, and several techno-savvy magic users were used to reseal it.
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New Media Are Evil / int_e2964820	comment	Mystery Show: Starlee calls the Internet "every amateur sleuth's jealous, undermining best friend." It's a bit of Hypocritical Humor, though, because she uses the internet for research on several cases.
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New Media Are Evil / int_e2b3cc8a	comment	To Boldly Flee viciously parodies this trope for all it's worth. A huge subplot is the impending government bill SUCKA, which is a satirizing of the SOPA bill. The government official trying to push it through and deliberately shut down internet reviews is named Lame R. Prick (the person who sponsored SOPA was named Lamar Smith), and he is ridiculously clueless as to how the internet and computers actually work (he tries to turn one on by smacking the monitor, and tells his assistant at one point "I only write Internet policy, I don't understand how it works!"). In the commentaries, the reviewers had a good bit to say about their time fighting against SOPA, and their opinions on whatever is coming next.
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New Media Are Evil / int_e5d5d23c	comment	The Italian crime series Turbo (a ripoff of Commissar Rex, basically) had an infamous episode where a psychically disturbed man was accused of a murder, while the real culprits were some boys addicted to a "forbidden game" which had Doom 's cover, Quake II footage with a red filter, and was named DUUM II (spelled exactly this way). Complete with: a psychotherapist speaking about the connection between video games and violence from adolescents, the boys yelling "Blood, blood..." "I must kill them at any cost!" while playing, and one of them attacking the main character with an axe, screaming "Final Fiiight!"
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New Media Are Evil / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: The plot of "Picture of Innocence" revolves around Digital vs Traditional Photography. Subverted in which both sets of photographers are as bad as each other.
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New Media Are Evil / int_e8d19c42	comment	Phantasy Star Online 2 has ESC-A, a shiny new operating system that runs on the Ethernet, a futuristic version of the Internet and is mysteriously connected to the Phantoms, a destructive threat plaguing planet Earth.
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New Media Are Evil / int_e995f4b2	comment	Night Trap is one of the reasons why the ESRB exists today. The game caused controversy and was pulled from store shelves due to its "violent content" and its gameplay being centered around "capturing and torturing young women." It's a good thing that none of the senators involved in the hearing actually played the game. Otherwise, they would have found out that none of these things happen and they would have had to rely more on the content in Mortal Kombat to get the ruling that they wanted.
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New Media Are Evil / int_ea4f62db	comment	On Family Guy, Peter's ignorance was initially attributed to watching too much television in the first season episode "I Never Met the Dead Man," though Depending on the Writer, it has also been attributed to alcohol abuse and mild mental retardation.
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New Media Are Evil / int_eb3eebd9	comment	Shredder Orpheus isn't subtle at all in its critique of television and other digital pursuits, with Hades and Persephone entrancing the put-upon masses with their TV broadcasts, distracting them from the high costs of living while slowly killing them.
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New Media Are Evil / int_ec25a849	comment	Exaggerated example in Doug, where the title character's obsession with a videogame console quickly begins wrecking his grades and personal life. Instead of turning this into a reasonable lesson on setting priorities and self-regulating one's behavior, Doug is more or less only able to function normally after he ditches the console.
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New Media Are Evil / int_ef076a36	comment	In the Star Trek: Voyager uber "The Last Kiss Goodbye", Kathryn Janeway is a Private Detective in 1940s Hollywood. On hearing that the Hollywood studios are resisting the advent of television because it might steal their audience, she scoffs at the idea. She later discovers the Evil Plan of Visionary Villain Canon Bragger, a rogue producer for Paramount Pictures.
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New Media Are Evil / int_f043e432	comment	Mary Worth would like you all to know that if you use the internet, you will fall in love with a criminal, be deceived by someone pretending to bray your long lost child, and have your identity stolen. Facebook is not to be trusted!
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New Media Are Evil / int_fae7fdee	comment	Triple subverted on an episode of the Canadian sitcom Life with Derek. In one episode, the main character sees her brothers playing a suspiciously Tomb Raider-esque video game, and is offended by the sexy and degrading female protagonist... until she actually sits down and plays the game, and realizes that the main character is actually strong and competent and empowering. ...Then her brothers beat it, and she realizes that the "prize" for doing well is seeing the main character topless. A standard Double Subversion? Well, then she goes and writes an essay for her class about how female video game characters are cool, so long as designers can dial back the gratuitous Fanservice. (Phew!) Given that controversy surrounding Fanservice among real-life gamers, and the genuine conflict some Gamer Chicks feel between "this character is objectified and I should not like her" versus "I find playing as her to be empowering," it makes one suspect that there's an actual gamer or two on the writing staff.
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New Media Are Evil / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Game" features an alien who tries to control the crew of the Enterprise by giving them video games that stimulate the pleasure center in the player's brain. Coupled with some subliminal conditioning, the crew become so addicted to the games that they obey their "master"'s every command.
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City of Angles / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Don Quixote / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Dreaming is a Private Thing / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Fahrenheit 451 / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Fair Warning / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Game Change / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
How to Survive a Horror Movie / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
I Think I Love You / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
La Brèche / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Madame Bovary / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Newsflesh / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Seveneves / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Small Persons with Wings / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Tease / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Animator's Survival Kit / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Catcher in the Rye / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Divine Comedy / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Land of Stories / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Scarecrow (2009) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Wildflowers / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Trainspotting / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Where the Sidewalk Ends / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
World War Z / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
You (2015) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
You (Kepnes) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Private Eye (Magazine) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockA	seeAlso	New Media Are Evil
BloodGoreSexViolence	seeAlso	New Media Are Evil
DIgitalPiracyIsEvil	seeAlso	New Media Are Evil
DieInternet	seeAlso	New Media Are Evil
FaceBook	seeAlso	New Media Are Evil
FallOfTheStudioSystem	seeAlso	New Media Are Evil
TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks	seeAlso	New Media Are Evil
Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection (Manga) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Wave, Listen to Me! (Manga) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
By the Way (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
David Byrne (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Death Grips (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Epik High (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Greek Fire (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
MGMT (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Nightwish (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Nightwish (Band) (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Stevie Nicks (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
System of a Down (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Game (Rapper) (Music) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Mystery Show (Podcast) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Absolute Power (BBC) (Radio) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
GTA Radio (Radio) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Goon Show (Radio) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Adam Ruins Everything / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Animorphs / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Black Mirror / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Borgen / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Chicago Med / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Deadly Games / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Dimension 404 / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Dirty Lines / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
From the Earth to the Moon / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Henry Danger / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Hissatsu / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
I Survived A Zombie Apocalypse / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Johnny and the Sprites / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Judge Judy / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Lewis / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Mech-X4 / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Midsomer Murders / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Mike Hammer / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Misfits / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Parlement / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
RoboCop: The Series / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
7th Heaven / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Shtisel / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Stalker (2014) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Supernanny / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Blizzard Of Odd / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Chair (2014) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Colbert Report / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Muppets Mayhem / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Pentaverate / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Tomes And Talismans / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Touched by an Angel / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Unforgotten / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Vegas (2012) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Witse / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Yellowstone / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
You (2018) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
TV Tropes Enhanced My Life / Sugar Wiki / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
In Nomine (Tabletop Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Equus (Theatre) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Glass Menagerie (Theatre) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Assassin's Creed (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Assassin's Creed III (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Bravely Default (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Devil Survivor (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
.hack//G.U. (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Harvester (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Just Cause 3 (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Just Die Already (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Nothing to Hide (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Orwell (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Perfect Dark (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
PokÃ©mon Unbound (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Polybius (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Shenmue (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Spec Ops: The Line (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Spider-Man (PS4) (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (Video Game) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Secret Little Haven (Visual Novel) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Angel Hare (Web Animation) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Eddie at The LMV (Web Animation) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Angel Hare (Web Video) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Chadtronic (Web Video) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Cold Take (Web Video) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
ECKVA (Web Video) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Glove and Boots (Web Video) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
React (Web Video) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Where the Bears Are (Web Video) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Chainsawsuit (Webcomic) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Chopping Block (Webcomic) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Com Media (Webcomic) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Scary Go Round (Webcomic) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Stage Fright / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Secret of the Magic Potion / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Trap Door / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Summer Wars / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Royal Pains / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil

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