I feel like there’s still some public, high budget fetish porn being made. Like A Folded Ocean (potentially NSFL, kinky body horror).

I’ve definitely been there. I think it’s like what English teachers say when they see their students reading whatever latest YA drivel has been published (e.g. Twilight):

At least they want to read something.

Encourage their passions, even if you really hate what they’re currently doing with it, and trust that eventually they’ll get a better sense of taste when they learn more about what else is out there.

Take the “lead a horse to water” idiom but add the corollary that the horse definitely will not drink if no one leads it to water in the first place.

Lots of journalists are reporting on this buyout.

But not too deeply.

Some humor is timeless, like this one from 1921:

RIP Alaska and half of New England (and presumably Hawaii as well).