Remember to throw in “=” at the start just to toy with the poor sap who has to manipulate the results in excel

Looking forward to more :)

“Best Guitar Pics”

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

“dull and completely unimaginative”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

that was the beginning of the change, when it was still meant pegoratively and implied the watcher was getting some sort of perverse thrill out of it. later things like ‘earth porn’, ‘food porn’, ‘guitar porn’ are just stupid and rely on the really unpleasant trend of using “porn” to mean anything mildly interesting

“guitar porn”

can we not?

Some others in the Anglosphere:

Fred Bloggs - no idea where it’s from. Related to “bog” as in bog standard maybe?

Tom, Dick and Harry - is ages old. Even as far back as Shakespeare you can see the triplet evolving. “Tom, Dicke, and Francis” : Henry IV, Part I

Great idea!

I’d say Darth Vader was a supervillain but it still doesn’t feel right calling Luke a superhero…

I never understood it. What am I missing?