Note: Charges made against Justin Roiland were dropped.

The marvel cinematic universe and its consequences has been a disaster for the writing race

The perfect examples of "safe-edgy". They'll mention wage-slavery, but stop before they offend their producers

The two rules of millennial writing:

1. The author is annoying
2. The writing is about themselves

“Why are you so critical? Just consume product.” And then, a few moments later “capitalism bad”

1. Pop culture references
2. Characters that just won't shut up
3. Forced humor every 5 seconds
4. Everything is a "critique" of something
5. Cartoonish black and white morality
The 5 Pillars of Millennialism. Also everything needs to be loud for no reason.

this writing style just screams ''im 36 and i never grew up after high school''

Millennials: capitalism and corporations are bad

Millennials: I worship Disney and have 1000 funko pops

I call this type of dialogue "Reddit Speak"

"They're not saying it because they think they have something to say, but because they think they have to say something."
That's such a great way to put it.

There's a small moment in GTA IV that is the anathema to the millenial idea of "trauma". When going out on a date with Michelle, she might ocasionally speak about Mallorie, saying she is poor, to which Niko coldly responds "You people don't know what poor is".

It's not that millennials are bad writers.  It's that millennials can BE as bad a writer as they want and still keep their job.

Borderlands Personality Disorder

"Write what you know" works best when people actually know things

1. Ironic, self-defensive detachment from anything that seriously matters.
2. Self-centered story-telling: main character is a self-insert of the author.
3. Pop-culture reference, pop-culture reference, pop-culture reference, pop-culture reference...
4. Vanilla activism: "Racism bad! Capitalism bad! Politicians bad!"

I love the Tweet that goes “all art is inherently political”, with the top reply being “what is the political message behind fat Pikachu?”

What boomers did to the economy is what millennials did to culture

Being quirky loses it's charm when it becomes vindictive and condescending.

this is a major reason why whenever a piece of entertainment shows any traces of good writing it's hailed as a 10/10 masterpiece.

The scene in Saints Row 3 where they rob a bank dressed in their own merchandise and Johnny Gat is wearing a mask of his own head to hide his identity is a more nuanced critique of capitalism than every single line about capitalism in the new game put together