So let’s get this a little straight and clear, if we can.
“Joycore” isn’t real, but it is. It’s not telling, but it is. It is senseless enjoyment, but it isn’t. It is having fun. It is being anti-borecore. “Joycore” is kidding around except for when it isn’t, and it is understandable only through our own personal experience of it, although others seem able to tell us what it is while at the same not saying anything about it at all.
Sounds like a big bunch of hooey to me: like Pop Mysticism without a tradition. In short, kinda’ a waste of time to even bother much with (except, of course, my interest being piqued by any "meta" discussion).
You know, I remember a time when people who practiced willful “obsfucation” around here were seen in a negative light—not that I care, but there were some, at one time, who were vocally put off by something that was what it wasn’t and was talked about in ways that it isn’t.
Goes to show, I suppose, that meaning is where we find it and what we make of it. If “Joycore” means something to someone, well then hey, more power to hir, I guess. Personally, this contrived division is of little use to me, but then again, it doesn’t put me off either: I am simply not in anyway arsed by it at all.
And why the debate over the quality or lack thereof in Conversation threads? Where do you people think you are?!? |
