Lovecraft Film Purist Rant

You guys are a bunch of complete fagots who don't know anything about Lovecraft or films. Your opinions on Lovecraft's work and on which films best represent his ideas are juvenile, pathetic, and generally laughable turd-burglar-trier drivel. You have, as a group, with few exceptions, only the most limited comprehension of Lovecraft's writing and clearly, zero point zero understanding of "cosmic horror". I would recommend that you all kill yourselves but, for something so inherently pointless (your miserable lives), that would be an unnecessary expenditure of cosmic energy. You'd be better off spending a weekend trapped inside the dank and black roof cellar of old man Whately's abandoned farm on top of Sentinel Hill. Then, maybe you'd finally get a glimmer, an albeit tenuous and fleeting grasp on the subject about which you so glibly purport to have any knowledge of, or sophistication about, whatsoever.

A stern black-and-white portrait of H. P. Lovecraft appears beside a sparse geometric illustration, beneath an enormous anonymous forum rant defending Lovecraft's ideas about cosmic horror and criticizing other users' film opinions. The joke is the absurdly grandiose, hostile, and overeducated tone of the rant, which turns literary gatekeeping into a Lovecraftian monologue. It is used as a reaction to someone being pretentious, aggressively opinionated, or excessively elitist about horror media.

• @eternalclassic / 3347 2021-11-17