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I was checking the news sites to see if I could come up with a good article topic for today. Clearly I need more news sites, but sometimes they’re hard to get through. Some have very politically motivated writers, others had way too many ads. I used to have one for Variety but between glitches in the email, the RSS feed not even working, and ruining which celebrity is demasked on this week’s The Masked Singer when I’m a week behind meant I had to drop that one. I keep looking for openings to expand.

One of today’s articles came from Bounding Into Comics, who posted on poor Peter Parker getting hit with the retcon bomb. From what they’re saying, Peter’s history has been altered so that at least at one point another kids kept pulling him towards pranks, robbery, and nudie magazines before he was even a teenager. This is a terrible and unnecessary addition, and I even did an Art Soundoff V-Log about the dangers of the retcon bomb. Retcons have been a big problem, but like with activist writers is only a symptom of a larger problem. I was going to write about that “addition” to Peter’s history until I realized something important.

I don’t care.

I haven’t cared about main universe Spider-Man since even before One More Day due to all the annoying stuff being done to him. There’s a random story I might be interested in, but it’s possible being more DC than Marvel, I like Peter Parker but overall I just haven’t gone through the trouble of grabbing a lot of his adventures. I’ve enjoyed him more on television. Even Iron Man I finally stopped following when Tony Stark became Secretary Of Defense, as that series didn’t seem to know what to do with him. That was long before “woke” meant anything other than no longer being asleep rather than people who clearly went crazy from not getting enough.

And I’m not alone in no longer caring about franchises they like. I’m use to having a version of it I wasn’t into. Voyager and Enterprise were Star Trek shows I never got into while Deep Space Nine wasn’t as interesting as the similarly premised Babylon 5. I dropped out of professional wrestling in the early days of the “attitude era” for the WWF (now WWE for stupid reasons) and WCW lost me before it lost itself. I don’t even watch wrestling anymore, though I have tried the occasional smaller promotion out of curiosity. Star Trek hasn’t gotten me excited in years. I don’t need new Trek when there’s so much old Trek I still haven’t explored or revisited in years. That’s just some of the many things I grew up with that I don’t care for new versions of, and data shows I’m not alone in that.

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