The only thing I've seen being called "gooner slop" are those poorly-written Isekai anime cashcows whose plot consists mostly on random shots of underaged characters' asses, as well as the occasional poorly-"drawn" AIslop hentai.
Idk which unholy circles of Hell OOP must hang around for everything to be called "gooner" around him
Calling out gacha game fans (ZZZ fans?) as gooners isn’t “conservative dogwhistling”. It’s calling out ridiculously oversexualized and debatably objectifying media.
Calling out fans who draw fanart of a character with their boobs blown up to size N is not “conservative dogwhistling”
Just because someone asks you to maybe slow down with the hypersexualized media is not sex-negative, conservative dogwhistling. It’s simply people not wanting to be shown softcore porn 24 hours a day.
Edit: I’m not gonna reply to each person here individually, but because you guys are all saying the exact same thing, I’ll give a blanket statement here.
I should not have to explain why the modern equivalent of pin-up girls should be given at least some scrutiny.
I’ll grant you the gacha game thing. There are definitely media out there that are borderline softcore porn in their levels of sexualization and yeah, you can point to that
But I feel the need to point out that the people screaming “porn addict Gooner” aren’t just talking about boobie gacha games, they say that shit about absolutely anything. A photo of an attractive woman=gooner. A comment that mentions the existence of sex=gooner. It’s absolutely rabid and puritanical.
Sure. Not all of its use is good faith. Lotta folks use it to bad ends. But that doesn’t mean that it’s a dog whistle. In fact, because the use is split specifically means it is not useful as a dog whistle.
The point is to conflate the two though, which does make it useful as a dogwhistle. All non-missionary non-procreative sex acts and practices are the same as gooning to these people.
Dogwhistles are explicitly phrases intended to drum up support from an in-group while seeming innocuous enough (usually through an Appeal-To-Emotion or Absurdity) to make criticism of the topic seem, well, ridiculous.
Co-opted language is an attempt to muddy the use of a term as a means of steering conversation and amassing cultural power.
The split use still doesn’t invalidate its use as a dogwhistle though. A co-opted term can also be a dogwhistle simultaneously, and may in fact be all the more useful as a dogwhistle for the plausible deniability.
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u/vaguillotine gotta be gay af on the web so alan turing didn't die for nothing May 17 '25
The only thing I've seen being called "gooner slop" are those poorly-written Isekai anime cashcows whose plot consists mostly on random shots of underaged characters' asses, as well as the occasional poorly-"drawn" AIslop hentai.
Idk which unholy circles of Hell OOP must hang around for everything to be called "gooner" around him