#musicals tag

I’ve never watched the musical, I avoid things with especially irritating fanbases (hence why I didn’t get into undertale until SIX YEARS LATER), but from what I do know I think the main problem with the Hamilton musical was how the fans reacted to it.

Yeah, sure, it glossed over a lot of actual history, but I think the actual history wasn’t the point - it was a character study on Alexander Hamilton, hence it focused in hispoint of view and his personal point of view wasn’t based on factual history. No one’s personal point of view is based on factual history, it takes a stepping outside of yourself and setting aside your emotions to get a view based on factual history, and Hamilton wasn’t doing that.

No, it was like how a lot of cis misogynist homophobic white males latch onto media like Fight Club, a movie that satirizes and pokes holes in toxic masculinity - they completely missed the point and started romanticizing the characters into something they largely weren’t. And they aren’t even characters, they’re caricatures (albeit not disrespectfully) of real historic people. These aren’t your poor little meow meows, nor your lovable fictional villain, nor your new tumblr blorbo - no, this is about real peoplethatactually lived.

Which is why it’s all gone wrong. Which is why the Hamilton fanbase is utterly insufferable, because they’ve misconstrued these historical people as fictional characters that they can project onto when that wasn’t the point. We have got to stop viewing media through this lens, that media has to cater to youandyour viewpoints and if it doesn’t it’s wrong. Sometimes it’s not about you.

It’s not about you.