Recently I found some Humanity Fuck Yeah YouTube videos that use AI voice narration on my feed. After using them as background noise while cleaning my apartment I found that that most of them are more or less the same. Humans are the only ones who know how to fight/love sex/survive/etc. How can we save the genre or reinvent it so it isn't so stale?
>>97821566A lot of HFY stuff is kind of punching down, first making up really pathetic aliens and then laughing at how pathetic they are, and marveling at how awesome even a completely mediocre human with no achievements of his own is in comparison. Making aliens impressive in their own right and then figuring out how humans could be competitive with or even superior to them should be the starting point.
>>97821609HFY has always largely been trash, a dumb AMERICA FUCK YEAH ripoff but right after the first Avatar movie tried to equate all of humanity with America in Space.
>>97821629Fair enough. It's also a solution to a nonexistent problem, in a way. I've seen people argue that HFY is a counterreaction to science fiction denigrating humans and presenting aliens as superior, but I've never seen anyone make a convincing case for that having ever actually been a common, mainstream thing in scifi.
>>97821658Shakara is the only example I can think of and it's a literal joke that isn't dwelt upon.
>>97821658>but I've never seen anyone make a convincing case for that having ever actually been a common, mainstream thing in scifi.>Bullshit meme is bullshitShocking!
>>97821566>listening to AIslopWhy do that to yourself?
>>97821658Dude, your Star Trek? Your Xeelee Sequence?
>>97822115Just how is Star Trek denigrating humans?
