Hazel (hazel_t) wrote, @ 2003-05-31 18:37:00

Current mood:	annoyed
Current music:	Benny Benassi - Satisfaction

Oh pinoys.. what simple minded ultimate fan boys and girls you've become.
Yes, this is a rant.

I'm thoroughly disgusted with the number of Filipinos out there who have LJs... which are complete rips of other notions and ideas.
Why can't the Filipino be a fan of something that's original, uniquely Filipino and has good quality for once?

So many rip-offs, so many bloody disgusting user icons of cartoons, tv shows, movies, musicians, celebrities... and majority are foreign.
For christ's sake, I can understand that you're a fan, but IT'S YOUR JOURNAL! What are you, free ad space for these other things?
Why can't more people come up with GOOD original user icons instead of compiling together screen-shots and video stills and turning them into animated gifs that are pure hell to look at?

At least be a fan of yourself, show your own face on your LJ, take a picture of yourself and edit it, just make it YOURS.
Come ON, Pinoy, I -know- you're more creative than all this. Don't believe that being in sweat-shops will be the pinnacle of your creativity.
As if being a nameless drone-clone at an animation desk, working for a foreign company is something to boast about! And as if that gives you the right to edit someone else's completely original work without their permission (yes this happened to ME). Pah! Pah, I say!

ANYWAY... where's your originality pinoy? COME ON... I've seen you do these things better than that!
Stop being ultimate fan boys and girls, stop playing second fiddle, BE YOURSELF!!

wandered over from moodthemes... as_you_wish 2003-06-07 04:23 (link)

i don't blame you for feeling the way you do. i've wondered the same things but now i'm thinking it's not really just Filipinos. it's everyone that's attracted to whatever's new and trendy. in the States, what's cool now and has been for decades? black urban culture. we get one white respectable rapper and the kiddies pounce on him because now is their chance to get a piece of the action. without him, it just seemed strange for white people to like rap. maybe it's a case of people wanting something different from their origins. so in that view, what you and i think as pinoys following the trends and dishonoring themselves, maybe they're just wanting something different from their culture and what they see day-in and day-out. i'm not trying to sound a bitch. i'm actually really glad i've read a filipino's journal that said something intelligent. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	pu_choy 2003-06-29 08:40 (link)
	Ahoi ei, i edited my icon then asked a frend to put some animation to it... lol at least it's not a picture of stars or disgusting animes... Adieu (Reply to this) (Thread)