On Snobs

 Snobbery is good. Internetizens act like snobs without having taste. A truly american worst-of-both-worlds culture. 

 Internetizens notice that snobs look down on pieces of art. Usually, citizens have no taste, not even bad taste. They can't see any similarity in the criticisms snobs issue at bad art; there's no distinction that they can sense. Secondarily, negative events stick out in the mind more; even if they see a snob liking something, they will quickly forget in favour of all the things they don't like.
 Being worshippers of the Nameless one, Communists, they naturally condemn snobbery and immediately engage in what they believe to be snobbery. "Some are more equal than others - for example, I'm a snob." That is, they hate everything.  They look down their nose at every piece of art they're not specifically paid or otherwise coerced into pretending to like. 

 I keenly lament the lack of snobs. There is a nonzero amount of worthwhile art in the world, but you certainly can't talk about it anywhere on the internet. Nor in, for example, real life, where snobbery runs the risk of exciting the inquisition. "Citizen, it looks like you've have a little too much to think!" 

 "Ironically" exposing your beloved works to vandals and philistines is not healthy. "I like this, like the retard I am, lol." The only art grudgingly tolerated by Communists is egalitarian art. Stuff so popular the Communist is afraid of the stampede they would risk by airing their practiced disdain. 

 E.g. everyone who says they look down on anime lets their kids watch cartoons. E.g. capeshit is indeed shit...but apparently everyone who uses the word [capeshit] has never seen the rest of what hollywood produces, lol. Good for them, but the lack of perspective is completely disqualifying...or would be if it wasn't performative, which is worse.

 There are video games I like-like. There is no chance I will tell you which ones. I can be extremely gullible at times, but even I'm never that bad.

 Civilization has afforded us more expensive art, it is true. Potentially more profound. Instead, it also immediately furnishes us with iconoclasts, costing the arts more than they gain. In a civilization, "art" is a weapon, designed to traitorously maim their fellow citizens. 

 Due to my congenital deformity, optimism, I like to imagine that at some point in the misty past, snobs really did defend the arts from the corrosive effects of the civilization that spawned them. Would have to be pre-shakespeare at the latest, however...and there isn't any genuinely credible evidence... 

 Still, we could imagine real snobs. It's not physically impossible or anything. Only takes a single miracle, not a double-miracle or anything.