Scriptnotes Podcast 710 - What Happened To Weird?
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Nov 4, 2025 What happened to all the weirdos? The hosts dive into cultural stagnation and the decline of deviance, discussing how weirdness gets commodified. They explore how online communities reshape local oddness and the tension between fringe movements and mainstream acceptance. Listeners learn actionable steps to transform ideas into writing, including commitment strategies. Plus, insights on adapting podcasts and integrating music into animation add practical flair. Authentic weirdness in film is celebrated, with standout recommendations showcasing genuine creativity.
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Weirdness Is In Decline
- Society shows a decline in deviance and local eccentricities, producing a cultural recession of weirdness.
- Adam Mastroianni and hosts argue creativity is deviance applied productively, now discouraged by safer norms.
Success Normalizes The Strange
- Weird things that succeed get institutionalized, normalized, and lose their edge when corporations package them.
- Popularity quickly removes underground weirdness because everything is discovered and scaled immediately.
Internet Scales Local Quirks
- The internet lets fringe people find each other, making formerly local weirdness mainstream within communities.
- As subcultures scale, niche weirdness becomes familiar and loses its outsider quality.
