Dystopian worldbuilding is dumb (also bad)

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  @JamesTullos · 2 years ago · pinned

  Hello, friends. Four-and-a-half years after this video was released it got copyright claimed and I was forced to cut out a few short clips. If anything sounds weird, that's why. Sorry.

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  @23AlexandreJ · 6 years ago

  It's funny in Panem's map that Mexico is still Mexico but Canada is simply "The wilds"

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• TR

  @trilobitose · 6 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Plenty of dystopias are classics&quot;<br><br>Shows all the covers of 1984<br><br>Edit: it&apos;s been 3 years and there&apos;s still people fighting here, wow

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• CO

  @connorcorn7309 · 6 years ago

  &quot;the Romans conquered all of Italy&quot;<br>They uh<br>They conquered a bit more than that

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  @j7055 · 5 years ago

  “Don’t get me wrong, some dystopian books are classics”<br><br>The screen: 1984, 1984, 1984, 1984 and 1984

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• CO

  @CollegeDropoutPowerpoints · 5 years ago (edited)

  Every teen dystopia:<br>1. Hunter girl<br>2. Classes<br>3. Impossibly engineered monsters<br>4. Love triangle

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• SY

  @synthiandrakon · 5 years ago

  &quot;The main character is called America&quot; I physically cringed

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• AD

  @Adamixos · 6 years ago

  Why&apos;s literally everything #1 New York Times Bestseller?

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• DA

  @data6022 · 5 years ago

  the absolute funniest thing about the hunger games to me is that Mexico is just still there.<br>I like to imagine only the US and canada went to hell, and the rest of the world is just doing alright. There&apos;s people killing each other in the streets, and the rest of the world is just staring at them I&apos;m confusion.

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• TE

  @terryschmitt8050 · 6 years ago

  So you&apos;re saying my setting doesn&apos;t have to be plausible to be popular? Sweet, time to abandon my economic, political, geographic, and social research to focus on the angsty love triangle instead.

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• BK

  @BKPrice · 6 years ago

  &quot;Stanley Tucci has blue hair.&quot; That alone qualifies it as a dystopia.

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  @asteri0nyxx · 6 years ago

  &quot;On the plus side, everyone in Scotland got to watch the English drown.&quot; Well, there you go, the entire book&apos;s redeemed!

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