I have real and visceral anger towards South Park and also Family Guy and Call of Duty, which was the unholy trinity of what middle school boys were into when I was in middle school.

This resonates with me so much.

The first I ever learned of climate change was through my friends telling me it wasn’t real because that’s what they heard on South Park and then showing me the Al Gore manbearpig clip. I don’t think society has yet had a reckoning with how damaging those shows were.

To this day there’s still that persistent belief (largely derived from South Park consumers themselves) that they aren’t influenced by the entertainment they consume while parroting what the entertainment taught them anyway.