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posts about how humans are the “weirdest” species in the Universe, the “hold my beer” species so to speak, are also riddled with human-centric arrogance, in my opinion. Yeah funny joke haha humans are so weird, but like are we? We’ve never met aliens before, so how the fuck would we know? I don’t know, they just irk me personally, ‘cause I don’t find humans the most remarkable or weird species on Earth, let alone in the entire fucking universe 🙃🙃🙃
I agree that they’re human-centric, but I also acknowlege they started as a deliberate subversion of the also human-centric “humans are the boring normal guys in groups of aliens” trope which is extremely pervasive in science fiction (and fantasy).
It started with flipping the script on its head and saying “what if humans were the space orcs instead of being the ‘default option’.
I get why they started, don’t get me wrong, but like middle ground. I’m not the biggest fan of human’s are the most boring species either, but I don’t like anything that tries to state humans are the "most” anything. This may be me wishing for more actual nuance in media lol
LOL absolutely agree with you there, tbh. People always seem to throw hard in one direction or the other here. Gimme some balance! Humans are just another weird species in the universe!
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