• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    Funnily enough “gulp cafe” is name of the instance my Mastodon is hosted on, I wonder if they’ll find that coincidence as moderately amusing as I have.

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        unlikely, as it has another reason for the name that is fairly fitting for the instance’s niche (which is also why I just mentioned the name rather than directly link it, as it’s theme is not something that most without a specific interest would want to randomly click a link to and see.)

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      Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks woulda been the big names at the time; D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance came out about three weeks prior and was cleaning up pretty well at the 1916 equivalent of the box office

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        D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance

        I looked it up and wow, I didn’t realize that movies were already so big in 1916.

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          That was pretty much the year movies became that big; Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, released the previous year, more or less revolutionized the filmmaking process and near-singlehandedly codified long-form cinema as we know it today. Of course it also made the KKK the good guys, so, you know, some aspects coulda been better.

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    Isn’t there one of these where True whacks a guy for doing the same thing? XD

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      that’s during the moving picture though

      this is before the moving picture

      let’s bring that phrase back