No investigation, no right to speak :mao-aggro-shining:

No one who thinks Avatar is like this has actually watched the movie

Avatar is actually art created with vision and direction. Marvel is corporate cookie cutter slop that is one step up from ai art in terms of purposeful creation.

That's definitely where it started on twitter and here. I think what happened is Felix's bit got a lot of people to actually rewatch it and since they hadn't seen it in over a decade they were surprised by how well it held up (Thats what happened with me at least). The other (more important) aspect of it would be that the sequel started to be advertised and that got a lot more people rewatching/talking about it. I'm fairly sure the latter happened first and then chapo talking about it just made it relevant in spaces we regularly use.

The other thing to consider is that you have all the other people who haven't seen it in 13 years and just kinda buy into the cultural meme about it being a bad movie that has no "cultural staying power", because they're discussing a movie from 2009 like it was released last year and everyone forgot about it.

From a love of great fucking movies

The universe is 13.7 billion years old. Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, and 1 billion years later the first life forms evolved. The first Hominids evolved about 2 million years ago, modern Humans 300 thousand years ago. 12000 years ago we developed agriculture. Humans invented the radio in 1890, 132 years ago.

So humans have had the ability to transmit radio waves for 1% of the time we've had agriculture. Humans have had agricultural civilization for only 4% of our species existence. We as a aspecies have only existed for 0.086% of the time life has existed on earth. And life on earth itself has only been around for 26% of the universe's existance.

Even if we assume that life began at roughly the same point everywhere in the universe compared to earth( which is a huge assumption), that still leaves a huge margin for other civilizations on other planets to have evolved, progressed, and died out, long before we even evolved.

The odds that another planet developed sapient life which progressed to a technologically equivalent or superior level to humans at the same exact time that we did is incredibly unlikely, which I think is a far simpler explanation than the dark forest theory.

Edit: forgot to move the decimal over when converting to percentages lmao. Fixed now. Its still exceptionally unlikely, but the numbers I had were way off