#VillainArc
Boomers: barefoot prophets of peace but sold out faster than a Beatles reunion. Suburbs, pensions, HOA meetings. Their villain arc is hypocrisy with a mortgage.
Gen X were ironists to the bone. Our betrayal was meta. We commodified selling out itself. We didn't just cave; we made caving the culture. Ruined rebellion for everyone after.
Millennials preached passion & authenticity till rent & debt snapped the halo. Their villain arc is disillusion: branding burnout as content.
Gen Z still drunk on moral clarity, mistaking TikTok virality for revolution. Their villain arc is to come, but when it does, expect idealism monetized faster than you can say "link in bio."
I myself sold out when Pantheon stopped being art & became commodity. My Magnum Opus once hung on gallery walls, sacred, then repackaged for syllabi, lecture circuits & publishing houses. That's when my villain arc started.
I didn't resist.
I signed the deal, put on the laynard, & cashed the check.
Purity dies in obscurity but villains get tenure, royalties & panels at Comic Cons.
🇪🇷Götterdämmerung