i couldn't help but think the chainsaw man movie was extremely derivative, like i had seen a lot of what it had to offer before. it was still decent, but i really didn't understand what the massive amounts of hype was about. i figured it must be mostly young people who hadn't seen whatever it drew so much inspiration from, especially because living with someone 10 years younger than me had really opened my eyes to such a phenomenon (he'll get annoyed when i talk about how his favorite, newer games take inspiration and build upon older games because he sees these things as being completely original).

this video finally put that feeling i had into something tangible and i know why i felt that now.