OK, so, general piece of advice...I don't think it's a good idea to 'snark' at random people you don't know, unless you're actually irritated. Because that's how it's gonna look.
If you wanna be funny, be funny. If you wanna express discomfort at someone's behavior, express it. But doing both at once by being 'snarky' paints your comments in a certain light. You'll either look like a hater, or like you're genuinely bothered by something and trying to downplay it.
Again, odd choice...I don't blame you for not noticing twice in two years, but it definitely stood out to me because it's a weird way to respond to someone. The assumptions aren't the problem, it's the idea that you feel the need to make them...despite your own admission that (a) you don't know me that well and (b) you're not actually emotionally affected. Apparently.
...Anyway, that's just my two cents. Thank you for understanding.
Okay, I'm done marinating: so I'm looking at this idea from two angles. From the consumer angle...I wouldn't call stuff like this 'forced'; rather I would call it lazy or soulless, if I paid it any attention at all. The phrase 'mass produced' already implies a lack of care from the creator, especially when it comes to media (which, until very recently, was more or less impossible to produce without some amount of human attention and input)...a story that's just a collection of popular-yet-shallow themes strung together as quickly and brainlessly as possible just doesn't register to me as...anything.
However, from the creator angle...yeah, I can see it as 'forced'. ^^; Because I've seen how that kind of media actually gets made-- by executives relentlessly hacking away at what are usually decent ideas (to start with), demanding endless rewrites and re-renders and re-concepts, mercilessly crunching creative teams until the only time and energy they have left is for the most basic, mass-produced-feeling stuff. It's actually amazing how much effort goes into bad media; you'd think it was the opposite...
