Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-9093757-20161011120803/@comment-30337183-20161027114441

Jamesb1 wrote: Gerald may have eaten memberberries to turn him into Skankhunt42. It seems pretty clear that Gerald's trolling is directly caused by memberberries. Has any one noticed that he's always drinking wine when he trolls or even just when he's saying something bigotted? 90% sure that wine is concentrated member berry, which is why his reaction is so much more extreme than most of the others eating the berries, who just end up voting for the douche. Also, it seems unlikely that any of the kids are on the berries, since they're too young to have the kind of wishful nostalgia that they act on. The kids, I think, are just reacting to/imitating events and changes in the adult world, as well as comicly representing the effects of the current polarized political landscape on the polarization of the genders (which is greater now than it has been for a century). To me, the berries represent the radicalization of men in the west and the US in particular by various (mostly online) phenomena that play on a host of psychological factors. I'd noticed before this season that there was a strong connection between trump and online trolls, and in recent years it seems like those who are on the "right" are being pushed even further in that direction, with a common theme of elevated sense of gender superiority and mass-trolling (as well as increased cultural stigma) of any one supporting feminist causes. These causes and the political "left" (which is just as BS as the political "right" imo) are becoming more active as a result, sparking cynical attacks from the radical right, resulting in a self-fuelling fire of argument and antipathy towards the other "side", people becoming more entrenched in their views and identifying more and more with the argument. The internet seems to be the common denominator, especially since the effect is greatest on younger men. Member berries are encompassing all these strange (and relatively new) movements of thought: the MGTOWs, the alt-right, the inexplicable popular support for Trump and his politics, and suggesting that they all have more in common than meets the eye. Notice how you haven't seen any women taking member berries yet, the actions of female students seem like a direct reaction to both the trolling caused by member berries and their perception that it embodies a deeper, radical anti-female sentiment within society that has grown to the point that they felt the need to mobilize against it.