Why isn’t there much media about giants?

foreverlurk

@TakoAlice8 said in Why isn’t there much media about giants?:

whenever I type giants into youtube

My channel got nuked off Youtube but I had lots of giant media, including scenes from La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet) Depends on what you mean by “giant” (relative/actual?), but yeah mainstream is absolutely dominated (hehe) by giantess media, especially right now it seems it has gone “mainstream”.

BigGrumpy

@Little-Sally
i dont have a problem with it as well.

but on this topic
it does not feel like a 99% F/f F/m anymore
it feels like its 99.9999%
and thats at best
its definitely gotten worse

i.am.a.giant

@TakoAlice8 what about the fairly odd parents “beach bummed” episode.

i am insane

Because Attack of the 50 Foot Woman turned giant women into a symbol of feminism, making it something palpable to the general public, while giants… aren’t.

It gives giantess as a concept a foothold in the public imagination to start from, and then just showing skin is enough to get a lot of guys into it because, well, boobs.

Meanwhile, the equivalent is Incredible Shrinking Man, so the concept of a giant man doesn’t have much to go on beyond ‘big movie monster’, and honestly the giant man adjacent concepts have basically been absorbed into King Kong, since the pre-Monsterverse versions have him grabbing and prizing a tiny woman in all the ways you’d expect.

Little Sally

@i-am-insane I think you make some good points there. The ‘giant’ as depicted in movies and comics and popular culture in general, is more likely seen to be a villainous character or as posing some sort of threat to society (with some notable exceptions of course). And so with the modern trend toward feminism and ‘strong’ female characters in the movie world, it’s not surprising the poor giant isn’t getting the breaks he once did. Whereas the ‘giantess’ concept seems to go from strength to strength. Personally I think that’s a shame, and as an artist, I’m all for a bit of good old male dominance in the fantasy worlds we share. Because that’s better fun to me!

TakoAlice8

@foreverlurk said in Why isn’t there much media about giants?:

My channel got nuked off Youtube

OH MY GOSH!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

AnnDViant

Like Olo said - giants are most closely associated with fairy tales and mythology. They’re a cliché, and hard to portray with a degree of legitimacy or seriousness. Giant monsters, it’s easy to get them over the uncanny valley - giant humans, not so much! Almost exclusively awkward and upsetting in live-action, I’d say!

There are a lot more giants in media than I think you’re letting on. Comic books, cartoons, and video games feature giants with relative reliability (sometimes they even make it to live-action, if you’re lucky! Aforementioned awkwardness notwithstanding); I can’t think of anything mainstream “about” giants without reaching back to the truly awful Jack the Giant Slayer film, but they’re in the periphery of DC and Marvel comics, the God of War series, One Piece, and plenty more. And if you’re willing to step outside of mainstream just a scoche, there are a lot of indie stories about giants! I’m big into comics, so I can recommend things like 3 Story, Vei, and any number of stories with Giant-Man and Atom Smasher and such - but I’m sure anyone who reads real people books, like, with words and no pictures, can find you a novel or two. (Edit: I should’ve read all of your post before replying, you did in fact say this. Also you said not to recommend anything. oops)

…don’t be let down by Google and YouTube searches, by the way, I remember when searching up “giantess” used to return results exclusively for the Giantess Geyser in Yellowstone National Park

TakoAlice8

@Olo that actually answers my question