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AdequateEmily

AdequateEmily is a filmmaker and video essayist who publishes film criticism and short films on YouTube. Her work includes long-form film analyses and the Adequate Shorts review series.

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Role at the time: Filmmaker and video essayist publishing as AdequateEmily

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Some Malfoid fan-fiction writers deserved the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature more than Anne Carson, judged against the poetry excerpts The New Yorker circulated.

“it’s just as sad as when tumblr argued it, but definitely funnier.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)AdequateEmily criticizes the Malfoid comparisonPost 2108945780010852410; complete post and reply or quote context
Why we used this label

The case concerns the Malfoid-versus-Carson comparison. Emily criticizes that comparison in a post responding to Young.

Read statementMalfoid for the Nobel? Was the Anne Carson comparison fair?

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