Like, I basically expected Belle to be a new-age Perfect Blue with a B-plot of the mystery of this "beast" character. I probably should have expected Hosada to be almost positive about the modern internet given how Summer Wars went (which was basically the first Digimon movie done the way he wanted originally), but given how much talk there has been lately with things like "the Metaverse", I almost think that this movie is poorly timed because it's so non-critical of the "world of U". I'd almost say Belle has a child-like-dystopian-future thing going much like in My Little Pony's early days when they were all "the trees grow, the clouds move, and the animals care for themselves ALL ON THEIR OWN", because it has little elements sprinkled throughout that point to a much more crapsack world than is actually presented.

To give an example from like 10 minutes into the movie, the conspiracy theorist friend who sets up Bell's* celebrity-idol-account mentions that (paraphrasing) "I set up all the money to go to charities so it can't be tracked back to you", but then barely touched on again. Doxxing is kind of a plot point as everyone's trying to figure out who this "beast" character is, but "being revealed" is only ever about not being who you pretend to be in U and not about the actual dangers of being doxxed.

*side-note for those who haven't seen the movie: that's not a typo. The character's name is Bell, not Belle, and that's commented on in-universe. The original Japanese title translates to "The Beast and the Freckled Princess" and I am 90% sure the English title "Belle" was chosen very specifically to reference Beauty and the Beast because there are straight rip-off scenes from Beauty and the Beast in Belle.

I've worked for the same company for 10 years now. I've been a supervisor for years now and consider the owner a personal friend.
Since about the time of the first COvid outbreak I noticed one of my co workers was becoming increasingly aggressive.
I brought up this coworker's aggressive and unproductive behavior with my boss several times. Month after month I was told to "just cut her some slack", even as I repeatedly told my boss that the plan was backfiring; this coworker was only becoming less efficient and more hostile as I was being effectively told to sign off on her harassment.
After a number of months I confided in a coworker that my problem co worker had become "the biggest source of stress in my life". The problem coworker overheard me and reported me to the boss. Despite ignoring my repeated complaints about her, my harasser's complaint drove my boss to take immediate action. My boss had us both sit down for a 3 way talk, but before that, my boss talked to me 1 on 1 and she made it clear that she believes the harassment was all in my mind. That kind of shook me and really undermined my confidence in my position going into the talk. Possibly as a result, my harasser got off 100% scot-free.
A few months later my harasser took another job but I find myself unable to get over this. I am extremely bitter about the whole situation and I worry it's soured my view on work for good.
I respect my boss a lot but I suspect she's unwilling to acknowledge the darker side of people's natures. Twice before, my boss failed to do anything about highly problematic employees. Both other times there were complications that might have excused her. This time she was warned multiple times, and not only failed to address the problem, but forbid me as a supervisor from addressing it. There's a decent chance I could have nipped the whole thing in the bud if I just applied the existing rules firmly. Certainly if I had my boss' backing it could have been dealt with a year ago. I feel betrayed.
I just needed to rant and this is probably the only place I can do so. Thaks for acknowledging me forum fam.

I've been picking up weird vibes from the new guy. He's only been here about a month and he's expressing rather particular opinions about how he wants things done. Last week I didn't sweep off the table before loading up more items to sort. He insisted I should have cleaned it off first and said "come on man you've been here 10 years, you should know this stuff" and when I agreed he had a point said, " mean that's just how teamwork works". Certainly there's a point where you would want to clean up your work area before you get it messy again, but that is not a well-defined point and I can't really see myself having gotten angry over it.
In another incident last week he was annoyed that I left him to finish off an order by himself he expressed displeasure in a way that said to me he saw it as a clear cut issue; I tried to get across the idea that some people prefer it that way by telling him that the former problem employee had actually screamed at me for doing things the way he was asking to do them he said he "didn't appreciate being compared to that person". Today he said he could "you told me before that somebody screamed at you... I can kind of understand why somebody might do that".
I'm getting a little bit worried here.
On the plus side I talked to some other people at work and they seem to agree that this is all pretty crazy. Perhaps this won't go as badly as last time.

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.