Half of the people are 40+ whose entire personality is “not understanding the youth.” The other half are 18+ whose entire personality is “I hate when girls scream and get excited. They are icky”
My next door neighbor kept me up by blasting the one that goes “You belong with me(eee)(eee)” at max volume and on repeat many nights. Do I get a pass?
Honestly I feel like there’s been a bit of a “switcheroo” with leftist online media discourse. I remember in my early 20s there was a lot of hate for the slop the “sheeple” loved coming from libertarian nerds, such to the point a lot of internet progressives actually began defending mainstream media and said aggressively disliking it was “elitist”.
Sometime around Trump, or maybe it was the pandemic, the right became a bunch of treat hogs gobbling up their slop, so the left went back to being contrarian hipsters who sneer at Marvel movies and insist people watch weird Serbian indie movies.
Personally I prefer the latter but it was still a weird shift.
prevailing winds like that do sorta come and go but also… maybe some people just like taylor’s music and some don’t and it doesn’t have objective merit or lack of merit? Just blaming contrarianism is kinda tired IMO, as is just blaming a counter-reaction to contrarianism for when people defend popular media. I don’t give a shit what anyone else likes I just want people to stop trying to psychologize me when I express a completely subjective opinion on something
I get what you’re saying and people on here do get… weird… about media. I would point out though, I think there’s two factors playing into people’s neuroticism about it.
1: there’s some market logic to this behavior. If things I don’t like get too popular, and things I like get too unpopular, the industry that makes these things will make less and less of what I like and more and more of what I don’t. So there’s a bit of a market incentive for fans to discourage fandoms of other things and promote their own. That’s where a lot of the mockery come from. If I can make being a fan of bad thing cringe, there will be less bad thing.
2: media does have an impact on society. I think this impact gets a bit overstated at times, but it’s there. A lot of these impassioned take down are coming from people who think modern media is having a detrimental affect on culture as a whole, heck certain people here think Netflix shows are turning people into psychopaths. Correct or not I don’t think it justifies smug hostility towards people, but if it is true I get why people can get a tad heated by it.
Also Swift fans can be pretty culty, and I think some people think criticizing here will demystify her a bit and maybe get her fans to calm the fuck down.
Yeah I guess. I’m not a fan of hers but its not just because she’s popular, I just don’t like the music or the culty part of the fanbase. But I mostly stick to live and let live and don’t comment on it unless those specific things come up
Half of the people are 40+ whose entire personality is “not understanding the youth.” The other half are 18+ whose entire personality is “I hate when girls scream and get excited. They are icky”
From the dozen or so people I’ve met here I think the average age is about mid-late 20s
but yes, literally everybody I’ve met here are hipsters that love mbv and car seat headrest, myself included
I’ll have you know I am an elder millenial and I am 30 or 40 years old but yeah been trying to be less of a hipster
My next door neighbor kept me up by blasting the one that goes “You belong with me(eee)(eee)” at max volume and on repeat many nights. Do I get a pass?
I like that song so no, unfortunately
Pistols at dawn it is, then.
Honestly I feel like there’s been a bit of a “switcheroo” with leftist online media discourse. I remember in my early 20s there was a lot of hate for the slop the “sheeple” loved coming from
libertarian nerds, such to the point a lot of internet progressives actually began defending mainstream media and said aggressively disliking it was “elitist”.
Sometime around Trump, or maybe it was the pandemic, the right became a bunch of treat hogs gobbling up their slop, so the left went back to being contrarian hipsters who sneer at Marvel movies and insist people watch weird Serbian indie movies.
Personally I prefer the latter but it was still a weird shift.
prevailing winds like that do sorta come and go but also… maybe some people just like taylor’s music and some don’t and it doesn’t have objective merit or lack of merit? Just blaming contrarianism is kinda tired IMO, as is just blaming a counter-reaction to contrarianism for when people defend popular media. I don’t give a shit what anyone else likes I just want people to stop trying to psychologize me when I express a completely subjective opinion on something
I get what you’re saying and people on here do get… weird… about media. I would point out though, I think there’s two factors playing into people’s neuroticism about it.
1: there’s some market logic to this behavior. If things I don’t like get too popular, and things I like get too unpopular, the industry that makes these things will make less and less of what I like and more and more of what I don’t. So there’s a bit of a market incentive for fans to discourage fandoms of other things and promote their own. That’s where a lot of the mockery come from. If I can make being a fan of bad thing cringe, there will be less bad thing.
2: media does have an impact on society. I think this impact gets a bit overstated at times, but it’s there. A lot of these impassioned take down are coming from people who think modern media is having a detrimental affect on culture as a whole, heck certain people here think Netflix shows are turning people into psychopaths. Correct or not I don’t think it justifies smug hostility towards people, but if it is true I get why people can get a tad heated by it.
Also Swift fans can be pretty culty, and I think some people think criticizing here will demystify her a bit and maybe get her fans to calm the fuck down.
Yeah I guess. I’m not a fan of hers but its not just because she’s popular, I just don’t like the music or the culty part of the fanbase. But I mostly stick to live and let live and don’t comment on it unless those specific things come up
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