The Office
I will not play pickleball.
SUPREME
Red Hot Chili Peppers is the most 5/10 band in history.
Web3. Doesn’t make sense. The internet is already supposed to be decentralised.
Mobile UI. It sucks. Yet the majority of people online are now connecting from it, and everything wants to be an app.
Apps can collect all your data from your phone whereas a website doesn’t have access to your GPS location, etc necessarily.
AI, the only people hyped about it are corporate heads, and people trying to get into the industry via grad school pipeline.
hyping content creator as the goal for younger people to become? these people arnt really good models to follow and you hear them get into some kind of drama and find out they are pos: sniperwolf, mr beast, siderman. also liek to mention most current creators are often rich/come from wealth themselves, so it doesnt help people who arnt as rich as they are.
and then people still defending PEWPEWDIE? why are people still trying to give his previous support of bigotry a pass, just because he had a child now.
Nirvana. The band.
I missed the grunge movement in its peak but I got into Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Just couldn’t get into Nirvana beyond a few songs that I do like. Musically, I feel like both Pearl Jam and Soundgarden dwarf Nirvana.
When an artist is the first to inspire a movement, history tends to look back on them differently. There’s a related trope that covers this phenomenon - “Seinfeld is Unfunny.” From that page:
There are certain works that you can safely assume most people have enjoyed. These shows were considered fantastic when they were released. Now, however, these have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we’ll cry, “That is so old” or “That is so overdone”.
The sad irony? It wasn’t old or overdone when they did it, because they were the first ones to do it. But the things it created were so brilliant and popular, they became woven into the fabric of that work’s niche. They ended up being taken for granted, copied, and endlessly repeated. Although they often began by saying something new, they in turn became the new status quo.
Nirvana is one of the artists mentioned under the “Music” examples on that same page. The point is, they were groundbreaking when they came out, but they changed the music scene so much and have inspired so many similar artists that their original work has become overshadowed by the successors they helped create.
Your experience is common and it’s okay not to enjoy their music, but the key to remember is that without Nirvana helping to pave the way, other grunge bands may not have risen to the popular level they reached.
I respect Nirvana tremendously for the movement they ushered in. I cannot enjoy most of their music, however.
Foo fighters is a bit better, but I admit I pick and choose.
Hard same.
Bleach and Incesticide weren’t particularly good albums. Generic rock pulp, the songs were interchangeable.
EIDT: I’d argue it’s their live shows that made them stand out. “Live and Loud” electrified me to no end.
Grad school. Unless your getting a professional degree with a license that protected by the state and the profession is well established and compensated, don’t waste your money and time if you could see yourself doing anything else.
Hell… Undergrad might be sliding into this category as well.
Elves. They’re the vanilla ice cream of fantasy races. Oh wow an elf archer daring today arent we, let me guess smart? attractive? tall? skilled?
Goblins on the other hand they deserve more hype. They’re awesome I love those little guys.
“Reality TV”. Could anythjng be more contrived yet obviously “make it up as you go along”?
I can’t help but wonder how much the popularity of reality TV led us to where we are now. I don’t just mean how the US president used to have his own stupid show, but how many people grew up thinking that “watching people create drama” is peak entertainment.
The same era saw the decline and demise of a number of educational channels and shows. Is it a coincidence? I don’t know. All I know is there are lots of adults who grew up watching “reality” shows who now think politics are just a game to “win” and that when their opponents are upset, it’s amusing. It’s like the concept of empathy or working together don’t even enter their minds. Everything is just for entertainment, no matter how serious it is or how many innocent people get screwed over by it.
This and 24-hour “news entertainment” are fully responsible for society’s woes, far as I can tell.
It’s cheap to make. People watch other people at their packagable worst. That’s about it.
Vtubers. I get the cute anime girl thing and I like fan art of them as I do other anime. But the models move wayyyyyy to exaggerated. It hits uncanny valley for me.
Also I don’t get the parasocial relationship of chatting in a huge room of other followers. The chat is scrolling by at a hundred miles an hour and you’re competing with everyone else for their attention.
Supposedly vtubers need to make very exaggerated facial expressions irl in order to make sure the software picks it up and translates it onto the model, which is sometimes unsettling to people when they get in the habit of doing that normally.
I enjoy watching and chatting in smaller streams sometimes (like, a couple hundred in the chat at the MOST, usually < 100), it’s still parasocial, but tends to be WAY more chill. If it’s a stream with thousands of people, I don’t see the point in chatting, it’s passive entertainment at that point for me, personally!
It’s 100% uncanny valley for me as well. There’s a creator a like who doesn’t like to appear on camera much (most of their main content is animated) and wanted to watch their livestreams. They used an avatar and it just weirded me out. It doesn’t help that I’m seemingly way more sensitive than usual when it comes to audio and visuals being even slightly out-of-sync.
Mr. Beast.
turns out hes a POS like witht he people associated with.
Poekmon: It came out when I was in highschool doing band, theater, occasional sports, a summer job (fulltime), and a parttime job otherwise so I just never got into it. To me, it’s a glorified paper-rock-scissors simulator with extra steps and zero nostalgia.
VTubers: it’s just uncanny valley to me. I’m also super sensitive to audio-video sync issues and avatars seemed to always be slightly behind the couple of times I tried to watch it.
Shorts (and entire social media like TickTock, reels (I think it is called?), etc.): the forcing of vertical video is one reason since I’m almost always watching things in landscape (95% of the time on a TV, monitor, or tablet). I also just want to see more of the same topic, typically, and it’s over and now I have to pay a mental context-switching fee.
when i was in MS, a girl classmate said it was just picture on paper. the current hype/pandemic is due to scalping pokeinvestors trying to gouge prices over it. the pandemic just made everyone stayed home and play pokemon all day. funny thing is nobody said anything about MTG when i was playing HS, and yugioh was hot sht when i was HS, and it was too risky to play it, because people were stealing it from other people.
it got some resurgence due to people capable of plahying it online. people do criticize the prize mechanic is archaic and should be done away with, i much prefer a life point type mechanic instead.
Twitter or any “microblog”.
I don’t understand why “following” a person/organisation would be interesting. I would rather follow a topic/community.
You can do that. But certain voices carry extra weight within communities.
I followed today’s Formula 1 race on both Threads and Mastodon. Both platforms allow you to follow topics and that’s what I did. But then I follow the people I find interesting as well
Agree. When I was on Twitter I followed local bars, restaurants, and music venues for info on events and happy hours. No humans.
