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submitted 2 months ago by ThefuzzyFurryComrade@pawb.social to c/furry_irl@pawb.social

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[–] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

It's like Breaking Bad. I didn't watch it until like five or six years after all the hype died down. I really enjoyed it, but on my own damned terms.

[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ll never understand this mindset. If something is good, of course people are gonna recommend it. Feels like people are just trying to be contrarian for the sake of it

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago

I totally understand the "I don't wanna do what you tell me" thing. I don't like people telling me what to do unless it's in the bedroom.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh c'mon, just admit that you're not special and will probably like the thing other people like too. It's ok to humble yourself and join in with the crowd from time to time.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its not about conformity, its being annoyed at the bombardment of something popular and people being incredulous that you dont participate already. Makes me already hate it.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just suppose I don't see how those things connect. Being irritated that something is popular sounds like straight-up anti-conformism. Not that there's really anything inherently wrong with that, but it's like, idk. I used to feel like this and I just grew out of it I suppose.

[–] kayohtie@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not irritation at it being popular, it's irritation at the bombardment specifically, the direct of it. A lot of the folks who skipped out on Undertale didn't do so because it was popular, they did so because lots of people personally bombarded them with "omg you haven't played you have to play", combined with the whole "you have to play it this way" thing too in particular. I think that last bit made it especially bad.

But mostly it's unsolicited pushing to Do Thing in a pushy, bombarding fashion.

There's plenty of popular things I get excited about when I'm told by lots of folks about, or get intrigued by. It's just a specific flavor of bombardment that pushes people back.

Like one person who keeps quite literally yelling "hey Kay bake my ___ recipe!!!!" Like... The louder they get about it the less inclined I am to do that versus find something else to bake because the pushy behavior is off-putting.

Idk how this is even remotely the same thing as being contrarian other than ignoring the pushiness for specific situations.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

So really it's just about the normalization of demanding others to do things when really the person demanding has no right to ask something like that of you

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And i still havent watched breaking bad because each person that goes "OMG YOU HAVE TO SEE IT!" adds another decade to when ill bother.

Its just so annoying, i hate hype.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Make sure to see the prequel Better Call Saul after you do.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

to be fair there are people who have watched multiple seasons of breaking bad and disliked it, so it's not like everyone will even be guaranteed to enjoy it. but i also love rebelling against the mainstream, even if years later i still come crawling back anyway. it's a tiny measure of control in an out of control world.

[–] herzenschein@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

I took only until recently (two years ago) to watch Breaking Bad and found it like, okay, I guess. I just didn't get interested enough to watch more than the first episodes.

Usually I am the sort of person who watches things to the end and hypes about popular things like Deltarune.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 months ago

Was OOP also a victim as a child of people telling them to do something popular then when they did it those same people were just like "shut the fuck up you're only doing it because it's popular nobody likes you"?

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

There was a few people pushing a very specific video game at me ages ago and it made me hate the game and never ever want to play it.

Then they did it again with a different game and I realized at least one of those people was just a pushy asshole.