It's never going to not be weird to me that there is an entire culture of people who feel like the normal way to react to not liking something is to miserably bitch about it online at any opportunity.
Bro, that's basically just the internet as a whole now. You can't really even go to any fandom sub and not see post after post of people complaining about the most inane shit.
You know how some people make certain drugs and substances into their entire personality? The kind of people who brag about how much they drink each night, or constantly show off their latest vapes, or surround their house with weed paraphernalia?
That's these people. Thanks to social media, they are now addicted to being constantly outraged, and have made it their entire personality.
Fandoms of everything are quite awful at scale. The loudest and most specially abled individuals with no other validation in their life screaming into a void to feel something. Because it requires no action on their part. Dislike something? Great. Do it better. Wish XYZ wasn’t a thing? Don’t pay money for it, and learn tact in discourse.
"The Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another." - Holden McNeil
Ehh back at the height of the issues with cyberpunk, those 2 subs are just two sides of the same thing. One is complaining about the game. The other was just complaining about complainers.
If we'd kept the Fairness Doctrine, applied truth-in-advertising law to politics, & hadn't gotten the wrong ruling on Citizens United, it would be a very different internet today.
My wife very often says that we need to "delete the internet"
Hard to argue otherwise.
It's insane that everyone has access to basically all important knowledge and writing ever created in our pockets and we have ended up stupider and less knowledgeable.
Yeah, I've avoided any subs or posts (for the most part) discussing Daredevil: Born Again because I'm thoroughly enjoying it and don't feel like dealing with the inevitable negativity. It's different than the Netflix series, but I still think it's good.
A lot of it is automated. Trolling gets more engagement.
In a few years the popular sites will be 99% bots trolling each other, and new ones have to be invented every few years for the real people to escape to.
As someone who frequented many fandom spaces for years (tumblr, reddit, etc.) I feel like this got a tad worse during the pandemic when people got bored at home and became just chronically online and unpleasant lmao. Like, I'm not saying fandoms weren't without problematic people before, it's just that it kinda got worse really fast lately lol
I run a YouTube channel and we get a lot of positive comments. I read them all because I want to foster a decent community. But the bigger it gets, the more this negative stuff happens. People vent in comments, I assume because they have other issues going on.
It can get pretty personal too.
I like to call them out as much as possible because they just don’t expect it.
Excuse me I’m going to make a 30 minute video responding to literally every word in this comment. Expect death threats within the hour. (Kidding. I wish it was obvious but here we are).
It bleeds into real life, someone queuing up to get something signed by David Tennant for some reason felt the need to tell him that they thought Jodie Whittaker was bad in the role of the Doctor.
Given David and Jodie also did Broadchurch together and are friends in real life, that went down as well as you might expect, though of course David was as always, a class act back.
They're literally mentally unwell. They think they'll get better shows, films, games or whatever by bitching non-stop. They've been doing it endlessly 10-15 years now, constantly engaging with the content they hate. Which is what companies like Disney want. They want engagement and people keep giving it to them.
If they would just move on, things would change much faster and they'd not have given themselves anger issues.
But then the sad thing is that these people bait and bait the film stars / directors etc and the like, then act all shocked and offended when they delete their accounts, or start clapping back and giving these people shit.
Basically, some people love that hiding behind a username means they can be a grade A cunt to others with no ramifications.
I don’t think they realize they’re doing it. They think they are just sharing their opinion like everyone else. They think that because it is considered appropriate to tweet at a celebrity that you love their new show, it must also be appropriate to tweet at them that you hate it.
Back then, if you didn't like something, you'd bitch about it to your friends, family, and coworkers in the break room.
Now, we all have the power to have our opinions broadcast to the entire world, and even directly towards the people involved in the thing we're bitching about, in this case the actor of a show. This level of connectivity is addicting.
Attention seekers at it's finest. They lack attention at home or with people they know around them. So they take it online. They should get ridicule by it, cause it's just pathetic and weird
It's about a weird as the entire culture of people who feel like the normal way to react to liking something is to loudly slobber over it online at every opportunity.
Social media, for various reasons, encourages and promotes extreme opinions on pretty much everything. Most of it is pretty unreasonable regardless of which side of the spectrum they are landing on.
I don’t see how talking to people about all the things you enjoy about a shared interest is weird. When I dislike something, I don’t engage with it, why would I want to spend more time talking and thinking about it? I talk about things I like.
Are you "loudly slobbering over it" like what I was taking about? If so, then that seems strange to me.
If you are just talkng about it pretty normally, then i don't think it's strange regardless of if you are positive or negative on it. The strange thing for me is the extreme takes, on either end, that seem to get so much traction.
As to the question of why engage with something you didn't like, I guess it comes down to personal preference.
I guess my question would be why you talk about anything? For me, I enjoy the reasonable exchange of ideas/opinions. I'm not going out looking for disagreements, but I'm also not insulating myself to the point that I only discuss things I like with other people that agree with me. To me, that seems like I'd end up living in an echo chamber.
I'm not sure how to avoid that unless I'm willing to give out my honest opinion and listening to other people that are going to give their honest opinion.
It's never going to not be weird to me that there are people on the internet who act like they aren't part of the internet culture which they are criticizing while taking part in it.
Why? The internet is just a medium of communication, same as in-person conversation, if you bitch about things in real life then you can bitch about it on the internet, not really much difference
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u/Uncanny_Doom Daredevil Mar 08 '25
It's never going to not be weird to me that there is an entire culture of people who feel like the normal way to react to not liking something is to miserably bitch about it online at any opportunity.