I'll mention something different for my own contribution than my usual:
I've always hated Seinfeld, including when his show was brand new. "It's a show about nothing!" was a thought terminating cliche in the 90s that was used to pitch the show at me again and again by its fans, and also to dismiss any and all problems I had with the show and its ultra-privileged smarmy main character. If I got anything valuable out of that show and for that matter his stand up routine, it was a lifelong allergy to New Yorker comedy that front loads a whole lot of "I am a New Yorker which means I am smarter and tougher and wiser and more cultured and more sophisticated yet more grounded than you" self-aggrandizement into the set. :nyet:
EDIT: Please post your own disliked Hexbear-approved popular things! Don’t just reply to mine! :rage-cry:
(Most) people here aren’t really volcel. It’s just good to have a culture of not encouraging people to be horny online, especially in a space that can be male dominated. Helps keeps the creepiness down.
Oh yeah, I'm totally aware of the necessity for that. I've heard stories about chasers and such. But I've seen a few people just wholesale buy into the "well, I guess I should just be alone forever, then" mentality. And every time I want to give them a hug and then shove them into a field of grass so they have no choice but to touch it. :hahaha:
Before :reddit-logo: , FARK.com was endlessly drowning in cishet white male dudebro horniness and it was exhausting. There should have been :volcel-vanguard: back then.