I find the trends of sheepishly hating something just because it's trendy to extremely telling about the state of people's minds and their (lack of) autonomy.
E.g.:
hating Justin Bieber
hating Miley Cyrus
(Both of above largely correlated with their gender nonconformity at the time which seemed to be backed by homophobia)
hating Nickleback
hating tribal tattoos
There's more, but this is from the top of my head. I also remember people hating on basically any big musician, like Imagine Dragons. I don't believe any of these are genuine, because I've never seen these people giving any reasoning, if not brief "they don't conform to societal standards enough!!!!".
I think that's a bit reductive. I know nothing about the gender identities of Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus. What I do know is that I'm an Old and their 'music' sounds like overproduced pop crap to me. I don't dislike them because it's trendy or because of homophobia, I just dislike them because I find them obnoxious.
Obviously I don't know them personally; obviously I'm talking about their public personas. I remember they each pulled a bunch of attention-seeking antics, and coupled with the shitty music it all just seemed very manufactured to gain fans, which yes, I found obnoxious. 🤷🏻♀️
I find the trends of sheepishly hating something just because it's trendy to extremely telling about the state of people's minds and their (lack of) autonomy.
E.g.:
(Both of above largely correlated with their gender nonconformity at the time which seemed to be backed by homophobia)
There's more, but this is from the top of my head. I also remember people hating on basically any big musician, like Imagine Dragons. I don't believe any of these are genuine, because I've never seen these people giving any reasoning, if not brief "they don't conform to societal standards enough!!!!".
I think that's a bit reductive. I know nothing about the gender identities of Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus. What I do know is that I'm an Old and their 'music' sounds like overproduced pop crap to me. I don't dislike them because it's trendy or because of homophobia, I just dislike them because I find them obnoxious.
Plenty of bad music, but the targetted harassment aimed at JB and MC was far beyond any other.
You know them?
Obviously I don't know them personally; obviously I'm talking about their public personas. I remember they each pulled a bunch of attention-seeking antics, and coupled with the shitty music it all just seemed very manufactured to gain fans, which yes, I found obnoxious. 🤷🏻♀️
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"Hating furries" was basically a default personality substitute for the first few decades of common internet use, too.