And I'm not even talking about large criticisms where you entirely dismiss their favorite treat as trash.
You can post just a couple of misgivings that are deeply couched in reassurances that you really loved the show overall, but it doesn't matter. You'll still get downvoted to hell, and a bunch of weirdos will come out of the woodwork to vehemently disagree with you on each and every point, line by line, arguing as if they've been born ready to die on this exact obscure molehill.
I guess they just really want you to say that their media is perfection incarnate, and that's such a bizarre mindset. They've always been like this, but I tend to pick up on it so much more often now because I can't help but compare that behavior to how people interact on Hexbear. Here we actually take care to charitably engage with each other's thoughts, something redditors are apparently incapable of regardless of how low stakes the topic of discussion is.
Consoomers base their own identity around the products they consume. When you criticize something they like you're criticizing them.
It gets worse when parasocial relationships are added to the mix with media. Now you aren't just criticizing the product they are consuming (and thus criticizing them as a person) but you're also criticizing their friends that live in their TV!
Ledditors aren't okay folks.
Yeah I genuinely think these people are just bots at that point. Making any kind of negative remark about new Trek on /r/StarTrek is like a bannable offense.
Which is especially weird because being overly critical of a stupid show is fundamental to being a trekkie
Basically we like Star Trek because it isn't stupid and when it is but the spirit is there - clowning on it is fun. But nu Trek lacks all that, it's just by definition corporate slop with no meaning, no message, and of very poor quality at that.
Aside from Picard I don't have any major issues with nu trek. Disco season 1 was bad but it got better, I didn't care for it much but get why others liked it. Lower Decks rules and Strange New Worlds had been doing a good job as well
When social media revenue comes from advertising, the owners have an incentive to make the platforms amenable to advertisers. Or even to offer a favourable environment for a price. Not to mention astroturfing by the shows' marketing teams, etc. Social media looks organic. It's anything but, as you say. There's no way that they'll leave the good press to chance.
When hyperconsumerism becomes your identity, any criticism of a given product will be taken as a personal insult.
I got kicked from a film and TV discussion group on Facebook because I said the storytelling is so much stronger in the video game version of The Last of Us because it actually uses cinematic language better than the show
You would have thought that I told these people that I had personally murdered Santa Claus with a knife made from Rudolph's ribs
HexBear REALLY hates it when you say something positive about other peoples TV shows or movies
Consuming nothing but Disco Elysium and like maybe 4 Soviet films doesn't make you smarter and more cultured than everyone else!
how low stakes the topic of discussion is
That reminds me of this...
"In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. That is why academic politics are so bitter."
I think reddit interactions is what you'd get from youtube comments, if youtube comments weren't presented and organized in a way that makes them fully disposable and impossible to follow.
you tell them its about fascism they lose their fuggin minds every time to the point I use it as a litmus test
everybody does it because people like things and don't like feeling like their liking of a thing is invalid
I have this problem too, there is some weird thing in my brain that goes pain mode when my treat is even slightly criticized. And it doesnt go away. Its pain for no reason. Argh.
And this is why i will never ever post about, or even read about my fav treats on the internet. I fear the pain.
Someone said scrollingthe front page of reddit is like mainlining contempt, and that stuck with me
Can't help but really wanna know some specifics, which treat did cosecantphi dare critique??
