I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.
On the same level, every piece of media trying to take itself too seriously. I really don't mind putting some idpol in your tv show if it's relevant to the characters experience, but half the time it feels exactly like the Boys. Pandering on the surface without addressing underlying issues. If you want to get political, get political. Don't half-ass.
Hard agree when it comes to film, but I was more thinking about everywhere else. Like magazine covers, ads on the bus or train, just fuckin smiles everywhere I look and like OP said even on shit that doesn't have faces. I'm sure they're even specifically designing cars to look like they're smiling because focus group testing shows it "makes people feel more comfortable."