I recently posted a thread saying The Wire hbo tv series was not to my tastes and that while I recognize it’s artistic merit towards the television medium, i found it boring and slow and preferred shows like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad.
Got a bunch of comments along the lines of “lol u just can’t handle how cerebral it is, why don’t you go watch law and order or something more your speed.”
Being elitist about pop media like TV shows is bewildering to me, but reddit has managed to do i
If your whole identity is based on a media product, even the mildest criticism is hard to take because you will take it as a direct criticism to yourself, gamers for example are prone to this but like any person who would be on a sub about the wire years after the finale is more likely to be this type of person than it would have been when it aired
