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
it happens irl too it’s insane, i have different music tastes than my friends and they asked my opinion on a song once and i didn’t like it and they immediately were like “you’re just trying to be different” “it has this many streams you’re stupid for not liking it” etc
once my ex gf genuinely got so mad at me and started an argument because i said camp was the worst childish gambino album when we were ranking his discography together
