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
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Wire.
What else would baltimore have after this? Dont take that from them
Probably, but it’s profoundly worse on reddit. Hexbear tolerates dissenting opinions to a degree unless its some fash bullshit
Reddit media forums are circlejerks and it’s incredibly irritating.
Honestly I would tell people like this to read a book for great storytelling, not watch television, but in my mind I would be being as petty and elitist as they are.
Lol if anyone is acting like Sopranos is some “hidden gem” they weren’t paying attention when it first came out. My boomer stepdad knows who Tony is and was excited for The Many Saints of Newark. You’re right though, any obsession with capitalist treats is just annoying as hell. No matter who it’s coming from.
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
There’s this odd thing, at least here in the US, where if you don’t like the art someone else does it immediately triablizes them against you. Every westerner is unique, special, and smart because of the media they consume. “Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Metacritic or whatever said my taste is amazing, and so yours must be bad.” This is especially true across generations; How could you possibly not think Ghostbusters is the best film ever made?
Combine this phenomenon with the online phenomenon of “sick burns” winning arguments, and you arrive at what you’re experiencing:
By NOT enjoying the wire, you are arguing (imagined, of course) that the Redditor is not smart and good for consuming Product A instead of Product B, and that cannot stand. So you’re a shitgibbon who is incapable of understanding how special this very obscure product is.
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
