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
Ugh, I completely understand where you’re coming from with the elitist attitudes on Reddit. It’s so annoying when people act like they’re better than others because they enjoy a certain TV show or movie. Just because something is considered to be highbrow doesn’t mean that everyone has to like it. To be honst, I’m not a huge fan of The Wire myself. I found it really slow and kind of boring, even though I can see why some people might appriciate its artistic merit. Diffrent people have diffrent tastes, right? It’s important to remember that it’s okay to have diffrent opinions and not to belittle someone for not enjoying something that others might consider a masterpiece
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Wire.
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
