adurot:

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nephrited:

In my 5 long years of being the president of the regions largest anime society, I learnt that it’s the snobs who actively go on about how bad certain popular animes are are the ones that get ostracized the fastest.

Obviously that doesn’t apply to the internet, where the “counter-culture”-culture where hating on popular things is cool, but damn is it tiresome.

The internet is a lovely little bundle of hatred. :\

People can like or dislike whatever the hell they want, it doesn’t affect me.

I’ve just seen the same post 5 or 6 times now in the last two days, with various popular anime names substituted in place, and it reminded me of what happened to people who went off on rants about how bad show X or Y was in real life. I generally stepped in with “People are allowed to like what they want, don’t worry, we won’t force you to watch anything here”.

Hating on things that don’t really affect the given individual all that much isn’t cool.

I may bring up stuff I don’t/didn’t like, but I won’t suggest you have you hate them too. I’ve enjoyed too many things that are popularly “bad” to do otherwise.

I think a big problem is because something is overhyped. The fans go on and on about how amazing it is but when you actually sit down and watch it and think about it for a bit, you find it’s not as good as people make it out to be. Either that or the constant exposure to something tends to get annoying and you look for any reason to hate it. it’s the same reason people hate frozen. People went on and on about how amazing it was when it’s not really as amazing as people say and the merchandise that spawned from it has kept it in our society for years with no sign of letting go.

but yeah, it’s not htat people hate this super amazing thing, it’s that they don’t think it’s amazing and when people want to fight to defend their opinions.

Long story short, respect peoples opinions and don’t overhype something.