I cannot describe the visceral level of aversion I have to mainstream shit. It doesn’t matter if the show is the best thing on earth, if the general public knows about it (And I don’t mean the internet I mean the general public) then I refuse to watch or partake in it. I have no idea why and it genuinely kills me to be like this and I have no idea why.
It prevents me from joining most fandoms nowadays unless the fandom is super niche. Things like Hotel Hazbin, Star Wars, The Office, K-pop (in general), Kpop Demon Hunters, most popular anime… WHY. WHY AM I LIKE THIS?? Is anyone else like this? Even people just mentioning “Oh yeah I love One Piece, you should watch it sometimes” makes me go “Oh fuck nah I’m good” as if the damn show was a personal insult. I feel like a stuck-up prick when I do this but I genuinely can’t control it, why???
With the excessive amount of capitalism, manipulation of population and advertising. It’s the same for me. The more mainstream the more I question is it because they mean manipulated to watch it and advertise it in some way or is it because they genuinely like it.
Not everyone is this way I know but so much people are like “omg this show is the best ever” and the show is just not good in any way but everywhere online and all the articles and shit say it’s a perfect show.
Basically when someone says a show is good I ask them what specifically is good about it. If they don’t have a good response then I just don’t
I don’t like a lot of generic stuff that’s basically repeating of older shows. I like interesting and in-depth shows. Not just copy pasted with different actors and slightly different things.
This is all my own personal opinion about it though.
Also why the fuck do a lot of mainstream stuff is just secretly racist or fucking anti human. Like everyone loved the new Spider-Man movie that came out when it had several scenes that was just advertising or straight up manipulation.
Anyways yeah the more popular something is the more I question “is it because it’s good or did marketing on it really do well for it?”