Quote from: Gate on Jan 01, 2018, 05:42:28 PM
People don't like anything. They're all going to die young of heart attacks from self-induced stress.
Sometimes it really seems that way, with the fractured fandoms, hipster hate BS, and the obnoxious decline of YouTube reviewers and criticism in general going around. I really hate how it's all gone together to gaslight the public, to convince us that what we saw wasn't what we actually saw, that something we know for a fact is great is shit, and vice versa. Coupled with certain individuals' self-righteous, self-absorbed, bordering on messianic tendencies and beliefs (the obvious decline of promising individuals like Doug Walker aka The Nostalgia Critic, TheMysteriousMrEnter and Angry Joe, and the undeserved attention or fandom of CinemaSins, RedLetterMedia, moviebob, ReviewTechUSA and ConfusedMatthew), it all leads to a thoroughly toxic environment where it seems like no one can just enjoy a movie, a game, a show or a book without flame wars, being at each others' throats, and interjecting themes and beliefs (religious, social, economic or political) in their viewings of these things when they weren't actually there in the first place, something extremists on the left and the right are very guilty of. Not to mention, it's so easy for lazy myths and memes to become established fact, whether it is Star Wars not actually being good past the original trilogy, The Simpsons being in creative decline simply because no season past Season 8 is a virtually perfect one anymore even if the show is still in fact quite funny and yes, heartwarming, Metallica not doing anything worthwhile after Master of Puppets, Call of Duty being irredeemably awful and having "killed real FPS titles", and on and on. It's truly sickening. Do people just want to look for things to hate and take any chance to tear it down, even if it means contradicting an earlier point they made?