“Reality TV”. Could anythjng be more contrived yet obviously “make it up as you go along”?
Poekmon: It came out when I was in highschool doing band, theater, occasional sports, a summer job (fulltime), and a parttime job otherwise so I just never got into it. To me, it’s a glorified paper-rock-scissors simulator with extra steps and zero nostalgia.
VTubers: it’s just uncanny valley to me. I’m also super sensitive to audio-video sync issues and avatars seemed to always be slightly behind the couple of times I tried to watch it.
Shorts (and entire social media like TickTock, reels (I think it is called?), etc.): the forcing of vertical video is one reason since I’m almost always watching things in landscape (95% of the time on a TV, monitor, or tablet). I also just want to see more of the same topic, typically, and it’s over and now I have to pay a mental context-switching fee.
Vtubers. I get the cute anime girl thing and I like fan art of them as I do other anime. But the models move wayyyyyy to exaggerated. It hits uncanny valley for me.
Also I don’t get the parasocial relationship of chatting in a huge room of other followers. The chat is scrolling by at a hundred miles an hour and you’re competing with everyone else for their attention.
It’s 100% uncanny valley for me as well. There’s a creator a like who doesn’t like to appear on camera much (most of their main content is animated) and wanted to watch their livestreams. They used an avatar and it just weirded me out. It doesn’t help that I’m seemingly way more sensitive than usual when it comes to audio and visuals being even slightly out-of-sync.
Sports, cars, motorcycles and a lot of music genres. All things that men are supposed to like, even though I consider myself quite masculine.
Those are interests. I wouldn’t call it hype.
In-N-Out. Tried it. It’s OK.
Then you go to the east coast and they claim Five Guys is the better In-n-out and holy shit it is definitely not. Even more overpriced and not even as good as a burger king. Sheesh.
Very overpriced. Free peanuts tho
It’s not better, it’s just what’s available. Like Sbarro when you’re not in NYC and the local pizza sucks
Yea it’s decent, but what really takes the cake is that it’s far better than what you can get at McDonald’s and (at least in my area) it’s cheaper than McDs
Their double double combo is like 10$ compared to McDs pitiful BigMac combo at like 13
It’s not worth flying across the country for like some do, but if I have a choice between McDs or In-N-Out…
Oh, for sure I’d rather it over McD’s. I just don’t think it’s amazing like a lot of other people seem to think it is.
Twitter or any “microblog”.
I don’t understand why “following” a person/organisation would be interesting. I would rather follow a topic/community.
You can do that. But certain voices carry extra weight within communities.
I followed today’s Formula 1 race on both Threads and Mastodon. Both platforms allow you to follow topics and that’s what I did. But then I follow the people I find interesting as well
Agree. When I was on Twitter I followed local bars, restaurants, and music venues for info on events and happy hours. No humans.
Watching sports. Playing them, I get. Watching? Never cared for it.
Same reason some people are into watching video games, talent shows or even actors.
There’s loads of interest to be found in spectating a skilled display of any activity if you truly engage with it IMO.
I sometimes watch sports I’ve barely got a grasp of the rules for just out of fascination. GAA hurling is the most recent one I can recall getting sucked into for an afternoon.
There are dozens of us!
My country pretty much lives hockey, so people don’t even ask whether you watch, it’s assumed you do, so they’ll ask stuff like “that match yesterday was awesome, right?” or directly reference something that happened in said match and then look at you like their mind can’t comprehend someone doesn’t watch hockey.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=msN7HNncHik&t=130s&pp=2AGCAZACAQ%3D%3D
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Conan O’Brien taught me how to deal with this situation decades ago.
Just say, “yeah, it was a real nailbiter!” that should buy you enough time to run away.
I feel like this except for gymnastics, rythmic gymnastics, ice skating/dancing. Those are so entertaining.
Especially beyond the local level
Apple, especially when it was considered a “luxury brand.”
I had an iPhone once, but realized I couldn’t get a torrent client and decided I’ll never use Apple again.
Also if you go to like China, you wouldn’t be able to download a VPN app, whereas with Android, at least you can tell a friend who lives in the west to email you a .apk file.
It still is considered that, for reasons.
Because Apple is a marketing company
It’s expensive and recognized. That’s about it. The UI is neat, I guess.
This is what I don’t get, the UI looks so dated and messy to me. Everything looks like it came out of the 90s and never evolved.
Mr. Beast.
Most social media stuff.
Omg did you hear X did Y?
I guess I’m just old but I don’t follow most. Even with dogpiling PirateSoftware. Yes, he’s wrong and probably lied. I just don’t get the hype around it. I’m happy that the hype led to Stop Killing Games getting enough traction though, that was nice.
I’ve never heard that name in my life, and I’m petty sure I don’t care one way or another. My daughter gets wrapped up in internet drama and I can’t for the life of me understand why. I am not drawn to drama but were I, there is plenty to be found in my own life. It’s all so performative and pointless — the good and the bad.
I’ve been watching countless PirateSoftware drama videos since it’s the clown that keeps on giving. I never bothered with drama channels on YouTube, so I never realized how much of an industry these people made out of it now that I keep getting recommend them. It’s sickening.
Most superheroes
Personally superhero movies aremy crowning achievement as far as willing suspension of disbelief goes.
It’s fine that superheroes have powers and/or levels of combat expertise that would be impossible to achieve at their age WITHOUT superpowers. That’s just how it is.
That they solve all major problems by punching people and acting as less murderous COPS, though? THAT’S what I have to force myself to overlook in order to enjoy the escapist silliness I’m watching 😄
Same LMAO they’re neat but I’ve always been so meh about them. And there’s not even like new ones, it’s always the same versions over and over again
It’s been 30 minutes: time to reboot Batman again! Let’s spend half the runtime of the movie rehashing his origin story just in case there might somehow still be one single person on Earth who doesn’t know what Batman’s deal is.
I actually don’t know, only read it from reddit/lemmy that his rich parents died or something and now he wants revenge against the criminals that killed them?
Pretty much
Almost anything. As a neurodivergent I seem to be mostly immune and I see the hype circles people are running in and find them bad as all distracts from the immediate issues we are having and should turn our attention to (from personal to global).
The same in most institutions and companies afaik.
Working for corpos. It’s a dream for most of IT people to get hired in Google or Microsoft. I guess being a worthless cog in a world-destroying machine is the top of the game these days.
As a software architect, I only target small companies. And I can do anything I fucking want, I’m currently rocking a SolidJS+TRPC+Prisma setup and life is a dream.
[…] JS […] dream.
Your dreams are my nightmares. Maybe that’s why I stick to backend these days.
I used to want to work for Google because I thought they were hiring the best and brightest and making cool stuff. That hasn’t been true in ages, though, as they do things that I definitely would define as ‘evil’ and love to kill off their products. Even were I to work there, I’m not sure my other goal, getting to work with and learn from some brilliant engineers, would even happen anymore. (I mean, if they’d hire me (and they almost did ages ago)…)
The idea is to be a cog in which you can get lost and do minimal work while collecting a fat paycheck
Yup. When you’re the only guy on the team, you have to do everything.
Labubu.
Romance. Like I get on an intellectual level why people couple up and all, evolution and all that, and that people strongly desire it, but Ive never been able to imagine exactly what it feels like to want that close of a relationship with someone, let alone a formalized and exclusive one.
