[ SECRET POST #2816 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2816 ⌋

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[Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Pendergast series]


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[Oblivion, Vicente Valtieri]

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[Teen Wolf]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Some people really have a tendency to define themself (and others) by musical taste, and it's a little odd to me, mostly because I don't see people doing it so much with other forms of media. At least not defining themselves by what genre they like. I mean, people might say "I'm a huge film geek!" and have that as part of their personality, but I've never seen someone, say, making the fact that they prefer action movies or superhero movies or horror movies into a major part of their personality. Music seems to go along with certain subcultures in a way that other forms of media don't.

A person defining themself by their musical taste doesn't bother me - define yourself by whatever you want - but when they start putting OTHER people into boxes based on musical taste, especially if they get nasty and pretentious about it, does irritate me. So someone likes a band/genre you don't like? Why even care, as long as they aren't forcing you to listen to it (and in this age of iStuff, they probably aren't)? Why should they feel bad about what they like? And then there's the pretentious "poser" and "authentic" crap - you like a band I don't think is a good example of [insert genre]? You are a fake [genre] fan, even if you didn't claim to be a [genre] fan, and you're a poser and you SUCK!

And what confuses me, is that I can understand people like to sort themselves into groups and have their identities and make other people into less-worthy "others," but why do people do it with music and not other types of media (at least not to the same extent)? Or do they now?

... I guess I had a lot of feelings about music snobbery.

[(Anonymous)]

I take it you're not an anime fan.

[(Anonymous)]

Not a huge one, or at least I'm not in any anime fandoms. I take it anime fandom is like that, then?

I do enjoy some anime, I'm just not super involved with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, for a fairly small, niche, medium it's pretty varied in content, so there's a lot of separation because of that (ie people who want edgy action probably aren't going to bother with moe slice of life or fujoshi into sports shows probably aren't interested in harems), but also a good amount of overlap because of the size so argument are bound to happen. And shows that get really popular with your average joe (esp. long running shounen) often get backlash from the nerds who are more in to it.