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[ SECRET POST #2860 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2860 ⌋

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Isn't the fact that millions of people like it the opposite of bland and tripe?

LOL.

Don't go hipster on me.

Sorry, I didn't think that comment deserved anything more intelligent.

Correction, don't go butthurt hipster on me.

You're confusing "popular" with "any good".

...OP's secret is about lack of popularity.

OP's secret is about bland fic.

It's about lack of popularity, note how OP included a general lack of response.

...no wonder you like 50 Shades if that's your level of reading comprehension.

Waaaay to evade the issue.

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Millions of people like white bread too.

McDonalds has served over six million burgers. You're missing out on the fact that people consume both reading material and food for a very wide variety of reasons and "flavor" isn't the sole reason.

Nobody willingly eats or read something they don't like the flavor of.

And reading 50 Shades is the literary equivalent of the obesity crisis.

What you said makes no sense.

And that's probably why you like 50 Shades.

No, it doesn't make sense, period.

But people don't eat McDonald's burgers or read James Patterson novels because they're good. They eat and read them because they're solidly mediocre. People know exactly what they're getting, and for exactly how much.

Why can you not accept the idea that people like something and therefore find it good? Genuinely curious.

Why can you not accept the idea that they might be wrong?

Are you so stupid they can't fathom fathom people like something because they find it good?
Why are so adamant in telling people they are wrong for enjoying what they like? You're starting to reek of thought policing.

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Because the reasons why people find something "good" don't always have a thing to do with whether the thing is actually, objectively good. And by objectively good I mean the basic standards of whatever the thing is (writing quality, nutritional value, etc. etc. etc.)

People read/eat/whatever terrible things because they're popular and therefore the cool thing to be seen doing/reading/eating/talking about. It's the Emperor's New Clothes all over again. When they say "this was good" they could mean a whole lot of things that don't actually have a thing to do with quality. Like "my friend read this because their friend did so now I have to gush over it or my social circle might judge me." Or "everyone's talking about this so I have to be seen to be talking about it too or I'll seem dumb/uncool/whatever."

If you can't accept the idea that that could be true for a LOT of people who say they like something -- especially popular things that are objectively bad -- then you're pretty naive.

Except objectively good and objectively bad are 4chan bullshit. Good is subjective and if I enjoy something, that's good for me, I don't give a shit what you think.

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I don't like how some people here and in that cesspool that is /a/ try to push that "kink/fantasy/fetish I don't share" = "objectively" bad writing.

What entertains and engages me emotionally is good.
What leaves me indifferent is shit, and not worth my time.

That is my only standard.

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