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⌈ Secret Post #2938 ⌋

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Has anyone else ever met someone who is, for the most part, generally a nice person? This one person in my current fandom is pretty nice to everyone, is generally chill, but her opinions and interpretations of certain characters and concepts from the fandom source material are so vastly different from my own and I generally disagree with just about everything she espouses about the source material. This wouldn't be a bad thing if she wasn't so condescending to people who disagree. And if people call her out for being condescending she always pulls the "I wasn't talking about YOU! If it doesn't apply to you then you shouldn't be bothered by it!"

Also if people have different interpretations of the characters/source material they're "doing it wrong" and that these fanworks are of a "lesser artistic quality." She even used a metaphor that people who are like this are generally the same type of people who listen to mainstream pop whereas people like her who try to write "much more artistic work" are those who listen to indie bands and other things.

Beyond this mentality she's not a bad person or anything, so I feel guilty for not liking her or not wanting to interact with her at all (I usually stay in my little fandom corner). Anyone else gone through anything similar?

No, I'm even more petty than you. Tumblr esque writing styles (lots of caps, flowery prose, and overemphasizing excitement) grate my nerves hardcore. People who are bad at jokes, but make them regularly also really annoy me. Even if they're good people otherwise, I end up hating them.

There's someone here on F!S like that for me. We both like the same fandom and so end up commenting on the same stuff. I think she's trying to be funny but it just does not translate. Overall, she's nice but she bugs me.

Enh, there are plenty of nice folks who I just have nothing in common with, and I am POSITIVE there are people who think I'm nice but don't like me at all. And that's okay! Feelings aren't the same as acting on them.

It's kind of like roommates. They might be a really great person, but that doesn't mean you'll live well together!

Good point. :)

She doesn't sound nice at all. She sounds passive-aggressive.

OP here. Yeah I generally try to withhold judgement about people until I've personally gotten to know them, but since this person is someone I don't want to interact with at all, I wasn't sure if I was being judgmental or if she really is passive-aggressive. I guess she kinda is? I've had some people tell me they think she's passive-aggressive so maybe she is a little bit...

There is a girl in my friendship group (note that I'm not even describing her as a friend even though by all rights I probably should) who is actually a very genuinely nice person. And she has only ever been warm and pleasant towards me. And yet, she bugs the hell out of me simply because I feel her niceness is insincere despite having no proof of this. Either way, I much prefer hanging out with my asshole other friends who do genuinely annoying things a lot of the time but whom I love anyway.

In light of this story, I would have no qualms about disliking this person you're describing, because I think a condescending, close-minded attitude like that is at best deeply immature and at worst elitist, and either way stupid and rude. Stupid people, I can deal with. But rude stupid people? They can go fuck themselves.

there's this coworker I used to have irl who was from the south and was overly polite to a grating degree. absolutely infuriatingly cheerful to be around. and I could never tell if he was being polite or being extremely sarcastic and insulting. I don't know if it was just too big a cultural difference between how I was raised and how he was raised but he was a perfectly nice individual whose intent I couldn't read at all and it drove me crazy.

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