[ SECRET POST #5976 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5976 ⌋

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[kaishi]

This is something that I've been seeing a lot. I can't tell if it's become more common over the years, or more pernicious, since I don't have any data. But it seems to me that hand in hand with the purity culture bullshit has come this idea that your likes and dislikes are objective, and so if you have a dislike you have to come up with (even make up) reasons for why something is bad. For some reason, there's a large percentage of people who have a hard time with just saying, "Eh, not my jam."

[(Anonymous)]

Purity culture is a big part of it but in fairness, this didn't start with purity culture. Way before then, there was still pressure to have an objective, explainable reason for not liking things. "It's just not for me" would get you endlessly asked "but why?" "I just don't like it" would be accused of being a childish attitude, and you'd get the same results of people criticizing something for elements that were also present in things they liked. (The number of times shonen manga fans shat on their hated series as evil for having fanservice and sexism when lol, their favorite series had those too but at best it was a tolerable flaw and at worst they bent through hoops to pretend it was subversive and they female characters were treated awesomely.)

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[(Anonymous)]

And also beyond that it's just like. How peoples' minds work. Humans just aren't that good at thinking honestly and objectively and with detachment about things.

[kaishi]

Might depend on the fandom then, because I've rarely run into this until relatively recently. My fandom experience until about 5-10 years ago has been the kinktomato and sals and squick.

[(Anonymous)]

See, in the case of this Youtuber specifically, I really do think she has a legit reason for not being crazy about a given cdrama. Sometimes if the ship/romance really works for you or your favorite actor is involved, you can forgive a great deal of flaws and shortcomings that might otherwise bother you. It's only human! But... she doesn't say that. It's as if she feels she has to come up with MORE reasons why she didn't like a cdrama and that pointing out deficiencies in the lighting, budget, cheap looking sets, historically inaccurate hair/clothing, meh dubbing, cheezy CGI, etc. etc. feel more legit than just saying that you didn't ship the main leads very hard and couldn't overlook the flaws that will, of course, exist in any cdrama, somewhere.

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhh. I can personally think of plenty of cases where I could overlook flaws in one canon but not another for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with ships. Sometimes it's all about the writing or how the author frames something or whether or not the flaws are front and center and impossible to ignore.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah people are just like this, you notice it more now because you can see so many people's opinions on something. Truly: no human is an objective giver of unbiased ideas, we all have our biases that form our opinions on how we like/dislike things, and that's not to say that's bad. Because it isn't. It's just how humans are, that's all.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you might be right. I don't get it, myself. It's not weird to just say that something popular just wasn't your cup of tea for [x reasons], or just... you don't know why, but it didn't click with you. That's so common, can't imagine why people don't embrace that.