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⌈ Secret Post #6746 ⌋

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“Red flag” recommendations

[iff_and_xor]

What have people recommended to you that made you stop trusting their recommendations?

Has anyone ever recommended something and you felt offended?

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[philstar22]

Had someone recommend Ayn Rand to me once.

Things like American Psycho, Fight Club. Liking them is fine. But the way some men are obsessed with them (and also fundamentally don't get them and think the main characters are heroes). And when people rec them to me even knowing me and my tastes. What?

50 shades of Grey, Twilight when I ask for erotica or fantasy recs.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Ha! I just mentioned 50 Shades of Grey too.

Fight Club

[(Anonymous)]

It didn't used to be, but times have changed. If someone says this is their favorite book my opinion of them drops dramatically.

I felt vaguely offended when someone recommended 50 Shades of Gray to me. But it wasn't someone who really knew me, just a vague person who was like "oh ho ho it is so good and so naughty" and had clearly never read kink in their life.

Re: Fight Club

[(Anonymous)]

My sister-in-law recced that to me, yuck!

I just told her I'd heard of it and it didn't sound like my cup of tea, instead of the truth: I only like femdom or slash BDSM, lololol.

Re: Fight Club

[(Anonymous)]

It's not his best book. You might like Invisible Monsters. That's the story he really wanted to write, but no one would publish it so he changed the leads to macho men and made it into Fight Club.

Re: Fight Club

[(Anonymous)]

My anxiety-ridden brain still occasionally plays back when I gifted a friend the second 50 Shades Book for Christmas, because he'd mentioned reading the first one previously and loving it. I apparently didn't pick up that he was joking. I wanted the ground to swallow me.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

ACOTAR. Just…no.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Anything by SJM or Colleen Hoover in general for me lol.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Yeeeeees. It screams, "I don't usually read books so I don't know that this is garbage blah blah sexy elves".

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

It's weird, I got recommended the first one probably around the time it came out; certainly before it got super popular and had tons of sequels. The reccer said that since I loved Beauty and the Beast type stories and fairytales I would love it.

Not so much. I didn't like any of the characters enough to care about the plot, the writing was meh to bad, and I never finished it.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

This didn't specify books, so: any time a dev "recs" their game without clearly disclaimering up front, first thing, that it is their game they're promoting.

Same thing with fic/books/whatnot but this happens most with games.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[kaijinscendre]

I can't stand when people do it for fics and add "It's not really what you are looking for but how about my fic?" I didn't ask for that!

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[dani_phantasma]

I had a THERAPIST give me a glowing recommendation of Twilight , she'd gush about how good it is , how the author is an English major (meh) and just the fact that she is not only recommending this book to a TEENAGER as a therapist, but the fact that I was an incredibly immature for my age autistic teenage, who was at the mental maturity of like.. 13 at 18-19 and is deeply depressed is... kinda alarming

She also turned out to be incredibly toxic and manipulative, trying to catch me in lies by asking things like "do you think you're trying hard enough?" (at what??) and later I found out she was trying to play me and my mom against each other by acting cold to her initially before calling her behind my back to apologize and say how I was manipulative ... well somehow it's not surprising

Any therapist who does not at least SEE some worrying signs of abuse on Edward's end or unhealthy devotion on Bella's is just.. not good at their job tbh. It's not like they're all very subtle about it...

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Hell no to this!!!

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

A good friend once recommended Curb Your Enthusiasm to me: “Oh my god, I know you would love<\em> this!”

No shade to the show, it seems very well made, but I don’t watch many sitcoms and that show in particular is not at all my sense of humor.

I was a little offended by her certainty and felt like she was only reccing it because I’m Jewish and from NYC.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Outlander.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

I've never judged anyone for their book recs. It seems weird to me to write off a person just because of what books they're enthusiastic about. I mean FFS I'm a fandom person. I understand being fannish about things that are icky or not good.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

The Quran.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[greghousesgf]

In a video store in the late 80's some woman I didn't know who worked there tried to talk me into renting 3 Men and a Baby, which is the total opposite of my taste in movies. Who the fuck knows why.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

Sword Art Online.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

For context: I was a nerd in high school; I read a ton, took three years of latin, took every AP class I possibly could, watched documentaries for fun, and was a massive Star Trek fan.

My older brother seriously tried to get me to go to Liberty "University". That was the last time I paid him any attention.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

I was recommended the other day Emily in Paris. Tbf I didn't trust this person's media judgement before, but that was OMG moment.

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

I'm more put off by *why* someone recs something (This romance is totally unproblematic! The hero(ine) is such a great role model!)than what they rec.

Partially this is because Fight Club is a great read and Twilight sparked the imagination of millions of readers.

And partially because I can imagine finding joy in just about anything.

But mostly because the real answer is Self Help lol

Re: “Red flag” recommendations

[(Anonymous)]

My biggest red flag was when I was asking on a webnovel fantranslation site for recs and mentioned specifically that I didn't want certain genres/topics (several times no less). More than one comment was "I know you said you didn't want X but this one is SO GOOD that X shouldn't even bother you". And I dismissed all those people's recs in general, even those that didn't have X.