do people hate things that are mainstream or popular?
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People are trying to be different, unique and cool so they go around saying that everything sucks and try to be like Yahtzee.
I've got no problem with the mainstream as such, it's when something is created to appeal to the mainstream that it tends to lack in other areas.
In that case it tends to be aimed at the lowest common denominator to hit the largest audience, and therefore ends up not very satisfying to anyone, but 'ok' to many.
Stewart Lee covers this in his TV show, about the fact that 'Delboy falling thru the bar' is the funniest thing that's ever been on TV.
Of course, most popular and well known and most often repeated comedy scene, doesn't equate to funniest, but it satisfies polls and surveys and pleases the millions who enjoyed it.
He does make a good point about how the combined works of Monty Python and the Goons amount to nothing compared with a man who was vertical becoming horizontal.
It's the same reason that over here at least, Billy Connolly and Peter Kay often top the 'Funniest comedian ever' polls, you can't really quantify 'funniest', but you can say who's most popular. For my money, Louis CK kills me, but, you couldn't play his stuff to millions on a Saturday night without there being rioting in the streets because he said a bad word.
In that case it tends to be aimed at the lowest common denominator to hit the largest audience, and therefore ends up not very satisfying to anyone, but 'ok' to many.
Stewart Lee covers this in his TV show, about the fact that 'Delboy falling thru the bar' is the funniest thing that's ever been on TV.
Of course, most popular and well known and most often repeated comedy scene, doesn't equate to funniest, but it satisfies polls and surveys and pleases the millions who enjoyed it.
He does make a good point about how the combined works of Monty Python and the Goons amount to nothing compared with a man who was vertical becoming horizontal.
It's the same reason that over here at least, Billy Connolly and Peter Kay often top the 'Funniest comedian ever' polls, you can't really quantify 'funniest', but you can say who's most popular. For my money, Louis CK kills me, but, you couldn't play his stuff to millions on a Saturday night without there being rioting in the streets because he said a bad word.
Personally I judge things based on whether I like them or not.
I'm not gonna label something as bad just because it's made by a certain person or anything.
I'm not gonna label something as bad just because it's made by a certain person or anything.
People really just hate OVERRATED things. Popular things are popular because... Well, they're good. That's the difference between popular and overrated.
For example, I do not enjoy WoW (should I not have said that?)
For example, I do not enjoy WoW (should I not have said that?)
The majority of people are stupid.
If stupid people like something, it has a high potential to be stupid.
I can understand why people stereotype mainstream as bad.
Some things that are popular are actually quite good. Like Tool and Radiohead. But many things that are popular are quite terrible, like Hannah Montana and Soulja Boy.
If stupid people like something, it has a high potential to be stupid.
I can understand why people stereotype mainstream as bad.
Some things that are popular are actually quite good. Like Tool and Radiohead. But many things that are popular are quite terrible, like Hannah Montana and Soulja Boy.
I always strictly believed that there are the individuals who hate things that become popular because it makes them feel less "unique". We all love that one band that no one else knows, I know that. It makes us feel like an individual. But then when you see everyone else wearing that band's t-shirt and listening to them exclusively, you feel more of the mainstream crowd and no longer an individual. It's just the way we are.
The thing that I never got were the people who wanted to be "different" and their way of doing so was just doing what everybody else was doing.
The thing that I never got were the people who wanted to be "different" and their way of doing so was just doing what everybody else was doing.