Poll: "They just hate it because it's popular."

[ace_of_something]

Really? I mean... really?

Does anyone actually do this? Because I find it a bit hard to swallow.

Seriously, I'm curious. Have you - yes, you - ever decided to hate something purely because other people like it?

I direct you to this [a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.287803-Todays-Biggest-Musicicans-WHOs-OVERRATED]Thread Right here[/a]

No one is ever going to claim or actually say 'i hate something because it's popular' often times people only dislike something but it's popularity with others sends them in to bile territory.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't used to do that. "That band sold out" might have been something I said on more than one occasion... when I was a teenager. Though the DIY Punk scene is largely, or at least was at the time, dominated by that attitude.

Lastly the entire 'hipster' culture is based on liking things that are 'unique' or 'different' see: not popular.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

What do you think a hipster is?

I'm not entirely sure. So far as I can tell it means 'person who wears clothes that are different to mine'.

You have much to learn young Jedi.

Let us begin your teachings...

Spoiler: Click to begin...

 

[Cormitt]

Not entirely. Sometimes my hatred for something has been amplified by it being popular, simply because I don't get how something I despise could be so incredibly popular. But I've never gone out of my way to hate something purely because it is popular. Sometimes things are popular for a reason after all. But if something is really popular I tend to have higher expectations for it, which rarely ends well.

Couldn't agree with this quote more. Thus I'm an Other.

 

[SonofaJohannes]

The problem with popular things is that other people like it. People I can't stand. I usually prefer not being grouped together with the "15 year old kid that shouts bad words into the mic" stereotype. I don't hate Call of Duty, I hate the people that play it.

 

[ace_of_something]

What do you think a hipster is?

I'm not entirely sure. So far as I can tell it means 'person who wears clothes that are different to mine'.

Read and be amazed at [a href=http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/]The intense study of hipsters[/a]
Most of the things on this site describe the 'upper-middle-class' 20-somethings that are sometimes called 'hipsters.' Though not everything.

 

[tomtom94]

If a lot of people like something, and it fails to live up to the expectations bred by its popularity, then I suppose it would be possible to hate something just because it was popular - it was its popularity that encouraged you to watch it in the first place.


That and those of us who actually know our subject material have the right, I feel, to get angry at the people who call themselves "hardcore gamers" but do nothing except brag constantly about their K/D in COD. (Or the equivalent in your field of interest.) Whether this backlashes onto the games themselves is down to individual people.

Otherwise, hating something just because of popularity is stupid, obviously.

 

[BigDeadMushy]

I'll love or hate stuff on it's own merits, usually a couple of months after the OMGNEWSHINYTHING! furor is over. I'm not a bandwagon type, but I try to not miss out entirely on the potential for enjoyment.saved myself more than a couple of quid this way too,bonus points for me

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

You can hate something for having popularity rather than hating something because it's popular.

A certain Austrian painter comes to mind.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Not that I can think of. I've genuinely hated things that happened to be popular. and yes, a lot of these things I tend to only find out about when they become popular, and subsequently investigate them and form a hatred of them. Which leads to me being accused of this kind of thing.

But to my knowledge, I've never hated something simple because of its popularity. I've hated that things I deem ridiculous and terrible GET popular or are popular to begin with, but the popularity is not what makes me form the hatred. The sheer horror of the thing's existence is what forms the hatred.

 

[liveslowdiefast]

my hatred of something genrally falls into the mainstram, due to the way that it presents its self in our popular culture

 

[Engarde]

I only dislike some popular things because they build up expectations or multiply what I already feel. If I didn't really like a piece of media and then the world proceeds to constantly tell me how wonderful it is, then I tend to get more than a little annoyed.

It also doesn't help that all the popularity nonsense also builds up expectations, so I always tend to be a good deal behind things so everyone has shut up about them.

 

[Kenami]

I can understand being perplexed by something being popular (for me it's those snuggie things) but out right hating it (Justin Bieber is a prime example for me) shocks me. I think people sometimes forget that nobody is forcing them to hate something yet at times it feels like people act as though thats the case.

 

[standokan]

Yes, but that's just that fashion today is bleh, I mean pants on your knees, really?

 

[4RM3D]

I don't hate it because it's popular.
I don't hate it because it's crap.
I hate it because it's crap and still became popular.

 

[imnot]

Sort of I guess, I hate call of duty because I find it boring as tripe, and the fact its popular makes me annoyedd, so kind of, not purely though.

 

[Mr Thin]

You can hate something for having popularity rather than hating something because it's popular.

That's a very succinct way of phrasing it, I like it.

OT: I think it's more that when people hate/dislike something popular, they'll tell you about it a lot more, because there's satisfaction in not following the norm (and also in getting a rise out of people).

For example, there was a recent thread about the worst movie you've ever seen. I saw more than a few 'Avatar' mentions.

I would bet serious money that these people would make no such claim if it wasn't so popular. They would pick a movie that was, you know, actually terrible.

 

[nathan-dts]

I hate that certain things are popular because they don't deserve to be, but i've never hated on something because it's popular.

 

[ScoopMeister]

I hate things that are popular, but not because they are popular- I hate them because I hate them, not because I don't want to follow the crowd. I think it's important to make that distinction.
Having said that, the popularity of something does often make me skeptical as to whether it is actually good, or if people only like it because everyone else seems to. Even still, I never judge until I have actually experienced the thing that I'm judging.

 

[kurupt87]

Not entirely. Sometimes my hatred for something has been amplified by it being popular, simply because I don't get how something I despise could be so incredibly popular. But I've never gone out of my way to hate something purely because it is popular. Sometimes things are popular for a reason after all. But if something is really popular I tend to have higher expectations for it, which rarely ends well.

You've no doubt had this quoted before but...this. There are many many things in this world which I do not like but can just ignore.

Those things that I dislike that are also wildly popular are not only popular despite me thinking they're bad/terrible/etc and so not worth it but, I can't even ignore them; they're in my face. It's like dislike[sup]3[/sup].

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

For example, there was a recent thread about the worst movie you've ever seen. I saw more than a few 'Avatar' mentions.

I would bet serious money that these people would make no such claim if it wasn't so popular. They would pick a movie that was, you know, actually terrible.

I think there's a difference between terrible "bad", terrible "good" and terrible "overrated".

Avatar was a dreadfully contrived mismatch of plagiarised ideas, held together by atrocious acting, overblown special effects and some of the most invasive psychological tricks around.

It was terrible in that respect.

Manos: Hands of Fate is a god-awful movie that makes no sense apart from being laughed at - but doesn't have any of the bad bits of Avatar. (apart from the acting, which is worse)

It was terrible in that respect.

Plan 9 From Outer Space takes all the flaws of Avatar and Manos, and makes a surprisingly inviting film. Mainly because everyone there slogs their guts out on it.

It was terrible in many respects. But also much loved.

So...which one is the "most terrible"?