Steampunk aesthetic ( 1990’s ), generative art ( early 2000s )
Anon likes a thing
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blargle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
I have several things that interested me and became popular, but I didn’t hate on the new fans. At most I sometimes missed the feeling of having this thing that was a bit obscure and in case of channels on youtube, the intimacy of interacting with the creator and other subscribers was nice. But I can’t hate on something I like becoming popular.
As for concrete examples, I do remember subbing to this small gaming channel with 9000 subs called Markiplier back in the day.
I subbed to OKI Weird Stories when he had like 600ish subs.
I subbed to Creepcast before it had any videos on it, but that one is cheating since both meatcanyon and wendigoon were already very popular. Still, it’s been a bit nuts seeing the podcast explode in popularity. I even know people irl who listen to it.
Currently I follow a small channel, also podcast format, called The Daydream Arcade that focuses on reading reddit stories, but the hosts are two friends, who bring some warmth and personality to the format which is nice. For me, I stick around becuase I really like their friendship and their personalities. I’m also a older than the both of them and feel a bit big-sister-protective of them. I want them to grow and I believe they will because they already have 4500 subs compared to the 900 they had when I found them, but also don’t like the thought of them reaching a point of popularity where the mean assholes come crawling to tear them down.
festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
did people even read the last 3 green lines?
EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What a tragic viewpoint to take. Imagine seeing something that you like becoming more popular and having all these new people to share it with from such a perspective. Depressing.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Depends on the people. Eternal September has been a meme for over 30 years at this point. It is a cyclical pattern in just about anything social: experimentalists/creatives create new thing, early adopters join which gives new thing legitimacy, social contracts are implicitly drafted because the community is small and easy to reach consensus, then it gets exposure, masses of new people join the thing that aren’t interested in the social contract, community cohesion eventually evaporates. This is how you go from “Man, our thing is so cool” to “Fucking newbies spamming in general, begging.” You don’t want to share your cool thing with a bunch of mouth breathers that aren’t capable of appreciating what makes the thing actually cool. Eventually the grifters come, and then it is game over. So the original community members scatter to the winds. Some creative people make some new thing and it starts all over again.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You misunderstood the enshitification part. \
- The thing was out before & not new. \
- The sudden influx of new ppl possibly (almost always) came bcs of interests & opportunity of a company, but certainly after it became popular. \
- Op lost the ability to enjoy or be public about the interest, that is a loss (that happened bcs of random fuckery for profit).
Shayeta@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Blockchain.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Deadpool.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My ex wife and I used to take a chess board everywhere, play in cafes, parks, restaurants, pubs. It was something to do when we had run out of stuff to say to each other. It was a conversation starter, people would come up and have a sticky, or ask us who’s winning. Some people would occasionally ask if they can play. It was nice. Until Queens Gambit was all the rage. Then people seemed to assume we were just following that trend, and there was a noticeable increase in people saying “Queens Gambit eh?” And we stopped taking the board out so much.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Pogs are cool little disks
Then it became a children’s verb
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The new term does derive directly from the old disk game, and the disk game derives its name from a juice beverage that originated the disks as part of the caps.
Pog might be the most diversely derived words in the English language, it being an acronym of the words Pineapple, Orange and Guava. Pineapple being derived from apple which comes out of Germanic languages, orange coming out of the Dravidian languages of south India, and guava coming out of the Arawakan languages of South America. These three language families share no known common ancestry.
uxia@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I was a nerdy teen in the 90/00s. There’s plenty I could be gatekeeping but the thing is… I’m not special. Nobody is. All this shit is meaningless. You don’t own any of it. Sorry it just all comes off so territorial and greedy in a way. Grosses me out.
CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m in the same boat with a few others here when it comes to some games like Halo and Fallout. But I feel like I’m on the brink with 2 new ones:
- Doom: I played the original when I was a kid and got bullied for it (or probably being a general nerd). 2016 and Eternal were really popular and the franchise took off; but Dark Ages feels off. I played Dark Ages for a bit, put it down, and haven’t picked it up since. I think Doom is going down the shitter, especially what they did to Mick Gordon.
- Mother Mother (a band): My SO and I love their music for how unique and interesting it is; and we went to one of their first concerts at a small venue when they came into town ~10 years ago ish? Must have been <500 people. Generally no one else liked their music we shared it with, so we kept it to ourselves. Now? We went to another one a few months ago and it was at a HUGE stadium; absolutely packed. I think one of their songs went viral on TikTok - My Daddy’s got a gun. We’re proud of what they’ve accomplished, but really hope they don’t lose their identity in trying to become even more popular.
Impleader@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TIL Mother Mother is popular now. Loved O My Heart back in the day
CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
hushable@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was really into punk music when I was a kid since the late 80s, then the big boom happened in the mid-late 90s, which eventually yielded to pop punk and emo music from the early 2000s.
I still listen to it and I’ve even seen a resurgence coming as it coinciding with the 20 year nostalgia cycle, which is great in my opinion. But being a punk fan before it achieved mainstream success and after it went into decline by 2010s made me feel exactly as this post describes.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Punk was big in the late 70s - mid 80s, though? I thought the big boom was early 80s. It was buried under things like nu-metal and emo in the late 90s (I’m fuzzy on this because of reasons).
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was buried under things like nu-metal and emo in the late 90s (I’m fuzzy on this because of reasons).
there was stuff like the offspring and green day , them sum41 as a death throe.
source : was into 2/3
hushable@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
correct, should’ve clarified, I was big into what was at the time, old-school punk. As I was not alive in the late 70s.
I welcomed the punk-rock wave of the 90s with open arms.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Moopet casually crushing a lemming’s self-image
M137@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s equally as bad when you discover you like something that has been around for a while and has lots of fans and you don’t get accepted or realise you don’t want to be part of the fans because of how shitty, toxic, dumb etc. they are. A relevant example for this is Assassin’s creed for me. I never like any of the games until AC: Origins, even though I gave most of them a fair shake. AC: Origins is a 10/10 for me, I put in over 600h hours into that game, 100%'ed it and all its expansions/dlc. AC: Odyssey is good too, but I never got as into it, so a 8/10. Valhalla never looked good in any way so never even tried it. Started playing Shadows about a week ago and really enjoying it so far, not as good as Origins but mostly better than Odyssey. But damn do people not like when I mention this, like I’m not allowed to like it because I didn’t like the earlier games. I have no issue with people liking them and not the ones I do, never said anything else. Music is a lot like this too. “Oh, you like their newer stuff? Fucking idiot, only the early stuff is good, I now see down on you as a person and hate every opinion you have”.
Auth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When games have a perceived quality shift people will attack the newer fans because they see them as the reason why the company is allowed to “get away” with producing the worse thing. I don’t know how you can avoid that and still have a community that holds the thing they love to a standard. Some communities just like to fight about which games better, Im not really sure what else there is to even talk about with assassins creed (i’ve only played 2 of the games so idk).
DetectiveNo64@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
There’s way too much gatekeeping in gaming. People don’t seem to understand that everyone has different tastes, and it’s all subjective. There is no objectively good game. For me it’s Half Life 2, I don’t like shooters, tried it but couldn’t get into it. But to many it’s one of the greatest games ever.
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
There are objectively good games. There are not objectively fun games.
Half-Life 2 is objectively good, and if you say it’s a bad game you’re simply wrong. However if you say it’s a game you do not enjoy and isn’t fun for you, that’s not wrong.
A game can be both good and not enjoyable to you.
Conversely, a game can also be objectively bad and yet fun for some people.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Yeah been saying ‘Casuals Ruin Everything’ for a while now
youngskywalker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dune before the movie came out
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The Lynch one, right?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Anime
j4k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hereby name mine Mr. Law Yawnson, it’s a total bore
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This happens to most things I like. I really liked JoJo’s Bizarre adventure when the anime was first coming out and I read all the manga and then when part 3 got super popular the fandom became completely insufferable to the point where I was stopped recommending the show or keeping up with any updates. I have also been really into AI/language models/machine image generation for years before ChatGPT exploded and now “being into AI” usually means “Exporting rational thought to a chatbot.” I also feel like reddit is like this.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jojo’s was popular for a while before I got into it. I was very confused by part 1, because none of it lined up with what I was expecting from the memes and general online discourse. It was good, I liked it. Part 2 with the Pillar Men was the thing I watched that year.
Part 3 was awful. Jotaro is the worst jojo. They did my boy Joseph dirty. Hamon is much more interesting than stands. I could not force myself to finish watching part 3.
tohuwabohu@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I felt the same about Stardust Crusaders but pulled through. The second half is substantially better with E34 (D’Arby the Gambler) being my favorite episode of the show.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Man, I like some pretty retarded shit man, but I’ve never been bullied for it, man
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Like casual ableism?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
If you’re trying to bully me man, I already said it doesn’t work