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For example, I have a friend who hates musicals. She doesn’t actively disparage them, but makes it a point to have that known whenever they come up. I love them and have plenty of theatre songs my playlists. More than once, one will auto play and she’ll say ‘oh this is a good song!’ And upon finding out it was from a musical she’ll go ‘never mind, it does sound kind of repetitive and cliché anyway’

You JUST said you liked the song?? Is not liking musicals such a point of pride for you that you can’t even let yourself be perceived as having liked one?

Another one I see often are those pranks where people are given like a regular burger and then lied to and told it’s vegan afterward. SO many people go from singing its praises to hating it when they think it’s vegan, as if it doesn’t taste the exact same as when they didn’t think it was. Its annoying in all its forms.

Edit: accidentally implied the prank was giving someone a vegan burger and revealing the truth afterwards, when I meant giving someone a regular beef burger and saying its vegan afterwards as the prank. Fixed that

This is gonna sound like a fever dream but I swear on god I watched this as a kid, if anyone else did too I’d love to know any info!

Okay, I don’t remember if this was a movie or a short, but here’s everything I do remember:

I watched this in elementary school, somewhere between 2009-2012, but it looked like an older film.

It was 2d animated.

There was like a medieval fantasy kingdom based around cleanliness, and the princess was an anthropomorphic racoon lady in a pink dress.

The villains were personified plaque, and they were trying to trick the protagonists (a group of kids) to stray from their cleanliness.

At one point, they’re transporting a cart of some sort and get lured off path by a bunch of candy and get plaque from it.

I remember one scene where an adult character (in a panic) opens one of the kids’ mouth and theres a bunch of dancing plaque monsters in there?

I don’t smoke cigarettes, never even tried it, but I kinda love the smell. It’s in the same category as gasoline in my mind in which it smells good but in a really weird way. I’d even say it’s a bit nostalgic to me though I don’t associate it with anything particularly pleasant.

In contrast, I despise the smell of vape. It’s so intense and artificial it makes me gag.

Of course, there are situations where this criticism is valid. For example, if an established doctor gets hurt and immediately commits a medical mistake, that’s bad writing because it goes against what was already said about the character. There are also plenty of movies where the decision is so baffling, even if it is “realistic”, it takes me out of the movie.

However, I see this criticism a lot for things like “why would this group of teenagers go into an abandoned building alone?” Or “why did this already emotionally distant father not believe his kid when she said she saw a monster?” And as someone who not only went into abandoned buildings as a teenager, but has not believed people I knew when they said they saw supernatural shit, I don’t think that sort of criticism is right.

The characters do not know they are in a horror movie. For most non-believing people, you don’t hear a sound and immediately think ‘ghost’. Even if seeing something straight up, most folks would cling to what they already believe in and just chalk it up to hallucinations or drugs or whatnot. Many people also wouldn’t immediately take someone seriously, even if they’re someone they trust, when they start yelling about ghosts or phenomena.

Teenagers/kids being stupid is par for the course. As a teenager one of my friends had a ouija board and we messed with that thing all the time. If how I acted back then was any indication, I would’ve died first. Plus, perfectly intelligent adults make stupid mistakes all the time, especially when panicking, stressed, or out of their element like horror movies often put on them.

I will say that yea, it’s frustrating to watch people being stupid, and not wanting to watch a film because the characters are stupid is totally fine. But as a criticism I find that it only works in certain situations. (Again, not saying there is never a situation where this criticism applies)

“if you don’t love evil murder death 3 you’re just sensitive” “anyone who likes evil murder death 3 is a real life psychopath or trying to be edgy” can we all just shut the fuck up and let people have their own opinions on things.

Not liking horror movies is fine, liking horror movies is fine. I’m sick of hearing both of these opinions out in the wild all the time.

For example, I see a lot of “this show is disgusting and all its fans are cringe losers, this is pretty fanart though!” Or under animal videos, “I kill every rat I see and think they’re gross, but your pet rat is cute!” Like idk man I doubt that person is going to feel very complimented after you just insulted their interests.

I don’t mind things like “normally don’t like xyz but this is nice” but I hate it when it’s said with such vitriol.

“If you block me, you lost/you’re trying to silence me/you’re x and y and z” oh my god it is not that serious.

I’ve blocked every single asmr account I’ve come across because the mouth noises make me want to bang my head against the wall and I got sick of being jumpscared with them every time I go to scroll, that doesn’t mean I’m trying to silence them or be intolerant or whatever else, it’s me curating my own online experience to avoid something that bothers me.

That being said there are definitely situations where blocking can be a dick move, but I’m not talking about those.

Two thing can be bad at once you know. The fact that there’s worse things happening out there doesn’t mean we can’t attempt to fix smaller issues too.

I will say I do get the urge to say this too sometimes, but I feel like there’s better ways to go about saying ‘your reaction is disproportional/this is not as important as you think it is’ without completely dismissing them.

Someone being a little snarky is not a tantrum. Someone getting a bit upset in a heated argument is not a tantrum. I’ve seen it used on anything from a person rolling their eyes to someone disagreeing with a point. I find it pretty annoying how much the term’s been watered down.

I’m talking about when people act like feeling jealousy makes someone inherently a bad person, or feeling anger or whatever else. These are standard emotions people can’t control. What they can control is their actions, and that should be what matters.

I see a lot of ‘if you feel annoyed at (insert innocuous thing) you’re terrible’ on this sub specifically. You can’t control feeling annoyed. As long as you recognize that it’s a you thing and don’t bother anyone over it, I fail to see the problem. (Posting about in a sub dedicated to sharing annoyances is VERY different from going up to people doing the annoyance and harassing them)

Anyways I genuinely just saw an argument over whether it was moral to feel jealousy and I immediately got extremely jealous of everyone who did not have to take psychic damage reading that.