u/Just-Welcome-5553

This is more of a serious post. I'm curious to hear if anyone has experienced something similar.

I am so disappointed. I guess I havent been paying much attention for quite some time. I only really started to notice around TTPD that people had some high horses.

I was very recently engaging in a discussion elsewhere. It was over an easter egg, and I made a playful comment that I would start "clowning" again. An "easter egg pessimist", if you will, came quickly to shut me down and make me feel stupid for even entertaining the theory. I asked them why it was necessary, and they said my behavior was unhealthy, abnormal, anti-intellectual, antisocial. Over an easter egg???

Interacting with swifties online used to be fun. Playful, harmless, carefree, lighthearted. Now it's like theres this internal divide between casual people and those who make everything a thinkpiece. Like.. live a little or something. Is it really that serious? Theres enough hating in every other place. Now it feels like I cant catch a break anywhere.

this is not to put down olivia.

its just recently under posts of olivias recent donations, festival posts, etc, people are saying: "shes the next dolly." "dolly would be proud". "shes the dolly of our generation". "shes better than dolly because shes taking a side"

like guys she just passed away. can we let her rest at least? using olivia to make a comparison is not in the good faith that we think it is. dolly was her own unique special human. so is olivia. we dont always have to compare olivia to other women.

i just got into music maybe a year ago. so honestly my faves are highly mainstream. i think the most "obscure" artist in my rotation is lizzy mcalpine or phoebe bridgers. so that says.. something.

but anyway im looking to expand to things ive never heard of and learn how diverse music can be. im open to anything except like screaming heavy metal.

thanks guys! be as obscure as you want :)

posted in the neutral sub about that screenshot of olivia liking a pitchfork post that randomly shades taylor.

they were quick with the downvotes to tell me it wasnt that serious. but if taylor did it, i can smell the outrage.

if you see the post upvote it! karma loss means so much to me 😞🙁🙁 (im just kidding its not that serious)

eta for clarification my downvote ratio is low. not the physical number you see.

im really sorry if this is a stupid question or if this is the wrong place to post but i am kind of a prospective student.

im a teen (not in college yet) and my parents sometimes talk about their jobs to me in hopes they can give some advice about my career journey. but one of the things they circle back to is they wish they had more autonomy and weren't reporting to someone who looks down on them. (they work corporate)

i know PAs need a supervisor but does it ever feel like a rigid structure that holds you back? or is it more like a team structure?

again im sorry if this sounds silly but im pretty young and informed. im just looking to make the right choice.

i posted on the unpopular opinions sub because, well, disliking olivia rodrigo and her music is pretty unpopular. i was hoping to maybe find a different crowd and get their opinion because everyone in the main pop culture subs love her.

i posted that 2 minutes ago and i already got a ridiculous slew of downvotes and comments telling me that my opinion was invalid, "nobody cared"(?), and that i should post it somewhere else. so i had to delete.

like is that not the point of an unpopular opinion? to be unpopular and challenge what you may think to lead to normal discussion? are we being completely serious right now? im so exhausted. theyre a horde of zombies and theyre everywhere

ive only read happy place and beach read but that was around a year and a half ago. i was planning to reread maybe but im also looking for what to read next

if its helpful to elements in other books, i enjoyed the silliness of happy place and the banter in beach read

just saw a post that popculturechat and fauxmoi are increasing the number of their bans for people who try to call out olivia rodrigo by an alarming amount. has this happened to anyone? her pr team is clearly working overtime...