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I hate how polarizing any show or movie is now, and how to so many people on the internet, if it's not a 10/10 masterpiece, it's "unwatchable garbage".
A guy on here told me Castlevania was "awful, unwatchable crap" eventhough it's an across the board good show, a solid 8. But since it wasn't exactly what he wanted, it's a zero to him.
It's so much easier to be critical than to put your neck out and say you like something. I think that's what leads to so many online communities being so negative.
There's also what I like to call the adversarial approach to media consumption. Instead of just watching something like a normal human being, a lot of people on the internet like to approach it as a competition between viewer and creator. Your goal is to dislike the thing, the creator's goal is to trick you into liking it. If you dislike things that others like, that just means you're better at the disliking things competition than them.
This is too true. I like liking things, damn it.