Ellen

@spacelizards.bsky.social

That reminds me of how a certain subset of video game fan seems to not only disregard critic's reviews (their choice obv) but actively think critics are trying to take down games and trick people into hating them and. No that's not how it works

And the variant on this, that people didn't hate things before the internet (really Youtube), usually said about movies that were widely mocked flops in their time! People can just hate stuff, rightly or wrongly, and you don't have to attribute it to The Internet

Ramiel 🐇@pawberry.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Fandoms used to be full of nice ppl before covid and then all the bullies and popular kids joined" is literally an "the earth is flat" tier false belief to me

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