Thread 2057954

I have been on this site for 10 years and I only noticed this board today. Since I'm already here, I'd like to ask a question:

Why are train autists so much more hated than other autist brands?

Are they though ?
Seems to me that on other boards, the /n/ autists with a bad reputation are cyclists because of the tryhard freds and red light runners.

>>2057954 (OP)
I think people just find it really hard to understand train enjoyment over ... anything that isn't on rails

>>2057954 (OP)
>Why are train autists so much more hated than other autist brands?
They are?

I don't think they are, who says they're hated? And compared to what other subcultures? Car guys and motorcycle guys are much more hated outside their hobby. Doing burnouts, making their toys as loud and fast/dangerous as humanly possible, shutting down intersections for tiktok videos, treating public roadways as racetracks, and just generally asshole behavior. Gamers aka incels? Sneakerheads? Sk8rbois? Wine snobs? Does anyone like wine snobs? Speaker guys? Audiophiles are universally mocked for being simultaneously arrogant and gullible. Gun nuts, need I elaborate on that? Potheads? Crypto bros? AI/singularity types? Paleo dorks? Crossfitters? Meme stock traders? A lot of these groups are widely seen as barely above pedophiles and you think the guys who take pictures of trains have a public image problem?

I can think of few subcultures that are hated less than train enthusiasts, in fact. Maybe not the most masculine or heroic public image but I don't think it's a negative one per se. Urbanists pretend to have some overlap with train foamers and no one likes urbanists, but you can tell it's a surface level appreciation of trains. They like trains because they believe trains are somehow anti-car or anti-boomer not because they genuinely appreciate trains. And so I don't think they're generally lumped into the same bucket.

>>2057967
That was a pretty nice dickhead list you rattled off there, you pull those off the top of your head?

>>2057954 (OP)
train autists are the only brand of autists who are hated by the people who make them and work with them. The fact that we have a slur for them "foamers" is testament to this. I think it's because they're annoying with how they sit around the tracks and record and get in the way

>>2058014
That's only because rail workers have traditionally been blue collar and culturally disposed to "humility" so they don't like their work or themselves being the center of attention. You don't see pilots getting mad at plane spotters, because pilots are narcissists who think they're the center of the world and autists taking their picture reinforces this belief.

>>2058025
I feel like thats likely moreso cause they can't fly alongside a plane in flight to photograph it. The airport and the yard is secured all the track and road crossings are just areas for retards to cause derailments taking photos.

>>2058010
I'm something of a dickhead myself

I think normies just can’t understand why anyone would be obsessed with trains, and anything that can’t be monetized is seen as weird and even threatening. Train autistes consoom camera lenses and model trains but they don’t bankroll massive industries like gamers or fantasy football bettors (also spergs obsessed with obscure data). Maybe in the U.K. or Japan where more people ride trains and eccentric hobbies are accepted it’s a bit more relatable but in the U.S. you’re a freak whereas a factoid spouting carfag is just a normal dude.