>>281635125
No, midwits just say that popularity equals midwittery because it allows them to feel elite simply for being contrarian. You're confusing performative nonconformity with genuine intelligence, as if not liking something with a high rating on MAL makes you smart automatically. The ratings a bunch of people give something on a social media site where they want to signal their taste in order to be perceived a certain way is not by any stretch a good measure of its quality or even its actual appeal.
This is an extremely common tendency for midwits, who are not the 100 IQ center of the bell curve by the way, but rather the group slightly above it who will do almost anything to differentiate themselves from it. The midwit will often despise things like Takopi, and try harder to critique them, precisely because those things are popular and they want to be seen deviating from the crowd. This criticism will generally be vapid and rely on repeatedly pointing out the popularity of the thing, because these people aren't smart enough to add value to the conversation and instead default to signaling their own distinctiveness.
