>>151171225
>I honestly have no idea how this ever even happened
It is just a weird mix of culture, technology, context, history and everything else. Comics aren't cool, they have cultural baggage all the way back to the CCA in ways manga does not. The market crashed in the 90s and it stopped being a great American pasttime, replaced by other mediums like video games. The type of stories people consume has changed from singular stories or smaller arcs to constant overarching plots pushing fear of missing out anxiety, hype bubbles, virality of media. People are anxious, stressed and burnt out because of the economy and technology, some getting stuck in constantly chasing trends and others falling back on guilty pleasure comfort viewing. Putting effort into your hobbies feels beyond a chore, it feels like work to people. People want to be spoon fed things, they expect the algorithm to put it up to their door. At the same time, identity politics combined with consumerism and people can claim identity by buying merchandise, watching a summary and never actually trying. And consumerism has people becoming collectors, amassing stuff they will never even read. But the simple fact is always there that like the Gordian Knot, there is a path through all this, if people had the right mentality and just chopped it, picked up some books to read, read a little bit of news.
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>>149496473
>You see redditors showing off their (sealed) omnis that they bought on recommendation but they're just looking for acceptance not enjoyment. I feel like fandom itself has become part of the problem now.
For years people moaned about fake nerds, usually along culture war lines, but the fake nerds tend to be the consumerists attempting to buy into an identity or fandom. A person with a shelf of 10 books they have read is more of a fan than a person with 100 unread books. All these interests, even seemingly solitary ones, have a sense of community or perceived tangential benefit that people seek out. The collection for the sake of collection mindset is really bad and collected edition communites are all of these people. It is all a waste. (And as someone who has done a house clearance recently, it is rather a depressing waste.)
>>149496527
The honesty part comes from the admittance of why you liked something. Admitting why you liked something, even if that is for shallow purposes, is far more honest than obsfucating, lying or just liking or hating something for vague reasons or following specific narratives. People don't want to give true opinions and rely too much on extremes because they are fearful of being honest. If you can say you think something is good because you're nostalgic for it, that is more honest than appealing to a bunch of hype or rec lists even when you don't believe in those things.
>You see redditors showing off their (sealed) omnis that they bought on recommendation but they're just looking for acceptance not enjoyment. I feel like fandom itself has become part of the problem now.
For years people moaned about fake nerds, usually along culture war lines, but the fake nerds tend to be the consumerists attempting to buy into an identity or fandom. A person with a shelf of 10 books they have read is more of a fan than a person with 100 unread books. All these interests, even seemingly solitary ones, have a sense of community or perceived tangential benefit that people seek out. The collection for the sake of collection mindset is really bad and collected edition communites are all of these people. It is all a waste. (And as someone who has done a house clearance recently, it is rather a depressing waste.)
>>149496527
The honesty part comes from the admittance of why you liked something. Admitting why you liked something, even if that is for shallow purposes, is far more honest than obsfucating, lying or just liking or hating something for vague reasons or following specific narratives. People don't want to give true opinions and rely too much on extremes because they are fearful of being honest. If you can say you think something is good because you're nostalgic for it, that is more honest than appealing to a bunch of hype or rec lists even when you don't believe in those things.