>>63626350it's been in every generation, it just seems like it's gotten worse in the past two, to me. I've got a lot of personal experience on this one specific topic, actually.
I tend to get really enthusiastic about stuff, be it just a video game I played recently, an anime I just watched, or my own personal projects. Any time I talk about that stuff with people in online avenues, where the general atmosphere is one of heavy irony, I've rarely gotten made fun of for my enjoyment of stuff. In the case of discussing personal projects in particular, I get always get an overwhelmingly positive response, with people asking to hear more from me. And every single time it's pretty obviously because I wear my heart on my sleeve, as one friend put it. Unabashedly earnest in what I enjoy.
Enough so that when I went to a chatroom to discuss a multiplayer game I wanted to get back into, I was taken aback by how it was full of about forty people who just absolutely hated the latest installment (which I liked quite a bit), and they all immediately just started trying to shit on me for enjoying it. I know it was just posturing, because they think being contrarian is cool, because I asked them why they're there if they don't even play the game. Their excuse was "well this is the most active chat, because the other installments are so old." As soon as I excused myself and declined to further respond, they immediately started to PM me, and in the public chat asking where I went.
Basically, it's cringe to like a new installment in stuff, it's cringe to be inspired by games you like and want to learn from them, it's cringe to try to earnestly discuss them
>"Bro wrote an entire thesis on the physics of Sonic's jump" (crying emoji/meme image)and it's cool to be crabs in a bucket and wallow in negativity, hating every single piece of media, person, and idea, you encounter.
