What Is This Toddfoolery?!

It’s interesting the media trend of being too self aware (or meta) and mocking itself in the text is kind of a reaction to exactly that.

It’s self-defeating because it colors the way people see your work but it is initially a defense mechanism for a lot of people.

“If I say it sucks from the start it won’t hurt when people say it does. I already said it so what did they expect-“

If you want people to be comfortable being genuine and passionate you have to let them do so without being an asshole. (Even when you don’t like it)

(Which is not the same as never criticizing anything or being 100% positive all the time. We don’t need to swing all the way in the other direction here and over correct..)

Something about the internet cycle of “people love a thing” —> “thing gets too popular” —-> “people suddenly VICIOUSLY hate the thing and people who like it are cringe/bad” is so exhausting to me

Growing to hate something bc of over saturation is absolutely a thing that happens but keep it to yourself and like minded people, you know? Be able to recognize that’s the problem and not the actual thing.

Yeah it can be fun to be a hater about stuff you dislike sometimes but know when and where it’s appropriate? Don’t be needlessly cruel to people who are just..minding their own business.

Because in a world where everything is really commercialized and overly sanitized for mass consumption maybe we should celebrate when people are actually passionate enough to create something out of love.

Yes, even if how they do it is “cringe” to you or it’s “overdone” they still felt moved enough to do something. Maybe it’s not the “best” in terms of quality or the most original thing in the world but it’s better than the mindless, unfeeling commercialized crap we get bombarded with constantly.

Being overly cynical and hateful 24/7 doesn’t make you smart or cool it just makes you unpleasant to be around.

In regards to that comment I was mostly thinking of the of trend of how things blow up in popularity and then suddenly everyone hates it.

It was absolutely not a dig at indie creators who I absolutely agree tend to put so much more heart and soul into their work and that’s something mass media tends to lack.

I see the same phenomenon with indie creations though (quite often sadly). If they blow up in popularity they seem to always get an influx of vicious hate after a while. Suddenly it “always sucked.” People seem to turn on shit real quick. Idk if it’s over-saturation within social media circles or just “more people are aware of it”

Perhaps contrarian would have been a better word to use.

I guess growing up hipster was used in a very specific way. I’m not sure if it was used accurately in retrospect but it’s how it was used.

When I was younger it was a term used for people with a huge superiority complex about liking things first or purposefully hating anything slightly popular. (Having nothing to do with the actual quality of the media in question as much as just flaunting the holier than thou attitude around.

Despite my frustration with the state of media as whole right now good things do and can come out once in a while from bigger companies.)

Despite what people who used the label often claimed it didn’t seem to be as much about supporting actual independent creators as much as..trying to seem better than everyone else?

Because supporting independent creators is wonderful and absolutely should be encouraged. It’s the attitude about it all that some people had that rubbed me wrong.

And that’s what I was kind of comparing the trend of “it’s popular now everyone suddenly hates it” too I suppose. It seems mean spirited at times even.

Of course these specific people could have just been assholes.

Now that I think about it contrarian would have probably been a better word here.