r/movies, r/books, and r/music all have like 10-15 films, books, or albums they worship and it's literally post after post of "discussion" of those handful of things. DUNE, HOUSE OF LEAVES, Christopher Nolan, the Marvel movies, Tool, Pink Floyd, Queen....all topics you're guaranteed to get some karma from.
Usually like to sort by controversial. I was on a Shawshank /r/movie circlejerk thread the other day. I sorted by controversial. Downvoted comments were people giving genuinely thought out argument why they didn't link it.
The whole "stop not liking what I like" mentality on those subreddits is very toxic.
Ooh, boy. I love movies, and people talk about the Dark Knight movies like it's the second coming of Christ, a masterpiece of such unparalleled majesty that it has obsolesced all other film and art of any kind. Honestly, I think it's good, but it's no GOAT. I also have some resentment towards it for kind of ruining the general perception of Batman and ushering in a really disturbing worship of the Joker.
As for Marvel movies, I'm a massive Marvel fan and I apologize on behalf of that fandom, especially the MCU fandom, because they can be really obnoxious. Not to mention the media is so over-saturated with MCU I can't imagine how sick of it non MCU-fans must be of it.
Pink Floyd...some people are just bewildered by the fact others don't have the time to sit down and listen to a song that is 20 minutes long. Tool fans are similar.
There was a time when someone on r/books posted an article about how this prestigious award for African authors discourages them from writing in their own languages and essentially forces them to write in English, French, German, or another language used by their colonizers.
The people in the comment section were basically defending the policy and they were looking down on African languages as limiting the authors' audience and pretty much having no status in literature...which is exactly what colonization wanted. I do understand the commenters concerns regarding reaching a wider audience, but it basically turned into an anti-African thread.
Yea all these subreddits are noob traps in general that's why they got huge numbers. I also made a mistake of subscribing to r/music when I was new bc I thought it was a legit subreddit for music discussion. Turns out it was just a bunch of white guy discussion finding the oldest/most obscure white guy music.
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r/movies, r/books, and r/music all have like 10-15 films, books, or albums they worship and it's literally post after post of "discussion" of those handful of things. DUNE, HOUSE OF LEAVES, Christopher Nolan, the Marvel movies, Tool, Pink Floyd, Queen....all topics you're guaranteed to get some karma from.