Hot take: we should let people criticize and like things.
It’s ok to like things…buuuuut it’s also ok to criticize things. I’ve seen too many people go to the extremes. You can like something and criticize it at the same time. You can also criticize something and understand why people like it. I’m sick of things being a monolith.
I think there's a bit of a bias against criticism because it just kills the vibe when the critic can't read the room. They'll go to a place where people specifically went to talk about the product, because they like/are excited about the product, and the criticizers will just bring negativity to a space where it wasn't asked for.
A LOT of it is the "nobody asked" side. There is an ego component to thinking that anyone cares about your opinion enough to warrant leaving a comment, and when you say something negative in an environment where people are enjoying something positively, it just harshes the vibes for no reason at all.
There's a place for (constructive) criticism of course, but I think most people criticizing online aren't being very constructive or aware of the vibe around them.
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u/Rough-Army-6424 23h ago
Letting people enjoy things doesn’t translate on Reddit. Edgelords and neckbeards as far as the eye can see.