Recommendation_irl (Art by Frencore)

It's like Breaking Bad. I didn't watch it until like five or six years after all the hype died down. I really enjoyed it, but on my own damned terms.

Oh c'mon, just admit that you're not special and will probably like the thing other people like too. It's ok to humble yourself and join in with the crowd from time to time.

Its not about conformity, its being annoyed at the bombardment of something popular and people being incredulous that you dont participate already. Makes me already hate it.
- I just suppose I don't see how those things connect. Being irritated that something is popular sounds like straight-up anti-conformism. Not that there's really anything inherently wrong with that, but it's like, idk. I used to feel like this and I just grew out of it I suppose.

I’ll never understand this mindset. If something is good, of course people are gonna recommend it. Feels like people are just trying to be contrarian for the sake of it

And i still havent watched breaking bad because each person that goes "OMG YOU HAVE TO SEE IT!" adds another decade to when ill bother.

Its just so annoying, i hate hype.

to be fair there are people who have watched multiple seasons of breaking bad and disliked it, so it's not like everyone will even be guaranteed to enjoy it. but i also love rebelling against the mainstream, even if years later i still come crawling back anyway. it's a tiny measure of control in an out of control world.
- I took only until recently (two years ago) to watch Breaking Bad and found it like, okay, I guess. I just didn't get interested enough to watch more than the first episodes.
  Usually I am the sort of person who watches things to the end and hypes about popular things like Deltarune.
Make sure to see the prequel Better Call Saul after you do.

Was OOP also a victim as a child of people telling them to do something popular then when they did it those same people were just like "shut the fuck up you're only doing it because it's popular nobody likes you"?

There was a few people pushing a very specific video game at me ages ago and it made me hate the game and never ever want to play it.

Then they did it again with a different game and I realized at least one of those people was just a pushy asshole.