When things get big it’d usually because the hobby is changed in a way that makes it accessible to more people. Sometimes the things you found fun/interesting about the hobby was that thing that made it hard for others to get into. Now you’re left with a watered down shit version of your hobby and a bunch of people who talk about the watered down shit version the same way you talk about the good version.
Old school runescape is ruined and I’m sick of pretending like it’s not. We need oldschool-oldschool runescape 2 start it pre zulrah and nothing gets passed without 75% votes and boss drop-tables must be community approved.
A lot of times its great but then sometimes no. When a hobby requires something that is scarce, it sucks because price hikes and shit like that
If a certain critical mass of people like it, it suddenly gets expensive and simultaneously the quality of parts gets worse
The tiktok-ification of fucking everything into a trend is the worst in regards to this. The last few years, it feels like any time I’m interested in picking up a hobby that seems like it would/should be cheap and simple to get into, tiktokers have already blown through, turned something into a ‘-core’ for content, and left nothing but over-inflated prices in their wake.
First off, I don’t think tiktokers have as much influence over the cost of a hobby as inflation and every other market force that has increased prices. Everything is more expensive and blaming influencers doesn’t help.
With that said, it’s like Gen Z saw Millennials being Hipsters who pay wayyyy too much for ‘vintage crap’ and said ‘Hold my vape,’ then went and did the same thing to literally anything else.
I think you’re mistaken about the tiktok thing, but okay. I’ve seen it play out in real time. The whole platform thrives on making/discovering a niche and plumbing it for as much content as you can. Pinterest also plays into that. I also think blaming it on a generation thing isn’t accurate, its just ‘old man yells at cloud’ instead of bringing substantial analysis to a discussion.
The only good hobbies are my hobbies.
The only way to participate in hobbies is the way I participate in them.
This is an objective fact.
You’re too wrong to even try to correct. But it must be made clear the right way isn’t yours, it’s mine.
You’re both couldn’t be more wrong. It’s obvious that my way is better than both of yours.
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That’s basically the attitude of someone who trolls said hobby forums lol
Translation: “No because I wanna feel superior for having that interest.”
To my friend who leaves no air in the room for the rest of us to breathe every time one of your fandoms is mentioned? I have a new pithy retort.
I don’t necessarily want to feel superior, I think I just like when my communities are small and it’s a genuine rarity to find someone that likes, for example, the same subgenre of music. Finding someone that likes techno (for example) isn’t rare anymore, so it’s not a special event, y’know?
Ah, it’s just desire to feel ah so special
And you wanting to avoid having niche interests is your desire to feel, ah so normal?
I don’t avoid niche interests though. I just pick interests that interest me. Picking one for how popular or niche it was would be equally worthy of snide remarks for sure.
Same for me though, you’re just coming at me for finding it special to meet someone that also likes those niche interests because “I want to feel special”? I’m just saying I enjoy the time when my niche interests are niche because those encounters feel more meaningful.
This happened to me yesterday. There was a discussion thread on whether Attack on Titan is on par with great literature. I personally agreed with the sentiment and I explained in a comment, why I think so. I got downvoted because it was counter to generally accepted stance in the comment section. I was just trying to foster discussion. They didn’t even argue against my views, just downvoted me. But, I guess that is internet for you, people don’t want to have discussion. Most people are just seeking validation for their views. I am sure I am guilty of it too.
In before the WH40k comments.
Controversial (but correct) opinion here:
If you paint your Warhammer pieces more than a utilitarian single color, you’re not a real gamer. Making art is a homoerotic activity.
I don’t even know what you’re on about. I would understand the joke in this context if you had said ‘Making art is a heretical activity.’ because that plays into the grim dark lore of WH40K. Was saying homoerotic a typo?
This is a greentext. It must be fake and gay
So I can find out you’re all enjoying the hobby incorrectly? I think NOT.
Also, I liked it first btw 😆
I LIKED IT BEFORE IT WAS COOL
For real
It’s cool if other people have the same hobby/ interest, but just like, somewhere else please. I’m far too particular/ special about the things I like and how I do them that if anyone tries to participate but can’t match or fit with my weirdness, then it just becomes a stressful, frustrating, anxiety inducing, not-fun time.
Clarity Edit Cause Me Dumb-Dumb and Words Hard: I’m saying everyone gets to have their own little bubbles. I’ve found that I usually need to stick to my own bubble, but the rest of yall can and absolutely should choose what to do with your bubble, especially sharing it if that works for ya. I don’t actually want anyone to physically be somewhere else. Well, I mean, I do, but not in a mean way and I can do the moving.
you need to be the one enjoying the hobby somewhere else, if this is the case
I mean, yeah, this is exactly what I’m trying to say, lol.
We can all have our own little comfortable spaces to enjoy our things and should be able to choose how we share a space. I just generally like people to stay out of my spaces because otherwise it tends to become an uncomfortable place unless I’m with specific people. I would never ask anyone else to change their behavior or edit their spaces just to accommodate me being weird. That’s not fair to them, and I know that I’m the probably-autistic idiot in the room.
I guess your comment’s POV, being framed coming from someone who didn’t like people trying to participate with them in their hobbies, lead me to perceive the position being from someone out in the social spaces of their hobbies, where something like that can happen, rather than something like at home, alone, doing their thing.
I guess my point is that the way the comment was worded seems to create the opposite setting of what you were trying say?
Hmm, I suppose what I said could be rather easily misinterpreted that way.
