Some very random things I don't like... because why not?! ⚠️WARNING: Negative Zone⚠️
I also don't like when female cartoon characters all wear clothes while the male characters are naked with apparently their cartoon dongs hanging out... like in Sonic. I guess even in cartoons female nudity is a taboo while males aren't thought about in that way. So they live in male nudist societies.
I don't have Tiktok, but I can tell which words and topics are trendy through YouTube. Video essay YouTubers in my recommendations will make really lazy low-hanging fruit topic of the week videos about whatever moral panic is going on from Tiktok. What do I mean by this?? WELL, it's 5/20/25 as of writing this. I can see by looking at several popular channels when certain topics cycle through. Last year it was almond moms, abusive van life parents, then it was carnivore diet people, then it was 10 year olds at Sephora, beige moms, disney adults, booktok / dark romance, etc. Right now it seems to be discourse over blindboxes and Labubu. (I do think Labubus are cute and would look great on a bag, but I wouldn't collect blindboxes.) I'm not even singling out a channel in particular; most of these commentary channels all have the same thumbnails with someone's face over the same pictures from TikTok about the topic... the YouTube will make a disgusted judgemental face like (ㅎ.ㅎ). The text on the thumbnail or title will say something like "THE DARK SIDE OF XYZ" or "THE PROBLEM WITH OVERCONSUMPTION".
This whole cycle fascinates me in a way because the topics people discuss always seem to be quite safe and uncontroversal. For example, I'm sure most people can be critical of blindbox practices, right? It feels like every 2 weeks there's a new discourse that sweeps through before getting forgetten about and most commentary doesn't really even add anything besides "obvious thing bad!!". I'm not even anti-discourse since I complain about stuff like Gatcha models on this site a lot and enjoy discussion. But I am fascinated with what safe discourse topics will come next this year. Any predictions?! I'm guessing there will be discourse around waifus / husbandos / self-shipping if there hasn't been already. Maybe discourse around uhhhh, I don't know? How commerical holidays have become or Christmas stuff in October?
I guess the td;lr of this ramble is that I wish everything didn't feel so same-y and reguritated online sometimes
One of my least favorite types of humor. This makes media age like milk. I like Gintama, but the amount of references makes it a tough watch at certain points.
Self-induced psychic damage.
Nobody in the entire world likes this! Stop it please, book publishers! This makes book covers ugly and age terribly (a theme that comes up over and over again here). Why would I want an AD on a book I paid for?
This includes anime too. I feel weirdly anal about making my anime art look 3D or how a figure would look... or at least try to. Side mouths made Ken Penders art look especially hideous. After googling for an example, at least it seems like my opinion is not unpopular. I have been seeing side mouths less and less in recent anime.
Please stop putting ukelele music in YouTube videos. Anything else or silence would be better. I keep having to mute craft DIY videos because the music above makes my ears bleed.
Sometimes I really wish I was European. My school forced everyone to attend these dreadful pep rallies with the teachers blocking the doors. We literally had screaming contests. Was this supposed to make me like high school?!
This is one way for your story to completely stop being interesting. I remember HATING Kung-Fu Panda 2 and the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland as a kid for this trope. You have told me the hero wins no matter what. WHY would I watch to watch a show after that? It just seems unfair. I don't even like seeing self-aware or lamp-shaded "chosen one" tropes.
See above meme I made. An actual ~niche~ anime would be like a shitty OVA from the 80's nobody gives a fuck about.