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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago

Star Wars

This happened to all the ols school Star Wars fans. Disney created the "idiot fans"

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 hours ago

While not to the same degree as a lot of folks, Fallout got into it some time around New Vegas because it was featured on game fly. Anyways delved headfirst into it and fell in love with the classic games. The post Fallout 4 boom gives me a headache sometimes I just want to talk with old bastards and my fellow autists about Fallout without some profligate butting in cause they watch the TV show.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 hours ago

Pogs are cool little disks

Then it became a children’s verb

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 6 points 11 hours ago

I have several things that interested me and became popular, but I didn't hate on the new fans. At most I sometimes missed the feeling of having this thing that was a bit obscure and in case of channels on youtube, the intimacy of interacting with the creator and other subscribers was nice. But I can't hate on something I like becoming popular.

As for concrete examples, I do remember subbing to this small gaming channel with 9000 subs called Markiplier back in the day.

I subbed to OKI Weird Stories when he had like 600ish subs.

I subbed to Creepcast before it had any videos on it, but that one is cheating since both meatcanyon and wendigoon were already very popular. Still, it's been a bit nuts seeing the podcast explode in popularity. I even know people irl who listen to it.

Currently I follow a small channel, also podcast format, called The Daydream Arcade that focuses on reading reddit stories, but the hosts are two friends, who bring some warmth and personality to the format which is nice. For me, I stick around becuase I really like their friendship and their personalities. I'm also a older than the both of them and feel a bit big-sister-protective of them. I want them to grow and I believe they will because they already have 4500 subs compared to the 900 they had when I found them, but also don't like the thought of them reaching a point of popularity where the mean assholes come crawling to tear them down.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 22 points 16 hours ago
[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 19 points 16 hours ago

Sounds like Rick and morty

[–] redsunrise@programming.dev 25 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Minecraft. Started playing in 2011 and have played off and on every year since then. It's now really popular again, but I distinctly remember around 2017-18 it became suddenly uncool to play. When I would be in a VC with friends while playing it, they would ride my ass for it. The ~10 year nostalgia/hype cycle is coming full circle lol

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 7 points 16 hours ago

Since 2011 for me too. I aometimes step away for half a year at a time, but I always end up back.

As much as the modern image of Minecraft might be obnoxiously shouty youtube shorts, that's not all there is to it.

You have the groups of talented builders recreating the Lord of the Rings world of Middle Earth at 1:1 scale, and then the crazy redstoners building fully working computers inside the game.

Minecraft has always been for everyone, and I hope it always will be.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 47 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Nazi ideology, OP OP. There was a nice little thing we had once, until you cunts took it up like a hoard of malignant nihilist pussies 😒Now we can't even bring up the Third Reich's many incredible qualities in conversation without someone rolling their eyes! n-chan numpties ruin every fandom.

/ss

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 53 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Devconsole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Underrated comment

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 67 points 1 day ago (9 children)

if so then name your thing

Sort of I guess: em dashes.

Not to talk about, but to use when writing.
Now they are apparently the hallmark of AI-generated crap.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

I just got into them and I'll be damned if I'll let some toaster ruin a perfectly beautiful bit of punctuation

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Serial Experiments Lain. I managed to acquire a bootleg Japanese VHS of the show (sans subtitles) in '99 or '00 and fell in love. I bought the English dub as soon as I could find it. I was totally obsessed, even going as far as carrying a messenger bag like Lain had, and making a custom Windows XP theme based on Navi. I even bought a Palm Pocket to mimic the smartphones shown in the show.

Lain shaped my passion for IT, and I feel it changed my life in profound ways.

I'm confused by the sudden popularity. It went under the radar for so long. Now all of the merch goes for insane amounts of money.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

Shit man i bought that on dvd centuries ago

[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

No shit, that’s back?

I loved it when I watched it in my youth. The theme song still pops up on my playlist once in a while. I did try to rewatch it like 5-10 years ago but it didn’t connect like it did when I was young. Still, lots of fond memories from it and how much it inspired me.

I’ve been wondering when it would come around again.

[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

Steampunk aesthetic ( 1990's ), generative art ( early 2000s )

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 135 points 1 day ago (9 children)

yeah sorry Anon, go fuck yourself and your nazi skull flag. That shit's the Totenkopf, what, did the new generation of chuds ruin Nazi for you? Poor fuckin' baby.

[–] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the important context. I’d assumed it was a pirate flag until I read your comment and then looked it up. Fuck this particular anon.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

gotta call out the nazis at every turn otherwise the place will turn into a nazi bar.

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[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I spent a lot of time on computers (shocker, right?) and that was seen as nerdy and weird when I was at school. Even after I got my first real job, I remember my girlfriend dismissing things I'd say because "nobody cares about your stupid internet". Predictable rest of comment is predictable.

[–] fistac0rpse@fedia.io 16 points 21 hours ago

ffs moopet, why did you let your internet get this bad

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Roblox. I played it as a kid around 2007 when it was just a small Lego-like building game with your friends. It's been really weird seeing it become some predatory, monetized app game that kids play on their iPad now.

For reference, I'm almost 30 and haven't played it since I was like 14. My friend's kid was playing Roblox on his tablet and asked if I "heard of this new app game called Roblox" and it hurt my soul.

[–] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 3 points 15 hours ago

Still have friends I met there back in 2014 that are my closest and still talk to, pre-enshittification was peak Roblox era and are my most cherished memories

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

I remember when my nephew first asked if I knew about Roblox. I was so excited to build some stuff with him, until he showed me this crappy superhero fighting simulator. I can't complain too much, since it's basically the new-age version of crappy flash games, but it was still a disappointment.

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Computer games. Anything that can be monetized will turn into shit.

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Ah yes, computer games, I almost forgot it ever existed!

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 day ago (5 children)

anime

it's become waay too popular and drowned in a sea of mediocrity

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I'll be honest here; anime has always been a large sea of mediocrity, with the few sprinklings of stuff that is occasionally actually good, and some incredibly rare few things that are consistently good.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 7 points 16 hours ago

Right? Like the reason it was so popular in the early 2000s is because we got all the good stuff at once.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think it’s a right place / right time sort of thing. I have never gone back and rewatched an old favorite without regretting it. Things that meant a lot to me at the time just hit different from a different head space, and revisiting that old space just makes the flaws more noticeable.

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

That's like saying too many people listen to music and it's flooded with mediocrity, there's a lot of really unrelated genres and time periods, and trends that come and go continually, like everything there's a big amount of meh tier work.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Now they don't even bother with localization anymore.. which would be a good thing except now we have screens full of untranslated onscreeb Kanji that the story demands you be able to read and overly long and literal titles like "The Time I Gained The Power To Turn My Sister's Panties Into Angelic Guns By Meeting God On The Planet Golbacky While Drinking My Juice In The Hood That Tuesday Night." Which aren't even what people in Japan call the show since even in the tongue of Nippon that'd take too dang long.

Hell you're lucky if there's even a dub at all. Let alone one that hasn't been beaten to the ground by politics

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

meh, i don't mind watching undubbed anime; anything that's "internationalized" is probably watered down anyways ... i wanna see raw, undiluted japanese weirdness

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

Yeah but I usually am multi-tasking and can't pay full attention. So it being in English is helpful

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[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 11 points 21 hours ago

did people even read the last 3 green lines?

[–] Lazhward@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't remember it being popular. Do you mean the Hunger games books and movies being it's mainstream rip-off?

[–] Lazhward@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

The fact most people have now heard of it proves its popularity. It was a pretty obscure movie before the Hunger Games.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago

Oh my gawd that was 25 years ago. I am so old D:

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