I Liked it BEFORE it was Cool!

[Cpu46]

Almost every song/movie/game/book/ect I liked in the past has now become popular, and it usualy dosnt bother me. But I cant stand when someone tells me to stop jumping on the bandwagon.
To them I reply, "Jumping? I am pulling the bandwagon, and damn its heavy"

What I hate is when people decide to start hateing the popular music/movie/game/book/ect and everyone abandons it eccept for the people that were there from the begining and the people who actualy liked the [assortment of media] instead of using it as a way of being 'cool'

 

[Mr. Gency]

I liked Owl City before Fireflies.

Actually, I liked Owl City while he only had an EP out.

Fireflies does nothing for me and I should stop now before I piss someone off

 

[Julianking93]

You're a bit of an elitist. It doesn't make you a better person for liking it first, but it makes you a prick when you act like it should.

Though, as for me, I bought that Cage the Elephant album when it first came out and people made fun of me for listening to it, but now that its on Borderlands, everyone's like "Oh yeah, they're so awesome"

Fuck all you assholes. You can all go straight to hell.

 

[The Rascal King]

When I was a kid, I was the only little kid who liked this girl and no one else did. Then when puberty hit....BAM! She ditches me and is now residing on someones cock.

Nice guys always get fucked over

 

[Connor Lonske]

I bought a watch from Timex called G-Shock back in 2007 because it was called "Unbreakable" and had a lot of useful features, it cost 100 bucks at the time, and I never regretted buying it until late 2009 when I became the most popular watch in the Bronx (New York City). What was once a tool and a great watch is now a fashion statement. Now, all the G-shocks are much more breakable, have no around the world timezones preset, and only have two alarms and one stopwatch, and the sell for the same god damn price because of the new expensive plastic and fancy colors. Makes me sick.

I liked Halo before... ah shit.

Funny.

 

[Gxas]

I liked Owl City before Fireflies.

Actually, I liked Owl City while he only had an EP out.

Fireflies does nothing for me and I should stop now before I piss someone off

Eh, it doesn't bother me. But it isn't anywhere close to his best song like people seem to think. West Coast Friendship is. On the Wing is a much better song than Fireflies too.

 

[Mr. Gency]

I liked Owl City before Fireflies.

Actually, I liked Owl City while he only had an EP out.

Fireflies does nothing for me and I should stop now before I piss someone off

Eh, it doesn't bother me. But it isn't anywhere close to his best song like people seem to think. West Coast Friendship is. On the Wing is a much better song than Fireflies too.

I'll give it a listen
If I ever get around to it...

 

[AvsJoe]

List of actors I liked before they got famous:

Shia Labeouf. He was awesome in Constantine. But by the time Transformers rolled out (pun intended) and everyone began to like him (or hate him), I stopped caring at all.

Kristen Stewart. I loved her in Panic Room and she had a couple of good lines in Zathura but as soon as she was cast as Bella and the Twi-hards rejoiced, once again I stopped caring.

Ellen Page. Before her Oscar and fame for Juno, she was the girl who scared the piss out of me in Hard Candy. Plus, she was in TPB. That's instant cred for me. I still like her though despite the fact that everyone is ragging on her these days.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Every time a new guitar hero/rockband is released theres a chunk of songs from my ipod that become "that song from guitar hero."

I've had that issue too. Admittedly, there are some songs and artists that I got into because of GH, like Edgar Winter, All That Remains, Eric Johnson, and Dead Kennedys, but generally I'd heard of them before GH, just hadn't checked them out prior. I had Megadeth, Ozzy, Buckethead, Dragonforce, and Maiden well before they showed up on GH but now people are like, "Bark at the Moon? Isn't that the one hard song on Guitar Hero?"

 

[Dahni]

bands I used to listen to which got me slagged in school (think along the lines of Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Taking Back Sunday, Twin Atlantic, You Me at Six, Lostprophets etc. bands that close minded chav type people would call "emo" music) are now obsessions for a lot of people in my school. It's very rare for me to go to a gig and see one person that I know from school. But I went to Paramore & You Me At Six in December and I saw a discomforting amount of people from my school who used to slag me for wearing their merch, calling them "emo bands" and stuff...

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

A few years ago, a friend gave me the Plain White Tee's album with "Hey There Delilah" on it, and I liked it, so I listened to it quite a bit. Couple of years later, I heard it come on the radio when I was with a different friend and, without really thinking about it, started to sing along. My friend was amazed that I'd already memorized every single word to the song, seeing as the single had only just been released and hit the charts. He didn't believe me that it had been out for several years already, so I went home and showed it to him on Wikipedia. He was pretty angry.

In response to people saying it sounds snobby, I don't consider myself better just because I heard it prior, but I thought it was pretty hilarious that the country was suddenly going mad over a song that had effectively been out for 2 years already.

They actually do that for quite a few songs actually.

My friends and I also laugh about it. I don't think it's snobby though because, like you, that's not why I laugh.

 

[finalcut315]

I tend to do the exact opposite in that I usually get into things after they've run their course and stopped being cool. I just started liking grunge and ska, though I've liked punk music for a long time, but I don't think that was ever really cool.

 

[person427]

The things I like tend to be unpopular in the grand scheme of things, but a lot of my interests were introduced to me by my friends.

Pretty much this, things I like rarely ever become popular. The few times that they do, it is annoying.

 

[MrWhippeh]

I liked zelda before I was aware that it was cool......and then became less cool.......and then became Nintendo cool.../cry

 

[Deleted]

Let me be more specific. This isn't about being angry when something gets a lot of fans, its when something popularizes one of your "schticks" and you can't do it without people thinking you copied the other guy. I used to have bad posture and sit on chairs with my feet up much like L form Deathnote, though before the manga existed. Then when I discover this manga I stopped doing that because people were telling me "who do u think u are, L?" making me look like a poser. And if I say "I've been doing this since before Deathnote" I'll just look like a fool with my pants on the ground so I don't bother trying.

The key here, if you're having to change your lifestyle/likes/interests because people think you're only doing it because it's cool, is to completely ignore those people. If you sit on a chair like L because it helps your back (I can't imagine how; it is singularly the most uncomfortable looking way of sitting I've ever seen) then damn well sit like that. If someone says 'HURR YOU SIT LIKE L' say, variously 'I don't care', 'Cool story bro', 'Yes. Yes I do.', 'Go away', 'What's your point?' or 'Ok.'
If something has just become popular and people are assuming that you are part of the trend...where's the harm? Do you lose e-penis points if people think you're listening to shitty J-pop because it was on some anime or because you geniunely like it? The truth is you genuinely like it and that enjoyment isn't going to be changed by whether other people percieve you as liking it or not.

But the thing is thats exactly what L would say! Its easy to say "just ignore them" but remember that episode of Seinfield where the woman wore a bun to try and mix up her style. And nobody liked it, then when they went to a video in honor of a boring librarian's death, you could see she has the same bun, and thats why people didn't like it. I don't want people thinking I do it because of an anime because people have been annoying me about it.

 

[IntricateMadman]

I hated everything before it was cool to do so. Damn you, Francis!

 

[IntricateMadman]

I liked Halo before... ah shit.

I played halo before it was released. I'm that much of a fan.

So, how's Half Life 3?

 

[Socius]

I liked Death note before it was mainstream! D:
also I liked AC/DC even after it turned "not cool"
if that counts

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

I wore black before it was emo.

Same here. Though as the emo trend started to rear it's ugly, arm cutting face towards us, I basically let my hair grow out so people at least could confuse me with a metalhead rather than an emo kid.

Nowadays, I still wear a lot of black. The thing is that I dress in a very neutral, nondescript black. Without any t-shirt prints or any other colour. Works like a charm...