we all have that thing we like, but don't like talking about, because of the other fans of the thing in question, it can be a specific game, or movie, or general interest
EDIT: I ptobably worded this wrong, the fans haven't at all skewed my opinion of the passtime in question but they do make it kind of embarassing to talk about that's all I meant...also I know a lot of you say you don't let fans get to you, but as I said, everyone has one thing, NOBODY is immune to fanbarrasment
for me it's professional wrestling, I love it, in spite of its flaws I just find watching some pro-wrestling to be a great way to unwind (on the whole)
however (WARNING: rant impending) I F**KING HATE wrestling fans... I won't go into too much detail, but there seem to be 2 types of wrestling fan (by the way I'm strictly speaking adults here and to save time I'm just going to rant about WWE fans rather than wrestling fans as a whole)
1. the wrestling fanboy/girl
if you've ever watched WWE. you know that wrestling companies present wrestlers in certain ways and has them act in such a way as to provoke a specific desired reaction from the fans, the mark will react EXACTLY as they are "supposed to" and like everything the show tells them to like and hate everything they're supposed to hate, to use another example, did you ever know someone who found Jar Jar binks funny? or thought "Green Lantern" was "really good" just because the Green Lantern was in it? these are the same types of people, now I'm all for someone's opinion differing from mine, I like a nice debate about certain things but...I don't know somehow this is different, I'm pretty sure these people still don't realise pro-wrestling is a work (remember I'm strictly talking adult wrestling fans here)
2: the "smart" wrestling fan
I have more in common with these folks, wrestling fans who like wrestling in spite, or perhaps because of it's staged nature, now that's all well and good, (and to be fair a lot of them are all right) but there are those among them (basically the only ones I encounter) who just annoy me beyond beleif
basically remember the reaction to "Duke Nukem Forever"? imagine someone reacting that way to EVERYTHING! basically a cynical asshole who barely even mentions the parts of any show that he/she likes and if one thing goes in a way they don't agree with then suddenly the whole thing was a waste of time regardless of how good everything else might have been,
to summarise
basically every single wrestling fan I know is either a complete fanboy who likes everything they're "supposed to" like or a cynical asshole that just complains all the time and refuses to like anything with NO MIDDLE GROUND!
I myself, like some of what I see, not all of it, I don't tend to waste effort getting angry about most of the stuff I don't agree with.
so yeah, what do you like but don't like to admit it because of the fans?
EDIT: I ptobably worded this wrong, the fans haven't at all skewed my opinion of the passtime in question but they do make it kind of embarassing to talk about that's all I meant...also I know a lot of you say you don't let fans get to you, but as I said, everyone has one thing, NOBODY is immune to fanbarrasment
for me it's professional wrestling, I love it, in spite of its flaws I just find watching some pro-wrestling to be a great way to unwind (on the whole)
however (WARNING: rant impending) I F**KING HATE wrestling fans... I won't go into too much detail, but there seem to be 2 types of wrestling fan (by the way I'm strictly speaking adults here and to save time I'm just going to rant about WWE fans rather than wrestling fans as a whole)
1. the wrestling fanboy/girl
if you've ever watched WWE. you know that wrestling companies present wrestlers in certain ways and has them act in such a way as to provoke a specific desired reaction from the fans, the mark will react EXACTLY as they are "supposed to" and like everything the show tells them to like and hate everything they're supposed to hate, to use another example, did you ever know someone who found Jar Jar binks funny? or thought "Green Lantern" was "really good" just because the Green Lantern was in it? these are the same types of people, now I'm all for someone's opinion differing from mine, I like a nice debate about certain things but...I don't know somehow this is different, I'm pretty sure these people still don't realise pro-wrestling is a work (remember I'm strictly talking adult wrestling fans here)
2: the "smart" wrestling fan
I have more in common with these folks, wrestling fans who like wrestling in spite, or perhaps because of it's staged nature, now that's all well and good, (and to be fair a lot of them are all right) but there are those among them (basically the only ones I encounter) who just annoy me beyond beleif
basically remember the reaction to "Duke Nukem Forever"? imagine someone reacting that way to EVERYTHING! basically a cynical asshole who barely even mentions the parts of any show that he/she likes and if one thing goes in a way they don't agree with then suddenly the whole thing was a waste of time regardless of how good everything else might have been,
to summarise
basically every single wrestling fan I know is either a complete fanboy who likes everything they're "supposed to" like or a cynical asshole that just complains all the time and refuses to like anything with NO MIDDLE GROUND!
I myself, like some of what I see, not all of it, I don't tend to waste effort getting angry about most of the stuff I don't agree with.
so yeah, what do you like but don't like to admit it because of the fans?
