What's up with hatedoms?

[apathy]

I genuinely do not understand, why gamers commit themselves both time and money, to hating on a video game or video game franchise, of which they've never played and never will, but will try to shame anyone who does enjoy it.

When I was child, kids in school only wanted to know about, and play, the good games. If it was sh*t, unplayable, untested mess, then no one cared.

I noticed this behaviour since Undertale, so my reckoning was at the time, they hate it because its popular, but it goes further than that. Its not even just spoiled entitlement when gamers are b*tching that they are not the target demographic of the game - how dare the dev.

No, I think they are insane.

[Devsman]

The internet made it cool to hate stuff.

[Irene ❤]

It is human behavior.

Constrictive people build, Negative people destroy. There will be a fandom and hatedom group. They all have to pick a subject and everyday they aim to build it / destroy it.

[Poyzo]

I noticed this happening when Lies of P was about to be released. People really do hate souls-like games that are not from FROM SOFTWARE. Apparently, only FROM SOFTWARE can make this genre and nobody else has the right to.

[NW/RL]

Hating is fun

[NW/RL]

Postat inițial de Talby:

it's called "democracy" aka "freedom to hate speech"

Rent free

[Talby]

Postat inițial de NW/RL:

Postat inițial de Talby:

it's called "democracy" aka "freedom to hate speech"

Rent free

aka "ownership"

[Schindler's Lifts]

My first experience with hatedoms was probably around the 2010s when the COD games were widely hated and were the butt of jokes everywhere. I had never played a single COD game and no idea what any of the COD games were like, yet I was expected to hate them for some reason.

Ironically, the common joke about COD was that it's playerbase was 13 year olds, and I was about 14 when all this happened.

Since then, I've made a personal rule to at least play the game before I ♥♥♥♥ on it. I'll happily trash talk Overwatch because I've actually played it and found it really tiresome and toxic, but I won't really trash talk Fortnite until I actually get around to trying it.

[Your_White_Knight]

Postat inițial de apathy:

What's up with hatedoms?

I genuinely do not understand, why gamers commit themselves both time and money, to hating on a video game or video game franchise, of which they've never played and never will, but will try to shame anyone who does enjoy it.

When I was child, kids in school only wanted to know about, and play, the good games. If it was sh*t, unplayable, untested mess, then no one cared.

I noticed this behaviour since Undertale, so my reckoning was at the time, they hate it because its popular, but it goes further than that. Its not even just spoiled entitlement when gamers are b*tching that they are not the target demographic of the game - how dare the dev.

No, I think they are insane.

More "stop disliking what I like"

No... it doesn't work that way

[apathy]

Postat inițial de Your_White_Knight:

More "stop disliking what I like"

No... it doesn't work that way

That's disingenuous.

You know that's not what I'm saying at all.

Everyone is free to like or dislike something. My question is, why do hatedoms exist, and why do they go after anyone who likes a video game they don't like.

Nothing says you're a sad sack of sh*t more than going after gamers who enjoyed FNAF, Mario Wonder, or Garten of Banban or whatever.

[SNP]

Hatedom is the opposite of fandom and both stem from the primal urge to circlejerk over shared interests and experience dopamine hits.