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It was a really weird video. I'm pretty new to this sub and have no idea who the author of the video is, so I just clicked on it out of curiosity. At first I thought, given the use of those Tim Pool and Rush Limbaugh clips, that it was going to be a commentary on the negative attitudes we constantly see in media and politics. And let's face it, if it bleeds it leads, so yes the media probably should be held accountable for reporting almost exclusively on negative issues. There was a great soundbyte from Sam Harris talking about how the unprecedented levels of media coverage since the 1980s have led to this increased feeling that everything bad is happening just around the corner from us - because all of a sudden we keep hearing about it.

..but then suddenly we've got clips from fuckin' Mauler and Wolf in there complaining about movies and I was like roflwat wtf did this come from

Then you've got that clip from Kevin Hart shoved in that further confuses the narrative by claiming that it's "cool to be contrarian" and that's, what, the only reason why people are doing? Some very specific people? But in that same clip Kevin uses an example of someone saying that the Titanic's "bullshit" and then when pressed why this guy guys "I ain't got time to talk to y'all 'bout that"

Because if there's one thing we know about ol' Mauls, it's his disinterest in spending any time explaining his position on something.

Afterwards I clicked through to the channel itself and was like "ohhhhh, okay then."

Being negative for the sake of being negative is silly. Being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian is also silly. People are, however, fascinated with failure and trying to understand why the proverbial wheels came off of something, especially something big - it's why so much of WW2 history focuses more on the German side of things than anything else. Where did they go wrong? What decisions were made that made things worse? Could they have even won in the first place?

But it doesn't have to be something as serious as a World War; one of the most popular videos on the Simpsons deals with trying to understand when the show hit it's apex and what caused it's decline. Speaking of decline, the first suggested search result you get when typing in "the decline" is... The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. And holy shit, if I see another episode of "Air Crash Investigation".. how long has that show been running for by now? Haven't they run out of planes yet?

Learning from other people's mistakes (and our own, but preferably the former) is something we're told to do pretty early in life, and even though only a handful of us are probably budding directors or scriptwriters (and even fewer will go on to be successful in such a field), even taking an interest in something to the point where you can consider it a 'hobby' means that you eventually want more meat on the bone than watching WatchMojo videos about the "top 10 things you missed in Sabrina the Teenage Witch". You want to understand the mechanics behind it all, and how it blends with the organic nature of an industry designed to entertain - this goes for when they get it right and when they get it wrong.

And, just like the average Yelp review, people often have a lot more to say about something when it all goes wrong.

People will often walk out of a movie theatre thinking "good lord, that was a train wreck" but find themselves unable to articulate how the sum of the parts of the film resulted in that train wreck. And so find themselves clicking on videos that attempt to do so. Some of my best film experiences has simply involved driving home from the theatre and discussing not just whether we liked the film or not, but trying to figure out why we had that reaction.

I still remember John Wick 2 in particular, and how we exited the theatre thinking "yeah that wasn't too bad" and by the time we got home thinking "man, that was actually pretty damn average". It didn't subtract anything from our experience of the film, or made us feel 'less happy' about things, or whatever other reason we're often told to be 'less negative' about something. It's intellectually stimulating to try and correlate how we felt about something with what that something actually was.

I suppose perhaps it is "cool to be contrarian"? Is this anything new? And considering how there are videos out there called "The Last Jedi is Amazing and You Are All Insane" and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi (AND WHY IT'S GREAT)", it certainly isn't restricted to just being negative about something. Hell, according to some people if you hate TLJ you're a Russian bot. For a non-Star Wars related exampleI don't think I've ever watched a single episode of Spongebob Squarepants, but EmpLemon's episode extolling the uniqueness of the entire thing was compelling viewing.

Being 'angry' about a movie, game, whatever, isn't a bad thing - if anything it often meant you saw that something could have been great (probably should have been great if they kept telling you it was going to be) and instead you felt insulted by the entire experience. Considering the use of Tim Pool in the above video, perhaps it's worth pointing out that he felt so let down by TLJ that he has absolutely zero interest in watching Ep IX

Ultimately it still just boils down to "I don't want you saying bad things about stuff that I like"

And that's just silly.

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