In my case I’ve hated Harry Potter, skinny jeans and Tesla long before that became popular to do.
Like someone else in this thread mentioned, Elon. I hated him well before he started doing really assholeish stuff publicly. I had plenty of liberal friends who thought he was cool and edgy and bought not-a-flamethrowers and Tesla cars. When the soccer team got trapped in a cave in Thailand and Elon called the rescue team pedophiles, I was like “I knew that guy had to be a total asshole”. Of course, now I know that was not even the tip of the iceberg.
I think I was ahead of the curve hating on “generative AI”.
Bill Gates. I hated him for being a big part of the rise of proprietary software as an institution long before the right wing conspiracy theorists started making up bullshit about him. Which is annoying because now I have to tell people I hate Gates but not because I think he’s putting 5G microchips in vaccines or whatever bullshit.
Facebook is probably a pretty good example. I quit Facebook in like 2008. Not that nobody was talking about how evil Facebook was at the time, but their evil wasn’t really as well known at the time, I don’t think.
I’m realizing a lot of these are technology-related.
X/Twitter/BlueSky I like long conversations with lots of information and while I use them now, it’s only because that’s where people post.
Amanda Palmer. I’ve always thought she was a narcissistic asshole who uses people like she’s rearranging furniture. And that has turned out to be extremely true.
Facebook, Twitter, “influencers”, most social media in general.
Lemmy (and Reddit) are social media, but my brain keys them more as forums rather than lumping them in with other social media.
I already had a strong reaction when the term ‘Influencer’ popped up. At first it sounded like a marketing term that felt more like an insult to label someone as.
Then people started proudly proclaiming themselves Influencers and it’s only gotten worse since…
felt more like an insult
I certainly use the term as a pejorative, hence the quotes in my original comment.
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Always thought BBC Sherlock was boring and obnoxious
… do people hate that now?
Haven’t seen many people defend it since that hbomberguy video essay
Drake
I’ve hated Harry Potter since the first book came out - someone lent it to me and I gave up after 100 pages cos it was shite and really badly written.
Is it finally safe to admit I was always more of a Twilight fan?
This is your safe place 😊
I spent years trying to convince my friends and family that Elon musk sucks, and then he just went off the deepend. Im glad it’s widely known how much he sucks now, but damn i wish it didnt take so long.
Now if only people knew who Peter Thiel was
I disliked him back when he was that dick from PayPal cosplaying as an automotive engineer and pretending he knew more than actual experts.
I started to loathe him after the pedo guy stunt where he slandered a caving expert for pointing out Musk’s submarine was a death trap publicity stunt.
Yeah, that was the “oh, shit” moment for me too. I bought into the bullshit until that point.
No use or missuse of turn signals on roads. Furious.
You hated that before automobiles existed, or what?
Twitter. I always thought a text-based blog-like thing with a short character limit was a terrible idea.
Why did you think it was a terrible idea?
It encourages hot takes over nuance, or awkward workarounds like replying to your own post a bunch of times if you actually have something to say.
I still think it’s a terrible idea for something like that to be popular and have an important role in society, though its addition of images and video mitigate the problems a bit. I don’t know whether it significantly impacted the platform’s success and eventual sale price. $44B is a lot of money, so I can’t say it was a terrible decision from the perspective of its creators.
Promotes lazy thinking that can be expressed in 240 characters and makes expressing the better mind much more difficult
The irony is not lost on me.
I always liked the idea of twitter but then humans human’d all over it. If everyone agreed to only use it for sensible things I’d love it so much. Useful announcements and updates and so on.
If I follow a singer for instance, I want to hear about concert announcements, album release dates and the like. I don’t want my feed filled with their opinions on global economics or hot dog condiments.
Hate hatred, I’m avant-garde in the West. 👀
Russell brand, back when he was just a homeopathic, somewhat progressive pseudo-intellectual moron. I remember specifically avoiding Get Him to the Greek bc I thought he was a creep, didn’t think he’d actually be charged with SA though. His pivot to manosphere right wing bullshit doesn’t get enough attention, bc of worse people like Rogan.
Same, I disliked him even before the Andrew Sachs business. His stand up was gross. He hid his behaviour behind the veneer of progressiveness.
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I hated Donald Trump long before he became president.
I didn’t had idea of who Donald Trump was till he was president. Can I say “If I knew who Donald Trump was I’m pretty sure I’d hated him.”?
I can’t claim that one because people were hating him before I was born.
I know it sounds trite but his hostility towards Rosie O’donell back in '06-'07 cemented my disdain for him.
