Eh, on the serious side, despite metal culture being typically open and friendly (outside of the pit, in the pit you are hamburger to be chewed), every group has assholes.
There are people that just like feeling superior, so anything they aren’t into sucks, and they’ll make up the criteria start determines what does and doesn’t suck so that their opinion is validated.
That’s all it is. You see it with bookheads, with hip-hop heads, pop freaks, whatever.
My experience is that the metal culture is PARTICULARLY friendly in the pit. Everyone typically looks out for each other, and people who mosh too violently are usually pulled out of the pit. Also: with metal becoming more and more popular over the last two decades, Ifeel like the ratio of assholes in the community has grown.
Eh, on the serious side, despite metal culture being typically open and friendly (outside of the pit, in the pit you are hamburger to be chewed), every group has assholes.
There are people that just like feeling superior, so anything they aren’t into sucks, and they’ll make up the criteria start determines what does and doesn’t suck so that their opinion is validated.
That’s all it is. You see it with bookheads, with hip-hop heads, pop freaks, whatever.
My experience is that the metal culture is PARTICULARLY friendly in the pit. Everyone typically looks out for each other, and people who mosh too violently are usually pulled out of the pit. Also: with metal becoming more and more popular over the last two decades, Ifeel like the ratio of assholes in the community has grown.
Oh, pits are absolutely done with respect and care on average, but it’s still violent by nature, which is what I meant.