North Korea.
By time required before you can truly be in and accepted as one (not just a tourist)
- Rural folk
- Expedition sports
- Biker gangs
- Private pilots
- Some festivals
On the flip side, the ukulele community is so open and friendly, helped me stick with a hobby I sucked at to begin with, and now I’ve released actual music!
“If someone tries to steal your ukelele, let them take it!”
Anime - People don’t like you when you’re into the popular ones.
Video Games - It’s everywhere here. If you’re into AAA games, you’ll never hear the end of it. If you’re into Indie games, then you have to be into games like Hollow Knight, Undertale .etc or you just don’t know indie.
Metal Music - Fucking hell, you’re always going to be snubbed and looked down upon because you’re not into Death or Black Metal. Doesn’t matter if you’re into Iron Maiden or X Nu Metal band here, but you’re just not metal until you listen to anything Black/Death. Maybe I don’t want to listen to Cookie Monster and Friends.
And even if you do listen to death/black metal, you can still get crap from some people if it’s not a certain sub-genre. It’s just music, let me listen in peace, I don’t need a lecture.
“Yeah, I like tons of metal bands! …just not sure which ones as I can’t read any of their names.”
I listen to a variety of metal. If most of your song is incomprehensible screaming or growling (in any genre, for that matter), I’m not interested in that song.
As an older metalhead, this makes me a bit sad, but I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. The metal scene I joined in the early 90s did have its tolerance problems specifically against other music genres, but I never knew it as particularly gatekeepy, at least the circles I socialised with and the concerts and festivals I went to. There were some people who though you weren’t a real metal fan if you didn’t exclusively listen to metal, but they were a minority. Nobody had a problem with me not particularly liking Slayer or Motörhead, and there was no requirement to have long hair and be covered in leather and/or band patches.
If it makes you feel better, it’s mostly just loud people on the internet. I’ve never really seen any gatekeeping behavior at any of the many shows I’ve been to.
Farmers. I’m local and from an established farming family, but because I didn’t end up in a branch that’s still active I might as well be dog shit, and not just on farming-related matters.
Well, maybe dog shit is a slight exaggeration, but damn they will give you the cold shoulder.
didn’t end up in a branch that’s still active
Could you elaborate, please? I know Jack about farming and this sounds fascinating
So, my ancestors, as far back as great-great grandparents, came here and took some land from the Natives (hey, just admitting it is part of reconciliation). Over time, they had an ever-increasing number of descendants, but the amount of land stayed the same. Some inherited, some presumably didn’t, and many wanted to do things other than farming with their life and sold their land. My grandparents never farmed, except just to help friends and family, and the last of their land was sold a few years back. (Conversely, I have a great uncle who owns fuck-you amounts of land)
Thanks!
Reddit.
Unless it’s completely changed since the APIpocalypse, I’m going to say wrong criticism, right target. It’s a big place, only some parts of which gatekeep much.
Yeah, Reddit seems like it does the exact OPPOSITE of gatekeeping. It’s progressively lowering the barrier to entry to attract new people.
Before I signed up, it was very much “The narwhal bacons at midnight”, with people needing to understand the inside jokes and references, Reddiquette, and other “soft skill” kind of stuff to get upvotes.
I left with the API situation, but even by then, it was nearly mainstream. “Normal people” would tell people about things they saw on Reddit. Of course, nobody would share their username with anyone else. (Nor should they! Lol)
Even since then, I’m occasionally seeing Reddit screenshots from people whose phones I imagined never opened much else aside from messaging apps, image/video-based social media, and their camera app, lol
I grew up in a very conservative Catholic community. Imagine a group where JD Vance and Harrison Butker would be considered mild. If a new person didn’t show up in the right kind of clothes and faux humility, people would make a snap judgement and start gossiping. If the new person were wealthy or had a lot of children (8+) or were in a medical field, they would probably be ok. The single parent mom with two kids who dared to send one to public school for better STEM classes? Lol, she had no chance.
There was a “welcome wagon” type group who were supposed to invite new people to coffee and doughnuts with the congregation in the basement after services. I watched the one invite one family and offer a handshake, visibly retracted the hand to skip over Single Mom, and then extend an invitation to the next family. Ice cold.
There was a “welcome wagon” type group who were supposed to invite new people to coffee and doughnuts with the congregation in the basement after services. I watched the one invite one family and offer a handshake, visibly retracted the hand to skip over Single Mom, and then extend an invitation to the next family. Ice cold.
Just like Jesus would have wanted eh
Jesus would understand, because they’re special
Star Wars. God help you if you actually like The Acolyte or the sequels, they’ll flay you alive while they harass everyone involved in the making of.
North Korea
hoarders are good at gate keeping
Security guards.
Just whatever makes sense
Bouncers
Gamers love to call people who focus on one particular type of game or console “not real gamers”
Not true. We just call people who focus on the wrong kinds of games “assholes.”
Anyone who hasn’t played Factorio is a noob
Let’s just call it fromsoft fans
Boggles my mind when people claim that using mechanic present in the game is not playing the game “as intended”.
Who do you think put the feature there? The pesky magical game dev that spawns at 2 am to code in a mimic tear?
It’s bizzare. Man i hate that they have two powerful bosses that attack you ar the same time. I had to try 156 times to get good rng and one guy got stuck in a pillar.
You know they are very weak to sleep and there is also a summon…
NO, THAT’S NOT HOW THE COOL STREAMER DOES IT.
You know what, I’ve stopped getting excited when I met someone claiming to be a gamer, because they inevitably say they play “Dota”. Play what you want, but why is it always Dota?
