Things I Am Sick of Seeing
1. Hipster Pretentiousness
All of it. No, I'm not even joking. All that "I'm so unmainstream" and the "I don't conform" and the bashing on music/artists/movies/pairings/whatever for simply being mainstream or popular. No. Stop. Grow the fuck up, people. This whole "I'm so indie and unique" thing has been the realm of irritating preteen girls since forever ago. I don't care if you don't like some band's new song; chances are, they haven't "sold out", they've just changed, and you, like all the other uninspired little shits on the internet, don't like change. I don't care that you don't like the popular pairing in a fandom; it's popular generally because it's the most obvious to people. If you don't see it, you don't, but don't try to use that pretentious fake-innocence to ask how anyone else could like it, or go off about how no one understands your rare pairing. Oh, wow, you're so hipster. Congratulations, 12093128312th hipster on the internet.
2. Cutesy Asian girls/撒娇
OH MY GOD. Asia. I love you, but STOP. Stop encouraging girls to be painfully irritating and faking cuteness and innocence that look out of place on anyone above the age of nine. You are not cute, or innocent, you are mostly all annoying calculating materialistic bitches who look utterly stupid when you pout and posture and act spoiled because people indulge you. Mostly, I blame Asian men. Stop giving the feedback that this is okay, and that you are, in fact, attracted to girls like this.
3. Going With What's Popular
Okay, I know I said the opposite in #1, but seriously. Can we just please all like what we like because we do? The world is not a bichrome choice between liking the most obscure terrible shit ever just because no one else has ever heard of it before, and not bothering to rub two braincells together so you just accept whatever is popular as the best there is. And the fact that 95% of humanity is apparently incapable of being interested in anything that isn't the top 40 chart or the usual winners? Makes the world a very boring place sometimes.
4. Teen White Whine
I'm used to White Whine/First World Problems. We all do it (even me, and I'm not white), and sometimes it's good to whine a little about upsetting things. But okay, people, here is the breakdown of how important your problems are. The person in the third world country trying to figure out which one of her six children will get the limited medicine for the disease they all have? That's somewhere close to the top. The adult person who has problems at work? Somewhere in the middle, with some deviation based on what they do. Teenager angsting about any combination of dating, prom, grades, college, or friends? Way, way at the bottom of the list.
5. Teen Paranormal Romance
On the subject of teens... Seriously, teenagers (and adults, dear god), can you please stop being so vapid? I promise if you stop reading the terrible teen supernatural romance novels, they will stop making them. But you know what happens? Those people who whine about Twilight then go read [insert other generic teen supernatural romance here] and insist it's different from Twilight and cause them to make more of that shit. Honestly, there are about two plotlines, if you can even call them that.
6. Skanks
People like Katy Perry or Ke$ha or Nicki Minaj? They are /skanks/. They are unbearably trashy. They are not empowering to women in any way--all they do is prove that women can make it big if they're willing to be skanks in exchange. This is not empowering. So women? Stop. Stop calling that shit empowering, stop buying their terrible music that isn't even really music, and stop denying that they got famous because they're willing to act like hookers. Yeah, some of their songs aren't bad. That doesn't mean we don't deserve better, as an audience, and that doesn't mean you should settle for it.
7. Taylor Swift
This could last all day if I let it, so I'm going to try to make it fast. Taylor Swift is a moderately talented singer and an absolutely shitty songwriter. Yes, Taylor, all the boys broke your heart all the times. You aren't a fucking teenager anymore. Either go find yourself someone else to write you some songs that aren't quite so vapid, or figure out that you can put meaning into your songs. And ladies? I promise you high school wasn't as awesome as you may think it was in your nostalgia over Taylor's cute little lyrics.
All of it. No, I'm not even joking. All that "I'm so unmainstream" and the "I don't conform" and the bashing on music/artists/movies/pairings/whatever for simply being mainstream or popular. No. Stop. Grow the fuck up, people. This whole "I'm so indie and unique" thing has been the realm of irritating preteen girls since forever ago. I don't care if you don't like some band's new song; chances are, they haven't "sold out", they've just changed, and you, like all the other uninspired little shits on the internet, don't like change. I don't care that you don't like the popular pairing in a fandom; it's popular generally because it's the most obvious to people. If you don't see it, you don't, but don't try to use that pretentious fake-innocence to ask how anyone else could like it, or go off about how no one understands your rare pairing. Oh, wow, you're so hipster. Congratulations, 12093128312th hipster on the internet.
2. Cutesy Asian girls/撒娇
OH MY GOD. Asia. I love you, but STOP. Stop encouraging girls to be painfully irritating and faking cuteness and innocence that look out of place on anyone above the age of nine. You are not cute, or innocent, you are mostly all annoying calculating materialistic bitches who look utterly stupid when you pout and posture and act spoiled because people indulge you. Mostly, I blame Asian men. Stop giving the feedback that this is okay, and that you are, in fact, attracted to girls like this.
3. Going With What's Popular
Okay, I know I said the opposite in #1, but seriously. Can we just please all like what we like because we do? The world is not a bichrome choice between liking the most obscure terrible shit ever just because no one else has ever heard of it before, and not bothering to rub two braincells together so you just accept whatever is popular as the best there is. And the fact that 95% of humanity is apparently incapable of being interested in anything that isn't the top 40 chart or the usual winners? Makes the world a very boring place sometimes.
4. Teen White Whine
I'm used to White Whine/First World Problems. We all do it (even me, and I'm not white), and sometimes it's good to whine a little about upsetting things. But okay, people, here is the breakdown of how important your problems are. The person in the third world country trying to figure out which one of her six children will get the limited medicine for the disease they all have? That's somewhere close to the top. The adult person who has problems at work? Somewhere in the middle, with some deviation based on what they do. Teenager angsting about any combination of dating, prom, grades, college, or friends? Way, way at the bottom of the list.
5. Teen Paranormal Romance
On the subject of teens... Seriously, teenagers (and adults, dear god), can you please stop being so vapid? I promise if you stop reading the terrible teen supernatural romance novels, they will stop making them. But you know what happens? Those people who whine about Twilight then go read [insert other generic teen supernatural romance here] and insist it's different from Twilight and cause them to make more of that shit. Honestly, there are about two plotlines, if you can even call them that.
- Plot A: Girl finds out she is super speshul and has magic powers and/or is a supernatural creature, which pushes her into a world of supernatural creatures, all of whom are weirdly interested in her, and on the way she meets some sexy boy who helps her out.
- Plot B: Girl finds out some super sexy guy at school/wherever is actually a supernatural creature or has magical powers, and she gets pulled into his world, but their love is epic in the face of overwhelming odds.
6. Skanks
People like Katy Perry or Ke$ha or Nicki Minaj? They are /skanks/. They are unbearably trashy. They are not empowering to women in any way--all they do is prove that women can make it big if they're willing to be skanks in exchange. This is not empowering. So women? Stop. Stop calling that shit empowering, stop buying their terrible music that isn't even really music, and stop denying that they got famous because they're willing to act like hookers. Yeah, some of their songs aren't bad. That doesn't mean we don't deserve better, as an audience, and that doesn't mean you should settle for it.
7. Taylor Swift
This could last all day if I let it, so I'm going to try to make it fast. Taylor Swift is a moderately talented singer and an absolutely shitty songwriter. Yes, Taylor, all the boys broke your heart all the times. You aren't a fucking teenager anymore. Either go find yourself someone else to write you some songs that aren't quite so vapid, or figure out that you can put meaning into your songs. And ladies? I promise you high school wasn't as awesome as you may think it was in your nostalgia over Taylor's cute little lyrics.