I feel like I’m pretty much only willing to try something if someone I know and respect recommends it to me. I’m always super unwilling to just randomly pick up a book or a movie or whatever on my own… I feel like ever since being vaguely into Marvel slop, I’m just so much more aware of how finite my time is and I have to know I’m going into something worth seeing and engaging with before I’ll commit to even trying something. Does anyone else feel this way more? Is this just the process of me calcifying as I get older, or is it to do with how society is?
It just means you’re getting older and actually have standards. 99.99% of pop culture is slop. Just don’t fall into the trap of thinking your childhood favorites aren’t part of the 99.99% (Spoiler: they’re also pointless slop).