Reading Other Peoples' Comments About Your Special Interests

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On the internet, I mean

Does anyone else LOVE to do this? It's almost a special interest in itself for me. Since I was young, well since I got the internet as a teenager, I've enjoyed going to IMDB or other forums and reading what others think about the things I like. I like to read hateful comments as well, and I get a huge kick out of it. I don't get angry. I just like to see all sides of the story.

I can spend hours upon hours doing this.

Yes I have. I would also enjoy the Kit bashing. That character from A League of Their Own. I have seen complaints about that character on IMDB and on youtube.

I have also seen negative comments too on Spokane and Benny & Joon but I don't let it get to me. I have seen some offensive comments about Sam and Joon. I don't care.

Nope, negative comments towards them seem inconceivable to me.

I do this too: IMDB, TV Tropes, Closing Logos Group Wiki (and the YouTube videos that go along with the CLG)....etc.

I like the "observer" feeling something like that might give me - I think it's related to the fact that I like to have as much knowledge as I can possibly gather (whether about a particular topic, as in a special interest, or just about anything in general), but don't want people to know I have that knowledge. You never know when it can come in handy, and it's better not to be noticed until it does.
Of course, it isn't as though it makes any difference knowing what fifty Internet strangers think of stem cell research, or Doctor Who, or the latest models from a specific bicycle manufacturer. However, you never know when one of those fifty strangers will have a new piece of trivia, a new angle on the subject, or perhaps some insider knowledge of his or her own that can add to the stack - and sometimes it's just nice to know that you're not the only person who feels a certain way about something. That's why I think it's born of the same instinct as the "need to know," even though it doesn't exactly translate.

When people say something nice about my interests, or something that I agree with, it gives me feelings of euphoria. But when they say something negative, I have a hard time not taking it personally. Since my interests are so closely tied to my identity, I feel that if someone says something bad about my interests, it's almost as bad as (if not worse than) if they had insulted me directly as a person. It is for this reason that I avoid reading reviews for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland film, because most reviews for it are negative in some form or another. On the other hand, I love reading what people have to say about the TV show Adventures in Wonderland, because it's so little-known that its few fans tend to stick together.

I once got a flame for two of my B&J short stories and I must have upset her because she didn't like how creative I was. She must have been a huge B&J fan as well and I could tell she was a JD fan by looking at her profile. I wonder if she was aspie but I do think she was a troll because I find it odd she target my short stories than my long ones and not leave nasty reviews for other B&J writers. They wrote them worse. But you know what, I would love to write more stories to ruin movies and write short versions of movies and see how many reactions I get That's a way to have fun with jerks online who get bent out of shape over what they read about their favorites or special interests.
But I can't be arsed because I rather write for my enjoyment than deliberately making up stories to piss off people and wasting my free time to do that.

But it was a 14 year old girl so no wonder. But hey even adults can be that immature.


Oh yeah I hated that Spokane song by Bob Rivers because of what he was saying about it. Once I understood the song, I didn't like it anymore. But I didn't let myself get all bent out of shape and upset by it because it's a parody of Cocaine so he was saying the city name wrong. After all that is how most people pronounce it. I would have pronounced it that way too if I never heard the name. But I was never a fan of it because he was saying the name wrong. Maybe it was his way of making fun of people who say it wrong? Well it sure fit then.

No one can really talk about meerkats without sounding stupid and almost everyone only likes meerkats because of meerkat manor now. The only person I take seriously about meerkats is my zoologist friend.

It is impossible for someone to diss Titan A.E. without being amusing. Don't ask me why I just find hateful things about Titan A.E. downright halarious.

I've never really read anything negetive about Lion King that wasn't from some fundemendlist Christian group.

Timon gets bashed alot but its usualy by certian people and there's this one girl from Finland who seems to have a patholical hatred for him. It used to bother me but now I realise she's just stupid and has no life outside of Lion King art sites.

I got bullied for my special intrests all the time as a kid. The most hateful thing on the internet is nothing compared to what I had to endure for my special intrests in elementry school. So it's pretty much impossible to bring down my special intrests without the person doing so looking like a total idot.

I do not say anything but if I see the poster make a comment I know I could stick him on I will go for it. If I comment on what he/she said about my special interest they will know how to work my buttons. Do not give trolls ammunition to use against you.

An attack on The Kinks is an attack on my identity, as a person. It's been that way for 21 years. I've had a few people that I had to educate, not to do that. All from the same site. The last one was a 15 year old.