I guess I just don't find that sort of thing funny. I've never made it through an episode of MST: 3K. To me, it is terribly boring. I usually don't want B movies either, for the same reason. I know many of those movies are made to be tongue-in-cheek and to be lovely poked fun at, but usually it just isn't funny. Like the Pottersues (or whatever it is called) community - I've never read it because it seems like a big waste of time. If I want to laugh, I'll watch a funny movie or read a Janet Evanovich novel. I don't want to read part of some bad piece of fanfiction. What a waste that is.
I think this all begins and ends with my lack of time. I have soooo many things I'm interested in, and I'm rarely ever bored because I'm always pressed for time to fit them all in. I work full time, and when I get home I have a long list of things I want to do and need to do. I'm never rushed, and most of my tasks are for my enjoyment, but it still feels like I have to put aside things I want to do to get to other things I want to do. So, me reading a bad fic or a book just for the lolz seems like such a waste of my time when I could read a good book for the lolz, if you know what I mean.
Because of my past experience, reading something just to make fun of it for being cliche or stupid or silly comes across as being kind of snotty and mean-spirited. Like, "Oh, I'm so much better than you because I don't write or even like crap like this. Haha, this is really sucky." I'm not saying that's the way it is, but that's definitely the way it comes across to me. That's why I have no interest in things like that. I spent my time trying to be an elitist in high school, and it never stuck with me. I never liked it. If I hated something, I just preferred not to talk about it, or just mention in it passing.
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Date: 2008-05-29 07:08 pm (UTC)I think this all begins and ends with my lack of time. I have soooo many things I'm interested in, and I'm rarely ever bored because I'm always pressed for time to fit them all in. I work full time, and when I get home I have a long list of things I want to do and need to do. I'm never rushed, and most of my tasks are for my enjoyment, but it still feels like I have to put aside things I want to do to get to other things I want to do. So, me reading a bad fic or a book just for the lolz seems like such a waste of my time when I could read a good book for the lolz, if you know what I mean.
Because of my past experience, reading something just to make fun of it for being cliche or stupid or silly comes across as being kind of snotty and mean-spirited. Like, "Oh, I'm so much better than you because I don't write or even like crap like this. Haha, this is really sucky." I'm not saying that's the way it is, but that's definitely the way it comes across to me. That's why I have no interest in things like that. I spent my time trying to be an elitist in high school, and it never stuck with me. I never liked it. If I hated something, I just preferred not to talk about it, or just mention in it passing.