Reality Tv in a nutshell. Programming that people can hate watch and feel superior.
Plus it gives those of us who hate reality TV an excuse to hate watch our friends and loved ones who watch it and feel superior to them!
It’s a verb and it’s “hatewatching” 🙂
But … why?
If I don’t enjoy something, I just turn on something I do enjoy.
Or is it really because they watched so much they don’t have anything they enjoy watching anymore?
Sometimes you gotta let steam off by yelling at a show. Better than yelling at people.
And then it bleeds into the internet and communities for fans of the show/movie/game get overrun with people who just want to complain. Complaining gets more engagement than enjoying and the hate rises to the top. And I’m sitting here wondering again: Why don’t you just watch things you enjoy and then go lift weights and/or talk to someone (good friend or therapist)?
Me and my wife, in a hotel after a long day, because we can’t cast YouTube to the TV (which is becoming less common).
Be me:
watch on demand
Skip boring parts.
If skipping leads to 20% remaining watch time, drop it.
Regret even starting it and then start another shitty series which you know won’t entertain you
Next level is watching YouTube summaries of shows and movies.
Next level after that is to forsake all joy and quality of life by skipping to the comments of the YouTube summaries without watching.
I’ve noticed that I’ll give a show part way into its second season before dropping it if it’s annoying me. Sometimes a show fixes itself once it finds what it wants to be. Other times, it doubles down on the stupid. The Flash, RWBY, and the BSG remake were this way for me.
SN AK
He’s obviously watching 90 Day Fiance
My wife and I hatewatch house hunting shows when we’re stuck up in a hotel sometimes.
What sometimes happen is something you can’t hatewatch. One episode of “Love it or List It” had a black family where mom had to do clear the kitchen table to do the office work she brought home, the older teenage boy had a bed too short and his legs hung over the edge, and grandma moved in and had to sleep in the same bed as the younger daughter. I can’t hatewatch that. This family is legit struggling with their current housing arrangements and needs a fix.
Then the next thing comes on, and it’s a white family where their biggest problems are that the house is too far from the golf course and the kids don’t all have their own bathrooms. Thank you, hatewatching gods, I can work with this!
