My older brother is the reason that I got into "nerd culture" since I read his sci-fi books as a kid as well as his comic books before I started collecting my own. Also, before he got too old for it we watched G.I. Joe religiously (imagine that cartoon on today). He a wife and three kids now so he is out of the loop for a lot of geek stuff, so when I told him that Amazon was going to have a Lord of the Ring show we both got a good laugh because the first thing he said was "so how long before the articles bashing Tolkien or whining about lack of diversity start"
It is so funny because with all the reboots/sequels I swear it is like clockwork to see articles from supposed life long fans of something that now "realize" all the racism/sexism in the original show/movie. I remember the gushing critic articles for Ghostbusters 2016 and it has only become worse since. I'm currently on the last book of Wheel of Time series and I've already seen articles calling it sexist and complaining about abuse to women. That whole Geeker Gate thing was spot on.
I made a decision a few years ago to only read or watch stuff from 2014 or prior with a few exceptions. I love going to used book stores and seeing a ton of sci-fi/fantasy books from 50s to 2000. Same thing with back issues at comic book stores.
Honestly there is such a back catalogue of stellar work that you won't ever have time to explore it all.
Exactly. As a heavy reader of books and comic books I see that every time I go to the used book store
I'm collecting movies, games and now starting on books that are pre-2014. It has been great for my moral.
Anything after 2014 I consider to be garbage until proven otherwise
It is effectively a requirement to be a data hoarder these days. Between problematic content, cancel culture, subscription services, and DMCA any media you don't personally collect is as good as gone.