Yup, it's an interesting dichotomy for me; I'm quite online, but don't have an sort of cable/television subscription, don't enjoy most modern Western entertainment, actively avoid social media, as well as actively avoiding things like YouTube frontpage.
I'll look up some older Western media when the mood strikes (watched The Jackal yesterday, for example), but I'm not really plugged in to any algorithms or frontpages.
I literally have no clue about 99+% of modern entertainment.
And I'm only half kidding. My job is quite solo, so I don't have coworkers (mostly a blessing), I don't have many friends, and my family is kind of weird like me. So it only comes up rarely, but yes, I do confuse people when they realize I just don't engage in any of the mainstream entertainment they do. I think normies confuse me even more than I confuse them though.
Weird thing is, when it's the normies in my family. Generally the ones I'm not super close to. When they want to talk at length about some trending TV show I've never seen, or sometimes even heard of. Like, random normies I can sort of understand. If it's my own family just being so different, it is a little weird.
How 'bout that Squid Games? How 'bout that Game of Thrones? Tiger King is wild, man!
Yup, it's an interesting dichotomy for me; I'm quite online, but don't have an sort of cable/television subscription, don't enjoy most modern Western entertainment, actively avoid social media, as well as actively avoiding things like YouTube frontpage.
I'll look up some older Western media when the mood strikes (watched The Jackal yesterday, for example), but I'm not really plugged in to any algorithms or frontpages.
I literally have no clue about 99+% of modern entertainment.
I don't interact with normies.
And I'm only half kidding. My job is quite solo, so I don't have coworkers (mostly a blessing), I don't have many friends, and my family is kind of weird like me. So it only comes up rarely, but yes, I do confuse people when they realize I just don't engage in any of the mainstream entertainment they do. I think normies confuse me even more than I confuse them though.
Weird thing is, when it's the normies in my family. Generally the ones I'm not super close to. When they want to talk at length about some trending TV show I've never seen, or sometimes even heard of. Like, random normies I can sort of understand. If it's my own family just being so different, it is a little weird.
How 'bout that Squid Games? How 'bout that Game of Thrones? Tiger King is wild, man!
That's not really that unusual.