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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by TootSweet@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Just as examples:

  • I've never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
  • I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn't realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
  • Oh, and I've never seen the "hawk tuah" video.
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[-] Lauchs@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago

Not having tik tok or instagram seems to count? I dunno if wildly popular social media counts though.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

I've heard "I don't trust people who don't have instagram" more than once, but the last time was in 2021, so I dunno how's the current sentiment

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[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

I never watched Squid Game and don’t intend to. Battle royale material just isn’t my thing.

[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 10 points 8 months ago

I tried the first episode but barely got a quarter way through. Made me too sad

[-] Mozingo@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Aw, but it gets so much worse!

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago

And then there's me who watched the entire thing in 1 day.

Hmm, it seems there's also S2 now.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

Game of Thrones maybe. To coin a phrase, “spare me the drama, and the incest.”

I love fantasy, it was right up my alley at the right time, but all the grit in GoT for me just resolves to alt-history Europe.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

GoT's rise to popularity is almost as crazy as its sharp fall into irrelevance.

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[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I've never seen or read Game of Thrones either, despite also being a big fantasy fan. I just never got around to it when it was popular, and after hearing how it collapsed in upon itself at the end I don't feel the need to.

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 22 points 8 months ago

I've never seen a (modern) marvel movie, despite being a fan of the comics and cartoons as a kid.

I've never seen a harry potter film.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

You're not missing out on much with Harry Potter. It's one of those stories that are "just there". Not really much depth.

[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

I fell asleep during all of the Harry Potter movies I tried to watch. That's not meant as a judgement on the quality of those movies. I just couldn't help it.

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[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 21 points 8 months ago

if titanic is so good, why haven't i seen it?

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[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

I've never had Instagram, tik Tok, twitter, or most other socials. I had Facebook, that's pretty much it. But no longer.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

I've only seen the first two parts of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 38 points 8 months ago

You monster. That's somehow even worse than not seeing it at all

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"I bow to no one."

...or whatever the hell Aragorn says when he kills Sauron.

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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago

I've never seen a single James Bond movie or know anything about the scenes or characters, except for the fact there's an agent named James Bond who likes his name and always looks dressed to the nines.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

I think his name is actually Bondjames Bond

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 6 points 8 months ago

Call a Bondulance

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 13 points 8 months ago

Most comedy movies from the 00s-10s, for me. Anchorman, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Step Brothers... If Judd Apatow was involved or it starred SNL celebrities, I probably never saw it.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 12 points 8 months ago

I got my nerd card revoked after a convention when I revealed that I hadn't seen any of the Marvel movies. And this was about 10 years ago. I eventually made exceptions for Deadpool and GotG.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 12 points 8 months ago

Wot!? Dude!! I started playing DnD just to get the nerd card and this is how I find out I still don't qualify??? I've watched X-Men (2000) though, does that count?

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 10 points 8 months ago

Ain't my gate to keep lol. You're good in my book.

Nerd.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 8 months ago
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[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I didn't watch the show Firefly. I had already been using this screenname for a long time when that show came out, but people began to assume I was a fan and named myself after it.

While I'm generally a scifi fan and watched tons of scifi TV in those days, the Buffy shows a lot of my friends were into bored the hell out of me and I didn't feel like checking out another show by the same guy.

I do have the DVDs on my shelf, having picked them up cheap secondhand ages ago thinking I might just get it over with someday, but the more I've learned about Joss Whedon over the years the less inclined I find myself to check it out.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago

While I’m generally a scifi fan and watched tons of scifi TV in those days, the Buffy shows a lot of my friends were into bored the hell out of me and I didn’t feel like checking out another show by the same guy.

fwiw, Firefly is nothing like Buffy.

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[-] catbum@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I have never read the Harry Potter series.

I plowed through all sorts books as a kid in the 2000s but never picked them up.

Yeah I think I'm cool with that.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

I never watched Game of Thrones. I only watched the very last episode because the friends decided it'd be fun to watch, and even then I was disappointed lol

I also never read any books based on any RPG or other games (D&D, World of Darkness, 40k)

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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 7 points 8 months ago

you don't know what you don't know.

nothing in this thread so far screams weird to me yet.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I watched the very first episode of The Walking Dead and realized I didn't like zombie stuff and didn't want to get pulled into a show about it. No matter how much people were raving about it. Just not for me.

I also quit The West Wing about halfway through the first episode.

[-] Trail@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

The west wing is very good.

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[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Only ever seen one episode of The Sopranos (enjoyed it, but never went back for some reason).

Never seen:

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Game of Thrones
  • Oppenheimer (nor Barbie)
  • Forrest Gump
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Rocky (seen 2-4, but not the original)
  • Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Good Morning Vietnam
  • Braveheart
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Borat
  • Any of the Daniel Craig Bond movies
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[-] lengau@midwest.social 6 points 8 months ago

Yes, all three of those.

I'm also not really into superhero stuff so I've seen like 2 Marvel movies.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

Pulp fiction. It's been on my list for ages, for some reason I never get around to watch it.

Breaking Bad

Lost

The walking dead

There's lots more among the popular titles but I think those are my worst blindspots when it comes to popular media.

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[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I've yet to watch Schindler List. I feel like it's signing up for feeling bad for 2 hours 😕

I'm also big into Sci-fi, and have yet to watch the OG Star Treks, Stargate, Babylon 5, or Dr. Who

[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Pretty much everything? I have very specific likes and pretty much stopped consuming things outside of those, since I can't even fit all the stuff I'm guaranteed to like.

I guess among like-minded people, Final Fantasy 7 is the most glaring omission.

For lemmy, it's probably anything Star Wars or Star Trek.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 8 months ago

Pokemon here. I played go for like 20 mins. I was in highschool and super busy when the first came out and never got interested.

Game of thrones and a ton of shows (when I lived in the US. I've been living in Japan the last 10 years so I have no clue what's current).

Also hawk tuah and such. I don't have TikTok or basically any social media anymore so no clue what's going on.

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Star wars and Lord of the Rings

I've seen enough clips and overviews and "facts about" clips to understand that I am not interested enough to invest the time it would take to watch either series. The story of the production of Star Wars is very interesting, the actual story the movies tell, not so much.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago

Never seen any of the Lord of the Rings and have no plans to.

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

I've never seen Lost, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or any of the rest of the mandatory drama television genre. I gave up partway through watching Battlestar Galactica and kinda just stopped watching television.

For awhile there, the only non-technical conversation I could have was "Did you see Game of Thrones last night?" "No, I don't watch that show." "Oh. Bye." Humanity's ability to talk about anything except heartburn drama television for the last decade and a half kind of weaned me off of socializing.

[-] Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. I tried a little and gave up.

Never used any music or video streaming service. Yo ho

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I watch like one or two movies a year and very few TV series. I've been watching Dexter - Original Sin now, the previous one I watched was Dexter - New Blood and few years back I watched the first season of The Last of Us but I didn't like it so I never continued with the season two. Before that I watched the Chernobyl mini series and before that Game of Thrones. Suffice to say that you can pretty much name any modern TV serie and I haven't seen it. I've never had Netflix or any other streaming service subscription.

I also don't listen to radio or have Spotify so I have no clue what the popular songs currently are and ChatGPT is the only app on my phone that's somewhat new. No games, no social media - nothing. I do occasionally play DayZ on my PC but that's a 10 year old game as well. I might very well be the most ignorant person when it comes to popular culture that you'll meet all year.

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