I love interacting with you all very much, and I know there’s a lot of important political issues in the world going on right now. I love my Linux Mint setup, I support Palestine and trans people, and I’ve blazed through all of OG Star Trek, TNG, Voyager, and am now on DS9.
But I also want to discuss Luka to the Lakers and Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile and getting 5 Grammy’s, a tour, and a Superbowl halftime show out of it, you know? I wanna talk about your country’s Eurovision entries. Am I just not in the right communities?
You can always create posts in appropriate communities to start conversations on topics you’re interested in. Be the change you wish to see in the world.
I don’t care much for most pop culture stuff and get enough by happenstance from other sources/people.
Thank fucking god. The next person to say Kendrick Lamar will get hands laid on them 'stat
Huh? Why?
Because I’m fucking tired of it, why do you think
You can just scroll away? There is no Kendrick Lamar content on Lemmy, and if you’re talking about seeing it on other corporate social media, you can filter/block it out quite easily.
Yes and I love it.
Gonna be honest, pop culture is the thing about Reddit I miss the least. I couldn’t care less what drama some rich people are getting into, unless that drama is their yachts being sunk by killer whales.
Go on asklemmy and ask what people think of the situation. Go on casualconversation and talk about your opinions.
No. I make my own pop culture.
That’s why I’m here. This week, I learned who Kendrick Lamar and Drake are, and I feel stupider for it.
Tbf, Kendrick Lamar is an unbelievably talented musician. Drake is just a lame ass celebrity, you can easily ignore him and be better off.
But Kendrick has made some really fantastic albums. If you’re not into rap than you might not care too much anyway, but he doesn’t belong in the same conversation as Drake, despite their dumb ass feud.
I don’t even like hip-hop that much but Section 80 and Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City are easily among my favorite albums of all time.
Kendrick Lamar has a Pulitzer, why would you feel stupid for learning about him?
Not him, per se, but the realization that I’m part of the same species with people who care about foreign royalty, what some actor was wearing, or a rap feud. Cripes, there’s even a separate Wikipedia entry about it, which somehow meets the notability requirement.
You’re not alone. I don’t consider Lemmy as my primary social media (thank God I don’t), and I think that a lot of things missing on “The Fediverse” (I hate that name) are due to the community’s fault. Most of the people just upvote and don’t comment. Some of them comment, but don’t even post. And the ones who post are the ones who have more control over what’s popular, I think. Not only that, but the main audience is not diverse, mostly US (but there’s also some europeans) centric, and only interested in programming (and scientific stuff). And they don’t care, because that’s whar they like, and they simply reject the idea of having anything different or popular (there’s comments in this post about how they are happy that there’s no pop culture, and even one claiming pop culture is capitalism distraction, jeesh, go touch grass). Some of them are not welcoming, and don’t like the type of people they would consider “normies”. Now, my view of pop culture is (probably) different of yours, but I’d say that pop culture is one of the cores of social media. And I don’t think this place will grow in a distributed way because normal people like me won’t feel like they belong somewhere like here, they won’t share the content they like, and thus it will make a cycle of lack.
sorry for the long rant, I don’t even think all of that made sense. It’s just something that I felt yo say.
Even when I was still on Reddit, I needed a friend to explain to me that Funko Pops don’t do anything - you just have them.
So really I think it’s just me.
Hahaha yeah Funko Pop collectors are so weird right hahahaha
-casually hides my Play Arts Kai Sephiroth and Cloud behind a curtain-
I used to interact with people from my country on reddit
Because of that, along with me not watching/reading romanian news, i miss big events like the country being invited to schengen
Wouldn’t that be at least on !europe@feddit.org ?
Yes, it was. It was all over lemmy for several days.
Yeah, but every time I hear about celebrity shit it’s fucking stupid and it pisses me off so I consider missing it a good thing.
I think this is a problem with the Fediverse in general.
Search Kendrick Lamar on BlueSky and it’s filled with people celebrating it, breaking down different aspects of the show, and making memes. Search the same on Mastodon and you get news articles about the show and the occasional personal post. A majority of the posts have 0 engagement on most of the posts.
I think that’s more mastodon’s flawed search than anything. Cause it’ll only look for the specific term, so if someone don’t use Kendrick’s full name, it’s not gonna show up. Or if you look by tag, you won’t see much anything cause no one tags half their stuff
That definitely hinders discoverability. My feed is basically a depressing mix of climate change and politics.
There’s indeed only one post on !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz with 25 votes and 0 comments
OP, this is a pop culture reference. Your lemmy account will now be revoked. 🔫 Hand it over
I am nothing if not a contradiction.
*I’m nothin’ ifn’t a contradiction
Personally I’m longing for more discussion about ideas and less about events and definitely less about people.
Would you be interested in my 4 000 word thinkpiece on how Kamala Harris’ campaign co-opting Charli XCX’s Brat Summer is a perfect encapsulation of the how the neoliberal mechanisms in the United States try to use cultural capital to mask their regressive politics? Trump appearing on Joe Rogan, and George Bush’s “drinking a beer with the little guy” will also make appearances.
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I specifically came here because I was uninterested in the pop culture chat that I was seeing in my socials. I want to talk to more people in less mainstream nerd culture
