Liking stuff before it became popular... why do we care?

later12

Many people resent their niche hobbies or niche interests becoming mainstream interests. I include myself in this, at times, even though I fully accept how irrational it is. So I was wondering what your thoughts are on your own hobbies.

For example in the mid 1990s my family used to take our holidays at Rossnowlagh in Co. Donegal. My brother and I got into surfing, and at that time, that area of Donegal was one of the only areas in the country at the time where surfboards were a reasonably common feature of beach life. So as kids we were sent off surfing to get out of our parents' hair (I later realised what they were probably doing allthewhile....)
I wouldn't consider myself to be a particularly talented surfer or anything, but it does grate on me a little every time I hear some guy in the next cubicle to me at work harking on about how he went surfing in Lahinch last year and now considers himself "an ace surfer", or giving ridiculously incorrect or strange tips to his friends, who also want to go to Lahinch or Bundoran where they too will become *surfers!*.

Of course it's great that people are taking up this great, healthy, fun activity, or indeed any outdoor activity. But for some reason situations like the one I have described above do grate on me. I find it hard to explain it to myself, since logically one should be glad that one's hobby is enjoying a popularity.

I'm sure we all have examples like these - bands we liked before everyone else jumped onto the trend, movies or books we liked before they developed cult followings, building our own fixies before that became fashionable, whatever.

So do you have your own activity or hobby that you would rather enjoy away from the mainstream? Do you resent when your interest becomes a mainstream interest?

hardCopy

Join date: Oct 2010

:rolleyes: whatever

Dangerous Man

Your parents were shagging.

PK2008

Surfin is for ****

squod

later10 wrote: »

my family used to take our holidays at Rossnowlagh in Co. Donegal. My brother and I got into surfing,

Did you ever get into muff?

Pauleta

Indie music is purely built on this. As long as the bands theyve been ****ing about for ages get popular, they are suddenly pants. Indie music fans deserve a visit from the legendary Facekicker.

bryaner

You need a hobby..

smk89

Its a bit like what people were doing for the last few years, finding people who warned us about the property crash before it happened. As if you can go back like in the terminator and stop it.

DrHLecter

emmmmm.....maybe the subconscious reasoning that pleasurable things are limited, so more for them equals less for me.
or fear that your surfing territory will soon have a starbucks and argos on it.
or maybe some ego thing related to how youre different to the common randomers and their fat children.

know the feeling

Larianne

squod wrote: »

Did you ever get into muff?

Hoping to go diving there this summer. No lie.

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======> silly crazes thread..

saa

Why do you care? If you're conscious about what's mainstream and whats not someones probably too up tight about it or trying too hard not be "mainstream".


I hate people moaning about bands becoming popular who cares, the only thing that actually damages your like for that band is when they don't play intimate venues anymore and the new fans are well you try standing beside them for 3 hours and youll know what I mean... so doesnt change the band so I would whinge that theyre not cool enough anymore.

KeithM89_old

I was a massive fan of Westside or 'Westlife' as they are now known as. Especially through their heavy metal era... But then they sold out and turned ghey..

ArtyM

Lets hope that starting angry threads doesnt become popular!

DrHLecter

well just in theory munay can change a band to cater to the masses.....so that means your pleasure in their original music is now taken away by hipster band wagoners


like the worthless peons....used to do comic themes like speedracer, then moved to mainstream (facts of life).

D1stant

hardCopy wrote: »

Join date: Oct 2010

:rolleyes: whatever

Join date. Cool as F*ck!

Patriciamc93

The only example I can think of this which annoys me is facedown.

You know that facebook craze in Ireland and England last year....... Well it is huge in America and Australia ( and i dont know where else) now..... But they call it planking!!! I don't know why but when ever I see stuff about it I am like get with it people ..... It's old and it's not called planking its called facedown!!!!

Dangerous Man

Larianne wrote: »

Hoping to go diving there this summer. No lie.

My kind of girl.

FTGFOP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjYrMr7b_KI