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Hype machine meme12/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The difference here is while this guitar may look like a showroom case queen, it roars like a demon while you maneuver over the fanned frets with almost no effort. The exotic woods and intense maple top remind me of a PRS private stock, which I think it can be agreed unanimously are beautiful guitars. Fanned frets, I believe it was 25.5 - 27.25Īesthetically, this is simply gorgeous. So I have a pretty strong sense of what makes a guitar good, great, and godly. I've owned a couple hundred different guitars - most notable being Blackmachines (B7 and two B6), Mayones (artist build), Jackson custom shop, ESP custom shop, PRS c24 10top, Caparison Artist custom & custom line, etc. No examples, please Any example would be subjective, and thus would just bring natter to the page.Hey everyone - I've had my eye on Ormsby guitars for the last year or so, and for the last couple months this guitar in particular. Related to the Hollywood Hype Machine, which starts the ball rolling for more mainstream successful ones. See Bile Fascination for the exact opposite of this trope. Of course, if one is able to get over such aversion, it can result in I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham.Ĭontrast Hype Backlash, where the hype doesn't prevent you from watching, but taints your reaction when you do. On the other hand, you might end up a little let down-given all the hype, shouldn't Final Fantasy VII, Watchmen, and Baldur's Gate really be able to cure cancer, impotence or chronic bedwetting, give a determined, suicidal-averting reason to go on living, and guarantee one an automatic gate pass for Heaven?Īnything billed as the next incarnation of a popular work will get this.Ĭan lead to Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch if the aversion goes far enough. or at least not so bad that you'd be offended that people thought you would like it. In any case, you might realize that yep, it's as great as everyone says. It could also be because of this little thing called Reverse Psychology. Maybe you're afraid that you'll like it too much, thus losing interest in what you previously enjoyed more. Bonus points if they express shock at how you've not seen it and peer-pressure you so much that you feel your independent thinking is getting seriously threatened. Maybe it's become a strange sort of anti-establishment pride that you refuse to check out something so many have liked. It could be that you start out putting it off for later, but as more and more people bug you about it, you reject reading/watching/whatevering it multiple times and develop a habit of it. Maybe you just are sick of hearing about it because you accepted it wasn't your cup of tea in the first place, but it's very hard to ignore it because you keep hearing it everywhere. ![]() Maybe the fandom in general has a certain level of Squick to it that makes you a little uncomfortable. Maybe it's how, as more people and the Hollywood Hype Machine recommend something, the probability of meeting someone disconcertingly obsessed with it approaches one. Maybe you're afraid that you won't enjoy it, and will have to deal with the fact that people you thought you knew don't really share your tastes, or that you felt lied to because they thought you would like it. Maybe you're afraid that it's popular because it appeals to the Lowest Common Denominator. There's a number of reasons for why this happens: Maybe it's a genre you're not so keen on. This is what we call Hype Aversion: the specific avoidance of a work mainly because of how much you're told you'll like it. Why is it that when twenty people say you'd like something, you'll just keep putting it off more and more? Even if they're wrong, it can't be that bad, right? If one person thinks you'd like something, you'll probably rush and check it out. ![]()
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