As in, what’s something you loved as a kid, found cringe as you get older, then gained a new appreciation for as an adult? Here are some of mine:

  • Pokemon. I expect this will be a common one. It’s got cute creature designs and fun tactical battling, and since I’ve outgrown my shame at liking cute things, I’ll happily keep coming back to it.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh. I still don’t much care for the CCG (I’m opposed on principle to any game where your ability to win largely depends on how much money you’re willing to sink into it), but the anime bursts with dorky charm and the video games are fun. A setting where reincarnated ancient sorcerers and billionaires are stone-dead serious about a children’s card game is also a nice break from the modern plague of “well that just happened” Marvel soy banter.
  • erik [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    16 days ago

    Nu metal. I loved it in the late 90s. Godsmack. Early Limp Bizkit. System of a Down. But somewhere along the line people convinced me it was cringe and I should listen to garage rock or something. They’re probably right, it is cringe, but I enjoy it and I just do so unapologetically now. It’s a good time to be back into it, there’s been a bit of a revival.

  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    16 days ago

    Anime for me. I watched a lot of it in middle school, stopped for like 10 years, getting back into it now. There’s a lot of good stuff out there when you know better than to listen to recommendations.

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    16 days ago

    Yu-Gi-Oh

    I’ve heard the comic is fun, but I’ve never read it! I definitely watched the show back in the day.

    For me:

    Gundam: I was super obsessed as a kid, then Gundam SEED came out and I found it super cringe. Started getting back into it when I had a young child and needed to sleep in shifts, and now I’ve watched way too much mecha anime (and almost all of Gundam lol)

  • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    16 days ago

    Big life decisions. Making a change. Improving myself. Beginning something new. Changing direction in life. Taking a big chance. Doing The Thing That Only Young People Do. Starting a band. Getting into entertainment industry. Writing. Going on adventures. Backpacking. Doing heroine (still not old enough for this, but when I hit 90 wooo baby). Going to therapy. Getting new friends. Reconnecting with old friends. Saying sorry. Patching up relationships. Making a frivolous purchase. Ignoring the pain in my leg and not going to the doctor for it. Getting better.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    16 days ago

    AC/DC

    I loved the band when they were young and I was even younger. I was in middle school. I still liked them in high school. Then as the decades passed - I lost interest. They seemed so old-fashioned. Once Youtube and torrents were a thing - I realized I still really liked their first albums. I have no interest after “Back in Black”. The past 40+ years they’ve been re-re-re-re-re-re-recycling what they did up to 1980 because it works and they’ve sold 10,000,000 of millions of albums so why try harder?

    -–

    Ninja edit

    My estimate was way off.

    In 50 years of their career, AC/DC have sold over 200 million albums worldwide

    • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      16 days ago

      Reminds me of a response to a review of their 13th album. A reviewer had said “Yeah it’s a fine album, this is the 12th time they’re making it. It’s the same!” and AC/DC wrote in a letter that stated “The review is a devious lie. We’ve made the same album 13 times.”

  • AmericaDeserved711 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    16 days ago

    pop music. I liked Spice Girls and Britney Spears and N’Sync and shit like that when I was very young and then it became very clear that as a “boy” it would be gay to enjoy any music that didn’t have guitars in it or whatever. it wasn’t until I was in my early 20s that I realized that there was a lot of really forward-thinking experimental pop music and started getting into artists like SOPHIE

    also animated movies & shows in general. I never watched Avatar: The Last Airbender when it aired because I was like 13 when it came out, and I was over Nickelodeon and only wanted to watch serious movies and shows for adults. I still haven’t seen Ratatouille for the same reason. I thought I was too mature for cartoons when in fact I wasn’t mature enough to realize animation could be enjoyed by all ages.

    I actually had the opposite experience with Pokemon where I realized I never actually liked it in the first place, it just happened to be really popular when I was a kid and hadn’t formed my own interests yet.

    • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      16 days ago

      Hell yes to pop music! For me, it was more thinking metal was “real” music, though. And don’t get me wrong–I authentically enjoyed metal as a teen, and I will still listen to it on occasion now. It’s hard to beat metal if you’re feeling aggressive, and metal can be rhythmically complex and compelling in a way that pop music rarely is. But the things I love most about music are melody, harmony, and danceability as well as general good vibes, and most of those are in short supply in metal, especially the thrash/death metal I was most into. Discovering K-Pop is what brought me back into the fold, and I’m not into any cool niche indie artists or anything (the most indie thing I listen to is Kero Kero Bonito lol), but I enjoy listening to good pop music, appreciating the craftsmanship behind it, and just jamming out.

    • AmericaDeserved711 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      16 days ago

      I was a Skrillex hater when he first got popular and it was cool to hate on “brostep” or whatever. but since then I’ve realized the guy is really talented. Quest for Fire was one of my favorite albums of last year. his early music is still probably not for me, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad, it’s just a matter of personal taste