Yatsufusa 2024-03-14 20:51:16

From personal experience I'd say the only surefire way to achieve that is: 'Meet different people.'

Humans will sometimes find the weirdest stuff irritating - the same way they will sometimes find the weirdest stuff "normal". You can give your all to become accepted by one demographic and another will despise you for who you've become. The best you can do is to try to avoid contact with people who don't like you in the first place.

In case this about a specific audience/reviewer/fanbase/'hatebase', I can only quote James Stephanie Sterling: "Attempting to keep 'everyone' in your audience happy is a path towards the steady erosion of your own mind."
(From 'The Hex - Simply Hexcellent (Jimpressions)' [2018-12-12] [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSZC04Gd_2A ])

Yatsufusa 2024-03-14 21:17:58

Relatable. ;)

I think it all depends how you pick and choose who you talk to. As an example, I just read roughly 20 news posts here on NG. I replied to 2 - because I had nothing helpful, insightful, or funny to say to the other ones. Let's just say a lot of people have a lot lower standards and a lot more spare time on their hands.

From what I remember from 'our' past interactions and what you commented here and there you don't strike me as particularly annoying, 'unusual' at best - which is par for the course when it comes to people creative enough to create art. ;)
It's possible the people you were talking to were the weird ones. 'Twitter/"X"' for example is a platform that's primarily used by right-wingers and corporations to an increasing degree. Personally, I would worry if my opinions aligned with those demographics.
Unless you're getting into arguments every single day I wouldn't worry too much about it if I were you.

Hope this helps.

Also this:
John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboards-and-other-anomalies