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    I’m an Xer and I didn’t like Seinfeld, but that’s mostly because I don’t like embarrassment comedy. It’s the same reason I don’t like Will Ferrel and Ben Stiller, but to each their own. I don’t begrudge anyone else finding it funny, it’s just not my vibe.

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    I feel like a lot of you assume I’m younger. I’m closer to 50 then I like to admit. I’m just not from the US, maybe that is part of why it didn’t click with me.

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      And I’m older than you and in the US-- I agree with you that Seinfeld was a waste of scotch tape also. There was nothing about it that ever resonated with me. And for the life of me, I can’t see how anyone else could be so fascinated by the premise of that TV show.

      It’s not even worth the effort to be “offended” by it.

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    Almost every time an article like this is posted, the contents are the result of one or two comments out of thousands, or a Reddit post that didn’t gain much traction outside of “eh, sure, I guess?”

    Tangentially related, IMO there should be an “author review” site, where if someone posts a stupid article like this, it is referenced in a database against their name and their frame of reference for the content is called out. Rank “journalists” against this, and eventually the people starting out in the industry posting AI-generated shite that doesn’t hold up will start to err on the side of caution.

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      You’ve just re-invented journalistic standards and peer review.

      It is how the news cycle is supposed to work. One journalist says something, others verify or disprove it publicly.

      The problem is that there is now no difference between journalism and content or between news channels and platforms.

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    Are we talking about “Seinfeld”, the slightly overrated comedy TV series, or “Seinfeld”, the horrible human being?

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    Millennial here. I tried to watch Seinfeld back in the day, and I thought it was kind of meh. But there was one character I really hated on the show. He had a whiny pathetic voice, was always complaining about something or another, and was just an awful actor, unlike the rest of the cast. I thought, if they just removed that one guy, the show would be great and I’d enjoy it so much more.

    I found out later, that guy was Seinfeld. So… I never really got into the show.

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        He was supposed to be the outside observer making the jokes about his crazy friends. That’s why early episodes had him literally doing stand up in the intro and outro.

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      THANK YOU! I can’t stand that guy. His voice kills me and I never found him funny. Nothing against him personally, he might be a great person, but I can’t understand how people can stand the content he makes.

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        Good news! Seinfeld is a pedophile and supposedly kind of a sociopath. He’s also tried to hop on the anti-woke train a couple of times in the past few years.

        The man made a major contribution to western cultus as a whole, but man is he a bastard.

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          I’ve seen a few episodes of his show where he takes comedians to get a coffee in his fancy cars. He often comes across like an asshole. Sometimes I wonder if he’s in charge of the show why he would want to be portrayed that way? Presumably he could edit some stuff out?

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    most of my millennial peers were all in on Friends and thought Seinfeld was pretty much only for old people. it had its cultural moment but it was popular because pretty much everyone older than 30 in the 90s loved the show.

    Basically people who are around 50/60 now were the ones who truly enjoyed Seinfeld.

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    Damn, wonder how they’re going to feel about Home Improvement and Married With Children.

    Nevermind All In The Family or The Jeffersons.

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      I think sitcoms have improved. There’s a handful of genuinely funny old shows, but the laugh tracks concealed pure garbage.

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    It’s weird that “this group of people don’t like that show that you like” is supposed to create some sort of negative reaction. My enjoyment of a thing does not depend on a certain number of other people liking it.

    I must be numb to “outrage is the best way to engage people” that everyone uses these days.

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      To be fair, Outrage Marketing does work, but it usually isn’t this obvious.

      Like when Disney announced that the Snow White remake would have Seven Multicolored Normal Sized Human People? And later it turned out the final movie will indeed have dwarves?

      That was just done to get bigots talking about the flick. Wouldn’t be surprised to learn Aerial being black in the newer Mermaid movie was the same thing. I mean it worked, people were too busy defending Disney from criticism for this move that they didn’t notice the movie is, like most Live Action Remakes of Non-Live Action media, shit.

      Hey Disney, bring back your 2D Animation, have them do another Lion King, then dub it over with the audio for the Mufasa film. I guarantee I’ll actually consider watching the damn thing if you do that. (These Live Action remakes have got to be a Money Laundering scheme or something)

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        Hey Disney, bring back your 2D Animation

        Disney used to churn out plenty of entertaining live action shows without issue.

        The problem isn’t with the medium, it’s with the company. They’ve fired too many writers, put too much stock in CGI, and devolved too much of the editing process to the marketing department.

        But the idea that the folks who brought you Tron, The Mighty Ducks, and Pirates of the Caribbean can’t make good live action cinema is crazy.

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        Before The Little Mermaid Disney made live-action remakes of Pinnochio and Peter Pan. Neither of them had a substantial outrage associated with them and I didn’t hear about either of them until they’d already released and flopped.

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        I just turned 40. It’s fine. Same joints ache as when I turned 30, less heartburn (because I’ve figured out my triggers).

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      It’s worded like we’re all still in our early 20s.

      It’s just hot clickbait garbage for boomers

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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      Curb Your Enthusiasm convinced me Seinfeld was like 95% Jerry riding Larry David’s coattails. Jerry is so rarely funny to supposedly be “the guy.

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    They said “not that there’s anything wrong with that” about gay people in the 90s. WAY better than most of the shit at the time.

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      You do realize that’s just a cover phrase people say when they think there is something wrong with that, but don’t want the people they are talking to thinking that they think there is something wrong with that, right?

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      Ya know how growing up, our parents called every system a “Nintendo”, even if it was clearly a Playstation or a Sega Genesis?

      Yeah that’s what boomers do with age groups. Anyone younger than them is a “Millenial Zoomer on Youtube’s TikTok app”

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        Ya know how growing up, our parents called every system a “Nintendo”, even if it was clearly a Playstation or a Sega Genesis?

        My parents called everything an Atari