Why do people on this site pretend to have never heard of people from popular culture

Sanity_Saviour · 10-12-2015 05:20PM #1

Every time a thread comes up about someone that everyone in the world knows (the Justin Biebers, One Direction, Rihanna etc.), the first comment is "Who?" or "I've never heard of them".

Is it a point of pride not to be involved in popular culture? Do these people think that appearing as if they are isolated from the popular stratosphere will actually provide them with an elevated social standing (on the internet)? Or, is it just pure unfettered smugness?

Links234 · 10-12-2015 05:20PM

Who?

bodice ripper · 10-12-2015 05:21PM

I have never heard One Direction, it's easily done.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 10-12-2015 05:22PM

It's an internet joke, you see it all the time on other message forums and newspaper comment sections.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 10-12-2015 05:23PM

The problem is more that people expect you to have a knowledge of pop culture.

Major names, fair enough, but c and d list celebs are genuinely not going to be known.

keith16 · 10-12-2015 05:24PM

Links234 wrote: »

Who?

People on this site.

strelok · 10-12-2015 05:25PM

i don't listen to the radio, i don't watch tv and my friends are all in or around their thirties

I have no idea what the kids are listening to or .. yik yakking?

brummytom · 10-12-2015 05:25PM

I've seen plenty of 'RIP' threads here and things like that, for people I've never heard of. Not everyone follows 'pop culture' that closely.
Posting "Who?" in a thread like that is a bit cuntish though.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 10-12-2015 05:25PM

They only time it actually ever made me laugh was when somebody used it on a Daily Mail article featuring Queen Elizabeth.

Links234 · 10-12-2015 05:26PM

keith16 wrote: »

People on this site.

Never heard of 'em.

ScumLord · 10-12-2015 05:27PM

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

Is it a point of pride not to be involved in popular culture?

Yes, popular culture is a waste of time. Most of it will be forgotten within 5 years. It's especially easy to ignore current popular culture because it's got nothing new to say. They're just remixing the culture my generation made 15 years ago.

Tarzana2 · 10-12-2015 05:30PM

Sometimes it's genuine. I remember listening to the radio is a shop queue a few years ago and they kept talking about Justin Beaver and I was wondering who Justin Beaver was. It was Justin Bieber. And I subsequently discovered that he was very famous and in the news a lot but at the time... genuinely not a clue.

gramar · 10-12-2015 05:32PM

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

Every time a thread comes up about someone that everyone in the world knows (the Justin Biebers, One Direction, Rihanna etc.), the first comment is "Who?" or "I've never heard of them".

That answer is along the lines of:

'about three fiddy' (whatever the fuq that is about)
..'is there anything to be said for another mass'
..'daddy or chips'..(whatever the fuq that is about)
the 'Atari jaguar' option in a poll (whatever the fuq that is about)
and last but not least 'blast them with piss op'

You may also be surprised to know that some people get through life not knowing this kinda stuff.

Ruu · 10-12-2015 05:33PM

I didn't know who Bill Hicks was until I saw people posting quotes and jokes about him, thanks boards. There are loads of posters who go around 'as Bill Hicks would say..' It was genuine of course. Loads more examples I'm sure.

Depp · 10-12-2015 05:37PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture)

smash · 10-12-2015 05:38PM

It's an easier way of saying "who gives a shít"

draiochtanois · 10-12-2015 05:41PM

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theteal · 10-12-2015 05:42PM

I have to google a lot of the "celebrity" names that pop up on here because I'm a bit oblivious to the pop world. I'm not enough of a knob to post "who?" on a thread though. . .

. . .not far off mind

looksee · 10-12-2015 05:45PM

I suppose I could google it, but I have never understood the atari jaguar thing. I do know where the daddy or chips meme started.

Edit: atari jaguar was the last atari programmable game console. There you are now. Still doesn't make any sense though.

darkpagandeath · 10-12-2015 05:47PM

Because we all don't live on Instagram ? or FB or Twatter ? Being some semi famous persons cousin does not make one famous.......

10-12-2015 05:51PM

Someone once asked me how I could possibly have not heard of some footballer who the whole world apparently knows about. It's easy, I don't watch football, I don't read about football, and I don't care about football. So I suppose a lot of it is like that, although I wouldn't be asking who someone was if it was clear it was about Jersey Shore or something else I have no interest in.

But making a point of ostentatiously being above knowing who Justin Beiber or someone like that is, is like claiming to live in an information vacuum while simultaneously being on the internet - it's just not believable (or Believerable, if you prefer).

brevity · 10-12-2015 05:52PM

Links234 wrote: »

Never heard of 'em.

I preferred their earlier stuff.

con___manx1 · 10-12-2015 05:54PM

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

Every time a thread comes up about someone that everyone in the world knows (the Justin Biebers, One Direction, Rihanna etc.), the first comment is "Who?" or "I've never heard of them".

Is it a point of pride not to be involved in popular culture? Do these people think that appearing as if they are isolated from the popular stratosphere will actually provide them with an elevated social standing (on the internet)? Or, is it just pure unfettered smugness?

I dislike popular culture. Its ruining music and peoples IQs .Kids are brainwashed by popular culture. I heard recently justin bieber walked off stage because a few fans touched his legs at a concert. What a little spoiled bitch.People who are really interested in celebs lives like bieber are pretty sad and more than likely not very intelligent and have no idea what is going on in the world around them.

from_atozinc · 10-12-2015 05:57PM

gramar wrote: »

That answer is along the lines of:

'about three fiddy' (whatever the fuq that is about)
..'is there anything to be said for another mass'
..'daddy or chips'..(whatever the fuq that is about)
the 'Atari jaguar' option in a poll (whatever the fuq that is about)
and last but not least 'blast them with piss op'

You may also be surprised to know that some people get through life not knowing this kinda stuff.

What ?

draiochtanois · 10-12-2015 05:58PM

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gramar · 10-12-2015 05:59PM

from_atozinc wrote: »

What ?

Exactly.

Realt Dearg Sec · 10-12-2015 06:06PM

con___manx1 wrote: »

Its ruining music and peoples IQs ..

People's IQs are higher right now than at any point in human history.

It's also worth pointing out that every generation thinks the next one's music and popular culture is complete nonsense in comparison to their own. It requires a very selective memory about what was popular when that person was a kid themselves. Have a gander at the top ten charts for any random time in the 80s or 90s, it was complete and utter pabulum, not one iota different from now.

osarusan · 10-12-2015 06:07PM

There was a thread recently about worst comedians, and I didn't recognise the names of a good few people mentioned. In some cases I googled them and recognised the face, (oh, so it's that w@nker) but in a few cases, I still didn't recognise them at all.

If you're not into something, you can easily end up like that, to the bafflement of people who are into it. There are probably plenty of TV celebrities, authors, musicians and so on I don't know as I simply don't pay attention.

I attended a presentation last week where a young American woman kept pronouncing the Brazilian footballer Pele as 'Peel'. She'd obviously never heard of him until she did some research for the presentation.

Realt Dearg Sec · 10-12-2015 06:11PM

osarusan wrote: »

I attended a presentation last week where a young American woman kept pronouncing the Brazilian footballer Pele as 'Peel'. She'd obviously never heard of him until she did some research for the presentation.

That's brilliant!

I read the comedian thread and was amazed at some of the responses. Fair enough, Porter and Peter Kay or Michael McIntyre or whoever (although again, the hatred seems to be for their popularity as much as their undeniable crappiness). But people were mentioning Sarah Silverman, Louis CK, Stewart Lee. I can get not liking someone, but the notion that these people are AWFUL doesn't make sense and makes you wonder whether the person saying it was being genuine or just trying to look like they're ahead of the curve on popularity.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 10-12-2015 06:12PM

I'm getting to the point now where I really don't know who a lot of pop cultural figures are. Like on the front of gossip magazines where they just refer to people by their first names ("Debbie DEVESTATED over Damien's diddling" and so on), I was never particularly interested but til fairly recently I'd usually have a notion who the people were. There seems to be some ability to absorb that stuff by osmosis that rapidly fades after the age of 25. Also my feet hurt and I get excited about washing detergent and all the music on the radio is terrible.

It takes as long to google someone as to post a reply on boards though, it really is pretty obnoxious behaviour

NachoBusiness · 10-12-2015 06:13PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Because we all don't live on Instagram ?

Instawho?

Why do people on this site pretend to have never heard of people from popular culture

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