Concepts and topics that aren't actually that deep or interesting

Criticisms toward something that has already been criticized a gazillion times. You can only make enough "corporate bad/capitalism bad" stories and themes before it all gets predictable. We get it already. You're not breaking any boundaries or winning any rewards telling it. I know it'll especially increase thanks to Trump's re-election. Now it'll be all fresh and in-fashion once again to spam YA dystopian novels on library shelves.
 
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Death itself, so many people facinate and wonder about it but at the end of the day it doesnt matter what happens. your either a rotting corpse thinking of nothing like you did before you had consciousness, youre in heaven having a rager with Jesus doing a keg stand, or in hell and in too much pain to give a fuck.
 
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People quoting the movie WarGames anytime nuclear war is discussed, especially the line "A curious game; the only way to win is not to play." Le war bad/le bomb bad is not an original or deep take. And the quote offers no insight or thought into what "not playing" looks like. At best, its reducing deterrence theory to "lmao just don't go to war."

YWNBAM said:
I've never found Orwell's 1984 as deep as many people make it up to be, not to mention how many of his genius concepts are ideas he stole from other authors. It didn't age well and at places feels very naive, as if a highschooler wrote it. The only reason it got talked about so much is thanks to being published right as the red scare started to take off, and imo there's a huge problem with mid books getting shilled as super deep smart classics because they happen to spread the right political message the current Big Brother wants. Back then it was all about comically evil commies, now it's all about comically evil capitalists. And people just eat up the slop that fits their unchallenged black-and-white views.
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1984 and a lot of its elements were heavily based on real shit going on in the Soviet Union during WWII.
 
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The witty gang of lovable criminals who do goofy things while they steal things and kill people, but they're actually not bad people guys! I'm so fucking sick of crime related movies, shows, or games refusing to make the bad guys, bad guys.

The Payday series is a great example of how this got out of hand. Compare Payday: The Heist's atmosphere to modern Payday 2 or Payday 3. Dark, gritty, and showing just how dangerous and merciless the entire Payday gang is with no attempt to whitewash their actions, unlike the later entries where they pulled the "the Government is actually the bad guys" trope. Not every gang of criminals needs to be Robin Hood, and these characters can still be well loved and iconic even if they don't have a shred of decency in them as long as they're well written (impossible nowadays).
 
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Multiverses and time travel. They have been done to death a million times and I just can't be fucked anymore. They are boring and overdone in fiction and god forbid some jackass starts rambling about that shit in any serous sense and you are in position where you have to listen. In theory they provide an infinite set of stories but only the same 6 plot lines ever get told.
 
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Judaism as the core of abrahamic religions. You know what the basic premise is? If you don't follow kosher and the other 600 rules, you won't be ritually pure on the Sabbat for God to hear and grant your prayers. You'll have to wait until the next Sabbat.

That's fucking it. It's the snobbery of pretending that the whole outfit is anything more than a transaction. It's praying to God to get laid and it all boils down to how many goat legs it will be for the priest on the altar.

Also anything with a pentagram. The fiftieth day, the pentecost, five-pointy star thing. We get it. And if you want to be naughty, you turn it upside down and bad spirits come out. Aha.

Fucking kindergarten.
 
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The notion that certain groups are hated and shunned only for being "different", or that prejudices and distrust are arbitrarily conjured up by the rest of society just to be mean.

Some people are marginalized for a very good reason, usually because their behavior has become obnoxious and intolerable.
biglurker said:
I'd also throw all pathological altruistic thinking like that all assholes will change if you are just nice or that everyone just feels guilt then changes for the better.
I know so many people IRL that have this kind of mindset, only to be treated like shit by the same assholes for decades on end.
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Inside every terminal misanthrope is a formerly kind and compassionate person who was kind and compassionate to the wrong people for too long.
Zhores Medvedev said:
Multiverses and time travel. They have been done to death a million times and I just can't be fucked anymore. They are boring and overdone in fiction and god forbid some jackass starts rambling about that shit in any serous sense and you are in position where you have to listen. In theory they provide an infinite set of stories but only the same 6 plot lines ever get told.
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And it's used by hack writers to avoid lasting consequences on their story. See: MCU and the SCP Foundation.

And while I'm on the subject of fiction: the "muh subverting expectations" trope. Writers GRRM and Alan Moore and their fanboys use it to jerk themselves off and make themselves feel smarter than their audience.

If I order a burger, don't take a shit on it and blame me for having too conventional expectations.
 
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