Do you get mad when someone criticizes your favourite childhood thing?

[Cash In 22,597]

I'll raise an eyebrow sometimes, but it's their opinion. They can like or dislike whatever they choose.

[Clawdeen 15,612]

Eh I don't really care that much

[Starlight Serenade 3,614]

Not really, some of the shows and things I enjoyed as a child were WILD

 

Hmmm looking at the earlier posts in this thread, I fear that some people have mixed up the definitions of criticisms and insults.

I want to help others gain a better understanding between the two:

A criticism is a way to express concern or disapproval of something while usually being constructive and respectful.

Meanwhile, insults are the opposite.

Insults are intended to hurt someone without helping people improve and give no feedback whatsoever.

[Snoopy Fan 2,411]

A little bit, but I don’t let it bother me.

[SkarletVoid 87]

No

Shadow the hedgehog is literally one of my favorite games and I still think it sucks

It's fun to debate the good and bad 

[Clawdeen 15,612]

On 2025-01-31 at 2:30 PM, Clawdeen said:

Eh I don't really care that much

Still this. I really don’t care tbh.

[Night Sky 292]

I do get mad when people knock my nostalgia gems, and I cannot lie. 

No generation invented the wheel, since the generation which invented the wheel. 

I won't say it's all been done before, but I will say that not everything that's been done should be thrown out just because it's not new anymore. 

We stand on the shoulders of giants and the present never understands its motivations clearly.

My name is Matt Filli, and I am a pony temporal perspectivist. The living essence of the past as it exists within the present is this; that a great many things are already irrevocably done,  right now, in this moment. You wouldn't be taking anything for granted if they weren't. 

No Tirac = No Tirek

No Spike = No Spike

No Megan = No such thing as pig tails

No Clover = No entirely preventable Problems

No Doomguy Guy / Pinkie Pie Ship = No Painsaw

No Nightmare Moon = No Mane 6

Don't knock the past so long as your Atman is still subject to cause and effect, that is to say, the past.

Edited Monday at 05:13 AM by Night Sky

[Snow 7,688]

I can't say I do. Even if I think a negative opinion of something I like or liked seems unjustified It doesn't get under my skin, I'm very happy just liking what I like in a live let live sort of way.

[Iforgotmybrain 5,878]

Ehhh only if it’s unjustified criticism. And even then only over certain things, I’m not going to bat over a band, game, or show I only kinda liked as a kid.

[OverTheStars 239]

No, not really, I might feel confused if the criticism isn't really serious or doesn't make sense, but other than that I don't really care. I'll be the first to admit that a lot of the media I watched as a kid had flaws and was far from perfect. I think it's important to hold close the things you feel nostalgia or sentimental feelings towards while also acknowledging that it has flaws.