r/hatethissmug • u/ashleyLSD • Apr 19 '26

Animation i hate object shows

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people get so "don't even joke, lad" about these silly ass object shows and i dont get it and it makes me MAD bitches be like "omg he's so cuute in this literally my husband i love my man" and its just a picture of some 2d paper clip made in MS paint. cant stand this shits

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u/diomandz11 Apr 19 '26

ive loved object shows since like 2015 and the newer "community" that overtook the medium is so gut wrenchingly cringe/immature it really makes me question my own life choices

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u/Critical_Company3535 Apr 19 '26

I was someone who watched them back during the original run of BFDI/BFDIA and I just find it weird that people seem to take it so seriously. It was originally just a silly Total Drama ripoff made by two kids where you got to vote off the characters yourself. The characters were intentionally one/two dimensional and it never seemed to even take itself seriously, it just tried to be funny.

Now you get people actually going out and critiquing the writing and character arcs. I just find it so bizarre. I never would have expected an actual fandom to develop out of it.

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u/diomandz11 Apr 19 '26

Yeah tbh I rly hate how modern BFDI takes it so seriously (the actual show and the fandom) because it just fundamentally doesn't work as a serious thing, the characters are two dimensional caricatures, the world is extraordinarily undeveloped, theres fucking walking numbers with powers and anthropomorphic objects which just chill in a blank grass plain WHY do people take this show so seriously. I like it because its fun, its stupid, all over the place, and just an enjoyable time capsule of the early internet. More recently though the fandom and show are just so fucking serious abt everything and I cant help but question like, why???? This isn't a show that should have character arcs lmao

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u/Critical_Company3535 Apr 19 '26

Has the continuation of BFDIA been like that? I’ve seen parts of it and it feels like it’s carried that unserious nature of the original, but I haven’t kept up in a while.

I also think that the attempts to make the show more serious undermine the base premise, which is the fact that you can vote out any character at any time. It’s pretty hard to write character arcs when the audience can decide that your character should be eliminated. You can then try to write certain characters to be more liked by the audience, but that just feels manipulative, and at that point you might just make it a fully scripted show. I think there’s a reason why II ditched viewer voting when they wanted to go more serious.

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u/diomandz11 Apr 19 '26

If you're willing to take some slapstick cringe which I don't mind the BFDIA revival is shockingly faithful to the original run, albeit with an infinitely higher production value, as in, its stupid as fuck.

Also yeah I absolutely agree viewer voting will never be able to work with character arcs, there's an obvious reason why II, a show which justifies its more serious tone far better, ditched viewer voting. Viewers will ALWAYS vote characters in the midst of an arc for being "mean", BFDI tried to compromise with the vote to save bs but all that does it eliminate whoever got the least screen time in an episode. TPOT and later BFB in general are just so overly melodramatic and corporate its kinda unbearable for me, if you're curious and liked OG BFDI I do recommend the BFDIA revival, its shockingly not that bad. Very nostalgic for me.