#(the reverse is also fun: i'm gonna watch this show and i definitely won't ship/like X and then you do anyway because you still focus on it)
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reading about the confirmation bias and thinking about how fandoms and shipping and fandom fave/hated characters work is actually quite interesting
#yes i have my own biases and i'm aware of them#(and maybe sometimes I'm not who knows... because a lot of it is unconscious and unless someone provides you with a different view you might#never realize. which is why i often try to understand why i don't like something that is popular in fandom by reading other views#but it often just ends with 'it's a personal taste' because if it's shipping for example i might just literally find the ship boring#while seeing all 'the evidence' and even enjoying some - just not in romantic/sexual way#because what's shippy to some might not be to others#it's actually very funny if it's within the same ship lmao#someone: this moment is so shippy. me: where? but you know this moment on the other hand. someone: eh? lmao#happens quite often tbh)#even if i try to look at something from all sides there will always be some level of a bias because fandom isn't that serious#then again scientists and academics are also to blame for having a confirmation bias so...#but yeah it's quite interesting to think about how those who start watching a new show already knowing popular ship/characters#and know which characters are hated and why and they just see it too because they expect to see it#(the reverse is also fun: i'm gonna watch this show and i definitely won't ship/like X and then you do anyway because you still focus on it)#which just makes me wonder why when i watched the witcher couldn't get into the ship...#and this is also the reason why i still haven't watched the good omens because i'm afraid i just won't see what everyone else see#Leni's nonsense#reading about negativity bias is also interesting
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