>I am sort of shocked to find myself confused and off-put by a top submission on HN.
If you find yourself loving everything in a medium, it probably means the medium itself is fairly low quality designing itself to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think it's a good thing to find things you don't like now and then.
Your point is a good one and I get it. I just feel like the top-submission is usually the one that embodies the essence of the culture the most. When I saw it at the top, it just reminds me of reddit. I am not judging the show based on it's value as show, but the value of the show and this article to the community.
You're being downvoted because you've broken rules 6 and 7 of the comment guidelines [1]:
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> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
so, what's wrong with popular culture? Or even sub-popular culture?
I find a particular affectation whereby some people take things that are popular then decide that they will dislike them on the basis of that and nothing else.
If you find yourself loving everything in a medium, it probably means the medium itself is fairly low quality designing itself to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think it's a good thing to find things you don't like now and then.