As in, what’s something you loved as a kid, found cringe as you get older, then gained a new appreciation for as an adult? Here are some of mine:

  • Pokemon. I expect this will be a common one. It’s got cute creature designs and fun tactical battling, and since I’ve outgrown my shame at liking cute things, I’ll happily keep coming back to it.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh. I still don’t much care for the CCG (I’m opposed on principle to any game where your ability to win largely depends on how much money you’re willing to sink into it), but the anime bursts with dorky charm and the video games are fun. A setting where reincarnated ancient sorcerers and billionaires are stone-dead serious about a children’s card game is also a nice break from the modern plague of “well that just happened” Marvel soy banter.
  • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Dad rock. Used to listen to solely classic rock in middle school since that was the only real music, then I grew out of that attitude and started enjoying other types of music. Now I’m returning to some of those old classics and I have a new appreciation for them with a greater understanding of the musical landscape.

    Though by dad rock I mostly mean 60s folk rock. Guess that’s not the stereotypical dad rock, which is usually more hard rock oriented

  • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    Big life decisions. Making a change. Improving myself. Beginning something new. Changing direction in life. Taking a big chance. Doing The Thing That Only Young People Do. Starting a band. Getting into entertainment industry. Writing. Going on adventures. Backpacking. Doing heroine (still not old enough for this, but when I hit 90 wooo baby). Going to therapy. Getting new friends. Reconnecting with old friends. Saying sorry. Patching up relationships. Making a frivolous purchase. Ignoring the pain in my leg and not going to the doctor for it. Getting better.

  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    5 hours ago

    Anime for me. I watched a lot of it in middle school, stopped for like 10 years, getting back into it now. There’s a lot of good stuff out there when you know better than to listen to recommendations.

  • erik [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    8 hours ago

    Nu metal. I loved it in the late 90s. Godsmack. Early Limp Bizkit. System of a Down. But somewhere along the line people convinced me it was cringe and I should listen to garage rock or something. They’re probably right, it is cringe, but I enjoy it and I just do so unapologetically now. It’s a good time to be back into it, there’s been a bit of a revival.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    7 hours ago

    AC/DC

    I loved the band when they were young and I was even younger. I was in middle school. I still liked them in high school. Then as the decades passed - I lost interest. They seemed so old-fashioned. Once Youtube and torrents were a thing - I realized I still really liked their first albums. I have no interest after “Back in Black”. The past 40+ years they’ve been re-re-re-re-re-re-recycling what they did up to 1980 because it works and they’ve sold 10,000,000 of millions of albums so why try harder?

    -–

    Ninja edit

    My estimate was way off.

    In 50 years of their career, AC/DC have sold over 200 million albums worldwide

    • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Reminds me of a response to a review of their 13th album. A reviewer had said “Yeah it’s a fine album, this is the 12th time they’re making it. It’s the same!” and AC/DC wrote in a letter that stated “The review is a devious lie. We’ve made the same album 13 times.”

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    8 hours ago

    Yu-Gi-Oh

    I’ve heard the comic is fun, but I’ve never read it! I definitely watched the show back in the day.

    For me:

    Gundam: I was super obsessed as a kid, then Gundam SEED came out and I found it super cringe. Started getting back into it when I had a young child and needed to sleep in shifts, and now I’ve watched way too much mecha anime (and almost all of Gundam lol)