Just as examples:

  • I’ve never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
  • I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn’t realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
  • Oh, and I’ve never seen the “hawk tuah” video.
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    Yes, all three of those.

    I’m also not really into superhero stuff so I’ve seen like 2 Marvel movies.

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    Nothing comes to mind off the bat, but…

    I was a child in the 90s but my parents didn’t really listen to much music and we had just broadcast TV and dial-up internet (later on). Living in the middle of nowhere you’re not exposed to much until later in life.

    On the other hand my wife from Mexico City knows all the American classics. It still kind of irritates me that I just can’t get into listening to / watching old media (it’s the quality!) so I’ll forever be left behind when it comes to 20th century stuff.

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    I’ve never seen 2001: Space Odyssey, I already tried watching it multiple times, but always end up falling asleep.

    Similarly, I’ve never managed to finish Firefly, usually watch a couple of episodes and forget about it.

    Also up until very recently (less than 2 years ago) I had never played any Call of Duty games.

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    Not quite what you are asking, but the first time I saw the video from 9-11 of a plane crashing into a building was around 2014-2015 when I moved to NYC. The people I was working with there couldn’t seem to believe that I had never seen it.

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      It’s quite meh to me, though it was kinda funny when that guy at the end fell off the stern and hit the propeller on his way down.

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      I remember when it came out, in my country it was sold out for weeks and people would queue for hours to get a ticket.

      I only ever watched bits on TV, I’m not interested in catastrophe movies.

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      These things could work as a meetup thing. I also haven’t. I think I’d be more enticed if I gathered with a bunch of randoms who also haven’t seen it, and watched it together

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    I have bookshelves full of Superman comics, graphic novels, books, basically anything in print I can get my hands on. And I’ve read every last one of them. I grew up on Christopher Reeve Superman films and will still watch all 4 of them. I’ve watched the old Fleischer cartoons, Super Friends, the 90s animated series, and all Justice League shows. I own the entire Smallville series on DVD. I was one of the dozen or so people who subscribed to DC streaming service before Max. And I’ve watched every Superman movie and TV show that came out in the last 25 years.

    I’ve never gone back and watched Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. There is no reason I’ve never watched it other than I just haven’t gotten around to it.

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    Some of the older “must watch” series mentioned on here I feel fall into a category where, at the time they came out, they were really good, but down the line and some less-spectacular releases in the series later, they’re not that big a deal.

    This includes:

    • The Alien series. I’d say that Alien was a good movie for its time. Same for Aliens. Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection are kinda meh. They’re not awful, but they aren’t as good as the earlier movies.

    • Star Wars. I really liked the original three movies. Certainly at the time, I’d have recommended them to pretty much anyone. But The Phantom Menace really killed the series for me.

    I’m not sure that it’s all that surprising for someone who wasn’t watching movies when they came out not to go back and watch them.

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    I’ve never had Instagram, tik Tok, twitter, or most other socials. I had Facebook, that’s pretty much it. But no longer.

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    I watch like one or two movies a year and very few TV series. I’ve been watching Dexter - Original Sin now, the previous one I watched was Dexter - New Blood and few years back I watched the first season of The Last of Us but I didn’t like it so I never continued with the season two. Before that I watched the Chernobyl mini series and before that Game of Thrones. Suffice to say that you can pretty much name any modern TV serie and I haven’t seen it. I’ve never had Netflix or any other streaming service subscription.

    I also don’t listen to radio or have Spotify so I have no clue what the popular songs currently are and ChatGPT is the only app on my phone that’s somewhat new. No games, no social media - nothing. I do occasionally play DayZ on my PC but that’s a 10 year old game as well. I might very well be the most ignorant person when it comes to popular culture that you’ll meet all year.

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    I technically only played my first pokemon game (official) on emulator around 2020, despite my brother having gen 1, so I wouldn’t feel too bad about that personally.

    Anyways, some people would probably look at me weird for never having played games like any Resident Evil games or any of the Mass Effect games or really many games like them (BioShock series not included, love those games). Same thing for anything Final Fantasy (excluding 10 on PS2, which I never finished and lost the memory card with my save file). Name just about any game over the past decade that won awards at a big game show and there’s a real good chance I’ve never played them once. Never played on a Wii U (a blessing), Xbox past 360, or anything past PS3.

    I have also never seen most of the marvel Rickey Rats owned films. Same with a lot of live action films. Name a real popular one to come out over the past decade, maybe decade and a half, and I probably have not seen it (Sonic not included because I actually enjoyed the first couple and cannot wait to eventually see the third despite the VA of Shadow). Hell, even growing up I didn’t watch many live action films because I just didn’t care compared to the amazing world of animated cartoons, so my knowledge of live action films is a lot lower than my cartoon knowledge.

    Speaking of cartoons/animation, I have never watched a single episode of Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kono Suba, or JoJo, among an absolutely massive list of anime that currently have relevance and such that are currently popular and in people’s minds. Also never seen influential older stuff like YuYu Hakusho or Fist of the North Star either.

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    Pretty much everything? I have very specific likes and pretty much stopped consuming things outside of those, since I can’t even fit all the stuff I’m guaranteed to like.

    I guess among like-minded people, Final Fantasy 7 is the most glaring omission.

    For lemmy, it’s probably anything Star Wars or Star Trek.

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    Star wars and Lord of the Rings

    I’ve seen enough clips and overviews and “facts about” clips to understand that I am not interested enough to invest the time it would take to watch either series. The story of the production of Star Wars is very interesting, the actual story the movies tell, not so much.

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    Pokemon here. I played go for like 20 mins. I was in highschool and super busy when the first came out and never got interested.

    Game of thrones and a ton of shows (when I lived in the US. I’ve been living in Japan the last 10 years so I have no clue what’s current).

    Also hawk tuah and such. I don’t have TikTok or basically any social media anymore so no clue what’s going on.