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[–] vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

this phenomenon has a tvtropes page

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny

There are certain works that you can safely assume most people have enjoyed. These shows were considered fantastic when they were released. Now, however, these have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we'll cry, "That is so old" or "That is so overdone".

The sad irony? It wasn't old or overdone when they did it. In fact, it wasn't done at all: this work was the first one to do that. But the result was so brilliant and popular, it became woven into the fabric of the genre. Its innovations were endlessly repeated, until the audience began to expect that every work of that type would include them. And so a work which was once genuinely novel has become the new status quo. It's basically the inverse of a Grandfather Clause taken to a trope level: some works can get away with a dated element because of age and tradition, but these works are dismissed as dated because they've drowned in the sea of their own imitators. The work has retroactively become a Cliché Storm.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

ok, Seinfeld is still unfunny though

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

My most controversial take