What is with grown ass men and women liking Childish shit? Pokémon, my little pony, Harry Potter...

What is with grown ass men and women liking Childish shit? Pokémon, my little pony, Harry Potter, and coloring books are for kids, not adults

Why are so many adults acting like kids, nowadays, Sup Forums?

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Are you referring to a specific situation? What exactly caused you to make this thread? A lot of individuals grew up reading the Harry Potter series; it's really not surprising in the least that people like it well into their adult years.
>MLP
Are you from fucking 2010 or something?
>Coloring books
What is this even about? Man fuck you for wasting everyone's time with this thread.

I prefer these patrician book covers good sir

because nostalgia

I still play Pokemon sometimes.

>tfw cannot read 18 volume Russian qt plagiarism version starring a genderswapped Harriet Potter because JK got it banned from ever being translated or sold in the UK

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Because numale culture and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puer_aeternus#Peter_Pan_syndrome

In the case of horsies, there wasn't such a thing as "bronies" until they put big expressive anime-like eyes on the characters, which caused autists to stampede over to it like fucking crazy.

Pokémon games are surprisingly deep though.

There are complex philosophical concepts in these materials that are not overt. This is why grown adults love children's stories even more.

Everyone looks Jewish

I remember the first book getting big while I was at school and thinking it was for children only.

then again this entire board is for children

In terms of pottermblr, maybe their minds have been so dulled the by the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises? Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>a-at least the books were good though
>"No!"

Never get tired of that.

Because society is collapsing but nobody has any idea how to fix it, so people are surrendering to infantilism.

Most adult fans of things are people who liked them as kids, and never stopped liking them just because they grew up.

All I get from this is Clinton is good, and Bush is bad.

I think it's less "society is collapsing" and more "it's getting really out in the open now that the world is meaningless." Before we could really pretend, and distract ourselves with shit. But hell, we had TD S1 aired on television. Could you imagine such a thing airing 40 years ago? Wouldn't fly at all.

Society has a ways to go yet, my man. Just wait until NK collapses, or when sea levels start rising and people in Florida/California have to move further inland. THAT'S going to be some shit. We're living in the fucking golden age for all the shit that'll happen in 100-200 years.

Harry Potter had a few strong moments, but I don't have much respect for JK anymore.

>the silent generation
H-how many are left?

my real life oneitis loves harry potter.

also, I 've spent three stints in the mental hospital, two out of the three featured people coloring in their books. like, really fast indicating they practiced at home.

just my 2c

In the past people could turn to powerful ideologies to fill the vacuum, but those were largely discredited in the 20th century. It's immensely stressful to know that things are getting worse without having any outlet for the aggression and fear that knowledge causes. The ideologies of the past provided that outlet but there are none today, so people turn to childish fantasies instead.

I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with an adult being a fan of something childish. At the end of the day, you like what you like.

My issue is that that I'm seeing more and more adults using this stuff as their primary basis and lens for interpreting the larger world around them. This means people projecting infantile narratives of us vs them, good vs evil, onto the world, and trying to fit the world into categories similar to those displayed in this media.

It's concerning because, for example, I'm fairly anti-fascist (by definition, not as a retarded antifa punching teachers for going to talks) and infantilizing yourself in response to that really isn't helpful.

Real cultures have fifteen year olds who kill themselves acting like they're 50.

When the reverse takes hold, turn out the lights.

>i'm fairly anti-fascist
woah what a bold position

Adult coloring books are pretty comfy.

>every position has to be bold

whoah

Is Gunpla childish?

Why are you on Sup Forums?

reminder someone will misuse the CS Lewis quote itt to defend their childish ways.

In most cases it's not about the intent. It's about the result.

around these parts it is a bold position

I went to this thread just to make sure this was posted.

Favorite copypasta after Imagine.

This is literally the most cherry picked graph ever made.

Is my dad an adult for watching fox news for 6 hours a day instead of watching movies?

Nation of people raised by divorced parents

What the fuck are you talking about? It just demonstrates that certain countries have been increasing their nuclear arsenals.

Do I need to tell you about your mother with her ankles above her shoulders, son?

What the hell kind of graph is this

As a 28yo I can say that the 1st harry potter book came out the year I turned 11. Every brony should walk off a cliff

There's no issue with enjoying those things.

It's concerning that people take it for more than what it is though: children's entertainment.

I know fair amount of people (including me ex) that regarded Harry Potter as actual fine literature.

The only thing I don't get is when people escape into these childlike fantasies they are subjecting themselves to generally a morally black and white dichotomy. Then they turn around and support people like Trump, who are in almost every sense is a cartoony villain. Not here to Trump bash, I just find it curious that they don't escape into something a little more complex or accommodating of their RL views.

I was about to write a long, serious reply, but if you really have to ask such questions you wouldn't understand anyway.

Didn't his relatives hate and neglect him? Why did they buy him adidas shoes then?

just checking if there is the potter pasta

AAYOo we finna up in one of da most thugged-out borin franchise up in history. For real each episode followin tha pimp wizzle n' his thugged-out lil' hommies from Hogwarts Academy as they fight different shitty muthafuckas has been indistinguishable from tha others fo realz. Aside from tha fucked up porno, tha series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement n' ineffectizzle use of effects, all ta make magic unmagical, ta make action seem busted

Maybe tha take a dirtnap was busted when Rowlin didn't want no Spielberg directin tha series; she made shizzle tha series would never be trippin fo a work of art dat meant anythang ta anybody; just cross-promotion ta make loadz of chedda fo' her books. Da Harry Potta series might be anti-christian (or not) yo, but it’s certainly tha anti-Jizzy Bond series cuz it don't accept wonder, beauty n' excitement. No one wants ta accept tha real deal. It aint nuthin but tha nick nack patty wack.

>a-at least tha books was phat though
"AW HELL NAW"
Da freestylin is dreadful; tha book was shitty fo' realz. As I read, I noticed dat every last muthafuckin time a cold-ass lil characta went fo' a strutt, tha lyricist freestyled instead dat tha characta "stretched his fuckin legs"

I fuckin started markin on tha back of a envelope every last muthafuckin time dat phrase was repeated. This type'a shiznit happens all tha time. I stopped only afta I had marked tha envelope nuff muthafuckin dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowlingz mind is so governed by cliches n' dead metaphors dat dat freaky freaky biatch has no other steez of writing. Lata I read a white-ass, gangbangin review of Harry Potta by tha same Stephen Mackdaddy yo. Dude freestyled suttin' ta tha effect of, "If these lil playas is readin Harry Potta at 11 or 12, then when they git olda they will go on ta read Stephen Mackdaddy." And da thug was like right yo. Dude was not bein ironic. When you read "Larry Potsmoker" yo ass is, up in fact, trained ta read Stephen Mackdaddy

They're probably from tesco or some shit

Those are 2.5 stripes not 3.

because adulthood is hard and a great many parents were in no way prepared to raise their kids in the internet age

There's o age restriction on what you can enjoy. People grow out of playing with toys, and move on to collect them, thus still finding enjoyment in said toys, albeit in a different way.

Enjoying whimsical stories that aren't necessarily catering specifically to children in their tone, vocabulary, or anything of the sort, is entirely understandable, moreso than the example I gave wherein people still find joy in toys. Even if they WERE catering to kids, some people still find joy in a more nostalgic way, or perhaps just on a base level of "This is cute." and whatnot. There's many different ways to enjoy something.

Shit isn't hard to figure out, I don't get what's with some people and, for one, not understanding this incredibly easy to understand concept, and two, why the fuck anyone cares what absolutely anybody else does or enjoys what they do.

But what the fuck else should I expect of this place, bunch of angsty ass teens and college kids still working on how to critically think.

>Why are so many adults acting like kids, nowadays, Sup Forums
in case you haven't noticed, young adults of today grew up with Harry Potter and Pokemon

What? You accuse people of subjecting themselves to a black and white dichotomy, but then you assume everyone who supported trump must be into Harry Potter?

>they are subjecting themselves to generally a morally black and white dichotomy

Yes. The world's far more complex than a black and white young adult/children's show. It's an escape to a world where you know everything, rather than live in this one with so many uncertainties.

Those three things don't really belong in the same category at all though

Makes more sense for an adult to like Harry Potter than it does my little pony, also the people who play Pokemon generally play competitively which is not really different to any other game

Best post.

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thanks friendo

No I never made that assumption. I think you need to work on your reading comprehension. No offense user.

Taking the Trump example again, I agree it is uncertain that Trump is a bad guy. But he has all the hallmarks of a bad guy according to Harry Potter. Why would you subject yourself to media that doesn't agree with your views. That's where I'm confused. I guess I've never experienced that level cognitive dissonance before.

its pasta bro

The HP films are fucking great compared to every other blockbuster series they are all kino.

As if that somehow negates its validity.
You're somehow implying that the people who adore Harry Potter n' shit voted for Trump. I'd bet my left nut they did not.

>Why would you subject yourself to media that doesn't agree with your views.

Because some people like being outraged

Take note of the man child, kids.

Please don't be him.

>Why would you subject yourself to media that doesn't agree with your views.
It's called learning. Or as the old saying goes, "Broadening your horizons".

I don't agree with everything I read or watch. I want to see what others are interested in. I don't need an echo chamber.

You didn't hear about the book burning I take it.

lol that wouldn't fit with what we are talking about. We are talking about people reading harry potter to escape into a more simplistic world. I'm just wondering why people wouldn't escape into something that might justify their sociopolitical views as opposed to Harry Potter.

don't forget capeshit OP

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This has nothing to do with learning. We are talking about adults reading children shit. Read the thread before you post.

>You didn't hear about the book burning I take it.

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was my Mums favourite film until... actually probably still is.

People still liking shit from their childhood hasn't changed it's the nature of appreciating media that has. No one cared what your favourite film was in 1955. It wasn't a big deal nowadays it's common small talk.

More so the whole Fandom thing has encroached into visual media so people are major fans of say Harry Potter and Pokemon and buy lots of related products because they want to. Those product just weren't available to previous generations.

I used to hang out in Milsurp stores as a kid and they were full of Boomer manchild stuff. John Wayne merchandise. Clint Eastwood stuff. Westerns and War films merchandise was the norm.

Lord of the Rings was as big as Harry Potter in the 70s it's just if you wanted LOTR merchandise you had to make it yourself. I was about to say people would have got tattoos and stuff too if it was as culturally accepted as nowadays but actually i know a guy who has a Gandalf tattoo from the 70s.

Also the nature of what kids grew up with was much different. My Dad grew up with Mecanno and model steam engines and as an adult he tinkered with LandRovers and now just electronics of different sorts.

I grew up with videogames now my go to entertainment is tabletop games with friends. Not necessarily my fault that mecanno was unfeasibly expensive in the 90s and teaching ethos was You Can Be Anything! rather than we're at war with Russia make yourself useful!

Also a little of pic related. Beta defeatism as it is.

What makes a work childish? The fact it's targeted at kids? Or the fact the main audience is made up of kids, regardless of the intended audience? Or again, the presence of certain, specific elements that are inherently childish?
The first option is fully arbitrary, the third one is ridiculous, and the second one seems credible, but it doesn't take into account kids from different times and places don't necessarily like the same things.
However, if we accept this premise, the logical conclusion is that the only meaning of the word "childish" is: "something that is mostly enjoyed by kids", not "something made for kids" or even worse "something that SHOULD be enjoyed by kids and only kids".

Regardless, even if "childish" and "adults" were inherent properties of media, does anything prevent adults from liking kids' stuff or the other way around? And ascribing some kind of moral imperative to these labels is ridiculous:
>you're an adult you SHOULD only read adult stuff. If you don't then you're in the wrong
>you're a kid so you SHOULD only read children's stuff. If you don't then you're in the wrong.

It's fun and often they don't take it too seriously (with some exceptions like MLP and Pokemon) unlike people who are obsessed with what is adult and what isn't.

Basically a bunch of Trump supporters were enraged that she was posting typical leftist talking points on her twitter (which she had been doing for years) after Trump was elected and burned her books. It didn't really make sense on any level. That's why I'm here trying to wrap my head around it.

/thread Sup Forums can't admit it but they are good

Yea I love HP and voted Trump

>often they don't take it too seriously

Yeah they do. You are obviously unaware of all the autistic screeching that fucking play generated from even "casual" HP fans.

They're adult children
The kind that hang up shit like this in their homes and have movie posters hanging in their rooms/living rooms. a prime example of these type of humanoids are the movie reviewers that get spammed here daily: rlm men, that chris tuckerman dude, et cetera

Weird that I seen this ..my girlfriend has asked me a few times to buy her coloring books ..I have just kindve laughed it off ..
>im 23 she's 21.
But I go to her house the other night and get ready for bed .
>I work 8-5 everyday but weekends as an assistant in my father's office
Laying there trying to go to sleep while she has the lights on..tv on..everything on sitting there surrounded by markers and colored pencil and shit ..just kindve annoying.. Its not even like..how do I say it ..adult coloring? It's literally the kid coloring books u can get at the dollar general filled with owls and ducks and butterflies. Like wtf ? I could honestly care less what anybody including my girlfriend wants to do in their free time but when I have to work in the morning I want to lay down with her and go to sleep.. She doesn't work by the way and I'm currently trying to save up for an apartment

I'm the dude who posted it, and it's not pasta. You shitting me? Is this how you fucking people react to somebody actually putting more effort into their post beyond memes and all that bullshit? Good lord.

>I'm a man I must put away childish things.

I have a friend like this I posted this in an identical thread last week but the poor bastard keeps clothes for 4 months before selling them and got rid of all his toys at a certain age then again all his consoles etc in his 20s and now he works and sleeps and goes to his therapist.

It's a meme. Sure manchild shit is cringe but so going out of your way to exist properly.

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You know there are people who think Harry Potter is better than The Lord of the Rings.

>She doesn't work by the way and I'm currently trying to save up for an apartment
So she's behaving normally as a pre-emancipation girl.

This is why women were treated like children their whole lives once upon a time. Feminism is out of fashion and it's a fucking good thing get over it.

You have permachild parasite to fuck. Colouring is alot quieter than knitting or crochet like your Granda put up with.

That's interesting. Only thing I can think of is they don't actually read her books and did it to spite her.

>Yea I love HP and voted Trump

Why? Not attacking, I'm asking what you agreed with Trump on to vote for him.

Christian Fundamentalists have been burning Harry Potter books since day 1. It's nothing to do with Trump.

The media eat it up and blow it out of proportion because readers love it. Pokemon too because they were demons. Yada yada don't believe everything you hear.

Source?

>I'm just wondering why people wouldn't escape into something that might justify their sociopolitical views as opposed to Harry Potter.

Because then they couldn't complain about it.

>It's nothing to do with Trump.

Tell the thousands of people that directly tweeted her saying it was to do with Trump.

Yea you're right. Conceded.

My sister, she thinks Harry Potter is better than The Lord of the Rings.

Has she read the LOTR?

By the way if she's under 15 this is a complete nonstory.

Why do you care, sugarcube?

Thanks for being civil user but I still don't get it. Like how can one be a Harry Potter fan and rabidly support a guy who on pen and paper is "evil" according to their favorite work of fiction. I can only assume it's like this user said >they don't actually read her books and did it to spite her.

But then some guy in this thread admitted to being a fan of both so I don't know. It just boggles my fucking mind. Wouldn't it just make you feel shitty? Or are people on some next level escapism and I just suck at it.

My ex who is 25 thought HP was better than LOTR. Both books and movies.

She also claimed to "love dystopian settings" but in reality she liked shitty self insert stories that happened to be in dystopias like Divergent.

>try to get her to read entry level stuff like 1984 and Brave New World
"Sounds boring."

>get her to watch Children of Men
"I didn't like it"

People are stupid.

daily reminder that Sup Forumsposters are the new bronies who were the new furries

Is it ok to like anime as an adult?

People are stupid. Best way I can summarize it until that guy tells me why he voted for Trump I suppose.

This guy's got it right.

No.

anime movies yes
not anime shows

She's older than me, she is 33 years old. She also hated the new Harry Potter play and doesn't consider it part of the real story.

No, don't let Sup Forums or child loving jap "men" tell you otherwise

its never ok to like anime at any age