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Not having tik tok or instagram seems to count? I dunno if wildly popular social media counts though.

I never watched Squid Game and don’t intend to. Battle royale material just isn’t my thing.

Game of Thrones maybe. To coin a phrase, “spare me the drama, and the incest.”

I love fantasy, it was right up my alley at the right time, but all the grit in GoT for me just resolves to alt-history Europe.

I've never seen a (modern) marvel movie, despite being a fan of the comics and cartoons as a kid.

I've never seen a harry potter film.

if titanic is so good, why haven't i seen it?

I've never seen a single James Bond movie or know anything about the scenes or characters, except for the fact there's an agent named James Bond who likes his name and always looks dressed to the nines.

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

I've only seen the first two parts of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

Most comedy movies from the 00s-10s, for me. Anchorman, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Step Brothers... If Judd Apatow was involved or it starred SNL celebrities, I probably never saw it.

I got my nerd card revoked after a convention when I revealed that I hadn't seen any of the Marvel movies. And this was about 10 years ago. I eventually made exceptions for Deadpool and GotG.

Never saw:
• Game of Thrones
• Breaking Bad
• The Walking Dead
• Maybe have only seen 2 or 3 Marvell movies.
• Haven’t seen a single episode of any anime.
• Couldn’t name a famous YouTuber if I tried.

I’m sure there’s more, but for now, that what I can come up with.

I didn't watch the show Firefly. I had already been using this screenname for a long time when that show came out, but people began to assume I was a fan and named myself after it.

While I'm generally a scifi fan and watched tons of scifi TV in those days, the Buffy shows a lot of my friends were into bored the hell out of me and I didn't feel like checking out another show by the same guy.

I do have the DVDs on my shelf, having picked them up cheap secondhand ages ago thinking I might just get it over with someday, but the more I've learned about Joss Whedon over the years the less inclined I find myself to check it out.

you don't know what you don't know.

nothing in this thread so far screams weird to me yet.

I have never read the Harry Potter series.

I plowed through all sorts books as a kid in the 2000s but never picked them up.

Yeah I think I'm cool with that.

I never watched Game of Thrones. I only watched the very last episode because the friends decided it'd be fun to watch, and even then I was disappointed lol

I also never read any books based on any RPG or other games (D&D, World of Darkness, 40k)

Yes, all three of those.

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

I watched the very first episode of The Walking Dead and realized I didn't like zombie stuff and didn't want to get pulled into a show about it. No matter how much people were raving about it. Just not for me.

I also quit The West Wing about halfway through the first episode.

Only ever seen one episode of The Sopranos (enjoyed it, but never went back for some reason).

Never seen:

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Game of Thrones
• Oppenheimer (nor Barbie)
• Forrest Gump
• Saving Private Ryan
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Rocky (seen 2-4, but not the original)
• Nightmare on Elm Street
• Good Morning Vietnam
• Braveheart
• Brokeback Mountain
• Borat
• Any of the Daniel Craig Bond movies

Never watched E.T.

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.

Pulp fiction. It's been on my list for ages, for some reason I never get around to watch it.

Breaking Bad

Lost

The walking dead

There's lots more among the popular titles but I think those are my worst blindspots when it comes to popular media.

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.

I've yet to watch Schindler List. I feel like it's signing up for feeling bad for 2 hours 😕

I'm also big into Sci-fi, and have yet to watch the OG Star Treks, Stargate, Babylon 5, or Dr. Who

Star Wars. I saw maybe 20 minutes of one film of the original trilogy, and 10 minutes of one film of the second trilogy, none of the rest. It's beyond me.

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.