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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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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Never seen any of the Lord of the Rings and have no plans to.

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[–] Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. I tried a little and gave up.

Never used any music or video streaming service. Yo ho

I've never seen Lost, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or any of the rest of the mandatory drama television genre. I gave up partway through watching Battlestar Galactica and kinda just stopped watching television.

For awhile there, the only non-technical conversation I could have was "Did you see Game of Thrones last night?" "No, I don't watch that show." "Oh. Bye." Humanity's ability to talk about anything except heartburn drama television for the last decade and a half kind of weaned me off of socializing.

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Free_Opinions 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

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.

I have two of yours. honestly I just don't care what I might have or not seen. there is just to much that flies by to fast in modern times and everything is fractured. Everything that is a thing now likely was never watched by a majority of people. its not like when the broadcasters were the only game in town. even with cable their stuff was seen by more eyeballs because it was available. I remember folks who felt it was a badge of honor to not see stuff everyone has seen. like its a wonderful life.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I can’t make it more than an hour though the first Lord Of The Rings without falling asleep. It just doesn’t fancy me.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

Never watched Game of Thrones or Stranger Things. (Or countless other shows)

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 week ago

Every single answer on this thread so far, except for titanic.

[–] Acoustic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I haven't watched a lot of movies in general, be it mainstream or indie. Completely my own fault, since I'm built different when it comes to setting up a roadblock for myself, in that regard.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Everything other than squid game, among us and minecraft

[–] waz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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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