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Things people love. It's the Smucker's Uncrustables podcast with your host, Uncrustables.
Okay, today's guest is rough around the edges.
Please welcome Crust. Thanks for having me.
Today's topic, he's round with soft pillowy bread.
Hey. Filled with delicious PB&J. Are you talking about yourself?
And you can take him anywhere. Why'd you invite him?
And we are out of time. Are you really cutting me off?
Uncrustables are the best part of the sandwich.
Sorry, Crust. Why do we love hate watching certain films and series?
Thanks for asking. Matchmaking reality TV show Love Island is a guilty pleasure for many of us and it's back on TV screens for the summer.
The latest group of contestants have entered the villa aiming to couple up and take home the £50,000 main prize.
Love Island is a typical example of a show that people love to hate watch.
The practice has become more and more widespread in recent years with the rise of streaming platforms.
It seems mutual hatred makes for a strong bond.
How exactly does one hate watch then? It's often done in groups.
You're watching along with friends or other web users, all the while posting live comments or memes on social media mocking the show or film for being so bad.
Along with Love Island, some of their other most hate-watched shows are Emily in Paris, Glee and True Blood.
The term was actually invented back in 2012 by Emily Nussbaum, a well-known entertainment critic for the New Yorker.
She talked about how she couldn't stop watching musical drama series Smash. despite finding it terrible from start to finish.
It's along the same lines as the so bad it's good trend, which Ryan Bailey used to name his hugely popular podcast, exploring all the pop culture we love to hate.
Bailey was actually quoted in a December 2021 feature on hatewatching in the Huffington Post, saying the following about Emily in Paris.
I hate watching it because it's completely unrealistic, ridiculous and not taking place on any plane of the human earth that I have ever experienced.
Yet it was so glossy and pretty that you couldn't turn away.
Why do people keep watching shows they don't like?
Hate watching is perhaps a misleading name in that most of the time people are laughing rather than genuinely getting angry.
Of course there's the social aspect to it, but on top of that, mocking a show we're watching or its characters may briefly make us feel better about ourselves in comparison.
Viewers may actually be looking for a scapegoat for issues going on in their own lives.
Let's listen to American therapist Katie Morton talking about that in a video on her YouTube channel.
If we're feeling terrible, it can be hard to acknowledge the real reasons why.
We talk about that all the time on here.
It can be hard to figure out, even track back, why we feel the way we feel.
So while indulging in a small dose of hate-watching from time to time isn't problematic, bear in mind it's probably not the most healthy of pastimes overall.
There you have it. Now you know what hate-watching is.
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