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This is true, but I also want to speak from experience that it's also that needs to feel like what someone wants to do.

For example, I'm trying some more tragic stories, but its certainly not RWBY, I'm trying Code Geass and I really need to get back to Kanebei The Iron Fortress

But the thing felt like it was because I wanted to grow thicker skin and something lesser known, not because a snob pressured me to watch it to "learn some culture"

People are working 9 to 5 jobs already so their already frustrated, and when you snark at what they love and hold up what you like and tell them to like it, it becomes another chore for them, and they got plenty of that from work.

It's hard to develop new tastes, but when you get passive aggressive and assume the worst what their tastes are without any evidence of immorality in said taste, and prop what you like up, they don't wanna do it. It comes off as moralizing, and it drives them further away.

You guys realize you can change your tastes, right?

They don't have to be a part of Who You Are. If you didn't like onions when you were 8 but you like them now that you're in your 20s, we call that "growth." "Development." But if you liked anime when you were 13 and someone tells you to broaden your tastes, try different mediums, or deepen your love for classic films instead, they're "bullying you" and "people should just be allowed to like what they like!"

Yeah. Sure. They're allowed to have one or three tastes in media all their life. They're allowed to keep watching what they're used to and enjoying what they've always enjoyed. Heck, people are allowed to eat cheese whiz all day, every day, if they want to. Nobody's making a law against it.

But you don't have to stay there. You can cultivate a taste for deeper books, truer stories, better music. Just like you learned how to enjoy writing and reading and all that jazz. You can re-train your affections the same way you can re-train your tastebuds.

Do you have to? No. But is it better for you to control your affections instead of letting them control you? Yes. Every time. Every. Time. Including in what you watch during your "down-time." After all, anything worth having is hard work and way better for you. I'm not saying "quit watching anime, put down the Twilight Saga." I'm saying, "try to grow." It's better for you.