Do you hate-read?

[Iris-Grimoire]

Unless it's unintentional comedy from its quality, nope, life's too short to hate-read. There's enough good stuff out there to take up that slot.

[Freemints30]

Yup its both fun and can provide entertainment. If its so bad its good Its hilarious, I remeber a meme started off between me and my brother while I read something crappy outloud.

However when its bad and I just dislike it I just read it to completion out of my stupid determination. I hated the unfunnies by mark miller but I still read to completion for that reason. I'm like I started that piece of garbage and I'm going to end that piece of garbage.

The only thing I don't hate-read is when its boring. Then its just a waste of time, because that doesn't really offer much fun to me even with my stupid determination.

Thou there was one thing that turned into a very incestuous and uncomfortable and I just stopped because I was getting to uncomfortable and It wasn't that good. But maybe I would go back and finish it because I'm dislike not completing things and Im stupid.
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[SleepingPoppy]

Yes and no? lol

There was something popular I started that I was interested in, but I was less and less happy with it over time. I stopped reading it when I started to hate it though, but I definitely got far enough to be pissy about it for several chapters. I don't generally hate read comics, because I'll just get sick of it after a while. No judgement to hate reading, though, it can be weirdly fun to gripe about something in your head or to friends. Plus there's an aspect to it of analyzing the things you like and dislike that is useful for developing your craft.

I intentionally hate read Twilight when I was younger. I wasn't trying to be trendy, I genuinely hated it. But only read it because my friends joke-gifted it to me, and I figured, screw it, I'm going to read it, and you're going to hear in detail all the things I hate! Really find that silly now, but I had fun, so whatever!

[ar-ninetysix]

Hmm.. What you call hate-reading sounds a lot closer to just analyzing a guilty pleasure from the description you gave off in the replies. Same thing what other people saying about enjoying stuff that's "so bad, it's good".

I've always seen hate-reading as just actively hating on something you won't stop reading. This one's just being irrationally mean. I can see the benefits of the other two things I mentioned earlier, but not hate-reading. I've never done it, never seen a reason to do it. It just sounds like really toxic behavior tbh

[NickRowler]

Most of the stuff I have hate read was Family Circus and other boomer humor like comic strips.

The only long form I have hate read were mangas my sister checked out from the library. One was Mars and the other was Death Note. People told me Death Note gets better but I just ended up hating it the whole time.

[darkone4587]

Honestly the only time I'd watch or read something I don't like or hate is if I have someone alongside of me so we can suffer together and make horrid jokes along the way.

[ZatchZ]

Yep, especially when I'm reading My Hero Academia. Although, I'm just reading to see if it gets better. I really liked it at first, then that love turned into obligation.

[MrTwennysebben]

Only when I'm going through my own work! HA!

Has anyone made that joke yet?

For real answer though, no, I've really only done that with TV shows, and then only for a short while before I abandon them.

[borzoiteeth]

I hate-read all of David Cage's works. For me its a fantastic study of plot holes and its fun to math out how to fix them. So far the one that would require the least amount of work to become a respectable experience is Heavy Rain. Though his best work overall is Detroit (though that's due to the fact the best character's actors went off script lol).

[Iris-Grimoire]

How did you survive through all of Omikron

[kip]

It’s not that way for me at least? I don’t find anyhting I read to be a guilty pleasure/so-bad-it’s-good (no pleasure). I genuinely read it because I find it to be bad, for bad’s sake.

It’s possible people just have different meanings for the same term, but i don’t have any other term for what this is (for me)

[spadedigsbutts]

Absolutely. Though when I do it I tend to use it as an exercise to identify WHY it’s bad or went wrong and identify how to avoid it in my own work. Though note, I’m never going to leave mean comments or anything when I do it to a work, I can’t stand when people just flame someone for putting themself out there.

[azzy-m]

Eh, no. Mostly because I haven't really read any comics yet that I would consider legitimately bad, usually either good, REALLY GOOD, or kinda mediocre.

Or, I dunno. I haven't been reading comics nearly as long as other people, I've really only gotten into reading comics since I discovered Webtoon in 2017, lmao.

(I read a couple of manga in my youth, but I never read them long enough to have any actual opinions of them.)

[borzoiteeth]

By running through the stages of denial at record speeds.

Also themes of reincarnation are very important to me so watching how bastardized and disgusting the body theft was brought me energy I didn't knew I had.

[byelacey]

I get that "hate-reading" stuff among friends can be a bonding experience, I know it, I've felt that petty glee at digging into stuff my friends and I mutually dislike

But damned if I have time to read the webcomics I want to read on a weekly basis, let alone ones I don't even like haha

[lizzyjones]

Just to hop on the train for a moment here - I agree that what you're talking about in the comments doesn't really sound like "hate-reading". Personally, I would call it "research" or "self-improvement". I can understand reading something you dislike (hate is a bit strong) for self-improvement. I did it often enough for school. All those math textbooks, required literature texts, etc. I read them even if I didn't like them.

And yes, there are times I "hate-read" in this sense. Sometimes it's because what I'm reading is awful but there's something drawing me into it and I need to know what that is. I remember reading one story a few years ago that I thought was horrible plot-wise, but I kept reading anyways because I thought the art was just pretty.

Also, as a bit of side note, I can say that I hate-write as well. There are times when an awful headspace comes at me and I need to get something out so I write. When I read those pieces later I really dislike what I wrote; I can be absolutely awful to characters during that time. I never show those pieces to anyone. Every now and then I go back and delete what I have because I think it's not right. I have a few that have stuck around that I think might (with a LOT of editing) turn into horror novels... but I don't typically like horror. So yeah... not very likely to happen.

[zed_parade]

No.
I think that this is called masochism.

I'm proud to say that I'm in very control of myself and when I read the first episod of a bad comic I'm able to stop immediately with the promise to never return to read another page and absolutely no resentiment, totally in peace with myself.
At that poin I close the app.
I wait some seconds.
...then smash repeately the phone.
Then I set it on fire.

Totally in peace with myself.

[Freemints30]

Well I'aint denying it may be a bit of masochism.
Thats kinda why I suddenly decide, you know what I need to read something awful and horrifing.

type in AO3 in google, look under the explicit tag and stare into the abyss.

[zed_parade]

I see.

uhmmm... have you tried to set on fire your phone? It helps

[Kura]

Since people have mentioned doing it in groups.

I did have a group of friends that used to kinda do this in hangout while I was working on comics (drawing comics all day can be boring, sometimes it's nice to have someone else to talk to)

One of the members in it loved bad fanfics and bad comics. Not hate, genuinely loved them because they were so bad they made her laugh, so she would have a good time reading them. She enjoyed writing purposely horrible fanfics as well, and would on occasion write us (the artists working on comics in the chat) bad fanfics for our stories. On fridays she enjoyed reading them out loud for everyone else in the chat to hear, which she would dub 'fan fiction friday' this would usually result in all kinds of 'I hate this so much omg' reactions in chat, particularly when it got to a bad sex scene like "Wait his dick is a grande... and now he's REALLY f*king a live grenade because that's where the robots memory is storied and it's the only way to erase his memory???" or "How exactly does one go so deep into her that 'the penis touched her heart??"

That would probably be the closest I get to the hate reading experience, but again, she read these because she LOVED to read them, not because she hated them.