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.
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.
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.
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).
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)
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.
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.)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The funny thing in the question is that I would love to say I don't hate-read. I'd love to say that I only read things I like and worth spending my time on... but thinking about it, I then I realized that I do spend a lot of time hate-reading.
so then I was quite confident to say that I only hate-read to improve myself, to find elements I dislike to better undertand my own way of thinking, to find out what attract other people in popular work I myself find impressively bad... but then I realized that I do spend a lot of time hate-reading just for the sake of hate-reading...
so I'm thinking... must be like when I eat some chinese smelly tofu type of thing... it's utterly bad, but that would make anything coming after feel all the better... including my own writing... but then I realized that it's not even that either... so I'm thinking maybe I like reading bad thing, I like hate-reading, which would make it love-reading in its own right... right?
... so finally I realize that I'm thinking way to much, so I'm going to close that comment and go to hate-read something really shallow, badly drawn, ideally very popular. Headcleaner.... Makes life easier and reachable...
Yes, since sometimes I just want to loosen up and enjoy "bad" works for the sake of laughing about it.
I don't do it regularly since I don't have the time, but once in a while I like to take a break from reading seriously and just zone out and read things that make me go "wtf how is this popular or even published?!"
I used to back in the day. There was this BL webcomic I read about this assassin guy who forced his way into another guy's house after the other guy was nice to him, and regularly sexually assaulted him, which was presented in a "if he gets aroused from it that means he secretly wants it and he's just a tsundere!" fashion. It was super gross but fascinatingly so.
Although anymore I hardly have enough time to read comics I like, let alone ones I don't like.
On the same note, I'm sure I have a few hate readers myself, especially after this article5 came up. The readers ping my analytics so I don't mind, haven't gotten any awful comments yet, and there's nothing much you can do anyway. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I genuinely love reading and watching terrible media, cuz like even when it's kinda bad, there's still a lot of heart there, youknow? They put a lot of effort into...some weird ass stuff that comes out.
There were a couple of instances I hate-read a comic. In those instances there were some things that bothered me/I found disagreeable. Normally I would drop the comic and move on to something else, but I kept going back to read them to see if the story will turn into a trainwreck, because I disliked it enough to want to see it burn itself down (and justify my hatred of it, lol). I didn't leave comments in those comics though. (I dislike confrontation.) And I'd hate if someone who disliked my comic gave me crap about it in the comments.
(As for how the plots for those comics had turned out, one disappeared along with MangaMagazine/Inkblazers, and the other is an ongoing comic in Webtoons Short Story Contest so I don't know how it'll end.)