Time for a semi-personal rant
Part of why I created this blog was because of my dissatisfaction with r/horror. Why am I dissatisfied with them? Well, in part, because as I said in an earlier post, they hold their sacred cows very closely. You're not allowed to criticize, say, the original Halloween. Or rather, you CAN, but expect to be downvoted en masse if you do. If you voice your disagreement with a popular opinion in the sub (i.e. "Terrifier sucks and Damien Leone is a misogynist"), you'll not only get downvoted, but get some self-righteous assholes on your back who will back the popular opinion and get upvoted for it.
Besides that, it's filled with people who can't seem to be bothered to closely read the first sentence, let alone the title, of my posts, and when I corrected them, it's a downvote for me. For instance, the very last post I made in that sub was to ask for cosmic horror movies set in space, along the lines of the Dead Space video games or Event Horizon. The first recommendation I got? The Color Out of Space, which is set on a farm. When I corrected the person, I got a downvote. Then when I edited my comment to express my annoyance at the downvote, I got two more. More egregiously, though, someone once unintentionally misgendered me because of my avatar (which is somewhat close to what I look like in real life). I simply corrected her that I'm a guy. Guess what? Downvote, even though she promptly corrected herself. Hell, I've gotten downvoted in that shitty sub for less than that, like just for asking if anyone liked a movie that most people hated (and that I didn't like, either). In all those other cases, they might have at least been able to read the annoyance in my "tone".
Most irritatingly on a less personal level, though, is all the monotony and repetition. How many posts do they get per week asking "what's a good horror movie for a [kid's age] year-old to watch"? Or all the "terrifier bad" posts? Seems when they don't struggle with reading comprehension, they struggle to use the search bar. Worse still, I keep getting dragged back there by annoying necrobumpers responding to posts and comments I made more than 2 years prior. Really, it's all just a pompous fucking circlejerk and one of the most unwelcoming horror communities I have ever come across. It's only outmatched by an even shittier grindhouse group on Facebook I was in that turned into a Serbian Film circlejerk.
There's better subs that aren't quite as popular but are much more welcoming, one of them being r/HorrorMovies. I hope to make this blog take off and become at least somewhat successful. We should be allowed to dissent without getting mindlessly dogpiled.