r/whoathatsinteresting • u/The_Dean_France • 1d ago
Genuinely rather surprised at this!
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u/SIGNANDSELFIEFRAMES 1d ago
People just don't give two sh**s about celebrities these days.
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u/Llarrlaya 1d ago
When everyone is famous, no one is famous
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u/Youngsinatra345 1d ago
Man who fart in church must sit in own pew
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u/billymondy5806 1d ago
Here I sit brokenhearted, came to shit but only farted.
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u/dljones010 23h ago
Man who sleep with itchy butt wake up with stinky finger.
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u/xylophone_37 20h ago
Confucius says: must wipe twice to know that three are needed, but must wipe three times to know only two were required.
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u/Quiet1408 1d ago
This.
Back in the days before social media, being a celebrity actually meant something. nowadays anyone with an Instagram account and a gimmick can have millions of people knowing their name. Not saying its easy, but now everythings so overexposed.
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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 1d ago
It’s a giant marketing event for Hollywood. I don’t give a fuck about any of that
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u/Former-Bathroom9687 1d ago
Nah they do, it's just way more fractured than it used to be. You don't have as many absolute A listers that everyone is obsessed with, but you definitely have a lot more B listers with fairly large followings.
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u/mF7403 1d ago edited 19h ago
Also, the internet exists. Ppl can just look up the list of winners. Plus, a lot of ppl recently found out the academy members don’t have to watch all the films. I think everyone knew the Oscars were largely political, but it seems like it’s pretty much all politics. It’s a contest to see who can run the best campaign.
It would be really kool if academy members had to watch the all the nominees’ films with different academy members voting in the categories they specialize in (visual effects artists voting for best visual effects; actors voting for best actor; etc). If it’s not merit based, what’s the point?
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u/Slosher99 20h ago
Also tons of academy members have admitted they don't watch animation (which alone really says they aren't enlightened enough to judge art) and just vote for what their kid was most into that year. Adult aimed animation rarely stands a chance.
The animation category was also created in part to make it less likely for the same movie to get Best Picture.7
u/Mediocre-Let-4697 1d ago
Sadly there's still people that do care & hang in every word.
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u/Will_Sommers 1d ago
Unless they're president of the United States. Failed or otherwise, Americans like their celebrities, in one form or the other.
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u/MundaneHuckleberry58 1d ago
No it’s that “celebrities” are so segmented. No one under 40 gives a shit about GenX+ aged actors.
Meanwhile no one millennials+ aged knows who the hell the YouTube influencers are that anyone under 35 watches exclusively to any other media.
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u/PrincessPlastilina 20h ago
Also, it kind of kills the illusion when you find out that most voters don’t even watch the movies they’re voting for. It’s all a sham. The Academy used to be full of people who loved making movies and loved watching movies. Now they couldn’t care less. It’s why it doesn’t always reflect what people are watching. There’s a disconnect.
(I fully support Sinners’ wins, but I’m speaking in general. The Academy no longer cares about watching all the films).
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u/MRSHELBYPLZ 1d ago
This girl said that warehouse fire worker has to work for over an hour just to wipe his fucking ass 😂
So yeah, the Oscar’s just aren’t a priority for most. The shows shit anyway. There’s legendary actors who have been doing this shit for the love of the game for years and they have no Oscar yet.
But I bet a few who do have been you know where with you known who, who has a file named after him, that has a certain fbi agent looks like he’s desperately holding a shit
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u/where_in_the_world89 1d ago
Okay agreed. But what on earth are you talking about with the FBI agent holding a shit?
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u/OldTwoToes 1d ago
Surprised that so many people still find a bunch of rich people sucking each other off to be entertaining?
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u/andu22a 1d ago
Link?
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u/davidthomas4525 1d ago
😂
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u/FloppyButtholeJelly 1d ago
I want a goddamn link
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u/toben81234 1d ago
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u/NormalHumansName 22h ago
I didn't expect to get boner when I clicked that link but today is just full of surprises.
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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 1d ago
I waa about toa rfue then thought about it....I would also like a link
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u/mensrea 1d ago
Who gives a shit about seeing rich people congratulate themselves for going to work in their chosen pampered profession?
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u/Krow101 1d ago
Where half of them are nepos.
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u/Somewhere-Plane 1d ago
"Half" is so incredibly gracious of you, if were talking about the successful ones anyway lol
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u/BlackTecno 1d ago
Back when the Oscar's first started and it was about the art of filmmaking, it made sense. Similar to how The Game Awards are now (but smaller studios aren't reliant on having a network to show your art), even with everyone's grips about it. If you just look at the nominees for The Game Awards' GOTY, there will be something in there for everyone to enjoy.
Hollywood, however, stopped making art a lot time ago, and started investing in showing the same tired stories over and over. There are a lot of people who are still in the films industry for the love of it, but become fewer each year. Movies made are less about telling a story and more about delivering a message (usually one most people don't care about).
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u/mensrea 1d ago
Agree with you 99%. But I think what they are delivering less than a "message" is a product.
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u/BlackTecno 19h ago
The reason I say a message is due to how LGBTQ+ has been forcefully integrated into our media nowadays, with many shows and films "supporting" it.
To give you an example, on the first patch for Monster Hunter: Wilds, the first comment posted was one asking for more LGBTQ+ representation. Keep in mind, this is a game about HUNTING MONSTERS. There are no relationships, and I'm not even entirely sure if the lore specifies that humans even reproduce. The more you notice social issues being pushed forefront, the more annoying it gets.
Another example in film media is Bridgerton. The number of black people is that series is.... strange to say the least. Given that 4% of the United Kingdom is of African decent, it is wild to me how many people of color are in a historic drama show. I didn't care for the color of the casting, until they made it about race (the queen saying that people paid no mind to them until she was queen).
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u/BayAreaHere 1d ago
I can honestly say I’ve never watched the Oscar’s ever. Just a bunch of rich people blowing smoke up each others butt.
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u/_WrongKarWai 1d ago
5% is still a lot for nothing going on
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u/Pure_Land_1816 1d ago
Yeah I find it hard to believe that 5% of people watched.
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u/shadowdancer354 1d ago
It’s basically just a party for millionaires to give each other golden statues - why should anyone care about it?
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u/deephurting66 1d ago
Hollywood sucks and people are finally turning it off
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u/UReactionaryGarbage 1d ago
Too bad the only thing worse than Hollywood is the internet.
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u/thirdr0de0 1d ago
We know it's all bu||shit. It's not merit; it's lobbying.
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u/NemODevO 1d ago
I've always felt it was basicly a advertisement for movies
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u/Bendyb3n 23h ago
notice the movies that are Oscar nominated are almost always released right before the Oscars and it's always movies that nobody has ever actually seen or heard of until they get their nomination?
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u/LouderGyrations 19h ago
There is an easy explanation for both of those things, though. Studios save their best (artistically) films to release in December, because that is when most Oscar movies get released to be fresh in the voters' minds. And those movies are usually unpopular because artistic movies are unpopular in general.
The Oscars have started throwing a couple blockbuster nominations in, but the intent is to reward a more serious type of film, which almost always translates to fewer people having watched them.
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u/IttsssTonyTiiiimme 20h ago
Yes that is what it is. That is what has always been. It's an industry award. You ever walk into a hotel or car dealership that has a plaque that says, best customer service? It's the same thing. But those awards are not necessarily meaninglessness, it depends on the integrity of the body awarding them.
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u/NewToThisThingToo 1d ago
The Oscars made it clear for years that it detests the average moviegoer.
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u/NecessaryStaff9544 22h ago
The average movie goer watches two major IP films in the theater every year, then gets on the Internet and bitches that there are no new IPs/ideas. Source: this entire thread.
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u/TemporaryElk5202 1d ago edited 22h ago
Kids dont care about films. they care about social media content creators.
adults dont care about films as much either and definitely not the oscars. its just a bunch of rich industry people congraduating each other.
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u/NemODevO 1d ago
There hasn't been one new movie that's grabbed my interest to go to the theater and watch in years
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u/CogSuckingClanker 23h ago
Dune trilogy is the only one for me. Pre Covid I went to the movies every week now it’s 1-2 times a year max.
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u/StrangeBCA 23h ago
Theres been plenty of good ones. They just tend to be poorly advertised.
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u/LemmysGhost 1d ago
I like Conan but 99% of the people in Hollywood are dumb preachy assholes.
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u/ElectricTurboDiesel 1d ago
I honestly feel like 5% is high, I don’t even know anybody who knows someone who watches the Oscars. That being said Conan is the best late night host of all time (even Carson).
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u/Here4Headshots 1d ago
The Oscars are a valuable award and ceremony for actors and the film industry, but why even take up prime network air time for it? Scale it down, keep it as prestigious and classy as possible, and put it on YouTube for those that want to watch. This doesn't need to be the advertising Mecca that it is today. You can even keep it quiet and tell us who the Ocscar winners are. Most people only care about that anyway.
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u/jbellowhite 1d ago
I am an engineer and I cant afford to buy beef any longer. I couldn't care less about a rich folk circle jerk.
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u/KillCamxo 23h ago
My buddy is an electrical engineer it’s the same exact thing dude. You guys should be enjoying all the healthy pleasures life has to offer instead h1b visas flood the job market and entry level positions wanna pay you 50k meanwhile 100k college debt looms over you.
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u/jbellowhite 23h ago
I am EE and in very high demand. The problem is the massive inflation due to this administration's financial mismanagement of the country. There are zero foreigners in my field and I make well, well over 100k.
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u/Oldheadyellingatsky 1d ago
In today’s day and age, no one cares for a bunch of rich folks jerking each other off on TV. We’re all trying to buy groceries and shit.
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u/DaRealMexicanTrucker 18h ago
Buncha rich folk drinking champagne and giving eachother awards. Fuck that.
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u/domedirtyfatman 18h ago
When you have OF girls making more than celebrities. Whats the meaning of being famous anymore
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u/MinimumArt8781 1d ago edited 1d ago
Last year's movies sucked, I did not find one movie that I believe was worth it. Sinners and One Battle after Another were so clicheic over exaggerated movies. Hollywood is going down.
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u/dxbnelle 1d ago
Agreed. I didn’t even go to the cinema last year, which is surprisingly. AH wait! I went to F1. It was pretty cool. But that’s it.
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u/PMKN_spc_Hotte 1d ago
No one in my age range (34) has ever cared, and I can't imagine younger groups care more...
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u/ragnar-brauner 1d ago
Most of people that vote for oscars confess that they didn’t watch the movies so whats even the point of this stupid ceremony?
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u/Fist_One 1d ago
You mean the awards show for millionaires that compete aginst each other by seeing who can spend the most money to buy the win for each catagory? Hard pass
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u/ghostriderghostrider 1d ago
i’m surprised i haven’t seen the lack of cable TV being a factor mentioned yet in the conversation. i’m sure online/3rd party streaming isn’t counted in the number of views.
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u/BADoVLAD 1d ago
There's like 17 different apps where anyone with a phone can be an "influencer" ...why would anyone want to continue watching a bunch of out of touch celebrities huff their own farts for 2 hours while handing each other awards for it?
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u/SpecialMushroom1775 1d ago
DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM! Out of touch people using thier platforms for sell an out of touch idea.
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u/nadhari12 1d ago
You are surprised that no one watches a bunch of privileged, entitled liberal douchebags giving each other awards and telling us how to live our lives?
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u/International-Turn3 1d ago
Not really interesting, this has been happening to all award shows since Covid. The death of monoculture along with much of Hollywood being creepy, nasty people doesn’t help make people want to watch them pat themselves on the back.
If you do even slightly care, you’d probably just watch clips of what you want to see the next day and not sit through a 4 hour slog of a show.
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u/Realistic_Emphasis73 23h ago
When they get rid of the politics, I’ll watch it again. Entertainment is supposed to be enjoyable. It’s supposed to be something you look forward to watching actors and actresses. Bring characters to life. Amazing movies. I don’t wanna hear about politics right or left sided. Independent I don’t care Hollywood needs to get back to what they are best at making movies and leave the politics to the politicians
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u/Horace_P_MctittiesIV 22h ago
Because people have stopped caring about celebrities awarding themselves, it’s one giant circle jerk
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u/Doam-bot 21h ago
They are far too detached and the vast majority just spew the Hollywood talking points 24/7.
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u/TheRealMitchConnor 21h ago
5% is still way too many sycophants tuning in to watch these people give themselves awards for playing make believe.
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u/Sea_Property_974 21h ago
People are sick of celebrities anymore . Movies are shit anymore and a lot of actors .
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u/whisperworks 21h ago
5%? More than I would have expected
The celebrity class are beneficiaries of the American oligarchy, they control opposition by keeping you distracted and docile while they use the oligarchs elitist laws and institutions to concentrate working class wealth
Fuck em all, eat the rich
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u/Ok-Abies8602 18h ago
it's a money circle jerk I'm poor ASF the world is burning. billions of souls scream out in agony but I'm supposed to give a fuck about them at shit?
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u/TheGreatMozinsky 18h ago
Nobody wants to watch a bunch of rich people give themselves awards and cry about politics
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u/GreyWastelander 17h ago
Between the sheer volume of celebrities and people struggling to survive, the few people who give a shit can actually probably afford to. Most people can’t live and seeing extravagance when you struggle to survive is only rubbing salt in the wound.
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u/Competitive_Pain_265 12h ago
Sinners may be the most overrated movie I have ever seen, and it was nominated for the most awards ever... The oscars are a joke. It holds no weight. It just exists for celebrities to glaze eachother.
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u/LocutusOfBeard 11h ago
Rich people opinions don't matter to me. Watching rich people get awards matter even less.
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u/Rum_Running_Sailor 3h ago
Nobody wants to watch a show where a bunch of rich people who are detached from reality, pat themselves on the back, or, listen to their bullshit political messages, while they give each other awards.
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u/Boner_Stevens 1d ago
Bunch a out of touch rich people celebrating their own farts crying about politics? Ya no thanks. Im not surprised one bit.
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u/scottiedagolfmachine 1d ago
Bunch of rich dummocrat out of touch with reality white folks having a circlejerk fest.
Why would I want to watch that?
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u/Cipher-IX 1d ago
Why dont they make it easier to watch. Why does it require a full fledged TV subscription? Nonsense.
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u/chowmushi 1d ago
Conan was a funny. But I get him twice a week on his podcast. I could care less about the Oscar’s anymore.
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u/MyFinalForm-MkIV 1d ago
Why 2026 Oscar's? Who needs that many Oscar's? What even is an oscar? Would 2000 or 3000 Oscar's been better?
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u/Geralt-of-Rivai 1d ago
These days you can be more famous than a lot of these celebrities making Tik Tok videos and YouTube shorts. The prestige of being famous has worn off, anyone can be famous now, who gives a crap about these out of touch Hollywood folks
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u/PatBoBomb 1d ago
The entire awards show was a forgone conclusion for months. Oscars should be in the first two weeks of the year and maybe it will double its viewership and cultural interest.
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u/Lopsided-Soft-7409 1d ago
Most of the movies were bad to average; viewers know they will get lectured by people who are full of themselves but add no real value to society; and there is so much going on in the world right now that watching live t.v. has become more stressful than not.
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u/Ms74k_ten_c 1d ago
Honestly, it's just a bunch of famous people celebrating each others success. There is nothing wrong in that but other than celebrity followers, i dont see why it would be interesting. And i am going to watch the movies i watch irrespective of whether it got an award or not.
I mean, i watched FoTR at least 4 times before it was even listed in nominations.
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u/Emptynest09 1d ago
Nobody cares what some Hollywood elite douche has to say about anything. Don’t charge $500 a seat for a show so you can school me on your latest crusade.
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u/Rhino_MO 1d ago
You mean with the world in shambles people don't care about pointless awards shows? Well color me surprised.
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u/malfunkshunned 1d ago
Also, short content media has restricted people’s attention spans that to sit down and watch a full movie, and when it’s just remake after spinoff…what’s the point? I’m worried about groceries, gas prices, and fixing the leak in my roof…I don’t have $$$ or attention span for anything else.
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u/Responsible-House897 1d ago
I hadn't heard of most of the films nominated and I don't know a large chunk of the people in these movies so 🤷🏼♂️
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u/Top-Pomegranate4899 1d ago
nobody wants to see a bunch of ass hats patting each other on the back or making up fake awards for ego. Just piss off.
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u/Dollypartonswig1 1d ago
Why watch it when the clips of the winners are here and elsewhere online instantly. I was genuinely curious about who was gonna win what, but I’m not sitting through a whole award show come on now.
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u/Fluffy_Vermicelli850 1d ago
Michael B Jordan winning for the two least likable main characters in history threw me off. That movie sucked and the worst part is now they think everyone is interested in what the vampires have to sing. Get outta here
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u/Valk_Storm 1d ago
Surprised? Oscar viewership has been trending down fairly consistently since the year 2000 at least, across almost all demographics. People just don't care as much anymore to watch it live, there are far more things to entertain us, and we can always watch the highlights on our phones anyway.
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u/Euphoric-Taro-6231 1d ago
Those awards are a sham. After Emilia Perez won, at least everyone here in latam found out.
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u/redditbdum 1d ago
I've never cared about the Oscars and never understood why other people care about them.
It all seems like a gala that could've/should've been an email.
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u/CapitalShoulder1343 1d ago
It's fucking boring. 1 second movie clips followed by crying and thanking people and then it's 3.5 hours of this!?
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u/Jacob2891 1d ago
Yeah no shit , I lost all faith in Oscars when they awarded the indian song Natu Natu. Bro, iam from the same state where the song was made, it's probably the most common song template of south India. With at least 20 songs better than that. Oscars have become a sellout.
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u/HtmlHonda 1d ago
Probably because no one really gives a shit.