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{{quote|''Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.''
|'''[[Mark Twain]]'''}}
The Inverse of [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]], in which these people somehow know ''exactly'' how good something is, without having ever actually ''seen'' it. Maybe they saw so much praise they feel like they can account for having actually watched it for themselves, or maybe they're just carbon-copying someone's opinions to fit into the group. Or they have seen a fragment of the work, liked it, and assumed the rest is equally good. Who knows? Similar to [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|somehow knowing a show is utter crap without having seen an episode]], it's one of the greatest mysteries of human culture, and has only been [[GIFT|exacerbated]] by the Age of the Internet.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the 1990s, the success of the movies of ''[[Akira]]'' and ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' meant that many in the West professed to be 'into manga', in many cases without ever seeing any more examples of the form than those two films. Or appreciating the difference between manga and anime. Or that there's a ''lot'' of different genres within the anime/manga world, besides [[dystopia]]n sci-fi.
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