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Gina Wurtz's avatar

So well said, I love the part where you say criticism should come from a place of love!!!

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Ava Williams's avatar

THANK YOU GINA❤️❤️❤️

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Chloé Williams's avatar

I love it.

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Ava Williams's avatar

Thank you :)

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James Cassidy's avatar

I enjoyed the article. I love acoustic music,-- blues, folk, jazz, classical and if I'm listening on youtube I often leave a comment but only to praise their performance or to ask a question. I only listen to music I like. I see no reason in giving negative criticism on something so personal as musical taste,

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Ava Williams's avatar

Exactly!!

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Renee Chang's avatar

been thinking about this a lot recently! especially “I enjoy the internet for the reason that we can find like-minded lovers.”it can get exhausting to just scroll through opinions only intended to be provocative / shared for the sake of relevancy. there’s an art to good critique!

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D.J. Liberty's avatar

I love this so much! I wrote a recent piece about the role of the hater in current marketing and wanted to desperately to talk about Twilight but just couldn't fit it in. I'm so glad you did – it's such an interesting case, especially when it comes to critiquing from a place of love, as you say. In general, I wish people were more open about what they care about :')

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eve's avatar

Really love this piece, so much of haterism is about aligning things with your identity and it just means that making other people feel shit about their taste seems valid. I wrote about a similar thing in music criticism a couple of weeks ago :)) https://open.substack.com/pub/angelicdissent/p/everyones-a-critic-so-why-arent-they?r=2rnczf&utm_medium=ios

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Caitlin's avatar

Yessss this makes me so happy to read! Have you read the book Humankind by Rutger Bregman? I really think we could all have a much nicer time alive if we came from an abundance mindset from time to time. We don’t have to be at each other’s throats all the time

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Chip Nielson's avatar

the twilight take is so perfect, that's exactly how i feel about it. I love it and I love to critique and there's a ton to critique but you don't dive into the illustrated guide because you don't like it.

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