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Update: My friend called a show 'mid' and it kinda bugged me

So I was hanging with my friend group last night, and we were talking about the new season of Jujutsu Kaisen. One of them, let's call him Mark, just went 'nah, it's mid, dropped it after three episodes.' He didn't say why, just that it was boring. It got me thinking about how we talk about anime now. Like, 'mid' or 'trash' gets thrown around so easy, but it doesn't really say anything. It just kills the chat. I remember loving a show called 'Sonny Boy' that a lot of people called slow, but it had so much going on if you stuck with it. How do you guys handle it when someone dismisses a show you like with just one word? Do you try to ask why, or just let it go?

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cameronschmidt1mo ago

Honestly, sometimes a show just is mid though. Not everything needs a deep talk. If someone is bored and drops it, that's a valid feeling. Why do we have to defend every piece of media? Maybe your friend just wanted to say his piece and move on to a topic he actually cares about. Getting hung up on one word seems more like it kills the chat than him saying it.

jordan_young1mo ago

I just ask what they didn't like about it, which usually starts a real talk.

knight.mason20d ago

Wait, does "mid" actually mean anything specific anymore, or is it just a catch-all for "I wasn't in the mood for this"? I think Sonny Boy is a good example. That show requires you to sit with it, and a lot of people just don't have the patience for that anymore. It feels like we've lost the language to talk about why something didn't click, and defaulting to "mid" just shuts down conversation. My daughter does this with music too, and every time I push her to tell me what she didn't like, she actually has a pretty specific reason.