Not trying to be a hater, but I genuinely believe most people who claim to be into f1 don’t actually enjoy the sport itself, they just like being the kind of person who watches f1. f1 is basically the new craft beer,cool to say you’re into it, but no one actually cares about the stuff. Most people just want to look cultured and international without putting in any effort to understand the sport.
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So it’s been trendy for 20 + years?
This isn’t an opinion, it’s an observation and a rant. It’s also hilarious to say “no one actually cares” when that would include yourself. So you must also be one of those people who only like it because it’s trendy.
r/imaginarygatekeeping
God forbid people have casual interests.
I don’t even know what this take is. But yeah, fans of one of the most popular sports in the world are just posers, obviously.
What? I barely know anything about f1 but I like it a bit, Cars going stupidly fast is cool lol
You could say the same thing about a lot of things, but there’s no way to definitively prove it. I have no concept of why people, specifically Americans, like watching soccer. I’d rather watch a minor league baseball game than go to my city’s successful soccer team. That doesn’t mean they aren’t real fans, I just don’t understand their enjoyment of.
I like watching F1, but I’m a new fan: I only started watching after seeing drive to survive. I’m not a rabid fan, I don’t stay up for the 1-3am races but when there’s a race I can watch I do sit down and enjoy it. Just because I don’t know the 100 year history of every F1 team doesn’t make me less of a fan.
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I’m a man of culture
Sideburn craft beer?
This guy really can’t believe that there are people who genuinely prefer F1 over Nascar and craft beer over bud light?
people enjoy things differently , not everyone cares about having in depth understanding. Most people probably just enjoy watching cars go fast around a race track.
Depends where you’re from. My city has an F1 circuit, so it’s been a pretty big thing here for as long as I can remember. There definitely are a lot of genuinely big fans here, anyway.
F1 has been around for quite a while. It’s not new or trendy. You are horribly misinformed.
I have yet to meet a single person who thinks watching F1 makes you look “cool, cultural and international”. xD
OP, it’s not yet too late to delete this. This is just embarrassing. And no, I don’t even like/watch F1.
It’s the kind of racing enjoyed by folks who never turn a wrench and like to talk about investments at the bar.
If they weren’t watching F1 they’d probably be golfing
This is just odd. Let people have fun?
I mean I agree- but that’s just cause as a sport- it sucks dick
Like if someone tells me they’re into watching football, that makes sense, fun game to watch. Someone saying they’re really into F1 gives me the same impression as someone being like “fuck man I LOVE to watch paint drying”
This is truly unpopular, and feels like the worst kind of gatekeeping. I have a group of friends who love the F1. We watch all sessions from FP1 through to the race itself, even catching the F1A races on those particular weekends. We all have multiple screen multiviewer set ups, and in our spare time, we debate tyre deg and race strats.
Even the more casual fans, the ones who only recently got into it from DTS, are more than keen to chat, to listen to the podcasts, to ask questions about team strategy or why a particular driver did a thing.
People have interests. Dismissing them as attempting to be cultured is just too easy. There will be fans at all levels. If they are new, we guide them along and show them why we love the sport. If they’re more hardcore than we ourselves are, then we are the ones who do the learning, and see through more experienced eyes, which helps us love the sport even more. If we keep dismissing new fans as attempting to be <insert thing here>, we’ll eventually drive our own beloved sport into obscurity through sheer arrogance of believing that we’re the only ones capable of being true fans.
Please cite your sources. Studies of the demographics and motivations of F1 viewers would help support your unpopular position.
I’ve never been into any car racing… so…..