Which hobby is considered a cult or has cult-like tendencies? (piefed.social)

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[-] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Warhammer. The tabletop one with the figures, not the video games.

Vacations/travel for some people. Its clearly something where they have zero clue about their privilege and zero self awareness as they talk about it.

Parenting. Seriously, it becomes some people's only fucking identity and the way they talk about it feels like religious proselytizing mixed with a bit of used car salesperson energy.

Comic conventions. Some people make it uncomfortable how seriously they take it.

Wasting some time on Lemmy trying to leave shitty comments just looking to rile people up or something.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Religion. 🤌🏼

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Cycling. They go from 'this is fun', to full blown road dictators, in about 2 weeks.

Edit: just watch. The downvotes will likely display their cult rage.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Heh I remember several years ago, I bought a cool vintage 10-speed bike which was lovingly restored by a local bike co-op, it wasn’t ever a top of the line pro racing bike or anything, just a nice old street bike for casual riding. The co-op did a great job making it like new, but with subtle finishing accents.

I posted some pics of it on r/bicycling on Reddit to get their feedback, advice. SUCH SNOBBERY! My god, you’d think I took a shit in the middle of the lobby floor of The Ritz-Carlton. They made me feel wholly unwelcome and unwanted.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

ive seen those, they have all the getup, wearing the gear aerodynamic helmet, and they act like karens while in the store too sometimes. and they loudly try to chatise you for almost running into them, when they suddenly pulled in front of you. i call them bicycle douches. oh and they disregard pedestrians too

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Y'all have some weird ideas about what a hobby is. Parenting as a hobby cracked me up, that's just having a family, you presumably grew up in one of those. Religion isn't a cult-like hobby, it's a hobby-ish cult.

On the parenting front though, I think those pageants are, those kids do it for a hobby and I would consider it abusive, and hard to exit once they are in.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

those kids do it for a hobby

The pageants are the parents' hobby. The kids are whisked into it at a vulnerable stage of development in which they don't have the agency to decide any of it for themselves.

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[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Auditing pre-clears.

[-] sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Is this the scientology stuff?

[-] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, scientology is a full blown religious cult.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 2 weeks ago

Politics, obviously.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Society for Creative Anachronism

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[-] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nostr. I think the tech is cool, but the culture seems like some sort of cryptocurrency cult

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[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

vtubers

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