From 03 Nov scuffles
- request a recovery code for the target email. This typically is sent to a linked phone number, and the last few digits of the phone number are shown for confirmation
- ask the person you suspect of having that email for their phone number
- see if the part shown matches the number you know is theirs.
- if they do, you can suspect that the owner of the number also owns the address. They might not, since the last few digits aren't unique, but it's unlikely that someone else associated with the drama just happens to have a matching phone number!

I cant get any of my guns to make a super loud cocking sound every time I pick up or point them like in the movies but maybe I'm holding them wrong

CG animation. It's common for folks to complain about VFX in modern movies as a whole if they notice any obvious CGI, to the point where people flat out say that the use of any CGI in live-action movies is bad and therefore movies are often marketed as though they're mostly using practical effects even if they're not, but just a slight amount of education about it really illuminates how much CGI is invisible to the average viewer.

It also definitely seems like a lot of people dismiss CG animation as though it's automated or a shortcut in contrast to the painstaking work of hand-drawn animation. Like the seemingly common assumption that a human animator isn't doing much and everything is just mo-cap, so the creativity and skill required are minimized and the cost of labour is often argued to be too expensive (especially in discourse about how large the budgets of certain animated movies are). That all frankly worries me considering the push for AI video generation.

I haven't read Kafka's The Trial until a few months ago, and my impression based on how the internet spoke about it was that it was dystopian tragedy about a hapless everyman forced to fight against a cruel system.

When I actually read it, the protagonist is like a bizarre amalgamation Charlie, Mac and Dennis who constantly makes things worse by belittling officials, shirking legal counsel and having sex with the wives/mistresses of people he shouldn't piss off.

It was much more black comedy than I expected.

Game development. Both TTRPG and video game development. You dabble a little, and then you see how wrong the common person is about both.

Copyright. I'm not a legal professional but if you've ever had me annoyingly correct your understanding of IP law in these threads you can probably guess that it's a bit of a special interest for me lol. People simultaneously overestimate and underestimate what is covered by copyright. Some things that tend to surprise people:

• Fanfiction and fanart are almost categorically copyright infringement, with very few exceptions
• Whether a derivative work is sold for a profit vs. given away for free matters far less than you probably think.
• You don't have to defend copyright to avoid losing it, or anything like that. If you're confused by this, you're thinking of trademark (and even then it's kind of a shallow justification for being overly litigious; even on the worst case you won't lose the right to the mark, you'll just maybe lose the right to prevent other people from using the mark for legitimate business).

• The fact that AI generated images may be uncopyrightable does not mean that works which use them (e.g. a video game using AI generated textures) are uncopyrightable. There is no "virality", it's just as if you used a public domain image.

• DMCA 1201 prevents you from bypassing a copy protection mechanism even if ypur reason for bypassing it is completely legitimate. This is why Nintendo keeps sending legal threats to emulator devs despite the fact that emulators are perfectly legal. They essentially bake easily bypassed DRM into their consoles for the sole purpose of exploiting this quirk of copyright law.

• Plagiarism (in an academic sense) is usually legal. Pretty much unless you copy someone else verbatim you are well within your rights to present the factual results of someone else's research any way you like, with or without credit. Copyright doesn't let you own facts, for obvious reasons.

• You also can't copyright recipes, instructions, technical designs, etc. This is what patents are for, and the standards are much higher for those.

• Along similar lines, whether or not you credit someone is completely outside of the domain of copyright. The only situation where this comes up is if you're dealing with something like the creative commons attribution license that specifically requires it.

• The "the user grants the service provider a worldwide irrevocably nonexclusive transferrable... etc. license" thing that people periodically discover in a website's ToS and freak out about is standard boilerplate that is essentially there to let them serve user generated content. It's probably more broadly stated than it strictly needs to be, but a contract like this is necessary for any social media site to be able to simply display your posts.

Sewing. Fast fashion has messed people up about how hard and expensive any sort of sewn project is.

Uh Greek myth is kinda miserable. Majority of the conversations on sites and social media has boiled down to repeating popular social media people's head canons or well Percy Jackson. Basically, people who have never actually engages with the original stories. So trying to correct them is a fruitless endeavor because they aren't actually interested in anything outside making the Characters their blorbos.

Add in games like Hades where no one reads how much Supergiant removed a lot of the original stories to make it more sanitized, but people will still repeat the removed text in game discussions.

This isn't as big of a difference as what other examples, but a lot of people who started playing D&D because of the Community episode have a slightly wrong idea of how D&D is actually played. 

Knitting or crochet. People who don't do either tend to use the words interchangeably. The techniques are entirely different and doing one doesn't necessitate you can do the other.

When you become more informed on the exotic pet trade so many 'cute animal videos' can quickly become borderline unwatchable because that shouldn't be in your house man.

I'd say Rubiks Cube solving falls into this somewhat. There seems to be two prevailing assumptions of how a cube is solved. The less common being that cubers have memorized every single scramble (of which there are 42 quintillion). And the other being that you have to know maths to solve one.

In reality, while there are a few different methods, they all have aspects of memorization of algorithms for each step (the most common method, CFOP, using them the most). Which once those outside the hobby learn this - it seems to create this counter-assumption that solving has zero thought / strategy behind it. Which is also untrue as all solving methods use intuitive solving in some aspects. And even with algorithms, theres strategy to which one you learn, as well as knowing how moves change the rest of the cube so you can know which algorithm will be needed for upcoming steps.

Almost everything about astronomy and spaceflight

You know that Starbucks created a load of hype around the bear and then sent out a limited stock of the bears to cause a social media meltdown. It means people are talking about Starbucks and about the bear, while also sowing division against baristas who were planning to strike.

Thank you so much. Thank you so so much. This is exactly the petty bullshit I come to Hobby Drama for. This is perfect.

My food bank regularly gets unsold Starbucks merch donated to us, so I'll let y'all know if we happen to see any bearistas drifting downline to us.

If you're going to obsessively purchase branded corporate merch, why the hell would you pick Starbucks of all things? At least Disney has a theme park you can go to...

one of the main unions has been in talks with Starbucks for 6 months to improve working conditions and since nothing is happening they announced they would be striking on November 13th.

My tinfoil hat theory is that they had the 'drop' planned and ready, but the knowledge of the strike made them - perhaps - reschedule it sooner. Strike pressure/diffusion tactics aren't a new thing.

Also that's not a mug, that's a fragile, bear-shaped glass jar.

$300 ? I saw one selling on eBay for $1.500.00!!

How likely is it that Starbucks, which advertized the bears to 17.7m followers on Instagram, did not know they would sell out? In a post-Labubu marketing world, there's a huge likelihood they did know and orchestrated the campaign & scarcity to create buzz, at the expense of their own staff and customers.

They've been doing this since long before Labubus were a thing. Just google "starbucks red cup day", artificial scarcity has always been part of the strategy

I looked up the bearista, expecting a cute and wintery mug worth waking up at 4am for, and I was NOT ready for what it looks like. Starbucks is grifting HARD. Those bear-shaped honey squeeze bottles look better than that!

And yeah, it's 100% to draw the attention away from the actual issues, as is tradition. They know what they're doing.

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I really hope somebody writes a good analysis about Starbucks' business model shifting between beverages/food service and limited merch drops. Between this and the hoopla over Starbucks-branded stationery in Asia, wouldn't surprise me in the least if they make the full transition into a lifestyle brand in the future.

It’s the Stanley tumblers all over again

there are no limitations on how many you can buy

Genuinely speaking, how does any company these days not think to have buy limits on exclusive/limited stock.

H2SH

HU2H was right there, man.

It would still have sucked but at least it makes more sense visually.

From everything I’ve read about past plots, this comic’s modern history feels like it’s been one big game of tug of war between two visions of the character. It sounds exhausting.

as a movies fan and only read a few batman comics, those spoilers sound like absolute ass

Hush Tuah made me laugh. Are you happy now

2 Hush 2 Hushious

H2SH sounds like the latest and hottest Korean boyband.

But also those spoilers are sending me in their absurdity, oh my god. When Jason wanted you to go lax on your no killing thing, that wasn't what he meant, Bruce.

I probably will never read Hush 2: The Search For More Money, so I'm just going to assume everything you just wrote is a lie. It makes more sense than the truth.

Yeah, idk what people expected. There's never been any team changing restrictions on CM. Every time you go in for an attempt, you can change your entire team.

My ura f2p gold ship was doing great all the way into the A final race where I got paired up against two shiny new unity ace A+ S!Maru and got completely and unsurprisingly annihilated. 

I’m glad we’re getting the free 100 rolls on support cards, I’m just praying to actually get a damn Riko. I’m 130 in and don’t even have more than 2 R Riko so far. 

I personally did some runs of Unity Cup and got B+ Umas. Good, right?

I'm on the B grade runs.

There are definitely TikTok accounts who steal entire posts from here and then regurgitate it.

They don’t give credit but what irritates me the most is how they act like they are these deeply knowledgeable investigative journalists, there’s this air of superiority and smugness that they are letting you in on this secret drama they have discovered through rigorous research. UGH.

I don’t want to call it “slop” technically, since it kind of predates that kind of thing (and, of course, they did give me credit for it), but I had a (poorly-thought-out, and incorrect in hindsight) Star Trek fan theory that I was accused of “stealing” (as an aside, I don’t think that’s something you can steal?) from a fan site. I looked up the fan site in question, and it turns out they had written an article about it (again, not slop by any means as they did actually write it themselves) that cited my one of my Reddit comments as a source.

EDIT: clarification, I’m saying the example in my comment wouldn’t be slop. The thing OP is describing definitely is, and plagiarism is lazy af in addition to being immoral. Admittedly my first example is off-topic in relation to the question, so sorry of the confusion!

Not quite the same thing, but still was interesting and vaguely adjacent.

Although halfway through writing that up, I remembered seeing a bunch of YouTube videos that just read out Reddit comments with an AI voice where stuff I’d written had shown up. They did generally at least leave the username in, but it was still quite odd to see. I don’t even necessarily have a problem with it beyond cringing at things I’d written years ago, but then again there’s a huge difference between “reading out a comment or story from Reddit, with credit given and making it clear that’s what you were doing” and “straight-up plagiarising someone’s HobbyDrama writeup.”

I’ve got a hypothesis posts from this subreddit probably end up in YouTube videos quite often without credit, but it doesn’t get notice because we’re a) a fairly small community and b) there’s maybe not much overlap between people who read writeups here and people who watch “sloptube” channels.

I remember like 6 years ago I posted a meme here on Reddit and this meme compilation channel called Memenade used my meme as the thumbnail for his newest video. I didn't really care that much that he stole it, cuz it was just something I threw together in like 5 minutes and if anything, I just thought it was more funny than anything else.

you should start some drama by claiming the video

Given how niche the things I write about here are, I would be genuinely surprised if anyone ever did that.

never YouTube videos as far as I know but I've had reddit posts I made stolen by facebook users and even a crude flash game I made in middle school posted on another site.

I know of one youtube video that read one of my comments, and I've popped up in a lot (well, not a LOT) of buzzfeed and yahoo articles, boredpanda, random facebook pages.

Sure would be nice to have been paid for any of them.

At the start of each month on the war thunder forums several posts suggesting new vehicles or features get chosen to be passed along to the devs. There's also few youtubers who basically just read off changelogs and datamines every few days just slowly enough to make their videos long enough to monetize.

So when one of my suggestions got chosen it was very strange to hear one of those youtubers read through it. I'd say he did it word for word but he did not do a very good job of it.

Depending on the age of your posts, it could have also been slopped out of an AI prompt. Reddit sells its user submitted comments to genAI companies.

Uh, not looking to dogpile here but who did that?

Oof. Gozyuger already has issues with...A lot, and is carrying on the "Final Sentai" flag. This is like if Decade ended up becoming the final Kamen Rider series and Totani's actions caught to him at around episode 13.

Of course, it's sad for the actress too, this will absolutely tank her career and it's not gonna be easy for a long time. God this sucks from every possible angle...

And now the newest episode has aired and the Ministry of Truth would be proud.

Goddamn this story is tragic. There's a teenage actress being groomed by a 40 year old and being supplied alcohol by the legal adults around her, and she's getting punished for it. She needs an intervention and therapy, not to get publicly humiliated and blacklisted.

(She's 19, so i dunno if grooming is the right term, but it sure feels like thats whats happening.)

This situation reminds me a lot of the firing of the Red Hood writer a couple months back. In both cases, in a vacuum, the argument that the person's actions warranted some sort of discipline is valid, but that the company's response was to go full scorched earth on the person's entire career just makes their own hypocrisy and bigotry obvious.

Japanese agencies usually take underage drinking very seriously. Something that's a crime, or appears to be a crime, can be career-ending. A few years back, an underage AKB48 was fired after a picture of her holding an (open) alcoholic beverage was leaked.

I was just coming here to post this with some sources and reactions (see official statement here, her being dropped from the promo website here, and the backlash here, and here) - lots of people blaming the gossip magazine for starting the rumour, Toei and her agency Seju for staying silent during that and now seemingly throwing her under the bus for a seemingly minor offence, and discussing how much anti-Phillipine racism (Imamori being half-pinoy) might have made things even worse.

That's a complicated argument. In theory, both talents and agencies have to work together in order to minimize the impact of scandals, but there has been a lot of recent criticism with the, completely valid, argument that in practice that means lack of accountability, so if that means a shift into agencies dropping talents the second they become liabilities, then that's bad for the talents.

On the other hand, Imamori is both a rookie talent on her first major role and a woman, so is easy to make an example of her. The complete opposite of veteran male talents that agencies fought hard to defend until it was unfeasable to do so.

A couple more things that are worth noting I think:

• Imamori Maya is half Filipino, and much of the vitriol that's been directed at her since her casting, and more recently/intensely since the tabloid "reporting" has had an explicitly racist bent as a result

• Toei have have had a noted habit of casting teenage girls in roles that could easily have been played by adult women. It's arguably an industry standard thing and they cast male characters young too, but when you have recent examples like Beroba Geats, Lizel Gavv and Nem Zeztz who are all written as adults/young adults but played by schoolgirls, you start to wonder at the logic. Sumino herself makes no sense as a character if she's 19 as the actress is. If they really cared so much about the problems of their cast potentially drinking underage, then I would perhaps suggest that the simple fix would be to stop casting people below the age of majority, especially when the role itself doesn't call for it.

In any case, at the end of the day I hope Imamori is safe and has people who care about her to support her through this. She deserved absolutely none of this shite.

I wonder how right-wing nerds who talk about cancel culture in the west feel about Japanese and Korean women losing all their career opportunities for: 

• Smoking
• Drinking
• Having a boyfriend 
• Looking at a man too passionately

Dollars to donuts there's gonna be a story about stolen code or assets, especially since I'm reading the STALKER 2 test builds were leaked. None of this makes much sense otherwise, from the 19 year old solo developer (lol) to the fact that there are a ton of inspired games that haven't been struck by copyright claims.

Worth noting, that is, because the developer of Misery is Russian, and it turns out that Misery's Discord server was full of pro-invasion posting and anti-Ukrainian racism. At least one of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developers died in the invasion.

Pretty close to an iconic Stalker motif in a few places

I was vaguely aware of it and assumed it was related to one of the most famous Stalker mods of the same name, I guess not.

Honest question, why is that worth noting, exactly? I don't see how the preceding text relates to it.

Seems like a reasonably hinged person.

I don't think Stalker 2 has the exclusive rights to a game set in a zone ruined by nuclear radiation so I'm hoping more info comes out justifying the claim or this will be a bit shit from them 

Yeah I'm not really one to defend or even really play Gachas but like, almost everything about this feels more like a Lady Dimitrescu/Yandere reference than an Elizabeth Short one. Tall lady in a white dress, wide brimmed hat, and giant claws on one hand, with a motif of black flowers? Likewise, the pose she does is more evocative of that one Yandere slasher smile than a Glasgow smile, especially with the hands.

That being said, however, I think the most interesting link I've found looking into this is that the lead actress of the Blue Dahlia, which the murder case was named after, is named Constance Ockelman, and only used Veronica Lake as her stage name. It might be a coincidence, but that's a helluva coincidence.

A trigger warning doesn't help unless you specify what it's for.

ohhhh that explains why some cosplayers I follow on xhs were making vague “I am taking down all mihoyo related photos” statements… yeesh

CN fandom wars are nuts, people go to jail on a disturbingly frequent basis for leaking, harassing and defaming rival gacha game companies. It's hard to know whats real and whats people trying to stir shit.

In general, I tend not to trust any outrage over these games anymore. Because of how big they've gotten and how many haters they've amassed because of it (of the games themselves, of male/female characters specifically, of particular design choices, etc.), these almost always end up being people who were already predisposed to hate these characters looking for any excuse to justify it. That's why there's constant controversies over these games, and yet they're still doing fine regardless.

I especially don't trust sources on the NA side talking about what the CN side is supposedly outraged over. It's usually people who want to manufacture outrage over here by cherrypicking comments to make it seem like a big deal over there. I also wouldn't discount the possibility that it's just Chinese players trolling people so they can have a laugh at how easy Americans are to manipulate.

As for the issue itself, I can understand why some people would find it distasteful or wouldn't be comfortable with it, but people need to learn that you can only control yourself. You can make arguments for why X is bad or why Y shouldn't be a thing, but as long as those things fall within the boundaries of the law, people have the right to ignore you. Basically, if this bothers you, you really should just disengage from it, whether that means avoiding the character, quitting the game, or whatever. But if you're going to try to pressure this company or think you'll be able to convince the majority of the playerbase to see things the way you do, I've got some bad news for you.

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I probably should get around to repotting my cactus and succulents. But it's supposed to snow. They're all indoor plants but idk if they'd be mad if I repotted them now. The cactus is too tall for his pot so he really needs to be moved.

I should be working on my 12 Days of Christmas ornaments but it's so hard. Some of the pieces are so tiny!

I went to a doll show last weekend and realized i should have brought my bjd doll since it was not weird to bring a doll for socializing and clothes fitting. It was actually still fun and i connected with the nearest bjd group and got a doll trunk for clothes storage.

Made mom a pair of shorts for summer, and finished adding pockets to it. (if it ever comes, like, seriously, it's november but temps are still randomly dropping to 15°, where is my sun, spring?)

It's finally cool enough outside to bake! I picked up a bread loaf mold in the shape of a cat head when I was in Japan last month, so I'm going to use my go-to milk bread recipe with it and hope it works. I'm also going to run test batches of melon pan (requested by my sister for our Thanksgiving spread) and cinnamon roll apple pie (I REALLY want to win a pie-baking contest we're having at work).

I'm working with some FIMO to make a model for my Pathfinder game in two weeks! (We usually meet every 2 weeks, but I had to skip last time because of Tooth Removal.)

a game i enjoy is having one of those fandom fan shipping 'weeks', with this particular event being centered around femslash pairings. i got back into writing in december of last year, so i figured this would be a good chance to test my writing skills in producing something under a tight deadline. and also give myself an excuse to write more lesbians ofc.

i've had 2 weeks to work on 2 fics. one is in its 'first final draft' stage and just needs polish, the other one ended up being a total panster/im writing it as i go. guess which one is supposed to be posted this coming monday :")

for your etsy question: ive seen people selling crotchet packers and crotchet packer patterns, so you might be able to get away with it? neither a plush nor a soft packer can be used as a sex toy, so it seems fine to me at least.

It's picklin' season so I've been making various jars for the friends who've asked for them. Last weekend I did all the pickled onions, this weekend it's piccalilli/mustard pickle and pickled chilis. I find it kinda soothing and therapeutic to do with a podcast or music on, although it does make the house pretty eye-watering for a day or two.

It is a miserable day (overcast, cold and foggy, rather than just the usual miserableness) in North Rhine Westphalia today, so I am cross-stitching bird bookmarks. My mum knows how much I miss NZ bird life, so she keeps sending me these kits for my birthday & xmas, and I have quite a backlog to get through.

I'm probably late to this but there was an obscure cartoon show I remember liking when I was a kid called Gawayn that had a banger theme song

I think we're also witnessing Millennials growing up and realising that things we hyped up so hard perhaps weren't that good at all. I enjoyed the first two seasons of Sherlock back then (didn't watch the rest), but I also wasn't familiar with the book canon. It was just a fun show to me, and I think a lot of us were hoping for a canon gay relationship, because the world felt ready for it.

I fell down the canon rabbit hole a few years ago thanks to the Frogwares videogames. Yeah, the BBC version isn't good at all and I am so thankful we're done hyping up rude characters like Cumberbatch's Sherlock was (or even Hbomb's old dunkin' style). Now here's a funny thing: while the tides have turned on the show for sure, there's still a pretty big fandom behind it. Hell, the Frogwares writers cite it as their inspiration and you can see references and ideas echoed in their newest games. The fandom is very much alive on Tumblr, too. But yeah, there's definitely a phenomenon where people turn on something they enjoyed and it somehow becomes embarrassing to admit you ever liked it at all.

I wanted to tell you my favourite obscure show tune, but I realised I no longer remember what the show or the song are called. Yikes. So let's go with Inner Universe by Origa from Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex.

Dangerholic, the theme for the live-action adaptation of Trillion Game, is probably my favorite track out of that franchise. Nothing against the anime adaptation's opening, of course, it just doesn't capture the reckless, over-the-top "what if Joseph Joestar was alive today and aspired to have more money than God?" spirit of the manga and its main character quite as well.

I also like Metallic Rouge's opening and ending, can't remember ever skipping them when I was watching that. Helps that it has my favorite insert song in any anime outside of Symphogear.

Phineas and Ferb is well known but the full version of the theme song does not get the love it deserves. Bowling For Soup knocked it out of the park with that.

I'm genuinely fond of the theme of the original Heartbreak High.

Amphibia’s, because of how peppy it is, and for the opposite reason, The 100’s. Especially when combined with visuals, it sells that this is a bleak yet epic show.

My Dad loved Why Aye Man, he made child-me download it from Napster for him.

My pic for favourite lesser-known TV show theme song is the intro to Sky TV's Prickly Heat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAMZ11ntopg

The Poirot theme song! Even just thinking about it makes me begin to hum it (poorly).

Your Sherlock discourse is what's happening to Harry Potter. Author bad so clearly There Was Never a Single Good Thing About the Series Ever And You Are Morally Superior If You Never Liked It is the discourse, and like, guys, get a grip. Wow you were a hipster when you were 8 and so you don't have to be sad that a book series you liked was written by a bad person as far as you know, congrats. Talk about something else now, you losers.

You actually don't have to ask a question on hobby scuffles comments, people just do.

To answer your question, I was gonna say the Wonderfalls theme song but I realized I was singing the WonderBall jingle in my head.

The Mr. Belvedere theme song is pretty dope, I love it. The show is meh but the theme song is fun. Also Hey Arnold isn't exactly lesser-known but I love that the whole show went with jazz music.

I have a real soft-spot for the theme to "American Dragon: Jake Long"

Also, this is exactly the opposite of lesser-known but for as much as The Big Bang Theory gets dunked on, that theme song is an absolute bop.

Also, there's like a million anime answers here where I don't actually remember the name of the show itself lol

I kind of feel like some of discussion about Star Wars: The Mandalorian kind become this given it had 2 strong first seasons and then a poor s3. I have seen comments going back an essentially making out the whole show was garbage from the get go, not helped by the discourse around Andor and the tendency to compare it to every other piece of star wars media to essentially proclaim it is only thing remotely watchable.

I can sympathise with the backlash of when something gets a shitty or poorly executed fanale and how it can feel like all that time and investment into the story basically got little payoff, however i roll my eyes when people start throwing their toys of of the pram and promoting this extreme black and white "its either a masterpiece or dog shit" retorhric.

Definitely the Cybersix main theme. Apparently, there's an unreleased three minute version of the song that will probably never see the light of day, although I'd love to hear it.

Submitting my two theme songs that I LOVED as a kid!

Pirate Master

Wolfblood

On the subject of theme songs, I've always been rather partial to the one to The Future is Wild. The original documentary-ish one, not the kids' show with actual characters and such. The thing that I find kinda funny is just how much the main motif feels like the main motif of the Art Ensemble of Chicago's Odwalla to me. Similar shapes and a similar sequence of repeats, I guess.

Whatever, it's not the weirdest set of things my brain has decided are adjacent to each other.

I will always take an opportunity to let more people know about Jack of All Trades.

I’m always a little exasperated by the extremes of the “pendulum swinging” some works get- I think I’ve complained about the Star Wars prequels here before (generally I’m keen on them, but they were traditionally seen as the Worst Thing Ever^TM, and, while it’s not as noticeable now, there was a period when, at least on Reddit, you’d get pushback in many spaces for implying they were anything but perfect masterpieces), but I’ve noticed it happening lately with a lot. Doctor Who is particularly on the mind as you mentioned HBomberguy- he did a video on it around the same time as the Sherlock one, and his opinions were a pretty common during the Steven Moffat era, but it’s liked a lot more nowadays as I’ve found. Funnily enough, imo part of the hatred was because Moffat was absolutely adored before that by the fanbase (Russell T Davies was the showrunner, but Moffat wrote a story per season, and they were considered some of the best episodes of the show). There’s a related concept here of “Franchise Original Sin,” as TvTropes calls it, where the things people dislike about a work or author are present in earlier, more-positively-received media, but aren’t taken as badly by the audience.

(As an aside, I’ve seen people doing something similar with the current era of Doctor Who in regard to the following Chibnall era. Unfortunately, the examples I’ve seen are generally “it was less woke^TM,” in spite of the fact that “”wokeness””was one of things people hated about that period. That is also something that happens a fair bit- pre-Chibnall reboot Who arguably had much more “woke” themes, but because it was on a few years/decades ago, it doesn’t get noticed ^{-just saying, if Aliens came out today unchanged, the Culture War crowd would be screaming about it for years}.

Sherlock is a bit different compared to the other two, as it wasn’t a follow-up to, nor succeeded by, another similar work (there are many other Holmes adaptations, but there hasn’t been anything like a “Sherlock 2”), but still. It’s of interest to me in particular because I was quite partial to it when I was young (my high-school gf was massively into it when we were teenagers, so that rubbed off on me at the time), but I also got converted by that old HBomb video, and wasn’t as keen on it after a rewatch. I do like making jokes at its expense, between the Apple Tree Yard thing and some of the show’s less-proud moments, but at the same time I acknowledge it’s not nearly as bad as some act (and I include myself in that group).

I think part of this may also just be the odd thing with internet media reactions where something has to be one of the greatest tragedies inflicted upon the human race if it’s not liked. It’s always confused me a bit- I can personally still really enjoy media that isn’t the apex of quality, or even isn’t all that good- not just in a “so bad, it’s good”/ironic way, but genuinely like watching/reading/playing things that are meh at best if you think about them- hell, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint is still one of my favourite games. So, for example, all of the Discourse^TM about the new(ish) Lord of the Rings series seems to treat watching the show as being roughly on par with being flayed alive and yet, the people who act like that have often seen it all the way through, sometimes more than once, but in my opinion it was just… mid, I guess. Even then, it has its virtues (I’ve only seen S1, but the Orcs Uruk were great).

As yet another tangent, I’d be curious to see Hbomberguy’s thoughts on the show now. He made his video a good while ago (8 years), and from what I gather he seems to have matured a fair bit since those days (maybe projecting a bit here, as I’m similar in age and share a lot of interests, and I was insufferable back in 2017), and I imagine would be less vitriolic about it now (unless it’s for a bit).

Sorry, that ended up being a massively over-complicated ramble (I am also bored, albeit on a Saturday Afternoon), but hope some find it interesting!

To answer the actual question, if we’re counting orchestral openings, I’m really partial to the opening/main theme from the early 2000s documentary Walking with Beasts, which I think is fairly obscure compared to its predecessor/prequel, unless you’re into prehistory etc. I particularly like how they start off with just the music, start including wordless vocals when they show the first hominids in the opening sequence, and actual words(ish?) later. This is actually a really cool thing the entire show does with its soundtrack- there aren’t any vocal elements for the first three episodes, and then the fourth, which focuses on Australopithecus afarensis (a very early hominid- other primates appear earlier, but not anything similar to us), starts incorporating noises made by humans. However, they’re fairly simple. Then, when the last episode comes around, we get to the point in history where humans have appeared (the episode between them is set 1.5mya, so after the earliest humans have evolved, but before language really existed, and there aren’t any humans in that episode) and can speak, so they start incorporating chanting and actual words into the soundtrack. It’s an incredibly neat detail someone pointed out to me a while ago, and it’s something I think even most people who watched it didn’t pick up on.