Most of them…
The cult of…origami?
Oh, man, the serious origami people are SERIOUS!
Also candle making, don’t sniff the Kool Aid scented wax.
Adults going to DisneyWorld as if it was a sacred shrine
When I meet a chick in an online dating way, at the first mention of Disney I’m gone. Unmatch, block, whatever’s fastest.
Adults going to Disney without kids.
those are the one’s that I was thinking about
never understood the appeal either lol
Going to Disneyland, buying that doll, having that retro console, collecting all the items in the set, buying that vintage car, getting a fat hog to crank it up with…
Its melancholic nostalgia, having the things we could never have when we were young.
having the things we could never have when we were young
This is why I went through a period of collecting multi-cultural dolls in my 20s. When I was a kid and asked my mom for a black Barbie, she got weird about it and made me feel very uncomfortable. All over wanting a doll that wasn’t white. Fuck that noise, my Barbies span the human rainbow now.
I worked at Disneyland for 8 years. I still go there every year. It’s been over 10 years and I’m still running into people I used to work with and can shoot the shit with them for an hour.
For me, there is something about that place that I took ownership of, cared for people there, and tried to make it better in the small way I could. I see all the effort that so many people have and continue to put in and really appreciate the artistry and care these people have.
It’s a place that I feel comfortable in, and I like to just sit, listen to the music and the sounds of the crowds and people watch.
Went to Disney last year. Never again. Lines are too long, you must use a phone app to get 'fast access’s to rides, but fast access is now just normal access. Standby waits are over an hour for all rides. Some rides had no standby, so no phone app, no going on that one. Oh and the phone app has limited space that I found out is usually gone 5 min after opening at 6 am or some shit.
I had to wait 2 hours for jungle cruise while watching a non stop line of fast pass people just constantly walking on.
It’s too crowded, elbow to elbow people.
Still 20.00 for a crap hamburger.
Tickets were like 380 for 2 of us.
Save your money and leave Disney for the foreign stupid tourists
We foreign stupid tourists have Disney Land Paris, thank you very much.
Still 20.00 for a crap baguette.
the florida disney is mostly visited by canadians
Hard agree on pretty much all of that.
But it’s still my friends and I get in for free, I’ve been literally thousands of times (most of them Disney paid me to be there) and I, maybe, get on one or two rides a day, if I go on any at all.
And do what they told me to do for 8 hours. In return, I got in for free.
I did have the occasional shift that was stress test a new thing so they could train. So riding an attraction that wasn’t open yet for 4 hours was pretty fun.
Yea but Disney makes money off of that passion…
its all those gifts, resorts, hotels and diners/food fees.
Sure, but a lot of those people there are my friends. You can find plenty of posts from me criticizing their management, board, and CEO. I don’t like how the company is run or many of their projects. But a lot of people there are actual friends of mine, and it’s an avenue for a lot of their art to be seen by the world.
I’m a big fan of theme parks and live entertainment. I haven’t seen anywhere that really compares with them on that front. I’m not familiar with anywhere else that does a parade multiple times a day, fireworks practically every night, a dozen small theatrical productions, a large technical fountain show, and an elaborate stage production every single day. Many with people I actually personally know running or working on them.
Disney makes money, and I agree they over charge for everything. But they also do put out a pretty good product for it. For the most part, at least. I have a lot of gripes about some of it because of the standards that I have after working there.
Oh, and I also still utilize friends that I have there to get in for free. I haven’t paid to go to a Disney park in nearly 2 decades.
i read an article where a guy was going there almost everyday, or every chance because had nothing else to do. i think somewhere in that article mentioned that people were creeped or got suspicious because he is a man with no children at that place frequently.
Lots of people that live locally near Disneyland or Disney World have annual passes. Except for a few “blackout” dates you can go for free everyday. I can’t imagine why you would even go more than, maybe every 6 months.
old people
Knitting. It’s part witchcraft, part voodoo.
That’s because it’s math, which is voodoo witchcraft.
Don’t even get me started on fucking crochet…
The single thing I miss about Reddit is r/knitting. It was the only consistently kind and supportive niche sub I ever frequented. I learned a lot from them and even when someone posted something kind of ugly or not right, everyone was like, “keep it up! You’ll be doing sweaters in no time!” Sometimes people were snobs about yarn but usually for just themselves… not knocking on another user not opting to buy expensive hand spun/hand dyed yarns especially when it’s clear they were beginners. Ah I miss it honestly.
CrossFit.
so many people get injured from that.
Politics, obviously.
Religion. All of them are cults. Every single fucking one.
Nothing. No other hobby even comes close to the death, genocide, rape, murder, and hate generated by that type of religious cult. It’s every single year, too. Every single year religion tops its hate, greed, and pain inflicted on everyone.
They said hobbies not belief systems.
For a lot of people, when you look at how they spend their time, it is clear that their religion is both their belief system AND their hobby.
Think of the “Bible study” types. They’ve turned it into a hobby-like activity. Some I knew growing up clearly had nothing else. It was their hobby.
It’s not a hobby. They’re practicing their faith…it’s such a huge difference.
Choosing to believe in one set of imaginary friends over another- or none- is most certainly a hobby by every definition.
It is not essential for life. It is not required by law. People willingly choose and actively continue choosing to engage in the activities in their free time, and report positive feelings from doing so. When doubts arise, other members of the cult try hard to sway them to stay, often using threats. That’s a hobby. And a cult.
I actuallly don’t think you can understand this…
If you spend more time to consider and think about the differences between spirituality and religion, you’d see what I’m getting at. There’s a blurring of lines sure, but a lot of these religious activities are not at all necessary for their beliefs, and merely a choice that fulfills them in a similar manner as other hobbies.
In that case it degenerates into superstition…i think
I wouldn’t call a cult a belief system.
It is, it deviates from the norm and demands an irrational amount of obedience. Than it nests on top of the previous beilefs of the vitctim.
What a fun answer!
Yeah seriously. It’s pretty severely missed the point of this thread.
Ironic that it looks like someone came through and downvotes every answer in this thread other than this one, considering. It’d be pretty great if the mods banned whoever that was.
oh no not the downvotes how will my children eat! listen to yourself for fucks sake
To be clear, at the time I made that comment, every top-level response in this thread had precisely one downvote, apart from two. One had many downvotes (“Most of them”), obviously just not very constructive. The other was this one. It’s obviously the result of some troll.
and what a ghastly troll that must have been!! did you sleep ok?
Edgelord atheist mad at christianity and islam: “every religion is genocide and hate, and I hate them.”
Buddhists , jains, pagans, etc: “hey excuse you buddy.”
Baha’is would as well, but nobody ever remembers them. The one time I saw a question about TBF on Jeopardy, it was the Final Jeopardy question, and no one got it right.
I usually limit my ire to Abrahamic religions (though Buddhism’s track record isn’t completely clean).
I don’t know enough about the history of Jainism to say one way or another, though given what I know about it (ALL life is sacred), i imagine they’re probably the closest an organized religion can get to being unharmful.
I mean, Buddhists just did a genocide in Myanmar. They have a cleaner track record than Abrahamic faiths for sure, but if you spend serious time in actual Buddhist places it fills the exact same societal roles.
Neopaganism is a bit of an odd one out in that list, because it’s a newly invented thing.
Your particular brand of invisible sky wizard is different from my particular brand of invisible sky wizard. Die heretic!
I’m pretty sure that religion was mostly used as a kind of motivational tool for the masses, but without religion there probably would have been another excuse why the enemy needs to die
It’s always about resources and shit anyway
I don’t think anyone would call their religion a hobby, though.
Many people engage with the cults as a hobby though. Many of my relatives would probably agree that’s about their level of involvement, but then they pay in to the beast that does all of the culty shit…
Definitely warhammer. Can’t stand those punks. Have you noticed a lot of warhammer lore reaction videos
Related but a lot of smaller LARP clubs (European style at least, can’t speak for America) end up extremely culty because of a perfect storm of factors:
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takes up loads of time and resources just to be average; making costumes, learning stats, downtime activities etc before you’ve even left the house
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predominantly twenty-somethings who recently moved out of their parents’ house and end up house-sharing with other LARPers from the same club
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the RPG + Am Dram elements mean that it takes years to be able to access a lot of the game, whether it be types of spellcasting or a character in a position of power. This means that if you want to quit your club for another one, you’re losing years of progression in a way that doesn’t happen with sports or most arts-based hobbies.
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spending whole weekends in the middle of the woods with no outside influence, where you have to follow instructions given by refs. It’s also not unusual to be up until sunrise or even do all-nighters playing through the next day as well
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success or failure at the game is often at the whims of said refs, MUCH more than in Warhammer
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…as a result of which, the club management hierarchy ends up translating into social hierarchy outside of official events. The people at the top are the ones that effectively determine whether a party, day trip or even a wedding is going to be a big event or not, and the regular membership treats them accordingly. So, culty as heck.
It’s like a microcosm of society itself in a way, guess we human beings can’t think outside of hierarchical structures
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I second DnD and Warhammer, and i’ll add Magic the Gathering to this list
Yeah, anything that has you speaking in game jargon in public should qualify.
One of my friends at a pizza place a few years ago: “I can’t believe I didn’t get to poison anyone last night.”
Me: “Dude, context! We are in public!”
First intro to MtG was in college I walked past a room with the lights out and only candles lit, the four people were wearing robes and playing… MtG. Decided right then that nah, that’s too far for me.
Candlelit MtG? They were either having a terrible date or daring the other to burn their decks
the people trying to defend the current MTG UBs which are using IP from different franchise(which are not original mtg developed cards, things like spider man, finanl fantasy, borderlands,etc.)
thats sounds like DND. i played MTG in hs, it was mostly in HS cafeteria or in a secluded room with friends, and someone that works there, we dont play outside of school though and nobody in CC played it, so i stopped playing it, but sitll collected it for a few more years.
Improv
Community theater can get pretty weird. (It can just as easily be not weird and awesome, though)
True, any gathering of current or former “theatre kids” is going to be weird. But that’s what makes them so fun. (Unless you hate show tunes. Then you’re in for a bad time.)
Cult leadership
I wanted to start my own cult, but didn’t know where to start. Luckily, I found a great group of people who had the same interest! Now we meet every Tuesday!
cult leaders tend to be grifters too.
Gunpla, pop/labubu, liquid-cooing/overclocking, 3D printing, drones/RC
There is a bit of a threshold between an innocent hobby and a cult, but once crossed, it’s… yeah…
If you’re into liquid cooling cause it gives “better performance” then that’s cope and a cult, but if you just do it to make your PC look cool asf then there’s nothing wrong with that
Can you still overclock tf out of a liquid cooled cpu or has that changed?
Yes and no. You can push clocks and power higher on liquid, but the recent generations of CPU and GPU automatically push their own clocks up when there’s heat/power headroom. It’s a byproduct of both Moore’s Law dying and low power management systems becoming more and more advanced. All of the big players have introduced systems that automatically go in the other direction than low power by now.
So, generally speaking these days, you have to go pretty extreme to get significant performance gains over air (especially with heat pipes/chambers making air waaaay better than it used to be). Liquid can still generally be quieter, though. can
Nahhhh, better performance WAS a totally true and valid thing. Though since moore’s law died, power management systems advanced, and heat pipes/chambers were commercialized, the difference is now neglegible for all but the extreme cases.
I don’t see what makes the last two cult-like?
Some of the bambulab owners are a bit cultish for sure.
Religion IMHO is a hobby.
People who play Call of Chuthulu every single day
Where!? Point me in the direction of these people so I can uh… show them the error of their ways! But first I will have to gain their trust by joining, of course.
