• HiddenLayer5
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    6 months ago

    Why do people care this much about completely harmless and inconsequential things other people do? I’ve personally never given a shit when someone else claps when a plane lands, same with people clapping in movie theatres. The world is miserable enough, let people enjoy the little things, it’s not like they’re forcing you to clap with them.

    • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Precisely because they are harmless and inconsequential. Complaining about things like this or pineapple on pizza are just meme complaints. Nobody cares that much about it in reality.

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      What I’ve never understood- it doesn’t bother me but I’ve never understood it- is people who clap after a movie. I don’t mean people at the premiere where the filmmakers and actors are, I mean people in some town in Wisconsin or whatever. It’s weird.

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        6 months ago

        It’s for the projectionist, and it’s probably outdated these days. But until digital film distribution became common it was actually a fairly involved job.

        Edit: and if you go back to the silent film era the scores used to be played live. So maybe it’s even a holdover from that.

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          Interesting theory but if it was clapping for the protectionist then they’d do it at the end of every movie that was well-projected, not just the movies they thought were great.

          I feel it’s more a habit carried over from live theater and music performances. They’re happy and just instinctively clap even if it’s pointless as a gesture towards the production. It just an expression of enjoyment they’ve developed sitting in a theater.

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      6 months ago

      No, but they are forcing you to listen to the noise they make.

      Making unnecessary noise is inconsiderate to those around you.