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Two stacked movie stills of a young woman with wavy light brown hair talking earnestly to a bearded man seen from behind in a booth. Top caption: "You think it's cool to hate things. It's not. It's boring." Bottom caption: "Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't."

Hating Things Isn't Cool, It's Boring

A movie-scene quote calls out the habit of acting cool by hating things, a lesson for Xennials raised on ironic 90s snark and now surrounded by comment-section negativity.

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Two stacked movie stills of a young woman with wavy light brown hair talking earnestly to a bearded man seen from behind in a booth. Top caption: "You think it's cool to hate things. It's not. It's boring." Bottom caption: "Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't."

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