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What's a community that gatekeeps really hard?
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Anime - People don't like you when you're into the popular ones.
Video Games - It's everywhere here. If you're into AAA games, you'll never hear the end of it. If you're into Indie games, then you have to be into games like Hollow Knight, Undertale .etc or you just don't know indie.
Metal Music - Fucking hell, you're always going to be snubbed and looked down upon because you're not into Death or Black Metal. Doesn't matter if you're into Iron Maiden or X Nu Metal band here, but you're just not metal until you listen to anything Black/Death. Maybe I don't want to listen to Cookie Monster and Friends.
As an older metalhead, this makes me a bit sad, but I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. The metal scene I joined in the early 90s did have its tolerance problems specifically against other music genres, but I never knew it as particularly gatekeepy, at least the circles I socialised with and the concerts and festivals I went to. There were some people who though you weren't a real metal fan if you didn't exclusively listen to metal, but they were a minority. Nobody had a problem with me not particularly liking Slayer or Motörhead, and there was no requirement to have long hair and be covered in leather and/or band patches.
I remember when metalheads would not shut the fuck up about Justin Bieber back in the 2010s. They were obsessed with hating him.