Am I the only one?

That avoids something simply because its popular?
I hate bandwagons.
If something is really hyped or FOTM I'll avoid it like the plague. Even if it's something I've looked forward to.

I refused to watch any Harry Potter movies until the hysteria died down. Then I of course fell in love with the series.

I was still rocking my pager in 2000, refusing to give in and get a cellphone. Now I can't live without one.

I'll end up avoiding Demons and Dual Pistols for at least 6 months after GR is released.
I still haven't made a Shield toon because its still so shiny.

Does this make me weird?
I think it boils down to me not wanting to be sheeple. I don't wanna be someone doing something just because everyone else is. Even when it's something I might enjoy.
Just can't stand being a clone I guess. So I'll wait and let the newness go away, wait until everyone stops gushing over something, then in the shadows I'll watch it, or I roll one up, and ask myself why I waited.

Anyone else avoid bandwagons like me?

Not on purpose I just don't tend to like the trendy/popular stuff.

Some bands I would follow then they hit it big and I was not as interested in them because their music had changed resulting in their success but my lack of interest.

I wouldn't say wierd.
Self-punishing, very much so

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Just because something is popular does not make it good. It just speaks to the moment . When I was a kid I found the 3 Stooges funny , now not so much . But there popularity is proably about the same . As for not following the crowd I think it's smart , remember lemmings.

I think it's better to just go with what you like, rather than what's popular/unpopular.

People who dont like something which is populour are just as bad as people who only like things that are popular.

Just be yourself and like what you like! Dont limit yourself in such a silly (and quite childish ) way.

You're not the only one. I avoid iPods/ iPads// iStore/ iAnything because they typically end up being overblown by fan hype. Actually, I find it ironic that I am buying an iPad not for myself, but for a foreign friend who really wants one. I also don't want to be tied to one vendor for my media players and my media - I like choices. Besides, they already chaffed me by stealth-installing iTunes onto my computer when I installed Quicktime once. Just plain rude.

I avoided WoW due to crowds, and all the horror stories I heard since the game attracts the Lowest Common Denominators. You get them sometimes here too, but not in large packs.

See, this is something I see as even worse than trying something out because it IS popular - as I see it, if a lot of people like something, then there's got to be something appealing about it and that makes it worth looking into for me. If I can find no evidence that this new thing is bad and/or unfun, I'll do the sensible thing and try it out. Who cares if five hundred other people also like it? I don't play a broadsword/shield scrapper to try to be different, I play one because DAMN IS SHIELD CHARGE FUN.

I stopped doing things solely to be different in high school.

I just do what I do becuase I want to do it.

I never saw a good reason to jump on something becuase it was popular.

I never saw a good reason to avoid something becuase it was popular.

I only ever seen a good reason to do either becuase it either interested me or not. If your only reason not to do something is becuase you don't want to be "one of the sheep" and want to be different and unique your most likely picking a poor reason.

After all everyone is unique just like everyone else.

Eff that noise, I say. Why would I ever subject myself to such a punishment? I will do what I want to do on my own time of choosing.

I usually avoid the bandwagons myself for multiple purposes. 1) I generally don't like jumping in with the crowd, cause with so many people in the fray, it's hard to really see what you actually got your hands on, let alone what you got yourself into. 2) If I like something I generally will get it eventually, and there are times I want to just enjoy it, not sit with the rest of the maddening fans that sit around and nit-pick what should happen, what would happen if they were in charge of said thing, why things didn't happen, and why all thing will bend us all over about said thing that everyone got in the first place cause it's awesome.

I'm like the kid who went to stores the day after the mad sales at the Holiday season and find some hidden gems when all the popular media-based items are now out of my way thanks to the so called "sheeple."

...I'm sorry, what was that? I was too distracted by the inherent obnoxious silliness of the word 'sheeple'.

I like finding stuff before it's popular and enjoying it and telling people how awesome it is. I look like I'm really hip to finding new cool stuff that way.

I remember watching South Park with a friend during the first season before it became all popular.