The guilty pleasures thread.

Fully admitting that one watches porn never gets easier, even with time.

...So yeah.

• Live action shows from Disney Channel
• Full House
• Victorious
• Pretty Little Liars (the books and the show).

edited 22nd Feb '14 9:51:06 AM by Explosivo25

There is nothing right with this video.

That's what makes it amazing.

Yaoi. But only if there's no Wimpification or Die for Our Ship.

Also, Nightcore.

This fanfic, to an extent, but it's actually very cleverly crafted; I feel more guilty for liking it because of the main pairing.

Yaoi used to be a guilty pleasure of mine, but I concede I'll enjoy a nice beefcake, if it's given to me.

Ecchi harem comedies, however...I disappoint myself.

edited 29th Apr '14 4:02:20 AM by mrsunshinesprinkles

Bratzillaz.

The other Bratz dolls are fucking hideous, but the Brazilliaz actually look quite charming and pretty. Maybe it's the glass inset eyes, maybe it's the fact they smile so their gigantic lips don't look as off putting, but all around they're just more pleasant to look at than the regular Bratz Dolls.

edited 29th Apr '14 4:36:43 AM by PippingFool

I use the word 'guilty pleasure' quite loosely. At least I literally don't feel guilty, I'm not sure if I've understood that right.

Still, sometimes, when my friends are all busy and I've got no work and lots of times to waste, no sleep coming, I like to listen to mantras on Youtube.

Here's one. Hope you like.

As a grown man, I love listening to sappy love songs when no one else is around.

edited 30th Apr '14 7:20:17 AM by shooterboss

Considering I have a very, very difficult time assuming my tastes around anybody I know in real life, I'll just say "everything even remotely geekish/nerdy" and leave it at that.

If by "guilty pleasures," we're talking things we like, even while acknowledging their unhealthiness and/or campiness/silliness/stupidity (or even just things that contradict our usual tastes), I have a few:

Movies/TV:

• Full House
• Space Jam
• Independence Day
• Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian
• Hocus Pocus
• Muppets from Space
• The Craft

Music:

• "Poker Face"
• "Let It Go" (yes, THAT one)

Other:

• Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter (mostly because my usual method of consumption is eating it with a large spoon out of a jar).

edited 16th May '14 10:16:00 AM by Luna87

Sonic.exe, as of very recently.

-Yaoi, and lots of it.
-Yuri, too.
-I have a giant love for white chocolate.

Traps. I'm not ashamed in being into them, I'm embarrassed by how long it took for me to admit to liking 'em.

edited 14th Jun '14 3:34:32 PM by mrsunshinesprinkles

Self insert and crossover fanfiction is also my favorite

Movies:

Super Mario Bros,

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 movie,

The New Guy,

Bubble Boy,

Music:

Fancy- Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX

Games:

Shadow The Hedgehog

edited 19th Oct '14 5:18:48 PM by hardesthardcoregamer

Bon Jovi.

• The new Taylor Swift song, "Shake It Off"

• The video for Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda"

• Muscle Man on Regular Show, because he's kind of in a lot of episodes and I recognize that he's not everyone's cup of tea

• That's On Miiverse

Lapfox Trax, Instagram, and maybe saltine crackers.

What a ridiculous thread. There's no guilt in pleasure.

That's not the kind of guilty pleasure we're talking about. Or is that a joke?

Anyway, I like Moulin Rouge (2001) as a guilty pleasure. Sure, it's melodramatic, sure the love story is kinda shallow, but I like it because of its cheesiness.

Part joke, and part my genuine outlook on life. I see no reason to ever feel guilty about liking things. Caving in to peer pressure in that regard? Silly.

edited 19th Dec '14 7:30:52 PM by lazybanshee

'Peer pressure' is hardly the whole of it. Surely there's a few shows you've watched which contains a few things that you personally feel are really bad and you dislike, but which have enough positive qualities that you keep watching anyway?

An example for me would be Kill La Kill. I found stuff like the Big Bad's fondness for incestuous rape tacky, tedious, a jarring tonal shift that the show wasn't built to handle, and generally unpleasant, but the humour and visual inventiveness kept me watching even as the questionable writing decisions made me wince and roll my eyes more by each episode.

Fetish art

I'm not really interested in sex, so I feel hypocritical about having an interest in work with an entirely sexual purpose.

I would not put Kill La Kill as one of my guilty pleasures, much as it made me cringe or (more often) think "They're just trying too hard at being edgy and provocative". Partly because it was in many ways well done and usually likeable, but also because I was taking it somewhat seriously and when it missed the mark, I took it as a somewhat serious problem.

My guilty pleasures, in Japanese animation, are more like Noucome (My Mental Choices Are Getting In The Way Of My Highschool Comedy, the title alone says it), which veered wildly from clever and hilarious to "How does the author think this is in any way funny?". For the most part it is a parody of harem shows, but far too much is repeating a single gag that I never found funny. Yet other parts had some kind of charm even when they fell flat for trying. Also little fanservice, and pointing up some of the creepy sides of harem shows. Until the last two episodes, when it became a harem show.

Until then, I could call it a guilty pleasure in that I liked it even though much of it was not in any way good.

Perhaps an even stronger example is Onee-chan ga Kita, which I liked, and really wished I didn't.