alt Hacker Newsi think i get you. i feel like you guys grew up with netflix type shows. im millennial and also never got into sitcoms, i find it hard to turn off my brain lol.
i prefer the higher quality of modern shows that have richer narratives and are more immersive?
but sitcoms for me have a sentimental value. my dad would come home tired after work and my parents would watch everybody loves raymond, and before sleep me and my dad would watch fresh prince of bel air and cosby show.
big bang is the one of the last shows before my parents moved on to forming a youtube vlogs addiction.
> i feel like you guys grew up with netflix type shows
that is somewhat true, at least from the point where i was able to choose what to watch myself. i used to eat lunch at my grandpa's place as a kid because he lived closest to my school, after eating i then watched Big Bang because that's what was on TV. also watched a couple of seasons of "How I Met Your Mother" with my dad during the same time.
then about 10 years later my gf wanted to watch Big Bang together and i noticed that i just couldn't do it anymore. tanked through three seasons and then had to give up.
i did watch through all of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" a couple of years ago, so it's not like i got an overall issue with "older" sitcoms, my brain just can't process canned laughs anymore, to the point where it legitimately pisses me off. even if there's a joke i actually find funny, as soon as the laughs and claps come in, my smile vanishes.
considering the birthyear-ranges for Millenials and Gen-Z, i am in theory an "old zoomer". i did witness the birth of YouTube on my WindowsXP-PC, and later TikTok on a smartphone, maybe that mix of experience causes such weird mismatches :D