One thing I have noticed for video games is that if you try to gather consensus from professional “critics” you’ll see that they tend overrate games a lot and ignore the fact that 90% of games are unfinished garbage. This makes sense if you consider the fact that their livelihood is indirectly but heavily dependent on you continually consuming media despite how garbage it is. Once I noticed this all critics started feeling super fake.

You can go to albumoftheyear.org and see this in action with the users typing nonsense in their album reviews and being able to tell that an album is deserving of 63 points instead of 62 somehow.