Fair, but people will watch a random youtuber doing a video essay for the first time on an old topic like sbmm or AI in games and enjoy it yet find a 500 million dollar movie boring. I feel that your answer it correct, but there is something deeper than just para friendships to explain these other cases and I'm guilty of it too (watching a random youtubers video essay).

I see where you're coming from. Interested in verifying indeed it's something deeper. Leaning towards that it isn't, like there's nothing deep in debating sweet food vs salty food; sometimes you crave one and despise the other but not 7 days a week.