Whether it's books or movies, games or TV shows. Because I just keep thinking "that's dumb", "why do the characters act that way" or "this is badly written". It's like I can't immerse myself in it anymore. When I was a kid and I played a video game like Final Fantasy, I just accepted it all. The world, the characters. It just was the way it was. Now when I play video games I keep thinking, why are the characters so retarded?
I think it's just a part of growing up. It's like I've seen the behind the scenes. The illusion is gone. I just know too much about character development, character arcs, motives, tropes, archetypes and all that stuff. I've seen it all.
It's sort of like, when you are a kid, and you watch wrestling, and you think it's all real, it's amazing. Like when the Undertaker lost to Yokozuna, and then he was gone for like a year and you were constantly wondering when he was gonna come back and if he was still out there. But then you grow up and you learn everything about how Wrestling is fake, and they are all just actors playing those characters. For a while it's ok, cause you've got this new-found knowledge and you can view this from a different perspective now, but then there comes the point when it's all just dumb and phony. Like it's just a bunch of bad actors pretending to hit each other. You look back and think "I guess the Undertaker was just injured and had to take a break, that's why he was gone for so long". And you watch this shit for 3 hours and then turn it off and you think, what's the point of watching this shit? This is for kids.
That's the way I feel about fiction in general now.