I can forgive a lot of the "taking itself too seriously" stuff, cause that's certainly a better state than the irony-poisoned slop we have now (and all this stuff is amateur anyway), but I notice a lot of them, especially the horror types, have this overarching feeling of hating everyone and everything because they got a bad deal in life. It's not always super obvious, but it tends to be there once you dig in past the surface. Which unfortunately tends to leave those works unsatisfyingly grim and nihilistic.
