Years ago, I thought Linux was for nerds(which it is) and performed badly and was hard to use. Now I haven't used Windows as a daily driver in 5+ years and every time I have to use someone else's non Linux machine, it feels like an ancient machine with absolutely no character to it.

My mom boiled brussels sprouts and I hated them. As an adult who knows to roast them, they've become one of my favorite vegetables.

Green beans. My mom always made nasty-ass soggy canned green beans when I was a kid, and so I thought I hated beans for like two decades.

Then one day I decided to try sauteing some with garlic one day as an adult, and oh. My. God. Do I love green beans.

My mom's canned beans still taste like shit.

Ritalin.

I'd heard all the stories about zombie kids and such. Then at 30 I was diagnosed with ADHD and it explained so much. My first ritalin was a life changer. Not a zombie - I could focus on what I wanted to, get things started, music stuck in my head gone, so many other things. Not perfect, but so much better.

I'm still pissed that for most of my life since I haven't been able to have it or anything else to help.

Soups!

I think my first experiences as a child were tomato soups that just tasted bad to me.

Now I love minestrone, chicken and corn, beef and vegetable, pea and ham, and more! Often a slice of toast or crackers or croutons with.

Older pop music like Lady Gaga. I didn't like the overzealous fans she had

Deliberately misinterpreting "bad representation": Darwinia, the PC game (one of the first ever non-Valve games on Steam).

As a teenager I thought it had "bad graphics" because its art style was all polygons and 2D sprites. So the game's representation on-screen was bad. See what I did there?

I don't even remember why I bought and played it at all, probably just curiosity, but it wasn't long before I fell in love with it. Within a week I switched from "this game sucks" to "I love this game".

Genshin impact. I heard about how it was a "Zelda clone" and full of predatory gacha slop and I refused to play it. Then during the pandemic I saw an AMV someone had made of a bunch of the cutscenes and I was impressed by the cutscene quality. I was also broke and had too much time on my hands, so I installed it intending to stop playing when it hit a point where I couldn't progress without paying to win.

6 years later and I'm still playing, with hundreds of hours of gameplay into it and a mostly free to play account. Occasionally I'll throw $5 at it, but the hours of gameplay to money sink ratio is far less than almostany other game I've played. I've probably spent $100 total on a game I've played almost daily for 6 years.

I've had my ups and downs with it, but it's for sure a good game, and it's shaken up a whole industry of games to force them to do better.

I hated Coheed and Cambria because a coworker that I didn’t get along with liked them. Then I was at a festival and saw them perform live and ended up liking them.

It would be easier to tell what I initially liked due to wrong representation but dislike now.

Guy Fieri.

'Country' music. There is a specific style of country which is the most prominent, and it is so stupid it's a parody of itself. It's what you would make if you wanted to make fun of Americans, but made and listened to in full sincerity. Then there is the rest of it. Johnny Cash is technically classed as country but there's no way I'd class him as being anything like Garth Brooks. More modernly, Poor Man's Poison uses country sounds, but doesn't bemoan the loss of their truck, dog, and wife with the same chord progression that hasn't changed in decades.