{"id":477351,"date":"2026-02-15T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:04:12","slug":"why-young-restless-reddit-fans-wont-quit-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477351\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Young & Restless Reddit Fans Won’t Quit Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit: Howard Wise\/JPI (7)<\/p>\n

Sometimes, it ain\u2019t easy being a soap fan. The couple you ship encounters one roadblock after another. The storyline you hate with a burning passion drags on for months. The actor you love takes up permanent residency on the back burner.<\/p>\n

Yet day after day, you keep coming back. Right? Your theme song is the 1985 Howard Jones tune \u201cThings Can Only Get Better.\u201d<\/p>\n

But user ComradeConrad1 took to Reddit\u2019s\u00a0Young and Restless<\/a>\u00a0forum to declare\u2026 well, they\u2019d had enough. \u201cI\u2019m done,\u201d they wrote. \u201cNever-ending stupid plots and rehashing the same stuff over and over and over.\u201d<\/p>\n

They had, it seemed, reached the breaking point. And the reaction of pretty much every person responding?<\/p>\n

\u201cSee ya tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Audra<\/p>\n

Fellow user Southern_Assistant_7 admitted they were \u201ckinda enjoying hate-watching the show.\u201d And Barberon suggested \u201cthere\u2019s a 12-step support group that might be of help should you feel the need.\u201d<\/p>\n

They went on to add that quitting is easier said than done. \u201cI say I\u2019m done every other day. Then I come here to vent or laugh, and then I\u2019m OK for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

Empathized user snack-scream-repeat, \u201cMe and my grandma are like Statler and Waldorf from\u00a0The Muppets. We complain and criticize to high heaven and tune back in for more fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MUPPETS<\/p>\n

More: Remembering James Van Der Beek\u2019s soapy roots<\/a><\/p>\n

Ask any longtime soap fan, and they\u2019ll tell you that every show goes through cycles. When it comes to the Genoa City-set sudser, there have been epic highs like the early days of the Victor\/Nikki romance, and laughable lows, like the reliquary. (If you know, you know.)<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/p>\n

More:\u00a0Worst soap plots of all time, ranked!<\/a><\/p>\n

At the end of the day, however, most of us are forever fans. Much like some of the more lovelorn characters, we hold out hope that a brighter day is around the corner. We look to the genre\u2019s past for reassurances.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeneral Hospital,\u201d we remind ourselves, \u201cwas on the verge of cancellation before the pairing of Luke and Laura sent it to the top of the ratings heap.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Luke,<\/p>\n

So as both the ludicrous AI storyline comes to a conclusion and Mariah\u2019s kidnapping plot reaches its fizzling-rather-than-sizzling end, we look forward to what might be just around the corner. Dare we hope for more romance and fewer CEO swaps?<\/p>\n

As soap fans, we know that happy endings have to be earned. Having suffered the slings and arrows of less-than-stellar stories, might we finally be rewarded with plots that have us tuning in each day not out of obligation but a burning need to find out what happens next?<\/p>\n

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As Redditor SilkCitySista reminded us all, \u201cTomorrow is another day.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019re revisiting all of the soaps highest and lowest moments in the picture-packed gallery below<\/a>, including photos we bet you\u2019ve never seen before!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Howard Wise\/JPI (7) Sometimes, it ain\u2019t easy being a soap fan. The couple you ship encounters one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,57056,8089,83143,30322],"class_list":{"0":"post-477351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-mariah-copeland","12":"tag-the-young-and-the-restless","13":"tag-victor-newman","14":"tag-yr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}