Ever get bored of your special interest or stuck in a loop?

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Well one of my interests is going to the edge of the internet to find new music of my liking.....
Something I used to be able to do with a radio back in the 90's......but that's another story.
Anyways....I guess using the same source or genre over and over gets me bored of the music and I dont even want to listen to it.
Though I do of course listen to it but it becomes more of a chore rather than enjoyment which it shouldn't be because I love to listen to music.
Switched it up today and didn't go for 90's vinyls on youtube and seems as if my enjoyment level is back where it should be.
Seems I was stuck in a bit of a loop.

There's nothing wrong with exhausting a special interest. Just move along, and something will eventually come up and catch your eye.

Yeah, as we speak, I'm actually quite bored of my interest. I have a memory that idealises the music I like, based on how I felt about it when I first heard it. I actually get a cognitive dissonance, before I listen to something it's so wonderful and moving and exciting in my imagination, and then I listen to it and I'm bored.

I'm looking at you, Porcupine - why am I outgrowing you? I loved you so much.

I'm stuck in a loop. My primary special interest, which involves specific movies that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp collaborated on, has been going on for nearly 2 and a half years.

Overall I'm pretty tired of it; over the past two years I have seen those movies so many times that I have them memorized. But I am not passionate about it like I was when it started back in 2010 - watching the movies these days feels, as the OP described, like more of a chore than something that brings me joy.

I mostly stick with this interest out of convenience - it's what I know best and what I am comfortable with, and every time I try to go with something else, I always wind up going back to it. Besides, everyone expects me to be into it since I have talked about it so much. I'm afraid that if I tell people that my special interest has changed, then I will somehow disappoint them.

I used to feel like I would be stuck with this interest forever, but recently I actually found a couple of things that have caught my eye. I feel cautiously optimistic that they might become my latest special interests, especially since I wasn't actively trying to hunt for new interests when I found them, so my enjoyment of them doesn't feel forced in any way - it's genuine. Only time will tell if they're just another phase or if they'll become my next "thing".