Internet “hate fads” that got old fast - Too much of a bad thing

[Pissmaster]

I'm probably fusing in some level of galaxy brained material, but bear with me.

Two things that have shown me that they haven't aged well and things I sperg on about, but now have a chance to give sound reason.

1. "Angry" and "smartass" reviews and reviewers. The few reasons how James Rolfe made it work was because of his acting chops, and it does require acting, and actually engaging with the material, digesting it, and presenting analysis. Outside of a very, very few others who have successfully done angry style reviews, folks like TGWTG/Channel Awesome and their many followers have shown us how this can go down into flames; not just out of how fame and stardom can drive people to egotism when they don't deserve it, but how you should just hate and utterly rabidly tear at something if you don't like it or it presents something that challenges your fragile worldview, and just claim it as pure garbage that has nothing to contribute to human civilization and the human condition. This has gotten very, very old, I feel, and this has not aged well outside of the hormone addled and chromosome swimming brains of geeky and nerdy adolescents and coeds.

The AVGN really clicked with me because he's very average at video games, and would point out certain bullshit aspects of games that would give you trouble when you were actually playing them on the original console. At the time, retro games weren't really regarded as anything but obsolete, and anyone still playing them at the time had likely moved onto just using emulators, which saved you a hell of a lot of trouble, since you could just save state anywhere. Not to mention, it's easy to just think about the classics and forget the garbage when thinking about the NES, but the AVGN really captured the spirit of what it felt like to get a brand new game, only for it to be total garbage, but you played it anyway because that's all you had. It was really genuine and came from the heart, and anyone who had that situation happen as a kid could easily empathize.

That's what set him apart from the fly-by-night faggots that tried to copy his formula. Getting angry in a vacuum is not funny - it needs to be over something silly. The AVGN goes a step farther by getting you to empathize with him, and then become cartoonishly enraged at the game, as if you're playing it with him, and he's getting even angrier than you ever were. That's why his formula works.

 

[Ghost of Wesley Willis]

Fortnite

I personally dislike fortnite, but some people are way too obsessed with hating fortnite, all to the point the fanboys feel more bearable than the hate bandwagon. Reddit nowadays is just choked full of people crying about how fortnite is bad or how growing up playing Halo, CoD, or Minecraft makes them better people.

Bethesda

Bethesda is honestly fucked right now and have only been digging their graves deeper. But this also generated a terribly bland circlejerk of "bethesda bad obsidian good" on sites like twitter and reddit with the people using pushing it having insufferable personalities and usually spouting this circlejerk between tweets and reposts of Orange man bad. Along with boasting about how obsidian is incapable of doing anything wrong (even though a former employee and FNV dev flat out stated the company today is far different than it was in 2009-2010 and not in a good way).

Offensive/edgy jokes

This started mostly on tumblr, but gradually spread over time to other sites like reddit and twitter, especially in recent months after the great porn ban of 2018. The classical "offensive humor is bad and you're a bigot for finding funny" type of circlejerk you expect to find on tumblr. Of course it also comes as no surprise as how hypocritical these people are, as they'll gladly make self-deprecating jokes about their mental health, depression, low self-esteem, or interests. Or their overuse of the words "incel" and "dogwhistle".

 

[Dom Cruise]

Memes

Evanescence's Bring Me to Life became a meme song recently, and I can imagine the whole nu-metal fad of 20 years ago could easily have a full blown "so bad it's good" ironic comeback. Like I'm sure Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff" could be a meme, just look at these lyrics

I fully support the ironic comeback of early 2000s culture.

Long before anyone else cared, for years now, I have appreciated the cheesy ridiculousness of it and I look forward to everyone else catching up.

 

[Pissmaster]

I fully support the ironic comeback of early 2000s culture.

Long before anyone else cared, for years now, I have appreciated the cheesy ridiculous of it and I look forward to everyone else catching up.

Other things that could totally be memes:

OH WA-AH-AH-AH-AH

The ultra-douchey video for Butterfly by the one-hit wonder Crazy Town, a band who made their entire career out of a sample of a B-side song by Red Hot Chili Peppers
(seriously, rewatch this, this video is funnier than you remember)

I'm kind of surprised I've never seen anyone rip off the style of Mope by the Bloodhound Gang:

That whole era of music was really its own thing. There's a hell of a lot to work with.

 

[Dom Cruise]

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Other things that could totally be memes:

OH WA-AH-AH-AH-AH

The ultra-douchey video for Butterfly by the one-hit wonder Crazy Town, a band who made their entire career out of a sample of a B-side song by Red Hot Chili Peppers
(seriously, rewatch this, this video is funnier than you remember)

I'm kind of surprised I've never seen anyone rip off the style of Mope by the Bloodhound Gang:

That whole era of music was really its own thing. There's a hell of a lot to work with.

I love the "OOH WAH AH AH AH AH" thing, Neil Cicierega has already mined some comedy from it.

Basically the early 2000s was the last time people tried to be unironically cool, by the end of the decade hipster culture was ascendant and everything has been various shades of irony ever since.

 

[AnOminous]

(seriously, rewatch this, this video is funnier than you remember)

Made it 90 seconds before cringing out of my skin, now I'm a skeleton, thanks OP.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

Eh, I never got the large hate for preschool shows. Come on, they are for little kids! That’s why they’re so low quality, so kids can eat them up every morning.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

The Big Bang Theory. Yes, it's a generic, predictable sitcom, and that genre doesn't fly with everyone, but you'd think Chuck Lorre murdered everyone's family with the amount of vitriol produced whenever it gets mentioned. It's like it's part of some ritual in becoming a generic "consume product; get excited for next product" so-called nerd to badmouth the show at every opportunity.

Big thing I've noticed with TBBT is that nerds have this ridiculous victim complex, and they like to call the show "nerd blackface."

However, the show is actually unrealistically favorable towards them. It portrays a bunch of comic book geeks, sci-fi and fantasy schlock addicts, as successful scientists. I could be wrong on this point, but I suspect that anybody who's won a Nobel Prize did not spend their adult off-time reading about Spiderman. There's a lot of overlap between the science nerds and the pop culture nerds, but I think that the further you go in one direction, the further you get away from the other...

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

Big thing I've noticed with TBBT is that nerds have this ridiculous victim complex, and they like to call the show "nerd blackface."

However, the show is actually unrealistically favorable towards them. It portrays a bunch of comic book geeks, sci-fi and fantasy schlock addicts, as successful scientists. I could be wrong on this point, but I suspect that anybody who's won a Nobel Prize did not spend their adult off-time reading about Spiderman. There's a lot of overlap between the science nerds and the pop culture nerds, but I think that the further you go in one direction, the further you get away from the other...

Not to mention that by the end of the show, they're all married to (arguably) attractive women, and successful in their fields. They even gave the punching bag character a girlfriend because I'm certain that nerds would take offense if they didn't.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

The ultra-douchey video for Butterfly by the one-hit wonder Crazy Town, a band who made their entire career out of a sample of a B-side song by Red Hot Chili Peppers
(seriously, rewatch this, this video is funnier than you remember)

You wanna know something funny? I had no idea this song or video existed, but I do remember the song showing up in the trailers for Sing.

I don't know if Sing or the actual song is cringier.

 

[Floop]

I got on for you, this boomer shit. Yes the actual Baby Boomer generation is to be blamed for a lot of the ills of our nation and maybe even the world right now, but most of these people complaining about them dont care about that they're just mad that some old person said "hey sonny maybe get off your phone and go outside heh heh". So now they think its funny to just pick on old people for being old, just brilliant and not spergy at all.

Oh you think that’s still relevant? Think again fuckface, everyone’s forgotten it’s original meaning and now it’s only used for anyone you don’t like.

 

[AbyssStarer]

It always kinda felt like after Twilight passed, people weren't as critical of things that other people liked. If something is popular now then it's usually universally praised and dissent is buried; only one side of the narrative survives. I mean, I am sick to fuckin hell of capeshit movies and Starwars what the fuck ever but I never really see anybody else talking about what makes a popular superhero movie bad. There is some discussion here and there, but generally most people still swallow any Starwars thing or capeshit movie whole and love it.

I think a person's proclivity to engage in hatefads is related to how much of Thing they are exposed to in daily life. Back in the day Backstreet Boys were talked about a lot, and so a "Beat Up the Backstreet Boys" game was uploaded to NewGrounds in 2005 by Tom Fulp. Most boys who grew up in that time probably still have a strong distaste for the Backstreet Boys.

In coming time, people will start getting annoyed by zoomers being obsessed with K-pop. (It's already annoying but people will only get more tired of them until it passes)

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

I'm not an anime fan but I gave that a shot, since it was a cool concept.

It was really, really shit. I guess it got hate because it was very much an anime thing that happened to attract people who don't like anime.

Not to mention that SAO pretty much kickstarted the "trapped in a videogame/isekai" anime fad, since then, there has been dozens and dozens of "some otaku/neet/gamer gets killed and reincarnates in another world that works on videogame logic" i'd dare to say that's the only valid reason to hate on SAO, and it happes all the time in other media, be it videogames, books, movies, TV Shows, etc., something most people would consider below-average for some reason gets big, and the market floods with similar, and most of the time, shittier products, i think one of the reasons why COD was so hated years ago (i'm not sure if it still is) its because, once COD got big, the market was flooded with dozens if not hundreds of shitty military-styled shooters, wtih short campaigns or not campaign at all, sup-par multiplayer and they looked all the same because they were all gray and brown as if consoles or PCs at the time couldn't show more colors

 

[CheezzyMach]

Not to mention that SAO pretty much kickstarted the "trapped in a videogame/isekai" anime fad, since then, there has been dozens and dozens of "some otaku/neet/gamer gets killed and reincarnates in another world that works on videogame logic" i'd dare to say that's the only valid reason to hate on SAO, and it happes all the time in other media, be it videogames, books, movies, TV Shows, etc., something most people would consider below-average for some reason gets big, and the market floods with similar, and most of the time, shittier products, i think one of the reasons why COD was so hated years ago (i'm not sure if it still is) its because, once COD got big, the market was flooded with dozens if not hundreds of shitty military-styled shooters, wtih short campaigns or not campaign at all, sup-par multiplayer and they looked all the same because they were all gray and brown as if consoles or PCs at the time couldn't show more colors

That actually reminds me.

Weebs who autistically hate Isekai and claim it ruined anime are amusing I remember the 2000s when everything was moe crap or a Haruhi clone.

 

[PimpKramer]

Oddly enough after the shows hit streaming I saw arguments about Seinfeld vs Friends on social media where the opposing show was always painted as the worst series to ever be broadcast and really often it was from people who weren't alive or barely sentient during the original runs. It's strange how you can have that strong an opinion and actually argue over long concluded TV.

 

[AsbestosFlaygon]

Circlejerk subreddits are fucking cancer, they're unfunny garbage and tend to end up doing the same shit as the community they're mocking, only difference being the set of opinions that they get their rocks off on.

 

[TiggerNits]

The hate circle jerk about the F35 is really dumb. The program was a nightmare and the B model was terrible, but then after the issues with the A and B got ironed out by active duty usage, they've actually made believers out of almost every single guy I know that's flown them now. Hell, my old buddies who flew the AV-8B that have transitioned to the B say it's a massive improvement across the board now and isn't immediately killed in BFM by anything that can outrun the A-10. The guy I know who's now an instructor on the C says he loves it and thinks its a really good compliment to the Rhino family.

The only guy I know who has flown it and doesn't prefer it to his old ride is a former Strike Eagle pilot, and it makes sense since the F-15E is probably the best overall multirole aircraft ever built

 

[OneEyedCool]

https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/The_Great_Sonic-cide_of_2007

 

[No Exit]

The AVGN really clicked with me because he's very average at video games, and would point out certain bullshit aspects of games that would give you trouble when you were actually playing them on the original console. At the time, retro games weren't really regarded as anything but obsolete, and anyone still playing them at the time had likely moved onto just using emulators, which saved you a hell of a lot of trouble, since you could just save state anywhere. Not to mention, it's easy to just think about the classics and forget the garbage when thinking about the NES, but the AVGN really captured the spirit of what it felt like to get a brand new game, only for it to be total garbage, but you played it anyway because that's all you had. It was really genuine and came from the heart, and anyone who had that situation happen as a kid could easily empathize.

That's what set him apart from the fly-by-night faggots that tried to copy his formula. Getting angry in a vacuum is not funny - it needs to be over something silly. The AVGN goes a step farther by getting you to empathize with him, and then become cartoonishly enraged at the game, as if you're playing it with him, and he's getting even angrier than you ever were. That's why his formula works.

James made something special and it's amazing how many people tried to copy his formula. I think of the things that kept AVGN so good for so long was that James is stayed humble about the whole thing. Even now he still seems a bit awkward and confused that people like his stuff.
I know one of the worst copycats that people like for reasons I can't understand is Angry Joe. I never found him funny and am glad to see him washed up. Or just 90% of TGWTG reviewers in general.

It's a bit stupid to bring up but I think the hate KiwiFarms gets is pretty dumb. The sites been keeping track of retards for years and the fact that most twittertards still don't know anything about it but that it kills nigger trannies is pretty dumb.

 

[AsbestosFlaygon]

James made something special and it's amazing how many people tried to copy his formula. I think of the things that kept AVGN so good for so long was that James is stayed humble about the whole thing. Even now he still seems a bit awkward and confused that people like his stuff.

I don't think that's why AVGN is higher quality than other angry reviews, that's more of a explanation why people aren't anywhere near as harsh with him than with other angry reviewers. I believe the big difference in quality and longevity is that James has a genuine love and understanding on what he covers, which is what gets lost most by many copycats.