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

[TheImportantFart]

What were some things you remember that were “cool” or fun to hate back in the day, but hating them got ruined due to faggots running the joke into the ground and making it tiresome? Here are some I remember:

Twilight

When the first Twilight film came out, it was kind of fun to troll hysterical fangirls by saying the films were shit and Edward was a paedophile.

The fun dried up when everyone and their aunt started making overdramatic statements that Twilight would ruin cinema and literature FOREVER and it was evil. This was conclusively disproved when the last film was released, everyone promptly forgot Twilight ever existed and the merchandise was filling out bargain bins less than a year later. It was a stupid fad, and every sensible person recognised that from the beginning and just enjoyed the ride.

Justin Bieber/One Direction

Lumping these two together because it was the same story with both of them. Tweeny boppers making harmless, bubblegum pop to appeal to teenage girls and causing the collective internet to shit its pants over how music was ruined FOREVER because I used to listen to real music dontcha know *sniffs farts*.

Again, it was funny for a little while to watch videos shitting on Justin Bieber or One Direction, but after a year or so it felt very stale. I actually have way more respect for both Bieber and the One Direction boys for powering through the hate and forging out successful adult singing careers than I do for some Cheeto-encrusted neckbeard getting mad at them. And I don’t even like their music.

I was going to put more instances up, like Rebecca Black or the Seltzerberg and Transformers films, but I’d basically be repeating the points I made above for all of them. Faggots ended up taking the hatedom too seriously and ruining the fun.

What are some other examples people remember, or ones that are happening right now?

 

[BingBong]

More recently, the whole James Charles thing was pretty stupid. As much as I hate fags, he didn't do enough to get as much hate as he did.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Every hate fad gets old in 6 months.

 

[BingBong]

Every hate fad gets old in 6 months.

Except for people like DSP. They're like liches. They can't die.

 

[Judge Holden]

Well the unironic "CHRIS CHAN IS LITERALLY HITLER" thing from a while back was pretty fuckin embarrasing. Hell just about any visceral hatred against a lolcow that has not done or attempted seriously nasty shit to somebody else is pure cringe. I mean if they are just fucktards ruining their own lives and embarrassing themselves then they aint worth hating, just point and laugh like everyone else.

 

[AnOminous]

Anti-bronies. Other than @Curt Sibling and HotDiggetyDemon most of these were cringier than bronies. The most iconic of these is Barneyfag.

In the same vein of animation spergs, anti-Steven Universe spergs. We have a thread on these autists.

Further back in time, anti-Mr. Enter spergs. These were so bad they created the most embarrassing subforum the Kiwi Farms ever had, which you can now find in Spergatory. A couple years ago, he got a better and less A-Loggy thread in Internet Famous.

It seems like a rule that the cringier a fandom is, the more likely it is to have an even cringier hatedom.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

Let me take you back to fall of 2010, and a bit of internet drama that has long since been forgotten:

Cooks Source plagiarism controversy

Basically, some local magazine in New England got busted plaigiarizing articles from blogs and gave dickish, unprofessional responses to perfectly in line requests for credit. Then the internet jumped in.

At the time the whole thing seemed funny, sticking it to some rude, entitled boomer who didn't know how to internet. Cooks Source shut down in the end.

And that's where it becomes disturbing in hindsight. There may have been legitamate grievances involved, but for me this now marks the beginning of current year internet outrage culture. All that was missing was dumb social justice shit.

Edit: I should probably add that there was some disproportionate treating of the editor as a villain and an actual desire to shut it down rather than just get an acknowledgement or something more proportional

 

[Idiotron]

Michael Bay
Everybody was sucking his dick, then Transformers 2 came out and suddenly, he was the worst person on Earth.
His movies are a bit stupid but they're mostly fun and on a technical level, even the ones from the previous decade destroy most things that are coming out today.

Anti-SJWs
They were needed to mock and delegitimize a lot of the crazies but now, they're a different brand of crazies.
For example, Sargon used to laugh at people who looked at commercials and were like "There are no black people here! RACISM!" and recently, he made a video about a commercial where he said "There are no white people here! RACISM!"
2019 Sargon would be mocked by 2014 Sargon.
All of them need to move on or go away.

Marvel/DC comic books
I get it, they're not very good but there are people like that YaBoiZack guy who made a career out of shitting on mainstream US comic books so now, they just HAVE TO find faults in them, otherwise the Patreon money will be gone.

Star Wars
Yes, the Disney movies are derivative but they're still entertaining enough. TLJ was bad story wise but so were the prequels (much more so, actually) but now, fanboys are loving the prequels unironically because Disney "ruined their childhoods".
Just like with Marvel/DC comic books, there are people online who made lucrative careers out of shitting on Lucasfilm so they have to keep the hate going. Episode IX will be bad, even if it's good.
It was pathetic to hate on Lucas back in the day and it is pathetic to hate on Kennedy/Abrams/Johnson now.

 

[Jason Wynn]

"Hurr Durr! Pineapple on pizza is literally the worst thing ever! You are worse than Hitler's egg farts if you like pineapple on pizza!"

These re.tarded faggots were more obnoxious than the Rick and Morty szechuan sauce idiots. Don't like it as a topping, cool, but sperging that hard over it was pure autism. Of course, Reddit found it the absolute height of comedy.

 

[Coolio55]

Crazy Frog:

Ok. It was funny for a few minutes to pretend you didn't like it but come on.

His songs? FUCKING AWESOME!!!
His 3d moviez? FUCKING AWESOME!!!
The final episode of top of the pops where he dances with sexxy ladies?: HOLY SHIT!!! FUCKIN A!!!!

 

[Freddy Freaker]

Crazy Frog:

Ok. It was funny for a few minutes to pretend you didn't like it but come on.

His songs? FUCKING AWESOME!!!
His 3d moviez? FUCKING AWESOME!!!
The final episode of top of the pops where he dances with sexxy ladies?: HOLY SHIT!!! FUCKIN A!!!!

Eh. People mostly hated crazy frog from overexposure, I don't really recall a level of bitching about crazy frog like how people bitched about Justin Bieber or Rebecca Black.

Oh hey, remember how people used to despise Rebecca Black for making TEH WURST SONG EVAR!!1! and KILLING MUSIC? Or how Ark Music Factory tried to milk their viral lightning in a bottle with a bunch of other lame rich kid songs?

 

[Tour of Italy]

Star Wars
Yes, the Disney movies are derivative but they're still entertaining enough. TLJ was bad story wise but so were the prequels (much more so, actually) but now, fanboys are loving the prequels unironically because Disney "ruined their childhoods".
Just like with Marvel/DC comic books, there are people online who made lucrative careers out of shitting on Lucasfilm so they have to keep the hate going. Episode IX will be bad, even if it's good.
It was pathetic to hate on Lucas back in the day and it is pathetic to hate on Kennedy/Abrams/Johnson now.

The whole cottage industry that sprung up around specifically hating TLJ is interesting as fuck to me.

What bothers me is that a lot of interesting, pointed criticism of the film and the industry is drowned out by the “SJW’s are ruining Star Wars” crowd since that’s what drives the clicks.

There’s more than enough to discuss in terms of how shitty the actual films are without making the whole endeavor look exceptional by including all the other cultural baggage.

I think a lot of the Star Wars rage comes from pent up frustration that people have a hard time quantifying. The idea of “having your childhood ruined” used to sound ridiculous to me but I think it’s more than a childish insistence that the new content lives up to the idealized version of the series in their heads. I think people feel resentment towards the new corporatized approach of trying to commodify the audience’s very real, emotional experiences with the series.

I just wanted them to make something new, and good, with its own unique contribution to culture.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

The whole cottage industry that sprung up around specifically hating TLJ is interesting as fuck to me.

What bothers me is that a lot of interesting, pointed criticism of the film and the industry is drowned out by the “SJW’s are ruining Star Wars” crowd since that’s what drives the clicks.

There’s more than enough to discuss in terms of how shitty the actual films are without making the whole endeavor look exceptional by including all the other cultural baggage.

I think a lot of the Star Wars rage comes from pent up frustration that people have a hard time quantifying. The idea of “having your childhood ruined” used to sound ridiculous to me but I think it’s more than a childish insistence that the new content lives up to the idealized version of the series in their heads. I think people feel resentment towards the new corporatized approach of trying to commodify the audience’s very real, emotional experiences with the series.

I just wanted them to make something new, and good, with its own unique contribution to culture.

 

[Idiotron]

I think a lot of the Star Wars rage comes from pent up frustration that people have a hard time quantifying. The idea of “having your childhood ruined” used to sound ridiculous to me but I think it’s more than a childish insistence that the new content lives up to the idealized version of the series in their heads. I think people feel resentment towards the new corporatized approach of trying to commodify the audience’s very real, emotional experiences with the series.

I just wanted them to make something new, and good, with its own unique contribution to culture.

You still have the OT which stands on it's own and doesn't need any more content.
It's not like the current movies are taking any of it away.
I love Predator 1 & 2 and everything after that, I just treat as a separate thing (because it is).

Also, you expected Disney to make something new?
Even when I was a little kid, I knew that Disney is all about mi.lking IP's.
At the very least, the prequels introduced new things.
The new ones are all about rehashing visuals and narratives.

If you really want unique content, go for new IP's.
Last year, Upgrade and Overlord came out, best popcorn movies of 2018 to me, and nobody saw them except me and 5 other people. Watch them, you'll love them. Don't watch trailers, just go in blind.
I'll even support something like Jupiter Ascending over Disney because at least that's an ambitious failure, Disney movies are safe, predictable and boring.
I'll give them credit for Tomorrowland, that was different but that was a big flop so they won't try that any time soon.

 

[Vampirella]

It was pretty obvious that once the Twilight movies came out the crazy fans would die down. You don't hear about them much anymore, but the hate fans still love to crawl out from under a rock to say "Still a better love story then Twilight" every time something romantic gets posted. At some point Still a better love story then Twilight is going to lose its original meaning and people are just going to say it because the see other people say it.

 

[Tour of Italy]

You still have the OT which stands on it's own and doesn't need any more content.
It's not like the current movies are taking any of it away.
I love Predator 1 & 2 and everything after that, I just treat as a separate thing (because it is).

Also, you expected Disney to make something new?
Even when I was a little kid, I've knew that Disney is all about mi.lking IP's.
At the very least, the prequels introduced new things.
The new ones are all about rehashing visuals and narratives.

If you really want unique content, go for new IP's.
Last year, Upgrade and Overlord came out, best popcorn movies of 2018 to me, and nobody saw them except me and 5 other people. Watch them, you'll love them. Don't watch trailers, just go in blind.
I'll even support something like Jupiter Ascending over Disney because at least that's an ambitious failure, Disney movies are safe, predictable and boring.
I'll give them credit for Tomorrowland, that was different but that was a big flop so they won't try that any time soon.

The current movies are frankly awful and while in the strictest sense that doesn’t impact the originals, that doesn’t shake my disappointment. And I resent the chorus of fucking morons insisting that I should like them because no really they’re actually good as much as I do the ones who act like it’s a crime against humanity that they exist at all.

I never said what I expected from them, just what I wanted. Although I’ll admit that I was initially optimistic when the teaser came out because I did not expect Disney to have the capacity to fuck it up to the extent that they did. After TFA, and years of cynicism from watching Disney’s business model, those initial expectations where thrown out the window and never came back.

I almost included a bit about just seeking new IP as a better way forward personally, so I’m glad you brought it up, and I’ll definitely check those films out.

 

[Kacho]

All of them. People who are bent on being upset and outraged and blindly negative about everything are useless and exhausting. I don't care what 'side' they're on or what they're getting butthurt about.

 

[No Exit]

Fedora Atheists got old really fast. I find it fun to watch fart sniffers like that get shut down.

 

[Pissmaster]

Behold, the king of hate fads of the 90's:

Even pre-internet, Barney hate was huge. If you went to school wearing anything Barney-themed, you would be crucified.

Here's a 90's freeware Mac game all about killing Barney that you've probably never heard of:

 

[Freddy Freaker]

The current movies are frankly awful and while in the strictest sense that doesn’t impact the originals, that doesn’t shake my disappointment. And I resent the chorus of fucking morons insisting that I should like them because no really they’re actually good as much as I do the ones who act like it’s a crime against humanity that they exist at all.

I never said what I expected from them, just what I wanted. Although I’ll admit that I was initially optimistic when the teaser came out because I did not expect Disney to have the capacity to fuck it up to the extent that they did. After TFA, and years of cynicism from watching Disney’s business model, those initial expectations where thrown out the window and never came back.

I almost included a bit about just seeking new IP as a better way forward personally, so I’m glad you brought it up, and I’ll definitely check those films out.

Jupiter Ascending is a beautiful trainwreck. Bees, man.

Fedora Atheists got old really fast. I find it fun to watch fart sniffers like that get shut down.

Its especially amusing to see the ones that are still around and with TDS. They think its still 2003 and that Blormpft is a somehow a neocon fundie zealot coming after their buttsex and D&D along with all the usual shit. Bonus points for "I hate religion but Islamophobia should be considered hate speech!"