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

[Overcast]

Call of Duty. I remember people complaining about it nonstop and talking about how supposedly it was everything wrong with modern gaming. Oh, if only they knew. IF ONLY they knew.

On par with the “hurr pineapple on pizza bad” hate bandwagon is the hate for candy corn. I’m not a fan of the confection myself, but seeing speds on twitter calling people serial killers for liking it is just so exceptional.

Hate bandwagons on twitter are always exceptional and made up of people who can only form opinions based off what other exceptional individuals think.

Who the fuck hates candy corn? You'd have to be a degenerate to hate it-oh you said twitter? Okay, makes sense then.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I was pretty into the Beiber and Twilight hatedom back in the day, still think they're megashit but there's two things about each of the hatedoms that irritated me even at the time.

For Twilight it was the vitrol towards Robert Pattinson. Little did we know that even he thought the series was shit and the fangirls creeped him out. No one hates Twilight like this man. I think nowadays when Twilight hate comes up it involved acknowledging Pattinson's obvious hate for the role and how it's really funny in hindsight. When I heard he was going to potentially play Batman I was really hopeful that he can break past the sparklyboi reputation.

For the Beebs? Earlier in the decade there was some kind of faggy "uprising" planned on Youtube where on July 4th, everyone was supposed to flood the comments of the "Baby" video with anti-Beeb comments. Sure enough, the uprising came and the video was flooded with "lol beeber is gay" and "i am only 14 and i only listen to real music like nirvana not this homo crap". I commented somewhere about the business being kind of lame, and I was informed that I was not a true metalhead. Okay.

(I did think the petition for his deportation was funny as hell)

 

[Pissmaster]

How could this happen to me?

I made my mistakes! Got nowhere to run and yet the night goes on...

I'm fading away! I'm sick of this life! I just wanna scream...

How could this happen to meeeeeeeeeeee!!!!



Evidently so judging by this girl.

I'm not surprised. Goth girls have always been around in some form or another, see also Morticia Addams and Elvira. It's just not the early 2000s anymore where one in three teenagers are mallgoths wearing bondage pants and a shitload of eyeliner. That was a weird time.

Call of Duty. I remember people complaining about it nonstop and talking about how supposedly it was everything wrong with modern gaming. Oh, if only they knew. IF ONLY they knew.

I remember a lot of complaining about how kids would play Call of Duty and act like shitheads, but then Minecraft exploded in popularity and that just kind of fizzled. Before Minecraft, I don't think there was like, one particular game that was just gigantic with kids at the time, like Fortnite's become today.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I was pretty into the Beiber and Twilight hatedom back in the day, still think they're megashit but there's two things about each of the hatedoms that irritated me even at the time.

Oh lord, you're triggering me, Bieber and Twilight? That's bringing back bad memories.

Anything is preferable to modern woke culture, but it's depressing to remember how long American culture has been kind of shitty, a decade+ by this point.

It's just not the early 2000s anymore where one in three teenagers are mallgoths wearing bondage pants and a shitload of eyeliner. That was a weird time.

It was a weird time, but also a great time.

 

[Pina Colada]

I was more mildly annoyed at Bieber, One Direction, and the other fad bands than outright angry. Even 12-year-old me knew Twilight was shit and I still enjoyed watching the rabid fangirls go at it online.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

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

Around the same time, there was a Windows or DOS game where I think the object was to shoot as many Santa suit-wearing Barneys before time ran out or they overran the screen. I couldn't find any clips of it, but it was one of those niche games you play once and enjoy before deleting it because the novelty is gone after the first time playing it.

One of the current fads that got old fast (or should soon if not already) is that of scouring people's social media for stuff they said as a younger more immature person that can now be used against them and be spun as problematic in an attempt to deplatform, discredit. or otherwise unperson them. People say all kinds of stupid or edgy shit they don't mean as teens and tend to grow out of that phase when they mature as adults. To dig up such old posts comes across as both pathetic and desperate -- not to mention it makes one wonder what kind of skeletons those bringing up these old posts have in their own closets.

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

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.

 

[Floop]

r/gamingcirclejerk is a bunch of idiots complaining about idiots complaining about vidya. I used to think it was the funniest shit ever.
Also anyone that mocks reddit culture, but is really unoriginal and always says the same shit.

 

[Count groudon]

I was more mildly annoyed at Bieber, One Direction, and the other fad bands than outright angry. Even 12-year-old me knew Twilight was shit and I still enjoyed watching the rabid fangirls go at it online.

Honestly I hated One Direction in High School, but that’s just because every fucking freshman girl I met told me I looked like one of the members of the band. It got old really fast.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Every single one of them, about a week after it starts.

 

[Vampirella]

For Twilight it was the vitrol towards Robert Pattinson. Little did we know that even he thought the series was shit and the fangirls creeped him out. No one hates Twilight like this man. I think nowadays when Twilight hate comes up it involved acknowledging Pattinson's obvious hate for the role and how it's really funny in hindsight. When I heard he was going to potentially play Batman I was really hopeful that he can break past the sparklyboi reputation.

I remember it being speculated that he is the reason that we don't have the spin off Twilight trilogy that's from Edwards POV. Supposedly Meyer had given him some material that would help him understand his character better, this was an early draft of the Edward Twilight book, and he leaked it. This broke her heart so much that she gave up on writing the books.

How much of this is true I don't know. We do know the facts that Meyer said the book got leaked by someone she thought she could trust, and that Pattinson hated Twilight more then anyone. Watching interviews with him talking about is is funny. He didn't even try to sugar coat it, just came right out and said "This woman is creepy and this character sucks."

 

[Monika H.]

There was even a Table top game made on Barney hate. http://www.jihad.net/

Hell, I even remember White Wolf had Barney hate in their game with a monster called Blamey or something. It was really impressive that it spread that far without the internet.

Not sound like a whimp, but I'm a bit a wary to click a link to "jihad.net" in the days we are living in...

 

[Syaoran Li]

Tbh, I'm sick of people sperging over how much they hate anime avatars.

Yeah, it was funny for a week. Now I think people who constantly complain about anime avatars are worse than anyone who has an anime avatar.

Also, I'm going to give a special mention the Nickelback hatedom.

Now, I never liked Nickelback even when they were popular, but that's because I'm one of those guys who mainly likes oldies and classic rock, so the whole "Post-Grunge" wasn't my thing to begin with. But I still think it was weird as fuck to see Nickelback from being this popular rock band in the early 2000's to suddenly being declared the "Worst Band Ever" online.

The autistic hatedom that Bieber and One Direction got was a little more understandable because they were your typical teen pop stars at the height of their popularity when their hatedom was at its peak.

The Nickelback hatedom got started after the band stopped being culturally relevant, which was unusual compared to other hate fads.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

Honestly I hated One Direction in High School, but that’s just because every fucking freshman girl I met told me I looked like one of the members of the band. It got old really fast.

Did that at least help you get laid?

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

6 and 7 gen console wars. i doubt we ever see something like that again but i do miss all the sperging it brought.

 

[Count groudon]

Did that at least help you get laid?

It did not. Was still very spergy.

 

[saralovesjuicyfruit]

Emos are definitely still around. I watch a lot of Tik Tok cringe comps as a guilty pleasure, and some of them, it's hard to believe they weren't created in 2006 because of the way the kids are dressed. It's surreal.

 

[Spunt]

Emo will finally die the day Onision goes on his inevitable murder/suicide spree. So any day now.

Also, anyone who gets mad at cartoons is an embarrassment to their species. Someone on Facebook a few years ago got really, really mad that Thundercats was being remade and that this fact "destroyed his childhood". Nigga what?

 

[Vampirella]

Also, anyone who gets mad at cartoons is an embarrassment to their species.

It bad enough seeing teens get mad at cartoons, fine teens do silly things, but seeing people in their 20s or 30s get mad because some cartoon from your childhood got rebooted and isn't like you remember is just retarded. The new Thundercats or He-Man wasn't made to sell you toys. If you want to relive the "good old" day of that cartoon watch the old episodes and tell me how well they hold up.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

Emo will finally die the day Onision goes on his inevitable murder/suicide spree. So any day now.

Also, anyone who gets mad at cartoons is an embarrassment to their species. Someone on Facebook a few years ago got really, really mad that Thundercats was being remade and that this fact "destroyed his childhood". Nigga what?

B-b-but they showed my waifu holding hands with a darkie! REEEEEEEE!