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

[FierceBrosnan]

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)

Fuck you for making me remember these asshats existed and double fuck you for getting it stuck in my head. This shit got non stop radio play back when I was in my junior year and to this day I don't think I've hated a one hit wonder single more than this.

Time for me to drink a whole lotta "lol calm down boomer" juice.

 

[Neko GF]

The hate train for Onision is getting pretty stale. The videos and tweets mentioning him are incredibly repetitive often mentioning the exact same issues. His twitter replies are filled with the exact same boring, low effort memes.

 

[Gar For Archer]

The hate train for Onision is getting pretty stale. The videos and tweets mentioning him are incredibly repetitive often mentioning the exact same issues. His twitter replies are filled with the exact same boring, low effort memes.

Hard disagree. This thread is about things that got a disproportionate amount of hate that, at the end of the day, were not really THAT bad, or at least fairly harmless in the grand scheme of things.

Onision, however, is exactly as bad - if not worse - as how his detractors make him out to be.

 

[Pissmaster]

Fuck you for making me remember these asshats existed and double fuck you for getting it stuck in my head. This shit got non stop radio play back when I was in my junior year and to this day I don't think I've hated a one hit wonder single more than this.

Time for me to drink a whole lotta "lol calm down boomer" juice.

Here, just listen to this a few times to overwrite it in your head. The source song they sampled from:

 

[FierceBrosnan]

Here, just listen to this a few times to overwrite it in your head. The source song they sampled from:

You're a good man, I let anger get the best of me. I am sorry.

 

[Neko GF]

Hard disagree. This thread is about things that got a disproportionate amount of hate that, at the end of the day, were not really THAT bad, or at least fairly harmless in the grand scheme of things.

Onision, however, is exactly as bad - if not worse - as how his detractors make him out to be.

Fair enough. I agree that he has 100% earned his reputation. I called the hate train stale because of how it presented/ expressed- mostly with stale memes and videos that mention the same points over and over again to the point that they are almost identical to each other.

 

[Count groudon]

I really don’t get all the hate Bill Cosby’s been getting in the past few years. I mean he’s just some old black dude that makes funny voices? Tf could he do to warrant all this? I don’t get it.

 

[GnomeofDoc]

Wehraboos hating on American armor from WW2. Like bro I get it the Tiger was super cool and shit, but hot damn chill out.

 

[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 don't even remember the Crazy Town video/song but I remember the whole obsession with fairies girls had back then.

Also I've long been a fan of the Bloodhound Gang, but haven't seen the Mope video before, that's a hoot.

I miss the vibe America had back then, unapologetically multicultural but not predicated on vilifying white men.

 

[Bad Headspace]

Wehraboos hating on American armor from WW2. Like bro I get it the Tiger was super cool and shit, but hot damn chill out.

Funny how that started by basically yanks and western allies in general propagandizing their deeds in ww2 as "they had these super weapons but we still kicked their asses." We can also blame Germany's NATO integration in the 60s where they got promoted to be the "noble warriors with super engineering" we just beat and became friends with. (They were setting up the army again, so they needed to give them some positive feels.)

I don't hate on Germans in general but the Sherman is one aesthetic tank. It's a cute.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

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.

It seems that people believe that what other people enjoy threatens to conquer their own interests just by both existing at the same time, it's like the internet have created a shared consciousness or hivemind among some people where liking something they don't like on the internet is a form of invasive thought(that bleeds into their twitter feed, facebook, suggested viewing results etc, so it's not 100% irrational). And if Seinfeld is considered better than Friends then where does that leave the Friends fans? Why are they even watching or talking about Friends?

I think that's part of the reason why "fandoms" are both incredibly defensive and quick to attack other forms of pop-culture. Part of it might be knee-jerk consumerism/brand loyalty, if there's not a market for something that product is pulled but that thinking is so ingrained that it even applies to a show that stopped airing 20 years ago, another part might be the "consensus" fad, they don't want to end up on the wrong side of the consensus for many reasons.

 

[Sundae]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but Linkin Park. They don't deserve all of the hate they get. I can understand if they're not your cup of tea, but they're not as bad as most people make them out to be.

Also, rest in peace Chester Bennington.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but Linkin Park. They don't deserve all of the hate they get. I can understand if they're not your cup of tea, but they're not as bad as most people make them out to be.

Also, rest in peace Chester Bennington.

I wasn't the biggest fan, but agreed. My friend loved Hybrid Theory in high school, and I liked a few tracks off it when he let me borrow it. This was one of my favorites.

 

[Sundae]

I wasn't the biggest fan, but agreed. My friend loved Hybrid Theory in high school, and I liked a few tracks off it when he let me borrow it. This was one of my favorites.

The remix version from their Reanimation album was pretty good.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but Linkin Park. They don't deserve all of the hate they get. I can understand if they're not your cup of tea, but they're not as bad as most people make them out to be.

Also, rest in peace Chester Bennington.

im not ashamed too admit i like Linkin park (their old stuff anyway) and not once i listened to them unironically. since the days i watched Dragonball z and Naruto AMVs, i have always liked Linkin park.

speaking of AMV (anime music videos), thats one of the fads that was real big in the early internet days. it started with just putting up clips of a series that plays during a song, into sick edits and flashes. do people still make em? cant be that big with all the copyright laws that now exist.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

The whole Obsession that people have about Flat Earthers annoys me to no end.

Not because they aren't complete morons, but they are complete morons who stay in their corner of the internet and don't annoy me with their shit. Do you know who doesn't do that? Anti-Flat Earthers who have to whine about Flat Earthers at every fucking chance.

 

[Judge Holden]

The whole Obsession that people have about Flat Earthers annoys me to no end.

Not because they aren't complete morons, but they are complete morons who stay in their corner of the internet and don't annoy me with their shit. Do you know who doesn't do that? Anti-Flat Earthers who have to whine about Flat Earthers at every fucking chance.

The flat earther obsession has been one of the best demonstrations of a "social phenomena" being actively engineered and spun out of thin air by the media and social media personalities massively inflating a tiny handful of trolls/literal crazy people into some great massive movement that needs to be stopped.

In doing so they made damn sure every conspiracy theory addict on the planet, who have latched on to whatever "conspiracy" was getting attention in media for whatever reason, from 9/11 truthers to creationism to antivax shit to muh russia and whatever, jumped on the bandwagon and gave them fodder for endless articles and thinkpieces and crappy late night cable jokes.

Its all part of the general media pattern of....
a) identify an easily attacked and effectively helpless fringe outgroup with no way of fighting back and no friends with power or influence
b) stupidly overinflate their numbers and the influence they have on wider society to turn their couple dozen numbers into literal millions
c) declare the absolute most extreme/crazy/hateful views of a tiny minority of this fringe or even just obvious trolls to be the universally accepted dogma of the group that they all believe, which thus proves they are not just harmless crazies and nobodies but a horrifically dangerous and vile threat to the lives of others
d) contrive horror stories which demonstrate the danger they prove to society while also being conveniently unprovable, usually some nebulous "harassment" or "threatening emails"
e) now that all enlightened media and social media bigwigs are loudly proclaiming their fear and hate for this group, use it to smear anybody the media dislikes in general by claiming that "this hateful and dangerous outgroup supports and endorses X which shows that X is bad"
f) turn "fighting the evils of this hateful and dangerous outgroup" into a full on grift that useless media people can latch on to in order to improve their own brand and get attention for themselves

 

[Xerxes IX]

Pewdiepie but for a very specific reason. When the Christchurch shooting happened my Twitter feed (lol yeah, I know) was immediately full of people outraged…about how the shooting proves he really is alt right and being a Pewdiepie fan is literally the current year version of being the Hitler Youth. I know attacks like this always result in people soapboxing about their politics, and the perp himself explicitly wanted that, but you would think Pewdiepie was the one who killed 50 people and not Tarrant because of how many more people were talking about him.

 

[AnOminous]

Flat earthers are morons but they're about as harmless as it's possible to be. I only have a real problem with them when they're also antivaxers or something else that's actually a menace, which they sometimes are because people dumb enough to be flat earthers are probably also dumb enough to believe other actually dangerous dumb shit.

But if they're just flat earthers and nothing else, who cares?

 

[Baby Jane Hudson]

Sovereign Citizens are annoying as hell. So are First Amendment auditors. They are generally Soy Boys (or Girls) who go around intentionally agitating law enforcement and filming it, then showing it on social media to try and get people to become outraged over gubment authority abuses when they end up getting tazed for being asshats.