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

I’ve mentioned this before in one of the music threads, but since the topic has shifted to the early 2000’s pop culture, I have to mention Creed. To this day, if you bring up Creed in any discussion about music people will shit all over them as if they’re the second coming of Hitler. I got into them about 2 years ago, and I really don’t understand it.

They're barely even relevant. The #1 hit for the name is some movie and the second looks like Apollo Creed from the Rocky movies. I think the hate is just for being a relatively popular band that were just openly Christian. Or even might have been, since they never even called themselves that. So it's Nickelback hate + fedora tipping.
 
There was a large hate base for “teen/tween sitcoms” back in the mid 2000’s. Personally, I don’t see anything “bad” about shows like ICarly and Drake & Josh. Why do people always treat it like it’s some big disaster?

Probably because of Dan Schneider, the Harvey Weinstein of tween shows, who seems to have completely skated metoo.
 
Probably because of Dan Schneider, the Harvey Weinstein of tween shows, who seems to have completely skated metoo.
I mean’t like adult men blaming “kiddie shows” for society's downfall, or sending death threats to teenager for no reason. It just got old fast. This was during the 2000’s remind you, before the Schneider incident.
 
I mean’t like adult men blaming “kiddie shows” for society's downfall, or sending death threats to teenager for no reason. It just got old fast. This was during the 2000’s remind you, before the Schneider incident.

Schneider's whole career was decades of that kind of shit.
 
There was a large hate base for “teen/tween sitcoms” back in the mid 2000’s. Personally, I don’t see anything “bad” about shows like ICarly and Drake & Josh. Why do people always treat it like it’s some big disaster?

iCarly angers me because it was on when I ate lunch and I didn't understand what was going on or why there was a laugh track. I felt like a monkey getting taunted by something.

Call of Duty hate got old pretty fast and the current Call of Duty indifference is more appropriate.
 
Schneider's whole career was decades of that kind of shit.

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I think part of this is over Blizzard being woke, which I hate Blizzard's wokeness but Overwatch was at least fun for me for a while.
It was fun for a while too, but after a while I just played nothing but deathmatch mode, until finally quitting and going back to tf2.
 
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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.
Yeah, they do, and it's still Sturgeons' Law out there, but when you get a good AMV, you get an amazing AMV.
I would say the dumb hate fads over kids cartoons
It is funny at first because these are always started by grown adults that are upset over something dumb like "teen titans go isn't the same as the original," and them just flip out over it.

But after a while dear god it always gets so out of control and becomes very annoying.
They seriously end up becoming so rabid and dumb I have seen posts of these tards online wanting to beat up children wearing the merchandise from those shows.

Then they spam this shit endlessly, seriously are no different then the rabid fans of these dumb shows, they act the exact same way just the other side of that unbearably stupid coin.
Gee, it's totally not like I am this

(Totally has an autistic review on Mr. Enter's thread on CatDog, remember kids, you are what you eat, flush out that lolcow beef)
 
I think we're moving away from generically hating everything as Gen X increasingly fades into obscurity. That was their thing, and look where it got them.
I’ve mentioned this before in one of the music threads, but since the topic has shifted to the early 2000’s pop culture, I have to mention Creed. To this day, if you bring up Creed in any discussion about music people will shit all over them as if they’re the second coming of Hitler. I got into them about 2 years ago, and I really don’t understand it.

You could echo pretty much the same sentiments for Nickelback. I’m not really into them but apart from the funny photograph meme what has ruthlessly shitting on everything Nickelback has done accomplished besides probably making Chad Kroeger want to kill himself?
I'm sure Chad Kroeger doesn't care. For all the hate they get, Nickelback still tours and sells albums, which is pretty damned good for a rock band anymore.

It's like that moment with The Critic on The Simpsons.

"How do you sleep at night?"

"On top of a pile of money, with many beautiful ladies."
 
...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.
That may have been true in the first few years of AVGN but as early as 2011 (when many of the copycats were still fairly strong) it was clear he was playing games not from his childhood (likely bought second hand) without even a rudimentary read on Wikipedia about it, if that. I know I've ragged on James about that before. And you can tell that by 2011 the reviews were increasingly manufactured (but not nearly to the point today).
 
I’ve mentioned this before in one of the music threads, but since the topic has shifted to the early 2000’s pop culture, I have to mention Creed. To this day, if you bring up Creed in any discussion about music people will shit all over them as if they’re the second coming of Hitler. I got into them about 2 years ago, and I really don’t understand it.

You could echo pretty much the same sentiments for Nickelback. I’m not really into them but apart from the funny photograph meme what has ruthlessly shitting on everything Nickelback has done accomplished besides probably making Chad Kroeger want to kill himself?
P.O.D. had the same kind of thing happen with them. Nu-metal, openly Christian, irrational fedora-tipping hate.

You know, P.O.D., the band that did this song:

And... um... were they a one-hit wonder?

edit: oh they've put out 11 albums and they're still going, lolwut
 
That may have been true in the first few years of AVGN but as early as 2011 (when many of the copycats were still fairly strong) it was clear he was playing games not from his childhood (likely bought second hand) without even a rudimentary read on Wikipedia about it, if that. I know I've ragged on James about that before. And you can tell that by 2011 the reviews were increasingly manufactured (but not nearly to the point today).
He's definitely not very in-depth, but I don't think he's ever particularly inaccurate, which I think signals that he does play them a decent amount and puts in the effort to fact check. As for his reviews feeling manufactured I disagree, they don't feel like they're products made by committee, if they were I'd argue they'd be more like the old reviews then Doug's skit reviews. The increase in skits over the years is a move of passion, James clearly loves film production and want to do that more, so he wants to bring that to AVGN. I really dislike the increasing amount of skits, but I wouldn't say that they feel manufactured, even if there's more manufacturing that goes into them ironically.
 
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