History Main / AccentuatetheNegative

Often done by TheCynic or CausticCritic. See also SturgeonsLaw, ReviewerStockPhrases, LetsMockTheMonsters, UnpleasableFanbase, and HePannedItNowHeSucks, a fan reaction when the Accentuate The Negative reviewer pans a show his fans like.

* HateDumb. Unlike FanDumb where "Unjust Praises" are shot down [[note]] Although some would argue that fans of TrueArt works are given a free pass to this, [[SacredCow but that's another]] [[UnacceptableTargets story entirely]] [[/note]], some "Unjust Hatred" may be given a free pass, especially if the work in question is [[ItsPopularNowItSucks popular.]] HateDumb was given a free pass more than FanDumb. Not only was FanDumb around much ''much'' longer, but HateDumb was made a "Subjective" trope with warnings not to put it on the main page way before FanDumb was. This was pointed out on the DoubleStandard page.

* The operators of www.anti-shurtugal.com, an anti-fansite for ''Literature/InheritanceCycle,'' founded the site because they discovered that they couldn't say anything critical about the books on the fansites without getting flamed, banned, and/or threatened. So they founded their own site explicitly to point out every single flaw with the books. They eventually added ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' to the list of literature they hate. The website is now curiously defunct.

* Podcast/ReadItAndWeep is a podcast that exists solely to make fun of terrible things. ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' especially.

* WebVideo/{{Oancitizen}} discusses this trope during his review of Film/{{Melancholia}}, talking about how you're apparently not allowed to enjoy anything on the internet and must always be cynical and snark about everything.

* WebVideo/JesuOtaku often takes controversial opinions (believing the eponymous character of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is a DesignatedHero and a "cunt" comparable to Anakin Skywalker in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels, declaring ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' on the level of Nick Jr., celebrating ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice's'' cancellation, and general vitriol directed at fanbases he dislikes) and runs with them. He has a genuine dislike of what he makes fun of.

* WebSite/SFDebris began by taking potshots at [[Series/StarTrekVoyager the wackiest iteration]] of ''Star Trek'', then gradually expanded to the point where the entire Federation of Planets is portrayed as a third world commie dictatorship. The only competent characters are macho man James T. Kirk and Ben "Don't Fuck With The" Sisko's [[BiggerIsBetterInBed penis.]]

* Give it up for Marvin the Paranoid Android from ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy.'' He is taken for granted so often with little or no gratitude it's a wonder he doesn't violate the prime directive.

--> '''Nerd:''' Yes, I'm sorry I didn't have more negative to say, I was really tryin' here, um... I know I haven't filled my curse quota for this episode, so... [[ClusterFBomb fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck]].

* ''WebVideo/TheHappyVideoGameNerd'': Normally averted, but his reviews of ''VideoGame/StarTropics 2'' and ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' had this in spades. Also in the second half of his ''Videogame/EternalDarkness'' review and even more so in the second review.

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'': If he's the main hero of the final chapter, [[spoiler:Akira [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chews out Oersted]] for using the trope as the outcome of being betrayed by mankind. Akira himself has experienced his share of betrayals, his mentor turned out to be the killer of his father. Said father was also working for the enemy. But he chose to focus on his mentor's good and friendly side, and his father being an inspiring, law-abiding, model officer/citizen rather than just being a pawn of the bad guys. Those allowed him to stay positive and succeed. Meanwhile, Oersted, in his rage, chose to forget the few humans who are kind and truly believed him (Uranus, Hasshe, that one kid), and instead focused on the negative side of mankind, especially his most vital betrayers (Streibough and Alethea). In Akira's words, all Oersted was looking for was [[FreudianExcuse a justified excuse to lash out in rage]], [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse but even that falls flat.]]]]

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'': If he's the main hero of the final chapter, [[spoiler:Akira [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chews out Oersted]] for using the trope as the outcome of being betrayed by mankind. Akira himself has experienced his share of betrayals, his mentor turned out to be the killer of his father. Said father was also working for the enemy. But he chose to focus on his good and friendly side, that allowed him to stay positive and succeed. Meanwhile, Oersted, in his rage, chose to forget the few humans who are kind and truly believed him (Uranus, Hasshe, that one kid), and instead focused on the negative side of mankind, especially his most vital betrayers (Streibough and Alethea). In Akira's words, all Oersted was looking for was [[FreudianExcuse a justified excuse to lash out in rage]], [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse but even that falls flat.]]]]

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'': If he's the main hero of the final chapter, [[spoiler:Akira [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chews out Oersted]] for using the trope as the outcome of being betrayed by mankind. Akira himself has experienced his share of betrayals, his mentor turned out to be the killer of his father. But he chose to focus on his good and friendly side, that allowed him to stay positive and succeed. Meanwhile, Oersted, in his rage, chose to forget the few humans who are kind and truly believed him (Uranus, Hasshe, that one kid), and instead focused on the negative side of mankind, especially his most vital betrayers (Streibough and Alethea). In Akira's words, all Oersted was looking for was [[FreudianExcuse a justified excuse to lash out in rage]], [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse but even that falls flat.]]]]

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* The two volumes of ''Is It Just Me, or is Everything Shit?'' exemplify the trend in the British media for complaining about anything and everything. Another writer responded with a book titled ''It is Just You, Everything's Not Shit''. Rather worryingly, [[SturgeonsLaw it's a much shorter book]].

* This exchange from ''Series/DoctorWho: [[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'':

* Creator/SeanMalstrom does this all the time, with his highly negative opinions on every 3D ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' game as well as everything [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Yoshio Sakamoto]] touches, being some of the most notorious.

* ComicBook/AvengersArena has had this from the day it was announced, people calling it {{gorn}} and disgustingly violent. This was before anyone read a page.

* Creator/FourKidsEntertainment. Al Kahn and his executives bring it on themselves, but many anime fans unreasonably pan every writer, voice actor, and worker in the ''entire company'' as being evil satanic monsters for ''doing dubs on anime'' and nothing the company does can ''ever'' be in the least bit right. After the heavily {{bowderlise}}d ''Manga/OnePiece'' bombed in the [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates US]] while ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' got a decent dub and became a CashCowFranchise, this is what the publishers of ''Manga/OnePiece'' did to [=4Kids=] in Japan.

* DownloadableContent. It's the modern ExpansionPack and it is well received for those who want to get some more content to their favorite game(s). But you wouldn't know that with all the backlash on it, with quite a few claiming them; regardless of the actual content, as "overpriced cash cows hidden on the disc waiting to be unlocked". Keep in mind, these complaints were flowing freely ''before'' Creator/{{Capcom}} did one of their infamous moves [[note]] Capcom, during the release of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', caught some infamy when hackers found out that all DLC was already on disc and had to be purchased to be unlocked, serving as a money-based DoubleUnlock. This has become slightly more frequent with certain games now, but not by much [[/note]].
* In an in-universe and comedic example, Francis from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead,'' who will proclaim [[MadLibsCatchPhrase "I hate (blank)!"]] several times throughout the game. The list of things he actually likes includes vests, steam, Jimmy Gibbs Jr.'s stock car, Music/DepecheMode, and Rochelle from the second game. The list of things he hates is...[[http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Francis#Hatred_of_Everything considerably larger.]]
* Very common to do on the official forums for ''any'' game. Most notable examples:
** Class balance in VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft. If you believe the forums, every class (and individual specs within classes) is barely able to keep up in PlayerVersusEnvironment content and outclassed in [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]] content.
** In MOBA games like ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients,'' ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth,'' and ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends.'' It's safe to say they'll never agree with anything.
* Same goes for places outside of official forums as well. If you mention a game, most of the responses will be something about how much they hated it, [[HypeBacklash how much they thought it sucked despite being told it was good,]] their worst experiences with it, their worst experiences with the community, etc.
* Game developers and publishers. If they make a poorly received game, they must make five more good games before people forget about it... And even then they're lucky if they do. And GOD help these developers and publishers if they got caught in a negative controversy. The fandom will define them on those controversies or negative things more than whatever good things they do, and act like they do it because they 'care about the industry that these companies are destroying'. (Note: [[AmericansHateTingle these tends to be mostly from the West]] due to some ValuesDissonance, the Eastern part of the world tends to be more chill (though not completely silent about it) about developer mishaps.)
** Creator/ElectronicArts gets this the worst amongst other companies[[labelnote:How bad?]]As of current, they're unoffically dubbed 'the most evil video game company ever', and no matter how many bad controversies other companies are having (see below), EA is ''still'' the unofficial title holder.[[/labelnote]]. They have a lot of terrible things... But a couple of things they actually funded and saw great interest in are completely forgotten and they go un-credited for. For example, did you know some of Origin's later games (like ''VideoGame/UltimaOnline'') were only possible with their financial support? Or that when a couple of studios who co-developed a game pitched an idea to them, they suggested making it a sequel to another well-received game, and the result was a SacredCow? What game was that, you might ask? ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2.'' And despite being known to have killed ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' franchise, for its remastered version, EA actually went out of their way to re-gather the original crews of Westwood Studios (that they shut down) and had them recreate the magic of the retro game experience as faithfully as possible, resulting a surprisingly praised remaster of some of the classic titles. And you can probably count with your hands on how many people actually acknowledge that ''[[PetTheDog EA can do good things at times]]'', the rest chose to just remember their ''other'' terrible things.
** Creator/SiliconKnights get this to a smaller scale, though they still exemplify this trope beautifully. Essentially, after they [[DevelopmentHell took years]] to make ''VideoGame/TooHuman'', a game that ended up as, not bad, not cap, just SoOkayItsAverage. Then, their next game project ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'' was announced, and about three quarters of any discussion was over exaggerations about the game was instead about how SK are incompetent idiots who take too long to make crap games and that ''Too Human'' was shit and therefore so will ''Destiny'' be, while the remaining quarter was split between actual talk about the game, and people having to point out SK ''have'' made decent, if few, games in the past, and that ''Too Human'' wasn't that bad. The game itself ended up being released on time, to mediocre reviews, though official forums seemed to think it was decent, if short and not very groundbreaking.
** Creator/{{Konami}} gets this a lot, particularly [[AmericansHateTingle in the West]] where they've received ''massive'' MemeticLoser status. It would be easier to count how many people in the West still appreciate what they produce today. Since their shifting away from console games, Western fans tend to lash out at anything bad or controversial they do (their scruffs with Creator/HideoKojima and their [[ExecutiveMeddling meddling]] with ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' being two major examples) and cite those things as examples of "Konami doesn't make games anymore, they're a gambling and ''mobage'' company now!", in spite of Konami continuing to produce well-received arcade games (just ask any fan of current arcade {{Rhythm Game}}s). When ''[[VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} Bombergirl]]'', an actual arcade game and not a pachinko or other gambling-related spinoff, was unveiled at JAEPO 2017, it was singled out as "more proof that Konami only ever does bad things now" while the rest of the arcade games Konami showed at that event were largely ignored by Western fans. Notably, ''Bombergirl'' and Konami pachinko games are [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]], but it doesn't stop Western fans from [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch complaining about games that they don't play]]. Additionally, Konami has been taking care of their game franchises that [[NoExportForYou somehow never left Japan]], such as ''VideoGame/LivePowerfulProBaseball'' and a leftover from Hudsonsoft: ''Momotaro Densetsu''. The two titles actually topped the charts of Japanese gaming and the latter ''actually won a Japanese award''. Of course, as far as the Western community goes, it's like they don't exist at all.
** Creator/BlizzardEntertainment. Ever since the merger with Creator/{{Activision}}, fans are a lot more willing to point out at how many times they screwed up (or emulating Activision's strategy of being [[MoneyDearBoy profit-driven]]) rather than how many times they pleased their fanbase. And it certainly didn't help that at the tail end of UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, they piled up a lot of negativity such as ''Diablo Immortal'' and most damningly, the incident where they banned ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' pro player Blitzchung for making a political statement that wouldn't go well with their Chinese shareholders. And further ''not'' helping their case was the disastrous remake of their classic game in form of ''VideoGame/WarcraftIIIReforged'' that happened right afterwards to start the year of 2021. Going to the year 2021, it's getting a little harder to look at or enjoy Blizzard-related products without people reminding you about their aforementioned fails and how much they have fallen from their throne of one of the best Western video game developers, which was topped by an extremely serious workplace abuse scandal that drove a female worker to suicide. Even if there's a slight hope with the buyout by Creator/{{Microsoft}} (which has enjoyed a better situation in the 2020's thanks to certain figures like Phil Spencer), less people are going to talk about how Microsoft can fix the situation and make the lives of the workers better (or bring back the prestige of the franchises that has fallen due to the tons of controversies), but more about 'How much more Blizzard are going to screw themselves up further until they're completely owned by Microsoft'.
* Microsoft's UsefulNotes/XboxOne has been a target of this since its reveal in May 2013, mostly as the result of a counterattack.
* Anything released by Creator/{{Activision}} and Creator/ElectronicArts now. Mainly because most of what you see from either publisher is their well-over-known games, like ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' or ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}''. That and because both publishers have been known to have incredibly pricy downloadable content because MoneyDearBoy. Activision also occasionally caught flak of whatever missteps Creator/BlizzardEntertainment made (see above), though surprisingly ''not'' the 2021 workplace scandal, [[NotMeThisTime that wasn't really Activision's fault this time.]] And in cases they did ''good'' such as the wildly applauded remaster of [[VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy the original trilogy of the]] ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' games, the things fandom will remember more would be [[MoneyDearBoy inserting in-game purchasing with real money]] on the karting game remaster ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'' and eventually cancelling further Crash games despite ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' being accepted warmly with fans.
* Creator/SanzaruGames is notorious for ruining the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series with [[FanSequel their own sequel]], ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'', by creating a cliffhanger ending with no intention of resolving it, and vilifying Penelope. Even when the rest of the game is praised for remaining true to the franchise, these two issues caused fans to [[FanonDiscontinuity disown the game]]. Sanzaru's reputation didn't improve when they created a ''Film/{{Tron}}'' video game just after a planned film was cancelled, and their involvement in ''VideoGame/SpyroReignitedTrilogy'' was also panned for removing Ba'ah's unique hatch animation despite the reimagining being critically acclaimed.

* ''WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera'' sometimes does this, such as with ''Film/TheCountryBears'' and ''It's A Small World Holiday,'' but just as often, Jerk is positive about the things he's reviewing.

* WebVideo/MovieRehab: Played straight in earlier episodes, which [[OldShame Jack himself regrets retrospectively]].

** The biggest reason to watch Yahtzee's reviews is to listen to a [[TheMeanBrit Mean Brit]] [[MotorMouth talk very fast]] about games he hates. There ''are'' some games he enjoys unreservedly, like ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''. With ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', he showed mild shock and disgust with ''himself'' for loving it so completely, and his ''Psychonauts'' review consisted of 40% [[ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow insulting the people who didn't buy it]], 20% bashing ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' and [[FanHater anyone that plays it]], 20% complaining that there aren't more original intellectual properties like this, and 20% actual praise. Not so surprisingly, he is a frequenter of the Website/SomethingAwful boards. Heck, he'll even do it to games he likes, like ''VideoGame/BioShock1,'' ''Call Of Duty 4,'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI!'' At one point he actually said "There are a few nitpicks I could make but I wouldn't be the critic I like to think I am if I didn't pick nits like an amphetamine-fueled chimp" so he bound to the formula. As he put it, "[[RuleOfFunny It's not very funny to like a game.]]"

Most of us love a good grumble. It's {{cathar|sisFactor}}tic to complain for a bit and get things off our chests. Problem is, "polite society" has a low tolerance level for this kind of thing, and someone who verbalizes their real thoughts on a lousy situation is likely to be frowned upon and labeled a [[{{Wangst}} whiner]] / [[GrumpyBear grouch]] / EmoTeen relatively quickly. For example, the "correct" answer to the question "How are you?" is either "Fine, thank you," or "Pretty good. And you?" (Or, if we're being formal, "How are you?")[[note]]Though, technically, the ''[[CannotTellALie correct]]'' answer should immediately reveal your status as an atheist or deist.[[/note]] Even if your house exploded in a freak accident that morning and you were flattened by a runaway horse and then fired for coming into work covered in hoofprints.

* ED's rival, Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}}, is more like a parody version of Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, and the humor is more often flat-out nonsense than insulting. (There is a guidance page titled "How To Be Funny And Not Just Stupid", but the advice isn't always followed.) Unfortunately, this isn't the case with the [[http://desciclo.pedia.ws/ Portuguese version]], which, besides some actual parodic articles and articles on [[MemeticMutation fads]], follows the ED formula of bashing anything in sight and ''lots'' of {{NSFW}} images. It's worth noting that ED holds a special contempt for Uncyclopedia, considering Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales's expression of approval to be the worst possible indictment against Uncyclopedia. For its own part, Uncyclopedia offers this scathingly precise descriptor of its rival: "Unfunny cynicism masquerading as humor."

* Creator/FourKidsEntertainment. Al Kahn and his executives bring it on themselves, but many anime fans unreasonably pan every writer, voice actor, and worker in the ''entire company'' as being evil satanic monsters for ''doing dubs on anime'' and nothing the company does can ''ever'' be in the least bit right. After ''Manga/OnePiece'' bombed in the [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates US]] with its CutAndPasteTranslation while ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' got a decent dub and became a CashCowFranchise, this is what the publishers of ''Manga/OnePiece'' did to [=4Kids=] in Japan.

* Wiki/TVTropes itself tends to have this problem at times. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools More negative tropes are seen around here more than positive ones.]] Some tropers here tend to be really itching to add negative tropes on [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike shows they don't like here.]], or the belief that JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife. There has since been a movement to lower such negativity in this wiki. You'll notice that people have to be ''reminded'' to not bash things. From the main page:

** Creator/BlizzardEntertainment. Ever since the merger with Creator/{{Activision}}, fans are a lot more willing to point out at how many times they screwed up (or emulating Activision's strategy of being [[MoneyDearBoy profit-driven]]) rather than how many times they pleased their fanbase. And it certainly didn't help that at the tail end of UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, they piled up a lot of negativity such as ''Diablo Immortal'' and most damningly, the incident where they banned ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' pro player Blitzchung for making a political statement that wouldn't go well with their Chinese shareholders. And further ''not'' helping their case was the disastrous remake of their classic game in form of ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} 3: Reforged'' that happened right afterwards to start the year of 2021. Going to the year 2021, it's getting a little harder to look at or enjoy Blizzard-related products without people reminding you about their aforementioned fails and how much they have fallen from their throne of one of the best Western video game developers, which was topped by an extremely serious workplace abuse scandal that drove a female worker to suicide. Even if there's a slight hope with the buyout by Creator/{{Microsoft}} (which has enjoyed a better situation in the 2020's thanks to certain figures like Phil Spencer), less people are going to talk about how Microsoft can fix the situation and make the lives of the workers better (or bring back the prestige of the franchises that has fallen due to the tons of controversies), but more about 'How much more Blizzard are going to screw themselves up further until they're completely owned by Microsoft'.

** Creator/ElectronicArts gets this the worst amongst other companies. They have a lot of terrible things... But a couple of things they actually funded and saw great interest in are completely forgotten and they go un-credited for. For example, did you know some of Origin's later games (like ''VideoGame/UltimaOnline'') were only possible with their financial support? Or that when a couple of studios who co-developed a game pitched an idea to them, they suggested making it a sequel to another well-received game, and the result was a SacredCow? What game was that, you might ask? ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2.'' And despite being known to have killed ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' franchise, for its remastered version, EA actually went out of their way to re-gather the original crews of Westwood Studios (that they shut down) and had them recreate the magic of the retro game experience as faithfully as possible, resulting a surprisingly praised remaster of some of the classic titles. And you can probably count with your hands on how many people actually acknowledge that ''[[PetTheDog EA can do good things at times]]'', the rest chose to just remember their ''other'' terrible things.

** Creator/BlizzardEntertainment. Ever since the merger with Creator/{{Activision}}, fans are a lot more willing to point out at how many times they screwed up (or emulating Activision's strategy of being [[MoneyDearBoy profit-driven]]) rather than how many times they pleased their fanbase. And it certainly didn't help that at the tail end of UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, they piled up a lot of negativity such as ''Diablo Immortal'' and most damningly, the incident where they banned ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' pro player Blitzchung for making a political statement that wouldn't go well with their Chinese shareholders. And further ''not'' helping their case was the disastrous remake of their classic game in form of ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} 3: Reforged'' that happened right afterwards to start the year of 2021. Going to the year 2021, it's getting a little harder to look at or enjoy Blizzard-related products without people reminding you about their aforementioned fails and how much they have fallen from their throne of one of the best Western video game developers, which was topped by an extremely serious workplace abuse scandal that drove a female worker to suicide. Even if there's a slight hope with the buyout by Creator/{{Microsoft}} (which has enjoyed a better situation in the 2020's thanks to certain figures like Phil Spencer), less people are going to talk about how Microsoft can fix the situation and make the lives of the workers better, but more about 'How much more Blizzard are going to screw themselves up further until they're completely owned by Microsoft'.

** Creator/BlizzardEntertainment. Ever since the merger with Creator/{{Activision}}, fans are a lot more willing to point out at how many times they screwed up (or emulating Activision's strategy of being [[MoneyDearBoy profit-driven]]) rather than how many times they pleased their fanbase. And it certainly didn't help that at the tail end of UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, they piled up a lot of negativity such as ''Diablo Immortal'' and most damningly, the incident where they banned ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' pro player Blitzchung for making a political statement that wouldn't go well with their Chinese shareholders. And further ''not'' helping their case was the disastrous remake of their classic game in form of ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} 3: Reforged'' that happened right afterwards to start the year of 2021. Going to the year 2021, it's getting a little harder to look at or enjoy Blizzard-related products without people reminding you about their aforementioned fails (some of them pretty serious) and how much they have fallen from their throne of one of the best Western video game developers. Even at the times when they did actually pretty well (''VideoGame/DiabloII Resurrected'' shaped up to be their AuthorsSavingThrow when it comes to classic game remakes, but people are still aware of how they screwed up before, and months before its full blown release, another work-environment controversy got exposed, and regardless of how that would turn out, it's more likely that people are gonna remember that one over the remaster).

* Anything released by Creator/{{Activision}} and Creator/ElectronicArts now. Mainly because most of what you see from either publisher is their well-over-known games, like ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' or ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}''. That and because both publishers have been known to have incredibly pricy downloadable content because MoneyDearBoy. Activision also occasionally caught flak of whatever missteps Creator/BlizzardEntertainment made (see above). And in cases they did ''good'' such as the wildly applauded remaster of [[VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy the original trilogy of the]] ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' games, the things fandom will remember more would be [[MoneyDearBoy inserting in-game purchasing with real money]] on the karting game remaster ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'' and eventually cancelling further Crash games despite ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' being accepted warmly with fans.

** Over time, gymnasts and fans at the elite level have complained that judges have taken this to a new level and become increasingly nitpicky, noting that perfect 10 execution scores, which were once a potentially achievable goal, have become only theoretical[[note]]the last major international competition where a perfect 10 score was given was the 1992 Olympics[[/note]], that execution scores are overall much lower on average than they used to be[[note]]compare the 2000 Olympics, where Svetlana Khorkina scored a 9.0 for a bar routine with a fall (twice!), to the 2016 Olympics where the ''best'' execution score on bars in the entire competition was a 9.266[[/note]], and that judges take relatively harsh deductions even on superb routines. For example, in the 2012 Olympic Team finals, American gymnast [=McKayla=] Maroney received only a 9.733 execution score for a vault that was generally agreed to be just about perfect.[[note]]And by many people's standards, this is far from the worst case of this; for one thing, except on vault (which is known to be a higher-scoring event), it's become increasingly rare to see execution scores that even break a 9.[[/note]]

** Music/TheCure: Almost the TropeCodifier.