History Main / ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow

Even people who simply have a passive uninterest (as opposed to an active dislike) for the show are not immune to the wrath of these fans. This can even happen to people who love the show as much as they do, [[MisaimedFandom but for the wrong reasons]]. A variant on the above are the fans who will heatedly tell you that [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter unless you have written a commercially successful comic/movie/book/etc. of your own]], you are "not qualified" to issue a criticism of any author who has. The gaping logical fallacy here is hopefully self-evident. Of course, many of these selfsame fans will then go on to criticize stories they didn't like, sometimes even in the same breath as the above, when they haven't written anything commercially successful either.

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-->-- Comments on many, ''many'' Website/YouTube videos, where X represents the number of dislikes. [[note]] [[TimeMarchesOn Until]] [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings the site made dislikes private to the creator]], [[https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com unless you have this extension]]. [[/note]]

-->-- Comments on many, ''many'' Website/YouTube videos, where X represents the number of dislikes. [[note]] [[TimeMarchesOn Until the site made dislikes private to the creator]], [[https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com unless you have this extension]]. [[/note]]

-->-- Comments on many, ''many'' Website/YouTube videos, where X represents the number of dislikes. [[note]] [[TimeMarchesOn Minus however many have disliked it since then.]] [[/note]]

* PlayedForLaughs in Creator/JoshScorcher and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/henmo24 Voice of Reason]]'s collab review of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts and Hooves Day]] for the former not liking WebAnimation/DoubleRainboom and the latter not liking WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft.

A SubTrope of OpinionMyopia. Compare with SacredCow and UnacceptableTargets, both in which even the slightest bit of criticism will bring heavy derision on you. HePannedItNowHeSucks is when a critic suffers the wrath of this trope. Contrast with {{Fan Hater}}s, which this trope has been known to spawn, and {{Hatedom}}-- if these groups exist for the work in question, they can serve as a VocalMinority, with fans linking everyone who doesn't love the work to the hate-spewing groups. Also an extremely common source of HypeBacklash and ItsPopularNowItSucks - when a work has a notoriously rabid, aggressive, and confrontational fanbase with a penchant for starting fights with anyone who doesn't share their enthusiasm or has any sort of criticism to extend, it is easy and understandable for people to develop a blanket hatred for the work.

A SubTrope of OpinionMyopia. Compare with SacredCow and UnacceptableTargets, both in which even the slightest bit of criticism will bring heavy derision on you. HePannedItNowHeSucks is when a critic suffers the wrath of this trope. Contrast with {{Fan Hater}}s, which this trope has been known to spawn, and {{Hatedom}}-- if these groups exist for the work in question, they can serve as a VocalMinority, with fans linking everyone who doesn't love the work to the hate-spewing groups.

The only thing worse than people not watching your favorite show is [[ItsPopularNowItSucks people actually watching it]].

!!Fictional Examples:

* Standard reaction after [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] [[AccentuateTheNegative finally]] [[CausticCritic reviews]] some game fans had been nagging for.

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* In ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'', Sheila does this when Sabrina gives a lukewarm review of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.

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* An episode from the penultimate season of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' has Elaine declaring that she hated ''TheEnglishPatient'', which results in her getting dumped by her boyfriend and almost getting fired.

* The Japanese UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn marketing campaign features Advertising/SegataSanshiro, a martial artist who beats up kids for not playing the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn.

** Fans try to drop a giant safe on him when he says he doesn't care for ''Series/TheFlintstones'', and then a tiny safe for saying the same of ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' ("not as much of a backlash there").

* The title card for Duckyworth's [[http://duckyworth.deviantart.com/art/DT-80-Pokemon-Lucario-and-the-Mystery-of-Mew-396933173 review]] of ''Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew'' involves people protesting against him, by throwing rotten fruit and eggs, and holding placards against him, because he, as he mentioned in the review, [[HypeBacklash he didn't like it as much as others in the fandom did,]] and in the actual review, he gets booed by the fans because he doesn't like the film.

* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', the Griffin family tears Peter a new one after he announces that he didn't care for ''Film/TheGodfather''. It's based on the typical reaction to Creator/SethMacFarlane saying the same.

* In ''Series/ICarly'', Freddie saying he doesn't think {{Fred}} is that funny results in him [[DisproportionateRetribution losing every friendship he has and being ostracised from every club, his family calls up to abuse him, and in the end is beaten up by Sam with a tennis racquet and forced to directly apologize to Fred]]. To be fair though, his comments did cause Fred to stop putting up new videos... [[spoiler: Except Fred did this as a publicity stunt to gain more views when he eventually came back. He claimed it would help iCarly too, but he ''didn't even tell them the plan'' (at least then Freddie would have had Sam and Carly on his side) until after Freddie was beaten with said racquet. So he actually [[InvokedTrope weaponized this trope]] to gain more popularity than ever]].

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* The Japanese SegaSaturn marketing campaign features Advertising/SegataSanshiro, a martial artist who beats up kids for not playing the SegaSaturn.

Now you're faced with a host of angry replies from fans, demanding that you [[DontLikeDontRead stop talking about the show if you didn't like it]], after they insult your sexuality, mental capabilities, and other such things. This massive bitching is justified in ''some'' communities: if you don't think show X has any redeeming qualities, why would you post on the Official Fan Forum, Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike? But even that can go too far, and this could happen to you on your own private forum.

** Fans try to drop a giant safe on him when he says he doesn't care for ''Series/TheFlintstones'', and then a tiny safe for saying the same of ''Series/MrMagoo'' ("not as much of a backlash there").
** He repeatedly stresses that ''Series/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is one of his favourite shows and still gets attacked repeatedly for making a "worst episodes" list.

* Standard reaction after [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] [[AccentuateTheNegative finally]] [[CausticCritic reviews]] some game fans had been nagging for.

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* The title card for Duckyworth's [[http://duckyworth.deviantart.com/art/DT-80-Pokemon-Lucario-and-the-Mystery-of-Mew-396933173 review]] of ''PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew'' involves people protesting against him, by throwing rotten fruit and eggs, and holding placards against him, because he, as he mentioned in the review, [[HypeBacklash he didn't like it as much as others in the fandom did,]] and in the actual review, he gets booed by the fans because he doesn't like the film.

** The plot his ''Film/TheMatrix'' review trilogy revolves around his against-the-grain dislike of the series, with most people assuming he's only talking about the sequels and not the first movie.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic got physically assaulted by celebrity guest stars for criticizing ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' (even though he started by saying that he liked it), and a crowd of Anime fans for not liking ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle''.

-->-- Comments on many, ''many'' Website/YouTube videos, where X represents the number of dislikes. [[note]] Minus however many have disliked it since then. [[/note]]

* Standard reaction after [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] [[AccantuateTheNegative finally]] [[CausticCritic reviews]] some game fans had been nagging for.

Of course, some of this is ever-so-slightly justified: the more people share your tastes, the better the chances the sort of stuff you like will become widely available, stop getting cancelled, or even get made in the first place. Conversely, a large naysaying consensus could affect the market for your favourite series/genre/whatever. But it's almost impossible to argue an ''individual'' person into liking something, much less a market-affecting number of folks. So even where this attitude isn't outright illogical, it's fairly quixotic in practice.