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* An episode of ''Series/Psych'' has a minor character make fun of ''Series/TheMentalist'', something that ''Psych'' itself does occasionally, and then admit he's never actually seen it.

* HypocriticalFandom (who would do this due to lack of research)

* AnimationAgeGhetto
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer
* FanHater

* HypeAversion

* PeripheryHatedom

* DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER
* ShallowParody
* TaintedByThePreview

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' features a StrawFan as an ArcVillain, and at one point you have to get past the door via a true/false quiz. One "question" in that quiz fits this trope, and is shown in the page image. (This was one of many {{Woolseyism}}s added to the English version.)

[[quoteright:300:[[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spm_message_boards_standard_4.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:300:Yeah, Peach clearly didn't play ''Final Quest Heroes 9'' before she bashed it.]]

* [[KnightTemplar Miko Miyazaki]] writes the introduction to''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' prequel ''Recap/StartOfDarkness'', heavily criticising it for [[StartOfDarkness its subject matter]]. About halfway through, she mentions that she hasn't actually read it.

* The film review aggregation site Website/RottenTomatoes [[https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/rotten-tomatoes-audience-scores-verified-fandango-ticket-buyers-1203224424/ cited this trope]] when, in May 2019, they redid how they handled audience ratings, requiring users to present their ticket stubs (working with Fandango, which owns the site, and several theater chains) in order for their ratings to count towards the audience score. The cause of this was a number of high-profile {{troll}} campaigns aimed at driving down the audience scores of popular movies that they didn't like, skewing the ratings away from the opinions of those who had actually seen such films and towards those of a VocalMinority who had elected to boycott them before they even came out. Earlier that year, Rotten Tomatoes disabled user comments on films that had not yet come out, for much the same reason.

Compare CriticalResearchFailure, Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike and IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam.

* [[WebVideo/VideoGamesAwesome Fraser]] actively writes off VideoGame/KingdomHearts as being bad despite admitting to never playing any of the games and has mocked its fans, at one point saying after watching the Kingdom Hearts 3 teaser that [he] can't wait to tear apart [the fans'] favorite game.

** Robert Novak, frequent target of {{Take That}}s due to his role in the Valerie Plame affair, was asked in an interview whether he'd ever seen ''The Daily Show'' or any of its material on him; he said no, then promptly went on to describe Jon as "self-righteous" and a "phony" and so forth. The old incident of Geraldo Rivera ranting to Bill O'Reilly about how TDS and TCR "exist in a small little place where they count for nothing" is most likely also an example, since he cited their supposed use of [[Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos "video of old ladies slipping on ice and people laughing,"]] which are not exactly Stewart and Colbert's stock in trade. (We would say these were in-universe examples, except y'know, it happened in ''[[RealLife this]]'' [[RealLife universe]]).

'''Mom:''' Oh, thank you for those insightful reviews of books... you haven't read.

->"''Because guess what? You might not know everything about a genre you refuse to listen to.''"

* Creator/BobChipman: In the ''Intermission'' editorial [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/10126-Tortured-Logic "Tortured Logic"]] concerning ''Film/ZeroDarkThirty'', he addressed the controversy over the film's depiction of EnhancedInterrogationTechniques. He wonders exactly where this controversy came from, given not only the film's BlackAndGrayMorality, but also the fact that it quite explicitly averts TortureAlwaysWorks, showing it failing to secure intel on an impending terrorist attack -- precisely the opposite of the claim that the film was an endorsement of the {{CIA}}'s use of torture.

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' features a StrawFan as an ArcVillain, and at one point you have to get past the door via a true/false quiz. One "question" in that quiz fits this trope, and is shown in the page image.

* In the sequel to ''KingdomHeartsTheShortAndHonestVersion'', the author takes a huge dump on Avatar. When asked if he's seen Avatar, he falls silent.

* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In an episode spoofing [[MoralGuardians Mary Whitehouse]], the Goodies are hired to do a sex education video by 'Mrs Carthorse'. Even though the subject is ludicrously {{Bowdlerise}}d ("This is a man...and this isn't"), Carthorse calls for its banning the moment the title appears, because it has a dirty word ("gender") in it.

** She's put her foot down about ''never'' doing ''Anime/SailorMoon'' because she didn't grow up with it, says she wouldn't do it justice and hates it so much "I now hate sushi by cultural association."

* [[https://medium.com/think-tube/my-little-pony-friendship-is-marxism-d8dcaac974eb#.bs7mcvjvf This satirical article]] is largely based around this trope. It is about an in-story author named Cliven Irving who claims that the tv show "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" is a tool by the "Six Pointer Commission", [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial which is not at all an antisemitic slur]], to promote "Cultural Marxism" and LGBT activism. He makes [[CriticalResearchFailure several blatant errors]], such as claiming there aren't any male characters in the show (and then claiming this [[InsaneTrollLogic as proof that the show promotes lesbianism]]) and also that one of the characters is named "Molestia" (which he fails to realize is a fan nickname). It also gets lampshaded when he proclaims that "And I know them to be named that based on contacts who see people who watch this filth, for [[KnightTemplar I]] [[PureIsNotGood will not let my purity be polluted]]".

** Funny enough there was a blog post on [[http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/12/09/my-little-homophobic-racist-smarts-shaming-pony/ Ms. Magazine]] website that did just this. Anyone who has even watched just a few episodes could easily spot that the reporter based their report on a casual glance of photos and bias. Lauren Faust, the creator, hit back with a rather [[http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/12/24/my-little-non-homophobic-non-racist-non-smart-shaming-pony-a-rebuttal/ awesome blog herself.]]

-->--'''sisabet''', [[http://sisabet.livejournal.com/286226.html Hate the Song, Like the Vid?]]

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* [[KnightTemplar Miko Miyazaki]] writes the introduction to the [[TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]] prequel Start of Darkness, heavily criticising it for [[StartOfDarkness its subject matter]]. About halfway through, she mentions that she hasn't actually read it.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Creator/LaurenFaust expected this to happen, as evidenced by this quote:
-->'''Lauren Faust''': When I took the job, I braced myself for criticism, expecting many people -- without even watching the show -- to instantly label it girly, stupid, cheap, for babies or an evil corporate commercial. I encourage skeptics like this to watch ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' with an open mind. If I'm doing my job right, I think you'll be surprised.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
-->''Candace is examining a row of books with no visible titles''\\
'''Candace:''' Boring, dull, stupid, lame, heavy-handed and derivitive.\\

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Compare CriticalResearchFailure and Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike.

** {{Lampshaded}} in that he's never actually played ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', beyond maybe two hours, but avoided it ''solely'' because he hated the art style, and hadn't been paying any attention to the first two hours, since he wrote Zidane off as an "androgynous-whiny-pansy-ass character". He also admitted that "it was likely that [he] was being fiercely unfair" to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' on judging it by its art style, especially when the game was specifically targeted at fans of the NES and SuperNintendo-era Franchise/FinalFantasy games like him, but he just couldn't get over it. He elaborated in his Q&A at [=MAGfest=], and admitted his reasons for avoiding it were entirely childish, and he really can't stand the art style so much that he simply can't make himself keep playing. [[invoked]]

* ''TheDefrosters'': It's implied that Pixel Girl's hatred of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is this.

* Series/TheGoodies''. In an episode spoofing [[MoralGuardians Mary Whitehouse]], the Goodies are hired to do a sex education video by 'Mrs Carthorse'. Even though the subject is ludicrously {{Bowdlerise}}d ("This is a man...and this isn't"), Carthorse calls for its banning the moment the title appears, because it has a dirty word ("gender") in it.