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* {{Review}}{{Review}}: Evaluating a fictional work in a public manner.
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* UnacceptableTargets: Lobbing offensive jokes, criticisms, or any kind of insensitive material toward a subject that has a very pure and wholesome image.
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* HarshTalentShowJudge: A highly critical talent show judge.
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* EightPointEight: Backlash results from a review website giving a score that is seen as unfair.
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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: Receiving something for free makes someone doubt its merits and write it off too quickly.

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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: Receiving Instances where someone gets something for free makes someone doubt its merits and write it off too quickly. of charge, but finds dissatisfaction in it just like if they've been ripped off.
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* UnacceptableTargets: Lodging criticisms toward very sensitive and topics without regard for how offensive the criticisms will appear to others.

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* UnacceptableTargets: Lodging criticisms toward very sensitive and topics without regard for how Lobbing offensive the criticisms will appear to others.jokes, criticisms, or any kind of insensitive material toward a subject that has a very pure and wholesome image.
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* UnacceptableTargets

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* UnacceptableTargetsUnacceptableTargets: Lodging criticisms toward very sensitive and topics without regard for how offensive the criticisms will appear to others.
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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: A reviewer can't afford an expensive product, so they decide to shill it, usually in a vain attempt to devalue the price. It can backfire by drawing ''more'' attention to the product and causing a price hike from the scale of supply and demand tilting to demand.

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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: A reviewer can't afford an expensive product, so they decide to shill it, usually in a vain attempt to devalue the price. It can backfire by drawing ''more'' attention to the product Receiving something for free makes someone doubt its merits and causing a price hike from the scale of supply and demand tilting to demand.write it off too quickly.
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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: A reviewer with can't an afford expensive product, so they decide to shill it, usually in a vain attempt to devalue the price. It can backfire by drawing ''more'' attention to the product and causing a price hike from the scale of supply and demand tilting to demand.

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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: A reviewer with can't an afford an expensive product, so they decide to shill it, usually in a vain attempt to devalue the price. It can backfire by drawing ''more'' attention to the product and causing a price hike from the scale of supply and demand tilting to demand.
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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: A reviewer with slim pockets can't afford an alarmingly expensive product, and in their consternation, they decide to shill it, usually in a vain attempt to devalue the price.

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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: A reviewer with slim pockets can't an afford an alarmingly expensive product, and in their consternation, so they decide to shill it, usually in a vain attempt to devalue the price. It can backfire by drawing ''more'' attention to the price.product and causing a price hike from the scale of supply and demand tilting to demand.
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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor

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* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidForComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: A reviewer with slim pockets can't afford an alarmingly expensive product, and in their consternation, they decide to shill it, usually in a vain attempt to devalue the price.
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* CriticBreakdown

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* CriticBreakdownCriticBreakdown: A critic comes across a work so traumatizing or aggravating that they freak out with rage or sink into depressed exhaustion.
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* BadReviewThreat: Threatening to give someone's business am overly negative review.

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* BadReviewThreat: Threatening to give someone's business am an overly negative review.
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* BadReviewThreat: Threatening to give someone's business am overly negative review.

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* StrawCritic: Critics are stereotyped as being perfectionist and impossible to please.

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* SexinessScore: Ranking, rating or scoring a character's attractiveness and sexual desirability.
* StrawCritic: Critics are stereotyped as being perfectionist perfectionists and impossible to please.
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* LoveItOrHateIt
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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: People complain about a work that they haven't even seen.

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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: People complain about a work that they haven't even seen.seen, which doesn't usually reflect well on professional critics.
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* BrokeTheRatingScale

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* BrokeTheRatingScaleBrokeTheRatingScale: A critic establishes that they find what they're currently reviewing exceptionally poor in quality by giving a rating that exceeds how low the scores they give usually go.



* ComedyGhetto

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* ComedyGhettoComedyGhetto: Comedies aren't considered by critics to be works worthy of merit.



* HireTheCritic

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* HireTheCriticHireTheCritic: A creator hires someone who panned their work to participate in the production of their next project.



* NotScreenedForCritics

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* NotScreenedForCriticsNotScreenedForCritics: Critics aren't allowed to review a work until after it has been released, which doesn't usually indicate any confidence on the creators' part that the work is good.
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* CriticalDissonance: Audiences and professional critics differ heavily in their take on a work.
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* IdiosyncraticRatingsScale: A critic has a unique, creative way of rating what's being reviewed.
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* EightPointEight
* AccentuateTheNegative
* BetterByADifferentName
* BiasSteamroller

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* EightPointEight
EightPointEight: Backlash results from a review website giving a score that is seen as unfair.
* AccentuateTheNegative
AccentuateTheNegative: The review focuses only on the negative aspects of the work and barely says anything of the work's merits if at all.
* BetterByADifferentName
BetterByADifferentName: Saying that a work is either a shoddy ripoff of a pre-existing work or a suckier version of a more recent work.
* BiasSteamrollerBiasSteamroller: Critics let personal biases affect their reviews.



* CantTakeCriticism
* CausticCritic

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* CantTakeCriticism
CantTakeCriticism: A character hates being criticized to the point that even receiving the smallest bit of criticism will enrage them.
* CausticCriticCausticCritic: The critic who has a tendency to give negative reviews.



* CompassionateCritic
* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch

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* CompassionateCritic
CompassionateCritic: The critic criticizes a person's work solely because they want the person to do better.
* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatchComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: People complain about a work that they haven't even seen.



* ConstructiveCriticism

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* ConstructiveCriticismConstructiveCriticism: Criticizing a work because you want the creators to improve it by learning from their mistakes.



* CriticProof
* DamnedByFaintPraise
* DearNegativeReader
* DeliberateFlawRetcon
** ParodyRetcon
* DontLikeDontRead

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* CriticProof
CriticProof: A work does well in spite of being savaged by critics.
* DamnedByFaintPraise
DamnedByFaintPraise: A work is politely insulted by only praising a minor aspect.
* DearNegativeReader
DearNegativeReader: The creator responds to criticism by insulting the audience.
* DeliberateFlawRetcon
DeliberateFlawRetcon: The creator tries to deflect criticism by claiming that the work's flaws were on purpose.
** ParodyRetcon
ParodyRetcon: The creator tries to excuse the work's flaws by claiming that it's not intended to be serious.
* DontLikeDontReadDontLikeDontRead: The creator responds to negative reviews with the rationalization that the reviewers shouldn't be watching works that they dislike.



* HePannedItNowHeSucks

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* HePannedItNowHeSucksHePannedItNowHeSucks: A critic receives backlash for giving a negative review of a well-liked work.



* ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars

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* ItsNotSupposedToWinOscarsItsNotSupposedToWinOscars: It's argued that a work doesn't need to win awards to be considered good.



* ReviewsAreTheGospel
* SacredCow
* StrawCritic
* TakeThatCritics

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* ReviewsAreTheGospel
ReviewsAreTheGospel: People judge a work's quality by someone's review of the work rather than by their own viewpoints.
* SacredCow
SacredCow: A work is so popular and well-regarded that saying anything negative about it is a good way to make everyone pissed off at you.
* StrawCritic
StrawCritic: Critics are stereotyped as being perfectionist and impossible to please.
* TakeThatCriticsTakeThatCritics: The creator responds to criticism by insulting their critics.
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* VideoReviewShow
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* CriticBreakdown
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* DeliberateFlawRetcon
** ParodyRetcon

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