History NeverLiveItDown / OtherMedia

* ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'': A bad combination of misheard lines from the "Teen Talk" doll, [[note]]"Math is hard!" rather than the actual "[[EveryoneHatesMathematics Math class is tough!]]"[[/note]] inbuilt blonde stereotypes, and reactions to her own model-like figure (she started out as a fashion doll) turned common perception of her into ''the'' DumbBlonde doll, with all the vapidness and shallowness it implied -- there's a reason {{Stepford Smile|r}}s are called "Barbie Smiles", after all. Even the multiple jobs her dolls have amassed over the years and her portrayals in the direct-to-video movies haven't shaken this stigma off completely.

** Dionysus wasn't just the god of throwing parties and getting drunk; he was originally worshipped as a god of madness, nature, outcasts and rebirth, and wine was associated with him because drunkenness was thought to tap in to the primal subconscious mind that Dionysus represented. He was toned down when accepted into the regular pantheon, and worship by a hedonistic ruling class put his 'party dude' side into greater focus.

** Elisha travelled around Israel healing the sick, preforming miracles, and challenging pagan religious leaders. But (today at least) he's more famous for sending [[BearsAreBadNews bears]] to maul a group of young men.

* The UsefulNotes/{{Shinto}} storm deity, Susanoo. Though he saved a woman from being sacrificed to the eight-headed serpent Orochi and gave its tailbone to Amaterasu as a sword, he's best known for his behavior that led him to becoming TheAtoner. After losing a god-creating-contest to Amaterasu, a drunken Susanoo rampaged through the High Plain of Heaven, culminating in an incident where he threw a half-flayed horse into Amaterasu's weaving room, scaring her so badly that he almost plunged Heaven into an eternity of darkness.

* Five years ago, during an ordinary battle on ''Roleplay/NeoPokeforum'', [[DungeonMaster one of the arbiters]] had a player's torchic taken away and given to his opponent. Despite the time that passed since then, the fact that this arbiter left the forum for a long time and the whole administration is brand new, the player in question still won't forget this and won't let anyone else forget it either.

** Poseidon was the god of the sea and of horses, but when not depicted as a sort of generic "King of Atlantis" figure, he's famous for his rivalry with Athena and for losing the contest to name Athens to her. Either that or being a jerk to [[Literature/TheOdyssey Oddyseus]].

** Poseidon was the god of the sea and of horses, but when not depicted as a sort of generic "King of Atlantis" figure, he's famous for his rivalry with Athena and for losing the contest to name Athens to her.

** Poseidon was the god of the sea and of horses, but he's largely remembered for being as horny as his brother Zeus and for losing the contest to name Athens.

** Elisha travelled around Israel healing the sick, preforming miracles, and challening pagan religious leaders. But (today at least) he's more famous for sending [[BearsAreBadNews bears]] to maul a group of young men.

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* Advertising/{{Orangina}} is definitely known for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxBuly8Vblc that beach party]] known as a "furry orgy", which is true. However, lots of people like to associate the brand from that sole commercial, even though the commercials after that have been mellow and less revealing.
** ...At least until they decided to embrace the "furry orgy" stigma and release even ''more'' sexually suggestive commercials, such as the controversial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ipQsUlQmXc "gay cougar commercial",]] the one with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnbn6AFigyM a panther dominatrix forcing a guy to dance naked,]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkK_fXZaxNM the sexually suggestive car wash one.]] "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" really ''does'' apply, here.
* Oldsmobile attempting to appeal to young people with the tagline "This is not your father's Oldsmobile. This is the new generation of Olds.", which many criticized for abandoning the people who liked Oldsmobile before.
* Aaron Burr is never going to live down fatally shooting Alexander Hamilton in a duel, among other things. But at least he never had to deal with having his name hilariously mispronounced as "Awun Buhh" by a radio-show contestant with peanut butter sticking to the roof of his mouth... until a certain immortal "Got Milk?" TV ad of the 1990s, that is.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMyI6ZnLj3o Sonic the Hedgehog Watch & Win Sweepstakes,]] meant to advertise ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', would've been forgotten if it weren't for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGlFUf9ZEcM one of the grand prize winners]] later creating the infamous ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''.
* What do people best remember about Quiznos? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55oVPn7sFuM This commercial from 2004]], featuring the [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]], [[UncannyValley indeterminable beings]] called Spongmonkeys. The commercial has in-your-face clip art animation of the Spongmonkeys singing off-key about how much they love the subs. The campaign didn't last long, but it's most memorable for the wrong reasons.
* UsefulNotes/McDonalds is having a tough time living down its "[[TotallyRadical I'd hit it]]" ad campaign. Apparently, whoever came up with it didn't know "hit" was slang for "have sex with" until it was too late. It's [[http://www.ramblingbeachcat.com/2011/09/amazing-moments-in-advertising.html now looked at as a learning experience]] in what ''not'' to do in sloganeering.
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* The Italian ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''-themed magazine ''Pokémon World''[[note]]Also known in later years as ''Pokémon Mania'', ''Pokémon Mag'' and ''Pika Mania''[[/note]] had its highs and lows, but everyone in the Italian Pokémon fandom remembers them mostly for that time when, because of a copypaste goof[[note]]Explanation: they were publishing a ''Ruby and Sapphire'' Pokédex in multiple parts in the magazine, and the last part was apparently done by copypasting the layout for the last issue and replacing the already existing text with new one: the Rayquaza box was published with the "where is found" part from the Luvdisc box from the issue before[[/note]], they said that Rayquaza is found by fishing in Ever Grande City with a Super Rod.
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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' was a fairly realistic, well-written comic strip back in its early days. However, the later years of SeasonalRot and CreatorBreakdown are now what it's mostly known for.
* It's not unusual to come across people referring to ''ComicStrip/MallardFillmore'' as "Drunk Duck" due to creator Bruce Tinsley's two DUI arrests in 2006. It doesn't help that he spent years making fun of Ted Kennedy for his drunken antics (which he suspiciously stopped after the news of his DUI came out), and that he later did a TakeThat to the judge that sentenced him in the strip.
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[[folder:Software]]
* Internet Explorer's reputation is built around the security holes that were discovered in the sixth revision (the one that launched with Windows XP). Since then Microsoft has made great strides to try and make it better and by the tenth revision (the version in Windows 8), many critics are trumpeting their success in building a capable and modern Internet browser. However, people still bash it to this day under the perceptions that are now over a decade old; even its successor Edge got dragged down by IE's abysmal reputation. Windows also suffers from this.
** Among the more tech savvy, IE's improved security was acknowledged... And replaced in scorn by the lack of modern features touted by its competitors (Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, primarily) and the slow, lackluster adaptation of what features they did adopt like tabbed browsing (added years after they were standard in other browsers) and add-ons (which mostly came in the form of IE's infamous toolbars).
** To be fair, much of the scorn IE a received was because of its refusal to support industry standards and instead supported proprietary Microsoft instructions, which was perceived as Microsoft’s attempt to hijack the web by open source enthusiasts. IE consistently scored very low on the [=ACID3=] test, a web standard tests where scoring as high as possible is a good thing, and Microsoft arrogantly downplaying the importance of the test didn’t help, angering said enthusiasts and leading to cries of attempting to steal the web for themselves.
* The iOS official Maps app in iOS 6, which was notorious for, among other things, getting streets and locations [[ArtisticLicenseGeography completely wrong]], satellite images with fluctuating quality (and sometimes, completely nonexistent images!), terrain rendering that does everything from warping buildings to making {{Eldritch Location}}s out of cities, among other things. Although these issues have mostly been corrected since, people will always remember iOS Maps as "that map app that [[DarthWiki/IdiotProgramming gets everything wrong]]."
* The Website/GoAnimate animation program will never get away from the fact that a vast majority of the videos before the move to business-oriented ventures (which happened to be caused by said videos) was nothing more than childish videos of WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} or WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer [[YouAreGrounded getting grounded grounded grounded grounded]] for [[GroundedForever 1234567898543 years]], no matter how much creator Alvin Hung tries to delete and remove everything that led to it.
* At least in part thanks to a lawsuit over a forced upgrade bricking a desktop for all intents and purposes, Windows 10 will forever go down in history as [[UnwantedAssistance "that Windows version that Microsoft is pushing on Windows 7 and 8(.1) users"]]. Even people who would otherwise call it a good version of Windows (i.e. if they voluntarily upgraded) tend to have a violently negative opinion of 10 as a result of being nagged and later ''forced'' to upgrade due to newer hardware dropping driver support for earlier Windows versions amongst other things. It also didn't help that the stigma associated with data collection by companies following Edward Snowden's NSA expose in the early 2010s turned off a number of users from upgrading to Windows 10 due to its telemetry features and forced updates.
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* ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'': The play is most known for Juliet standing on her balcony and asking, "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" (commonly misinterpreted as "Where are you?") and for both protagonists [[DownerEnding committing suicide at the end]].

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''
** Ask a fan about the ''Generation 2'' line and the only thing you'll hear about (after maybe the [[TotallyRadical hilariously bad rapping]] in some of the commercials) is how [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign awful the color schemes were.]] Despite this, the only really garish designs in ''G2'' were the repaints of ''G1'' figures (and even then, characters like Starscream, Optimus, Jazz, Inferno, the Constructicons and Sideswipe weren't especially garish outside of some funny decals), a couple Go-Bots, and various figures that [[MisBlamed weren't actually from ''G2'', but instead from the tail-end of ''G1'']] (Action Master Thundercracker, Omega Spreem). You probably won't hear about how ''G2'' was the line to introduce fully-articulated figures or now-ubiquitous gimmicks like light piping.
** Gold Parts will always make fans uneasy. Gold Plastic Syndrome became infamous; it's when the gold colored plastic in many toys from G1 up to Beast Wars was extremely brittle due to the chemicals that went into making it. Today fans are still uneasy around gold parts in toys even with the use of stronger gold plastic and in some cases the gold being paint rather than plastic.

* Sea-Monkeys, which were nothing more than brine shrimp colonies packaged and marketed as a kitsch novelty pet, earned a reputation as an iconic item from the Fifties along with similarly kitschy toys such as X-Ray Specs. They however turned for the worse when its inventor, Harold von Braunhut, was found to have been [[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/hitler-and-sea-monkeys affiliated with white supremacist groups]] and made unsavoury comments about other ethnic groups, namely Koreans, in an 1988 interview. Even more ironic was the fact that von Braunhut was of ''Jewish'' descent.

* Series/{{Thunderbirds}}: Lady Penelope is best known among fans for her [[WomenDrivers bad driving]] in "Vault of Death and her [[EekAMouse fear of mice]] in "The Mighty Atom." This is in spite of the fact these "faults" only appeared in one episode and most episodes after "Vault Of Death" show that she's actually improved her driving skills.

* Aaron Burr is never going to live down fatally shooting Alexander Hamilton in a duel, among other things. But at least he never had to deal with having his name hilariously mispronounced as "Awun Buhh" by a radio-show contestant with peanut butter sticking to the roof of his mouth...until a certain immortal "Got Milk?" TV ad of the 1990s, that is.

--->''A young man is walking through a small village one day and decides to stop by a bar and have a beer. He walks into a bar, and sees a grizzled old man, crying into his beer. Curious, the young man sits down and says, "Hey old timer, why the long face?"''\\