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->Thou shalt not stop liking a band simply because they've become popular.
-->-- '''Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip''', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4 Thou Shalt Always Kill]]''

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->The first song I heard didn't sound so bad, and I said to myself: 'Hey! Perhaps I am still fairly hip after all!' And then the deejay came on and said, apologetically: 'I realize that song was mainstream.' He said "mainstream" the way you would say 'composed by Phoenicians.' Then he played a song entitled--[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I am not making this up]]--'Detachable Penis.'

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2013/07/this-continues-to-not-be-review-blog.html Dr. Phil Sandifer]]'''

->You can rest assured that if a movie comes out that is almost universally praised as a masterwork, people will come out of the woodwork to slowly peck it to death, like Lorenzo Lamas critiquing models with a laser pointer. ''"Well, the screenplay isn't quite up to snuff. And NeilDeGrasseTyson says the film isn't scientifically accurate!"'' It's like a group of ''TopChef'' judges critiquing a hamburger that, if you were eating it in a normal setting, would taste great. WHY MUST WE TEAR DOWN OUR IDOLS?!

->When I first got started, when I was writing movie reviews, I wrote for a comic book called ''Knights of the Dinner Table''. And one of the first things I wrote was a review of ''[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace]].'' And when I went to see this in the theater, I absolutely hated it, because...[[CriticalDissonance I'm just that guy.]] I'm hard-wired this way. I saw it and I was thinking critically about it, and when I saw it I--I just saw right through it. I hated it.\\\
And what a lot of people don't realize or don't remember--or choose ''not'' to remember--is that when people saw ''The Phantom Menace'' for the first time in theaters...they loved it. They LOVED it. When '''''YOU''''' saw it in theaters, '''''YOU''''' loved it! And maybe you don't remember that. For the most part, everyone hates it now; you, everyone looks back on those prequels like, "''ooohh, those things were dogshit, Jar-Jar Binks sucked..."'' Everyone hates it. ''Now'', everyone talks about George Lucas like [[ScapegoatCreator he's a fuckin' idiot]], he "[[RuinedFOREVER ruined]]" ''Star Wars'', y'know, {{blah blah blah}}.\\\
'''''NO.''''' Back in the day, when ''Phantom Menace'' came out. [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating EVERYONE. LOVED. THE PHANTOM MENACE.]] ''Critics.'' Movie critics, Creator/RogerEbert, all the major critics HIGHLY REVIEWED ''The Phantom Menace''. People walked outta there COMPLETELY SATISFIED with ''The Phantom Menace''.
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfLYqaMXP0 on]] ''[[{{Wrestling/WWE}} Wrestlemania XXX]]''

'''Lois:''': Oh, yeah? Let me ask, what did you think of the movie ''{{Film/Titanic}}''?\\

-->--''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "Excellence in Broadcasting"

-->--''[[http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2013/10/make-it-stop-the-worst-of-the-week-of-101013.html Drew Magary]]''', ''Make It Stop''

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2013/07/this-continues-to-not-be-review-blog.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->You don't need me to tell you that saying you're a Cowboys fan is essentially shorthand for 'I'm a bandwagon-jumping douchebag!' Like the Lakers and Yankees in their respective sports, the Cowboys serve as a kind of national magnet for shameless non-fans looking for a cheap sports thrill. They are the #1 favorite NFL team of empty-headed celebrities and NBA players who are far too shallow to pick any favorite team other than the most-covered, most winning, most obvious team possible (Get fucked, [=LeBron=]). They are the people happily waiting three hours in line at the nightclub just to be seen at the nightclub.
-->--'''[[http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2013-dallas-cowboys-1263538485 Drew Magary]]'''

'''''NO.''''' Back in the day, when ''Phantom Menace'' came out. [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating EVERYONE. LOVED. THE PHANTOM MENACE.]] ''Critics.'' Movie critics, Creator/RogerEbert, all the major critics HIGHLY REVIEWED ''The Phantom Menace''. People walked outta there COMPLETELY SATISFIED with ''The Phantom Menace''.\\\
When I published my ''Phantom Menace'' review in that comic book, I got hate mail. ''Lots'' of hate mail. ''Overwhelming amounts'' of hate mail.

And what a lot of people don't realize or don't remember--or choose ''not'' to remember--is that when people saw ''The Phantom Menace'' for the first time in theaters...they loved it. They LOVED it. When '''''YOU''''' saw it in theaters, '''''YOU''''' loved it! And maybe you don't remember that. For the most part, everyone hates it now; you, everyone looks back on those prequels like, "''ooohh, those things were dogshit, Jar-Jar Binks sucked..."'' Everyone hates it. ''Now'', everyone talks about Creator/GeorgeLucas like [[ScapegoatCreator he's a fuckin' idiot]], he "[[RuinedFOREVER ruined]]" ''Star Wars'', y'know, {{blah blah blah}}.\\\
'''''NO.''''' Back in the day, when ''Phantom Menace'' came out. EVERYONE. LOVED. THE PHANTOM MENACE. ''Critics.'' Movie critics, Creator/RogerEbert, all the major critics HIGHLY REVIEWED ''The Phantom Menace''. People walked outta there COMPLETELY SATISFIED with ''The Phantom Menace''.\\\
When I published my ''Phantom Menace'' review in that comic book, [[CriticProof I got hate mail.]] ''Lots'' of hate mail. ''Overwhelming amounts'' of hate mail.

When I published my ''Phantom Menace'' in that comic book, [[CriticProof I got hate mail.]] ''Lots'' of hate mail. ''Overwhelming amounts'' of hate mail.

'''''NO.''''' Back in the day, when ''Phantom Menace'' came out. EVERYONE. LOVED. THE PHANTOM MENACE. ''Critics.'' Movie critics, Creator/RogerEbert, all the major critics HIGHLY reviewed ''The Phantom Menace'' People walked outta there COMPLETELY SATISFIED with ''The Phantom Menace''.\\\

And what a lot of people don't realize or don't remember--or choose ''not'' to remember--is that when people saw ''The Phantom Menace'' for the first time in theaters...they loved it. They LOVED it. When '''''YOU''''' saw it in theaters, '''''YOU''''' loved it! And maybe you don't remember that. For the most part, everyone hates it now; you, everyone looks back on those prequels like, "''ooohh, though things were dogshit, Jar-Jar Binks sucked..."'' Everyone hates it. ''Now'', everyone talks about Creator/GeorgeLucas like [[ScapegoatCreator he's a fuckin' idiot]], he "[[RuinedFOREVER ruined]]" ''Star Wars'', y'know, {{blah blah blah}}.\\\

'''''NO.''''' Back in the day, when ''Phantom Menace'' came out. EVERYONE. LOVED. THE PHANTOM MENACE. ''Critics.'' Movie critics, Creator/RogerEbert, all the major critics HIGHLY reviewed ''The Phantom Menace'' People walked outta there COMPLETELY SATIFIED with ''The Phantom Menace''.\\\

'''''NO.''''' Back in the day, when ''Phantom Menace'' came out. EVERYONE. LOVED. THE PHANTOM MENACE. ''Critics.'' Movie critics, Creator/RogerEbert, all the major critics '''highly''' reviewed ''The Phantom Menace'' People walked outta there '''completely satisfied''' with ''The Phantom Menace''.\\\

And what a lot of people don't realize or don't remember--or choose ''not'' to remember--is that when people saw ''The Phantom Menace'' for the first time in theaters...they loved it.\\\
They LOVED it. When '''''YOU''''' saw it in theaters, '''''YOU''''' loved it! And maybe you don't remember that. For the most part, everyone hates it now; you, everyone looks back on those prequels like, "''ooohh, though things were dogshit, Jar-Jar Binks sucked..."'' Everyone hates it. ''Now'', everyone talks about Creator/GeorgeLucas like [[ScapegoatCreator he's a fuckin' idiot]], he "[[RuinedFOREVER ruined]]" ''Star Wars'', y'know, {{blah blah blah}}.\\\

->When I first got started, when I was writing movie reviews, I wrote for a comic book called ''Knights of the Dinner Table''. And one of the first things I wrote was a review of ''[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace]].'' And when I went to see this in the theater, I absolutely hated it, because...I'm just that guy. I'm hard-wired this way. I saw it and I was thinking critically about it, and when I saw it I--I just saw right through it. I hated it.\\\

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!!!Fiction

-->-- MC Frontalot, ''Indier Than Thou''

-->-- '''FiveIronFrenzy''', "Handbook for the Sellout"

->''She used to be good. Now she's becoming ''popular''!''

->'''Lois:''' I think you just got to be in the "out" group. Whoever's on top, whoever's in power, whoever's successful, you gotta be on the other side or you don't feel like the smartest guy in the room. All you are, my dear, is a contrarian.\\
'''Brian:''' Oh, please, you could not be more off base.\\
'''Lois:''': Oh, yeah? Let me ask, what did you think of the movie ''{{Film/Titanic}}''?\\
'''Brian:''' Horrible, one of the worst movies ever made.\\
'''Lois:''' Mm-hm, what about ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire''?\\
'''Brian:''' Overrated, just a terrible movie.\\
'''Lois:''' ''{{Film/Cocktail}}''.\\
'''Brian:''' Actually not a bad film. You know, [[MistakenForProfound as classically structured cinema]], ''Cocktail'' was one of the best films of its era.\\
'''Lois:''' You make me sick, Brian.
-->--''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "Excellence in Broadcasting"

->If you work in entertainment and you make money, then you're a sellout.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.

!!!RealLife
->Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-->--'''Creator/OscarWilde'''

->There was a time when I should have felt terribly ashamed of not being up-to-date...Why should I have my feelings outraged, why should I submit to being [[LowestCommonDenominator bored and disgusted]] for the sake of somebody else’s categorical imperative? Why? There is no reason. So I simply avoid most of the manifestations of that so-called 'life' which my contemporaries seem to be so unaccountably anxious to 'see'; I keep out of range of the 'art' they think is so vitally necessary to 'keep up with'; I flee from those 'good times' in the 'having' of which they are prepared to [[BreadAndCircuses spend so lavishly of their energy and cash.]]
-->--'''Aldous Huxley''', ''Silence is Golden''

->Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded.
-->-- '''Yogi Berra'''

->For the first twelve weeks of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', people were thrilled by it. Six months later, they were saying that no film that made that amount of money could be any good.
-->-- '''Creator/StevenSpielberg'''

->The first song I heard didn't sound so bad, and I said to myself: 'Hey! Perhaps I am still fairly hip after all!' And then the deejay came on and said, apologetically: 'I realize that song was mainstream.' He said "mainstream" the way you would say 'composed by Phoenicians.' Then he played a song entitled--[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I am not making this up]]--'Detachable Penis.'
-->-- '''Creator/DaveBarry''', "The Old-Timers Game"

->Music/NineInchNails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails [[NoTrueScotsman aren't an industrial band at all]].
-->-- '''Chuck Klosterman'''

->'''Brian:''' It wouldn't be medieval fantasy without a little bit of whoring.\\
'''Brad:''' If you're watching [[Series/{{GameOfThrones}} Game of Thrones]], you can't joke about midget porn anymore. They're bringing midget porn into the mainstream, [[ItsPopularNowItSucks it's not kinky anymore]].
-->-- ''Jade Regent, episode 16, from Podcast/{{RPGMP3}}''

->Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits who bray like mules if you so much as mention the word "cake," and the good thing in question can never be the same again.
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''{{VideoGame/Portal}} 2''

->Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.
-->--'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee Croshaw]]'''

->One should always support the independents. At least until [[HypocrisyNod they start making money, the soulless sellout fucks]].
-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent''

->''"Delving deep into my letterbox when I discovered\\

Seeking all my indie points burned up..."''

->''"Do you think that they're too cool now,\\

All the songs are still the same"''

->''"She used to be good. Now she's becoming ''popular''!"''

->'''Lois:''' I think you just got to be in the "out" group. Whoever's on top, whoever's in power, whoever's successful, you gotta be on the other side or you don't feel like the smartest guy in the room. All you are, my dear, is a contrarian.
->'''Brian:''' Oh, please, you could not be more off base.
->'''Lois:''': Oh, yeah? Let me ask, what did you think of the movie ''{{Titanic}}''?
->'''Brian:''' Horrible, one of the worst movies ever made.
->'''Lois:''' Mm-hm, what about ''SlumdogMillionaire''?
->'''Brian:''' Overrated, just a terrible movie.
->'''Lois:''' ''{{Film/Cocktail}}''.
->'''Brian:''' Actually not a bad film. You know, [[MistakenForProfound as classically structured cinema]], ''Cocktail'' was one of the best films of its era.
->'''Lois:''' You make me sick, Brian.
-->--''''FamilyGuy'''''

->''"If you work in entertainment and you make money, then you're a sellout."''

->''"I'm off to listen to bands you kids have never heard of, and when they go major I'll be there to complain about how much they've sold out!"''

->''"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."''

->''"There was a time when I should have felt terribly ashamed of not being up-to-date...Why should I have my feelings outraged, why should I submit to being [[LowestCommonDenominator bored and disgusted]] for the sake of somebody else’s categorical imperative? Why? There is no reason. So I simply avoid most of the manifestations of that so-called 'life' which my contemporaries seem to be so unaccountably anxious to 'see'; I keep out of range of the 'art' they think is so vitally necessary to 'keep up with'; I flee from those 'good times' in the 'having' of which they are prepared to [[BreadAndCircuses spend so lavishly of their energy and cash.]]"''

->''"Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded.''

->''"For the first twelve weeks of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', people were thrilled by it. Six months later, they were saying that no film that made that amount of money could be any good."''

->''"The first song I heard didn't sound so bad, and I said to myself: 'Hey! Perhaps I am still fairly hip after all!' And then the deejay came on and said, apologetically: 'I realize that song was mainstream.' He said "mainstream" the way you would say 'composed by Phoenicians.' Then he played a song entitled--I am not making this up--'Detachable Penis.'"''
-->-- '''DaveBarry''', "The Old-Timers Game"

->''“Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with [[ViewersAreMorons mindless little tits]].”''

->''"One should always support the independents. At least until [[HypocrisyNod they start making money, the soulless sellout fucks]]."''

->''"I’d like it more if everyone else would agree to like it less."''

->''"Music/NineInchNails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails [[NoTrueScotsman aren't an industrial band at all]]."''

->''"You don't need me to tell you that saying you're a Cowboys fan is essentially shorthand for 'I'm a bandwagon-jumping douchebag!' Like the Lakers and Yankees in their respective sports, the Cowboys serve as a kind of national magnet for shameless non-fans looking for a cheap sports thrill. They are the #1 favorite NFL team of empty-headed celebrities and NBA players who are far too shallow to pick any favorite team other than the most-covered, most winning, most obvious team possible (Get fucked, [=LeBron=]). They are the people happily waiting three hours in line at the nightclub just to be seen at the nightclub."''

->''"What people leave out when they start waxing poetic about [[NostalgiaFilter the days when bands sold tapes out of a van after shows in dingy nightclubs]] is the part where their favorite musicians also keep a day job and die of a tooth infection because they can't afford health insurance."''

->''In RealLife, money makes the world go around. It's all well and good talking about how something should be about '[[TrueArt The Art Of It]]', and not about the money, but in the real world [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Need. Money]]. That nice little guitar of his that Mr. Crowe uses to strum out his art and all that? Yeah, you need to keep that thing in good shape, you need to clean it, you need to replace broken strings, you need food so the muscles in your arms don't atrophy and you're incapable of lifting a guitar... But in this comic, they're not living in the real world; they're living in a fool's paradise where they feel the need to rebel against their privileged environments because of 'TheMan' or some other bullcrap.''
-->-- '''[[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Linkara]]''', on a musician who spends a ''lot'' of time [[{{Wangst}} whining]] about this trope in ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: Fortunate Son''.

->''"Thou shalt not stop liking a band simply because they've become popular."''

->''"Everything that is successful is hated on the internet"''
-->-- A forum post on {{Film/Avatar}}

->''"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."''
-->--'''Aldous Huxley''', ''Those Barren Leaves''

->''"One should always support the independents. At least until [[HypocracyNod they start making money, the soulless sellout fucks]]."''

->''"The first song I heard didn't sound so bad, and I said to myself: 'Hey! Perhaps I am still fairly hip after all!' And then the deejay came on and said, apologetically: 'I realize that song was mainstream.' He said "mainstream" the way you would say 'composed by Phoenicians.' Then he played a song entitled--I am not making this up--'Detachable Penis.'"''
-->-- '''DaveBarry''', "The Old-Timers Game"

->''"One should always support the independents. At least until they start making money, the soulless sellout fucks."''

->"For the first twelve weeks of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', people were thrilled by it. Six months later, they were saying that no film that made that amount of money could be any good."
-->-- '''Creator/StevenSpielberg'''

->@@SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.@@
-->--''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary''.