History Quotes / VocalMinority

-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', on the changes done to ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''

-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-greatest-wars-ever-fought-by-fox-news/#ixzz31FcEqP4z "The 8 Greatest Wars Ever Fought by Fox News"]]

-> ''"Ten percent of the people cause ninety percent of the problems."''

-> ''"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."''

-> ''"While we're sure that ninety nine percent of [Series/DoctorWho's] fanbase are lovely people, the very vocal one percent tend to ruin everything for everyone."''

-> ''"...Every fandom has people like this in it, and because people like this tend to be the most vocal, it is these negative people who tend to be what the fandom is best remembered for once it starts to die out."'''
-->-- [[https://youtube.com/user/AwesomeJohn22 AJ22]], "Criticism and Steven Universe"

-->--'''WebVideo/{{STAR}}'''

-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', on the changes done to ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''

->''"The fact that a majority of voices in fandom are disgusted by it doesn't matter. The damage has already been done at the point where the list of nominees is 68% controlled by [[{{Blackshirt}} fascists.]]"''
-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2015/04/the-day-fandom-ended.html El Sandifer]]''' on the UsefulNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s, "The Day Fandom Ended"

->''"I’m starting to develop a Grand Unified Douchebag Theory that begins and ends with Libertarians ruin everything...And in fact, every group that has tenuously accepted the Libertarians in their midst have eventually ended up with an explosion of hostile sexism and racism that created “great schisms” in the community (see video games, comic books, [[HollywoodAtheist atheism]]) between douchebro assholes and everyone else."''
-->--'''[[http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/40475 Cerberus]]''', "My Fedora Brings All the Girls to the Yard"

-->-- [[Webvideo/WatchMojo Rebecca Brayton]], "Top 10 Times a Fanbase Went Too Far"

-->-- Napoleon Bonaparte

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2015/04/the-day-fandom-ended.html Phil Sandifer]]''' on the UsefulNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s, "The Day Fandom Ended"

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2015/04/the-day-fandom-ended.html Phil Sandifer]]''' on the {{Hugo Award}}s, "The Day Fandom Ended"

-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', on the changes done to ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog''

->Usually the people they piss off are either on the conservative or liberal extremes, but these voices are always loud enough to keep Disney just a little bit on edge.

->Reading that forum, jeez man, we pee on a church or something? [[UnpleasableFanbase Those folks aren't just angry, they're down right offended we didn't psychically know to tailor the game to their liking]]. Pity that's such a typical trend for all game making these days. Its sad to know having [[{{Otaku}} uberdorks]] call you names and ranting how you've disrupted the universe or something is now almost a badge of honor, showing your successfulness. If you build it, trolls will come. No wonder commercial gaming can't make games like they used to. They got to filter through this massive mess just to find feedback they can use while trying not to step on these little brat's eggshell feeling too much. Why do I have a feeling the internet's loudest people are the ones no one listens to in real life?
-->-- '''Mike Oberckt''', a ''VideoGame/MushroomKingdomFusion'' developer

->One of the biggest Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} stories of last year was about [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]] ''directly attacking'' the Catholic church by requiring health care providers to provide birth control. Since we're dealing with actual statistics here, this is the perfect story to help get a baseline on what this news organization considers a 'direct attack.' There are about 78 million Catholics in the country, and 2 percent of them still practice the rhythm method. From that small but very pregnant group, about 0.0000001 percent own insurance companies. Among those, let's say 80 percent regulate their company based on God's infallible administrative policies. Now, I only do insurance statistics as a hobby, but according to my numbers, this particular war on the Catholic church affected the lower half of approximately one specific guy. Instead of calling all those belligerent religious pundits into the studio, maybe they could have taken up a collection [[SillyReasonForWar to reimburse that guy for the condom]].

->The actual size of the reaction to Ianto’s death is, of course, impossible to quite determine. Some things can be stated emphatically. Certainly there was a fuss on the Internet over it, although the extent of that fuss is difficult to determine. Some number of fans went over the line and actively threatened the writers, which got some media attention. Adding to this was the rather fanciful suggestion in some quarters that the death of Ianto was homophobic, and the doubling down on that when the obvious “you ''do'' realize who wrote most of ''Children of Earth'', don’t you” point was made that suggested that Creator/RussellTDavies was obviously just writing out of his own [[{{Gayngst}} sense of self-loathing]]. This being an astonishingly stupid thing to say, [[AccentuateTheNegative it attracted some press...]] On the other hand, a fan campaign to lobby for bringing back Ianto by sending coffee to the BBC (a classic “bring back our show” tactic ever since the successful lobbying of the WB for the renewal of ''{{Series/Roswell}}'' via a campaign to send bottles of Tabasco sauce to the network) supposedly, if Davies is to be believed, resulted in [[FanDumb exactly nine people sending coffee]], suggesting the size of the protests was out of proportion with their volume.
-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/02/outside-government-torchwood-children_12.html on]] ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth''

->''"Reading that forum, jeez man, we pee on a church or something? [[UnpleasableFanbase Those folks aren't just angry, they're down right offended we didn't psychically know to tailor the game to their liking]]. Pity that's such a typical trend for all game making these days. Its sad to know having [[{{Otaku}} uberdorks]] call you names and ranting how you've disrupted the universe or something is now almost a badge of honor, showing your successfulness. If you build it, trolls will come. No wonder commercial gaming can't make games like they used to. They got to filter through this massive mess just to find feedback they can use while trying not to step on these little brat's eggshell feeling too much. Why do I have a feeling the internet's loudest people are the ones no one listens to in real life?"''

->''"Usually the people they piss off are either on the conservative or liberal extremes, but these voices are always loud enough to keep Disney just a little bit on edge."''
-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', on the changes done to ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog''

->''"One of the biggest Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} stories of last year was about [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]] ''directly attacking'' the Catholic church by requiring health care providers to provide birth control. Since we're dealing with actual statistics here, this is the perfect story to help get a baseline on what this news organization considers a 'direct attack.' There are about 78 million Catholics in the country, and 2 percent of them still practice the rhythm method. From that small but very pregnant group, about 0.0000001 percent own insurance companies. Among those, let's say 80 percent regulate their company based on God's infallible administrative policies. Now, I only do insurance statistics as a hobby, but according to my numbers, this particular war on the Catholic church affected the lower half of approximately one specific guy. Instead of calling all those belligerent religious pundits into the studio, maybe they could have taken up a collection [[SillyReasonForWar to reimburse that guy for the condom]]."''

->''"The actual size of the reaction to Ianto’s death is, of course, impossible to quite determine. Some things can be stated emphatically. Certainly there was a fuss on the Internet over it, although the extent of that fuss is difficult to determine. Some number of fans went over the line and actively threatened the writers, which got some media attention. Adding to this was the rather fanciful suggestion in some quarters that the death of Ianto was homophobic, and the doubling down on that when the obvious “you ''do'' realize who wrote most of ''Children of Earth'', don’t you” point was made that suggested that Creator/RussellTDavies was obviously just writing out of his own [[{{Gayngst}} sense of self-loathing]]. This being an astonishingly stupid thing to say, [[AccentuateTheNegative it attracted some press...]] On the other hand, a fan campaign to lobby for bringing back Ianto by sending coffee to the BBC (a classic “bring back our show” tactic ever since the successful lobbying of the WB for the renewal of ''{{Series/Roswell}}'' via a campaign to send bottles of Tabasco sauce to the network) supposedly, if Davies is to be believed, resulted in [[FanDumb exactly nine people sending coffee]], suggesting the size of the protests was out of proportion with their volume."''

->''"If there's one thing that any popular video game did, it got people to like it. There are actually a lot of people who love these games, buy products, and are legitimate fans of the series. You'd never know this by looking on the developers' official boards, though."''

->''"One of the biggest FoxNews stories of last year was about [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]] ''directly attacking'' the Catholic church by requiring health care providers to provide birth control. Since we're dealing with actual statistics here, this is the perfect story to help get a baseline on what this news organization considers a 'direct attack.' There are about 78 million Catholics in the country, and 2 percent of them still practice the rhythm method. From that small but very pregnant group, about 0.0000001 percent own insurance companies. Among those, let's say 80 percent regulate their company based on God's infallible administrative policies. Now, I only do insurance statistics as a hobby, but according to my numbers, this particular war on the Catholic church affected the lower half of approximately one specific guy. Instead of calling all those belligerent religious pundits into the studio, maybe they could have taken up a collection [[SillyReasonForWar to reimburse that guy for the condom]]."''

->''"Reading that forum, jeez man, we pee on a church or something? [[UnpleasableFanbase Those folks aren't just angry, they're down right offended we didn't psychically know to tailor the game to their liking]]. Pity that's such a typical trend for all game making these days. Its sad to know having [[{{Otaku}} uberdorks]] call you names and ranting how you've disrupted the universe or something is now almost a badge of honor, showing your successfulness. If you build it, trolls will come. No wonder commercial gaming can't make games like they used to. They got to filter through this massive mess just to find feedback they can use while trying not to step on these little brat's eggshell feeling too much. [[VocalMinority Why do I have a feeling the internet's loudest people are the ones no one listens to in real life?]]"''

->''"Usually the people they piss off are either on the [[MoralGuardians conservative]] or [[SoapboxSadie liberal]] extremes, but these voices are always loud enough to keep Disney just a little bit on edge."''

->''"The actual size of the reaction to [[FandomBerserkButton Ianto’s death]] is, of course, impossible to quite determine. Some things can be stated emphatically. Certainly there was a fuss on the Internet over it, although the extent of that fuss is difficult to determine. Some number of fans went over the line and actively threatened the writers, which got some media attention. Adding to this was the rather fanciful suggestion in some quarters that the death of Ianto was homophobic, and the doubling down on that when the obvious “you ''do'' realize who wrote most of ''Children of Earth'', don’t you” point was made that suggested that Creator/RussellTDavies was obviously just writing out of his own [[{{Gayngst}} sense of self-loathing]]. This being an astonishingly stupid thing to say, [[AccentuateTheNegative it attracted some press...]] On the other hand, a fan campaign to lobby for bringing back Ianto by sending coffee to the BBC (a classic “bring back our show” tactic ever since the successful lobbying of the WB for the renewal of ''{{Series/Roswell}}'' via a campaign to send bottles of Tabasco sauce to the network) supposedly, if Davies is to be believed, resulted in [[FanDumb exactly nine people sending coffee]], suggesting the size of the protests was out of proportion with their volume."''
-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/02/outside-government-torchwood-children_12.html on]] ''Series/ChildrenOfEarth''

->''"The actual size of the reaction to [[FandomBerserkButton Ianto’s death]] is, of course, impossible to quite determine. Some things can be stated emphatically. Certainly there was a fuss on the Internet over it, although the extent of that fuss is difficult to determine. Some number of fans went over the line and actively threatened the writers, which got some media attention. Adding to this was the rather fanciful suggestion in some quarters that the death of Ianto was homophobic, and the doubling down on that when the obvious “you ''do'' realize who wrote most of ''Children of Earth'', don’t you” point was made that suggested that RussellTDavies was obviously just writing out of his own [[{{Gayngst}} sense of self-loathing]]. This being an astonishingly stupid thing to say, [[AccentuateTheNegative it attracted some press...]] On the other hand, a fan campaign to lobby for bringing back Ianto by sending coffee to the BBC (a classic “bring back our show” tactic ever since the successful lobbying of the WB for the renewal of ''{{Series/Roswell}}'' via a campaign to send bottles of Tabasco sauce to the network) supposedly, if Davies is to be believed, resulted in [[FanDumb exactly nine people sending coffee]], suggesting the size of the protests was out of proportion with their volume."''

->''"Usually the people they piss off are either on the conservative or liberal extremes, but these voices are always loud enough to keep Disney just a little bit on edge."''

-->-- '''Mike Oberckt''', a ''MushroomKingdomFusion'' developer

-->--'''WebOriginal/TheNostalgiaChick''', on the changes done to ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog''

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->''Reading that forum, jeez man, we pee on a church or something?''

->''[[UnpleasableFanbase Those folks aren't just angry, they're down right offended we didn't psychically know to tailor the game to their liking]]. Pity that's such a typical trend for all game making these days. Its sad to know having [[{{Otaku}} uberdorks]] call you names and ranting how you've disrupted the universe or something is now almost a badge of honor, showing your successfulness. If you build it, trolls will come.''

->''No wonder commercial gaming can't make games like they used to. They got to filter through this massive mess just to find feedback they can use while trying not to step on these little brat's eggshell feeling too much.''

->''[[VocalMinority Why do I have a feeling the internet's loudest people are the ones no one listens to in real life?]]''

-->--'''Mike Oberckt''', A MushroomKingdomFusion developer

->''Usually the people they piss off are either on the conservative or liberal extremes, but these voices are always loud enough to keep Disney just a little bit on edge.''
-->--'''WebOriginal/TheNostalgiaChick''', on the changes done to ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog''.

-->--'''TheNostalgiaChick''', on the changes done to ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog''.

->'''"Dear [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "Bronies"]], in case you haven't realized, you're not in a good spot to be treated right. You should know after decades of [[ManipulativeEditing Cherry picking, worst-side editing, and live-but-delayed-to-edit-the-right-way broadcasts]] on certain fandoms and social groups that if you give the media ammo, they can, and they WILL use it against you. If you have media approach you to do a story on bronies, remember the treatment they give to StarWars and StarTrek fans. Remember the treatment given to furries, to tea partiers, to Occupy Wall Street movements, and Environmentalists. Remember that anything you say and do on camera can and will be used against you on the six o clock news. Don't give them any reason to portray you as a bunch of weird people liking a show that was not originally meant for them. They are not looking for random people to portray in a positive way - they are looking for ammo to make people believe you are a bunch of freaks, because that is what sells papers. Give them that ammo, and you'll look however they want you to look. Deny them that ammo, and they'll be forced to search elsewhere, or just not run the story about how you are all weirdos."''
-->-- A "letter" to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Bronies]].

->'''"Dear [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "Bronies"]], in case you haven't realized, you're not in a good spot to be treated right. You should know after decades of [[ManipulativeEditing Cherry picking, worst-side editing, and live-but-delayed-to-edit-the-right-way broadcasts]] on certain fandoms and social groups that if you give the media ammo, they can, and they WILL use it against you. If you have media approach you to do a story on bronies, remember the treatment they give to StarWars and StarTrek fans. Remember the treatment given to furries, to tea partiers, to Occupy Wall Street movements, and Environmentalists. Remember that anything you say and do on camera can and will be used against you on the six o clock news. Don't give them any reason to portray you as a bunch of weird people liking a show that was not originally meant for them. They are not looking for random people to portray in a positive way - they are looking for ammo to make people believe you are a bunch of freaks, because that is what sells papers. Give them that ammo, and you'll look however they want you to look. Deny them that ammo, and they'll be forced to search elsewhere, or just not run the story about how you are all weirdos."''
-->-- A "letter" to [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Bronies]].