History TheyChangedItNowItSucks / Literature

* ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'': [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/ They replaced]] the Stephen Gammell art with new art by Stephen Gammell. The books with the original illustrations have been discontinued by their publishers and online prices are being inflated by the negative response to the newer versions.

* ''ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'': [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/ They changed]] the art! The books with the original illustrations have been discontinued by their publishers and online prices are being inflated by the negative response to the newer versions.

* An {{anvilicious}} workplace management book about this phenomenon exists called ''Literature/WhoMovedMyCheese?'' about some mice and some "[[{{Lilliputians}} littlepeople]]" who live in a maze and seek out and find cheese to eat. One group looks for new cheese every time their stash is "moved",[[note]]It is implied that the cheese wasn't moved, but that the littlepeople simply ate it all.[[/note]] while the other group just complains. Guess which does better? The UnfortunateImplications of the book, as some have noted, is that it promotes change for change's sake. If you leave the cheese in one place, it's easier to find, and the mice don't have to spend time looking for it before they can eat. Other authors wrote unofficial sequels with various aspects of the implications in mind: two titled ''Literature/WhoCutTheCheese?'', one ''Literature/WhoStoleMyCheese?'' about the [[WhiteCollarCrime financial scandals]] of the TurnOfTheMillennium, and finally ''Literature/IMovedYourCheese2011'' about how the mice end up controlling those outside the maze.

* An {{anvilicious}} workplace management book about this phenomenon exists called ''Literature/WhoMovedMyCheese?'' about some mice and some "[[{{Lilliputians}} littlepeople]]" who live in a maze and seek out and find cheese to eat. One group looks for new cheese every time their stash is "moved",[[note]]It is implied that the cheese wasn't moved, but that the littlepeople simply ate it all.[[/note]] while the other group just complains. Guess which does better? The UnfortunateImplications of the book, as some have noted, is that it promotes change for change's sake. If you leave the cheese in one place, it's easier to find, and the mice don't have to spend time looking for it before they can eat. Other authors wrote unofficial sequels with various aspects of the implications in mind: two titled ''Literature/WhoCutTheCheese'', one ''WhoStoleMyCheese'' about the [[WhiteCollarCrime financial scandals]] of the [[TheNewTens turn of the millennium]], and finally ''Literature/IMovedYourCheese2011'' about how the mice end up controlling those outside the maze.

* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series gets hit hard by this ''and'' ItsTheSameNowItSucks due to FanDumb. The fanbase can't decide whether things should take a totally different route or revert back to what it was like in the [[NostalgiaFilter first series]].
** It's not that they can't decide so much as they will freely use both tropes depending on what plot development they're talking about.

* ''ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'': [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/ They changed]] the art!!!
** For those who were never able to obtain copies of the books with the original illustrations, said versions' printing has been discontinued by their publishers, and online prices are being inflated in response to the newer versions.

* Every time a new ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' main character is introduced (such as Moist or Tiffany) fans complain that they've taken the spotlight away from the "established" characters such as Commander Vimes and Granny Weatherwax. Sir Creator/TerryPratchett has pointed out that if he'd listened to these people right at the start, he'd have written thirty novels about Rincewind, and there wouldn't ''be'' a Vimes or Granny.

* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series gets hit hard by this ''and'' ItsTheSameNowItSucks due to FanDumb. The UnpleasableFanbase can't decide whether things should take a totally different route or revert back to what it was like in the [[NostalgiaFilter first series]].

** For those who were never able to obtain copies of the books with the original illustrations, ItGotWorse: said versions' printing has been discontinued by their publishers, and online prices are being inflated in response to the newer versions.

* In-universe in Creator/JamesJoyce's ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man''. A priest at school tells Stephen Dedalus and some other students that he thought VictorHugo's work after he broke with the Church to be not half as good (The joke here, which is easily lost today, is that Hugo broke with the Church very early in his career. This is akin to saying that TheBeatles went downhill sometime after, say, ''Beatles For Sale'').

* Every time a new ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' main character is introduced (such as Moist or Tiffany) fans complain that they've taken the spotlight away from the "established" characters such as Commander Vimes and Granny Weatherwax. Sir Creator/TeryPratchett has pointed out that if he'd listened to these people right at the start, he'd have written thirty novels about Rincewind, and there wouldn't ''be'' a Vimes or Granny.

* In-universe in Creator/JamesJoyce's ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man''. A priest at school tells Stephen Dedalus and some other students that he thought VictorHugo's work after he broke with the Church to be not half as good (The joke here, which is easily lost today, is that Hugo broke with the Church very early in his career. This is akin to saying that TheBeatles went downhill sometime after, say, ''Beatles For Sale'').

* In-universe in JamesJoyce's ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man''. A priest at school tells Stephen Dedalus and some other students that he thought VictorHugo's work after he broke with the Church to be not half as good (The joke here, which is easily lost today, is that Hugo broke with the Church very early in his career. This is akin to saying that TheBeatles went downhill sometime after, say, ''Beatles For Sale'').

* The 1997 edition of the venerable cookbook ''The Joy of Cooking'' received a major revamp supervised partly by the original author (Irma Rombauer)'s grandson. The tone shift (in particular, dropping Rombauer's first-person conversational narration) was disliked by many.

* There is an uproar over the retranslation of TheBible into more modern English, with many stating that the "only true translation" is the one done in 1611. BrotherAndrew ran smack into the language difference when he said [[AntiquatedLinguistics "Thus sayeth the neighbor of Andrew, that thou wouldst be pleased to pass the butter"]] (his native language is Dutch; he learned English with a dictionary in one hand and a bible in the other).

** For those who were never able to obtain copies of the books with the original illustrations, ItGotWorse: said versions' printing has been discontinued by their publishers, and online prices are being inflated in response to the newer versions.

* ''ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'': [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/ They changed]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel the art!!!]]

* The ''WarriorCats'' series gets hit hard by this ''and'' ItsTheSameNowItSucks due to FanDumb. The UnpleasableFanbase can't decide whether things should take a totally different route or revert back to what it was like in the [[NostalgiaFilter first series]].

** For those who were never able to obtain copies of the books with the original illustrations, ItGotWorse: said versions' printing has been discontinued by their publishers, and prices are being inflated in response to the newer versions.

* ''ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'': [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/ They changed]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel the art!!!]]

* There is an uproar over the retranslation of TheBible into more modern English, with many stating that the "only true translation" is the one done in 1611. BrotherAndrew ran smack into the language difference when he said [[AntiquatedLinguistics "Thus sayeth the neighbor of Andrew, that thou wouldst be pleased to pass the butter"]] (his native language is Dutch; he learned English with a dictionary in one hand and a bible in the other).

* The ''WarriorCats'' series gets hit hard by this ''and'' [=~It's The Same Now It Sucks~=] due to FanDumb. The UnpleasableFanbase can't decide whether things should take a totally different route or revert back to what it was like in the [[NostalgiaFilter first series]].

* ''SweetValleyHigh'' had a revival of the original series in 2008. They incorporated modern things in the stories like the Internet and cell phones which weren't commonplace when the series began in 1983. They also updated the teen slang and changed a lot of the iconic Sweet Valley landmarks. Many SVH characters received makeovers: most notably, the Wakefield twins shrank to a size 4. The changes didn't attract new readers and it turned off the original fans, prompting the publisher-Random House-to cease publication of the "new" books after book #6.

* It's not that they can't decide so much as they will freely use both tropes depending on what plot development they're talking about.

* ''SweetValleyHigh'' had a revival of the first five or so books in the original series in 2009. They incorporated modern things in the stories like the Internet and cell phones which weren't commonplace when the series began in 1983. They also updated the teen slang and changed a lot of the iconic Sweet Valley landmarks. Many SVH characters received makeovers: most notably, the Wakefield twins shrank to a size 4. The changes didn't attract new readers and it turned off the original fans.

* ''SweetValleyHigh'' had a revival of the first five or so books in the original series in 2009. They incorporated modern things in the stories like the Internet and cell phones which weren't commonplace when the series began in 1983. They also updated the teen slang and changed a lot of the iconic Sweet Valley landmarks. Many SVH characters received makeovers: most notably, the Wakefield twins shrank to a size 4. The changes didn't attract new readers and it turned off the original fans. Many fans felt that [[NostalgiaFilter the first five books should have been re-issued as they were originally written]].

* ''SweetValleyHigh'' had a revival of the first five or so books in the original series in 2009. They incorporated modern things in the stories like the Internet and cell phones which weren't commonplace when the series began in 1983. They also updated the teen slang and changed a lot of the iconic Sweet Valley landmarks. The Wakefield twins also shrank to a size 4. The changes didn't attract new readers and it turned off the original fans. Many fans felt that [[NostalgiaFilter the first five books should have been re-issued as they were originally written]].

* ''SweetValleyHigh'' had a revival of the first five or so books in the original series in 2009. They incorporated modern things in the stories like the Internet and cell phones which weren't widely available when the series began in 1983. They also updated the teen slang and changed a lot of the iconic Sweet Valley landmarks. The Wakefield twins also shrank to a size 4. The changes didn't attract new readers and it turned off the original fans. Many fans felt that [[NostalgiaFilter the first five books should have been re-issued as they were originally written]].