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4->''"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read."''
5-->-- '''Anton Ego''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''
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7Most of us love a good grumble. It's {{cathar|sisFactor}}tic to complain for a bit and get things off our chests. Problem is, "polite society" has a low tolerance level for this kind of thing, and someone who verbalizes their real thoughts on a lousy situation is likely to be frowned upon and labeled a [[{{Wangst}} whiner]] / [[TheCynic grouch]] / EmoTeen relatively quickly. For example, the "correct" answer to the question "How are you?" is either "Fine, thank you," or "Pretty good. And you?" (Or, if we're being formal, "How are you?")[[note]]Though, technically, the ''[[CannotTellALie correct]]'' answer should immediately reveal your status as an atheist or deist.[[/note]] Even if your house exploded in a freak accident that morning and you were flattened by a runaway horse and then fired for coming into work covered in hoofprints.
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9So when people come across a situation where resentment can be voiced, it's not all that surprising when they take full advantage of it. Whether it's online, in print, or among close friends and family, there's always a sense of relief when you're able to voice that irksome ''thing'' that's been bugging you for the past week.
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11However, sometimes this can be taken to an extreme. We can get so carried away with the freedom of voicing the things that annoy us that we completely forget to even ''mention'' the things that we actively enjoy. It's not that we're setting out to be a {{Jerkass}} or as negative as possible -- it's just that we take the good things in life so much for granted that we don't see fit to talk about them... and come across as a pessimist as a result.
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13As society becomes more and more cynical (although, in face-to-face interaction, general grouching is still pretty unacceptable, which is why grouching is [[DeadpanSnarker different]].) this meta-trope is becoming common across the board, manifesting itself in a number of different ways:
14* '''[[TrueArtIsAngsty Harmony Is Boring]]''': Conflict is the driving force of most plots. Therefore, stories tend to focus on the unpleasant parts of life, be it divorce, murder, or the Apocalypse(s). Stories about how nice life is and how good it is to be alive are usually [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids reserved for children]] -- and generally pretty young children at that. Not that life-affirming [[AnAesop morals]] are in short supply, it's just that they tend to be reached [[EarnYourHappyEnding after three hundred pages of hardship and heartbreak]], at which point the reader/viewer may not be particularly inclined to believe them.
15* '''[[DysfunctionJunction Everyone Is Messed Up]]''': See that well-adjusted character over there? [[BreakTheCutie Don't expect it to last]]. There's a reason that [[ThereAreNoPsychologists therapists are in short supply]] in many stories, both because of the assumption that TrueArtIsAngsty, and the belief that conflicted characters are more interesting. "Pure" heroes, like the KnightInShiningArmor, are [[GoodIsBoring seen as largely generic]] and similar to each other (and therefore are usually under-represented) while {{Dark and Troubled Past}}s and questionable morals make villains and {{Anti Hero}}es [[EvilIsCool distinct and recognizable]], even if the troubled pasts and questionable morals [[{{Irony}} keep expressing themselves in the same ways]].
16* '''[[SingleIssueWonk Negative Nellie]]''': An online personality found on message boards. Complains constantly about the flaws in a show or book, achieved record time for plot-hole spotting, and just will ''not'' let that episode [[FanonDiscontinuity that everyone pretends never happened]] be forgotten. Yet strangely enough, these are rarely the members who terrorize the newbies, or the board's resident Rottweiler. They leave that to the resident [[HairTriggerTemper hothead]]. Actually, they're pretty friendly, usually long-standing members whose grumbling is met with amused tolerance by everyone else. Their temper is reserved for their least favourite parts of their favourite show.
17* '''Snark Media''': The media's outright manifestation of this trope, particularly prevalent in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} U.K.]] From ''Grumpy Old Men'' to "The Top 100 Songs We Love To Hate" to acerbic commentaries by {{Jerkass}} celebrities, there's a modern trend for publicizing and poking fun at everything irritating in the world, taking advantage of all the dark humour and [[GuiltyPleasures guilty pleasure]] that can be derived from snarling at that song/show/person that just drives everyone ''nuts''. Sometimes counteracted by more upbeat equivalents ("The Nation's Favourite Drama/Comedy/Songs/etc."), but not only is the negative version more common, but it's also usually more popular as well.
18* '''Annoyed Webmaster.com''': The website version of Snark Media, although it's usually cheerfully open about its cynicism and self-deprecating to boot. Will make fun of the things it ''likes,'' never mind the bad stuff.
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20Often, if an audience, broadcaster, or forum member is challenged about their complaints (e.g. "Do you even like this show?") they'll be genuinely surprised. Of course, they like it! Why would they bother commenting at all on it if they didn't? It's just that grousing about DevelopmentHell, CreatorBreakdown, or FanonDiscontinuity is much more fun than counting your blessings -- after all, you'd only be preaching to the choir... But then, sometimes you're doing that anyway.
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22Some people also point this out for the creator to improve, however, it's ''far'' more common for someone to actually be posting [[HateDumb destructive]] [[FanDumb criticism]] than actually trying to be constructive. Given that long-winded essays that are pointing out what the creator(s) of a work did ''right'' are mixed in with flat-out stupidity and destructive criticism, it's very easy for the constructive people to be blocked out.
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24Often done by the SourSupporter, a cynical member of a team of goodies; and the CausticCritic, abrasive, scathing criticism, for your pleasure. Compare SelectiveStupidity, doing some ManipulativeEditing to make people appear dumber; and HePannedItNowHeSucks, a fan reaction when the Accentuate The Negative {{review}}er pans a show his fans like. See also SturgeonsLaw, ReviewerStockPhrases, LetsMockTheMonsters, UnpleasableFanbase.
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31[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
32* The ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]'' anime and movies get a lot of this reaction.
33** People say how it's [[{{Filler}} "nothing but filler"]] or how it's [[AdaptationDecay "nothing like the games and/or manga."]] People often do exaggerate the negative aspects of both reasons as well. Also, Ash's naĂŻvety is often exaggerated in negative reviews of the Anime to the point where he seems like [[TooDumbToLive a completely incompetent moron incapable of winning the most basic of battles]] without the help of dumb luck or DeusExMachina.
34** Claims are also made on the anime being dead-set on [[StatusQuoIsGod keeping the status quo]], even to Ash's detriment as a character. The various arcs ''have'' tried to spice things up from time-to-time to varying success, but then you have characters like Tobias[[note]]He of the infamous Sinnoh League CurbStompBattle against Ash; in response to Ash struggling to defeat his [[OlympusMons Legendary]] (Darkrai), he promptly pulls out a ''second'' Legendary (Latios) to wipe the floor with the remainder of Ash's team; even worse is the fact that Ash fared better against Tobias than Tobias' next opponent did, which implies [[DiabolusExMachina Ash might've very well won had it not been for Tobias]][[/note]] and Alain[[note]]who rushed to obtain eight badges and defeated Ash in the Kalos League while defying basic rules from the games, which caused a ''huge'' backlash and lead to the YMMV page being locked for months[[/note]] who seem to exist solely to serve as Ash's stumbling blocks. Never mind the fact that [[NotAllowedToGrowUp Ash will never age past 10]], which is explains why his [[CharacterDevelopment maturation as a Trainer and a person in general]] [[ResetButton always seems to be negated come the newest arc]]. [[spoiler:These people will have to eat their words now that Ash finally won a League.]]
35** The voice-acting of the anime episodes from Season 9 onwards is constantly panned by fans of the old episodes and is definitely the absolute ''biggest'' complaint about the anime now. Fans hated the new voice-acting in 2006 and they still hate it now.
36* The fans of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' were... not kind to the second season of the anime, to say the least. There's a tendency in the fandom to grumble about JC Staff's far from perfect production, especially due to the highly-regarded legacy of the first season.
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39[[folder:Comic Books]]
40* The series ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' was recognized by numerous reviewers as a series that exemplified the competent and positive portrayal of gay and lesbian characters in fiction and one of the co-authors was Creator/GregRucka, who earned a Gaylactic Spectrum award for his previous work on ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'' that served as a partial {{prequel}} to this series. However, numerous bloggers and internet reviewers heavily criticized the changing bust-size of Renee Montoya and Kate Kane between Weeks Seven and Eleven. They stated that this exemplified the comics industry policy of including gay and lesbian characters and stories [[{{Fanservice}} solely for the titillation of readers]].
41* There are some truly wonderful comics in DC's ''ComicBook/New52'' relaunch. But the one everyone heard about was issue one of "Red Hood and the Outlaws". And even that was only because of some poorly thought out changes in the character of Starfire -- changes that occupy maybe three pages out of the entire issue. When the art for the tenth issue was released, there was even more complaining. Even though it has Starfire in a position of power (Commanding a spaceship) and fully clothed, HER BOOBS WERE TOO BIG! In general, the ''New 52'' relaunch seems to have produced a whole load of critics who, for whatever reason and regardless of any genuine quality or merit, are determined to see nothing but the worst in everything it's produced.
42* [[ComicBook/TheSmurfs Grumpy Smurf]] has a tendency to, whenever somebody mentions anything, go "I don't like [thing]!"
43* In an ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'' comic, the titular character [[BreakingTheFourthWall spends a page ranting]] against a critic who judged ''all'' books of the comic as being "not the best of the series".
44* Similar to ''New 52'', ''ComicBook/MarvelNOW'' has produced some wonderful new books, and even some of the worst are still mostly SoOkayItsAverage. Still, [[spoiler:Doc Ock killed Spider-Man and stole his life, while Cyclops, while possessed by a corrupted Phoenix Force, killed Charles Xavier and is now trying to redeem himself by doing whatever's unnecessary to protect mutants]], so many refuse to pick up any title until the whole thing is retconned out.
45* ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' has had this from the day it was announced, people calling it {{gorn}} and disgustingly violent. This was before anyone read a page.
46* Creator/JoeQuesada later commented that some people were so negative of his and ''Bill Jemas'' run in charge of Creator/MarvelComics that even if they had given away free milk and cookies with every comic, they would've been accused of trying to kill readers with a dairy allergy.
47* ''ComicBook/IdeesNoires'': Perhaps the best example. All the gags in this comic strip are BlackComedy about stuff that worry and depress most people: Suicide, fear of world war, fear of the bomb, fear of nuclear power, fear of epidemics... But also fantastical AfterTheEnd jokes, TakeThat comedy aimed at hunters, the death penalty, and jokes about bizarre monsters.
48* ''ComicStrip/LifeInHell'': The title is very negative and was inspired, as Creator/MattGroening said, by the fact that he "had just moved to Los Angeles".
49* ''ComicBook/RoughRiders'': The curt descriptions for each Rough Rider in ''Nation'' are often highly unflattering, stressing their murky legal histories and various episodes of deviant behaviour (as far as the government saw it).
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53* Things like FanFiction and {{Original Character}}s get a ''very'' bad rep. Of course, there are amazing examples of both (some of which have gone on to become AscendedFanon or {{Canon Immigrant}}s, it's being [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13095679690A52580100 discussed here]]), but let's be honest. It's a ''lot'' more fun to act like every fanfic is as bad as ''FanFic/MyImmortal'' and every original character is as cringe-worthy as ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''.
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57* ''Film/{{Argo}}'': Throughout the movie, and particularly in the intro, Argo describes the deposed Shah of Iran as TheCaligula — a cruel, decadent, despotic puppet of the United States who forced foreign trends on his people all while also living in uncaring luxury as the country went down the toilet. While these facts were individually accurate, the film neglects to present the positive aspects of the Shah's rule that were also there, such as religious tolerance, giving land to peasants, and equal rights for women. Though it made sense in the context of showing why most of the Iranians had become so angry throughout the film, it isn't quite an accurate summary of his reign.
58* In ''Film/StickIt'', one of the major plot points is that the judges are picking apart incredible skills and routines to deduct for minor technical errors. This is illustrated in one critical scene where a gymnast performs an absurdly difficult vault with incredible skill, only to get a half-point deduction (a significant number in gymnastics) over a ''visible bra strap''.
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61[[folder:Literature]]
62* The two volumes of ''Is It Just Me, or is Everything Shit?'' exemplify the trend in the British media for complaining about anything and everything. Another writer responded with a book titled ''It is Just You, Everything's Not Shit''. Rather worryingly, it's a much shorter book.
63* There's ''Crap Towns'' and ''Crap Towns II'' -- someone on the radio pointed out that they had to release ''Crap Towns II'' because so many people complained that their town wasn't included in the first volume.
64* Creator/HGWells, in his late 19th-century work of science-fiction, ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', had the all-destroying alien tripods land in London at least partly with the intention of having them reduce his home districts of London, Woking and Bromley, to smouldering corpse-heavy rubble. Wells utterly despised Bromley for its parochial mentality and its lower-middle-class smug smallmindedness. He also wanted to get even for long, soul-destroying thirteen-hour days spent in a miserable [=McJob=] working for a tiny-minded bully. Although today's Woking, London, boasts a statue of an alien tripod on the main street, to commemorate Wells' vision...
65* In a similar vein are ''Crap Cars'' and ''Crap Holidays''.
66* When humor columnist Creator/DaveBarry issued his "bad song survey", the idea of which was to ask his readers to vote for the worst song of all time, he received a greater amount of reader mail than ever before (the winner, incidentally, was "[[Music/DonnaSummer MacArthur Park]]"). The result of this was his writing and publishing of a book entitled ''Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs'', which consists entirely of him bashing songs he and his readers hate.
67* Realising that reviews tearing a film apart are more entertaining to read than those full of praise, Creator/RogerEbert published a book of them called ''I Hated, Hated,'' '''Hated''' ''This Movie''. The title was from his review of ''Film/{{North}}''. There are two sequels, ''Your Movie Sucks'', titled after the closing line from his review of ''Film/DeuceBigalow: European Gigolo'' and ''A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length'', titled from his review of ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''. (But in fairness, he also has a book of essays called ''The Great Movies'' that praises his favorite classics, and ''Your Movie Sucks'' was a direct response to mockery from ''Deuce Bigalow'' star Creator/RobSchneider, who he later reconciled with.)
68* Creator/HLMencken. The man hated everything about America, his columns bemoaning all the evils that plagued the United States in the '20s and '30s and tearing apart every politician he could get his hands on. Particularly notable is the fact that he predicted and answered the probable question:
69-->'''Question''': If you find so much worthy of ridicule in America, then why do you live here?\
70'''Answer''': Why do men go to zoos?
71* Creator/DorothyParker did this a lot as part of her "Constant Reader" persona. How hardass was she? She excoriated ''Literature/WinnieThePooh''. Famous quote: "And it is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in ''The House at Pooh Corner'' at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up."
72* The first line of ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'' is 'Happy families are all alike, but unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way.' You just can't squeeze 700+ pages out of happy families.
73* There exists a book compiled by an Englishman called ''The Book of Heroic Failures''. It openly celebrated colossal feats of incompetence (though never those that lead to real pain, harm, or danger, strangely enough).
74* Another little known book, ''The Gripes of Wrath'', is filled entirely with cuttings and samples of speeches, reports, speeches, and articles that highlight all kinds of negative features of the world such as stupidity, lack of common sense, obstructive bureaucrats, falling standards, sexism, racism, etc etc etc.
75* Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' has an in-universe example of Accentuating The Negative: The devil has created a magic mirror that shattered into billions of shards. If a human gets a shard in their eye or heart, they will never be able to see anything except the bad ''in any thing they look at''.
76* Averted spectacularly in Matt Ridley's Rational Optimist.
77* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium gets this a lot. People often like to mock the dialogue, the songs, and the ValuesDissonance, along with much of the tropes being overused, deconstructed and played with many times. However Tolkien popularised many of the fantasy cliches and most of the Legendarium was dark and mature, being an UnbuiltTrope on the genre. Much of Tolkien's writing was quite FairForItsDay. But people have mostly just read ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and criticise the flaws of those stories, despite the mature ideas and BittersweetEnding in them.
78* Creator/JamesNicoll indulges in this often when posting reviews. Particularly when reviewing older sci-fi books with tons of ValuesDissonance.
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81[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
82* Much of the RecordedAndStandUpComedy by comedians like Creator/GeorgeCarlin, Creator/BillHicks, Doug Stanhope, Creator/DenisLeary, [[Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher Bill Maher]], Creator/LewisBlack, and Creator/DavidCross, among others. They're all observational comedians, and [[RuleOfFunny saying the world is lovely wouldn't be particularly funny, would it?]]
83* Most fans enjoy ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' for its [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism idealistic and fun]] atmosphere, despite the central tenet being one of mocking, sometimes quite brutally, bad movies. The fact that it is of such quality means that it rarely goes from "funny-mean" to just "mean", though it became more common to do so in later seasons.
84* ''Series/TheMuppetShow''[='=]s JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf have this as their shtick.
85* Creator/StephenFry put ''Series/Room101'' itself into Room 101 in one of his appearances on the show, citing his reasoning that there was no need to have entire shows and books dedicated to everything "vile" in the world and asking "Why can't we have ''Room Fluffy''?" A brief section followed with Fry reporting on his favourite things in life -- such as libraries.
86** Stephen Fry now hosts ''Series/{{QI}}'', a show dedicated to "quite interesting" facts (or sometimes factoids) which could be described as a kind of intellectual ''Room Fluffy''. The team behind ''QI'' now also make a radio show named ''The Museum of Curiosity'', into which people are ''literally'' able to put a selection of their favourite things.
87* Debbie Downer from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''; also Doug and Wendy Whiner.
88* ''Series/{{Survivor}}''. Stephanie Lagrossa had played twice already. One time her tribe lost every challenge and she was the only one left in her team. The second time, she was in the final two. Guess what James Clement (and anyone else afraid of a "Repeat") conveniently didn't mention?
89* ''Grumpy Old Men'' and its forerunner ''Grumpy Old Women'' take full advantage of the assumed tetchiness of the middle-aged-U.K.-male to elaborate on why the modern world is an [[CrapsackWorld awful one.]] Mind you, it keeps its tongue firmly in its cheek as it does so.
90* ''Creator/{{MTV}} Brazil'' had a show on this, ''Piores Clipes do Mundo'' (The Worst Videos In The World). Particularly the segment "PĂ©rola VideoclĂ­ptica" ("Music Video Gem"), which had the host pointing out what's ridiculous in each shot of the video.
91* ''Series/{{Titus}}'' is all about this. He even says that if his life became ''too'' perfect, he'd probably shoot himself.
92* ''Series/DoctorWho: This exchange from [[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'':
93-->'''The Doctor''': I bet I get some very interesting readings from my screwdriver when I get it back from the shark in your bedroom.\
94'''Young Kazran''': There's a shark in my bedroom!?!\
95'''The Doctor''': Oh fine, focus on that!
96** The new made-over incarnation of ''Doctor Who'' attracts snark from a significant minority of older people who fondly remember the original 1960s and 1970s series. To them, the New Who is too glossy, soul-less, over-produced, evidently made for the bloody Americans, it was at its best in the Creator/PatrickTroughton[=/=]Creator/TomBaker[=/=]Creator/PeterDavison years, why can't we have it back as it was before, yes we ''KNOW'' the aliens were risible and the sets wobbled, but it was so bloody ''good'', especially when Creator/DouglasAdams wrote the scripts, why didn't they leave well alone, etc., etc.
97** Classic ''Who'' can get this a lot. For example, a lot of people think the companions were one-dimensional women whose main quality was [[ScreamingWoman screaming a lot]]. However many companions had strong and interesting personalities and people basically just remember the worst moments and qualities of companions. The first adult female companion on the whole show was a strong yet feminine female character who used her brain, got her hands dirty, and shared one of the most profound Doctor/companion relationships with her Doctor, one that [[TookALevelInKindness set the precedent for his entire personality]] as well as did horrible damage to his mental health when she left it.
98* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS02E08OneBreath One Breath]]", Melissa Scully calls Mulder out for doing this while trying to convince him to go to the hospital to see Dana, who is dying:
99-->'''Melissa Scully:''' I don't have to be psychic to see that you're in a very dark place. Much darker than where my sister is. Willingly walking deeper into darkness cannot help her at all. Only the light...\
100'''Mulder:''' ''(disgustedly)'' Oh, ''enough'' with the harmonic convergence crap, okay? You're not ''saying'' anything to me.\
101'''Melissa Scully:''' ''(angrily)'' Why don't you just drop your cynicism and your paranoia and your defeat? You know, just because it's positive and good, doesn't mean it's silly or trite. Why is it so much easier for you to run around trying to get even than just expressing to her how you feel? I expect more from you. Dana expects more. Even if it doesn't bring her back, at least she'll know. And so will you.
102* On ''Series/TopChef'', the judges will often blatantly insult food they don't like, saying stuff like "this tastes like cat food", or "you must have cut your vegetables with an ax". Mind you, this is usually stuff that the average person probably would enjoy.
103* ''Series/YediYuz'': Unlike his wife and friends, Onur is unenthused about the "Encounters" app to the point of hostility in "Karşılaşmalar". Aside from his worries about [[BigBrotherIsWatching security and privacy]], he questions the purported "romance" the app aims to inspire by discovering [[ForgottenFirstMeeting close encounters]] between a couple.
104--> '''Onur:''' So maybe we once stood in the same queue to pay the bill. Is that supposed to be romantic?
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107[[folder:Music]]
108* There are a lot of bands who made a career out of writing gloomy, depressing, or melancholic lyrics. Especially in the {{Goth}} genre.
109** Music/{{The Cure|Band}}: Almost the TropeCodifier.
110** Music/JoyDivision: Their two albums, ''Music/UnknownPleasures'' and ''Music/{{Closer}}'', are a veritable DespairEventHorizon. It doesn't help that their lead singer, Ian Curtis, committed suicide.
111** Music/{{Nirvana}}: All their albums are depressing. Even Music/KurtCobain finally killed himself.
112** Music/{{Portishead}}: ''Music/{{Dummy}}'' and their other records are all very gloomy.
113* Music/LouReed's ''Music/{{New York|1989}}''. Poverty, [=AIDS=], bigotry, violence, environmental destruction...
114* Music/TearsForFears: Because ''Music/TheHurting'' is about Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith's abusive childhoods, this album focuses on the most negative aspects of a life's development.
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118* ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' thrives on showing the bad behavior of customers, though they also have a section for the bad behavior of employees (Not Always Working) and a section for ''good'' behavior of customers (Not Always Hopeless).
119* Website/FourChan. Encyclopedia Dramatica. Website/SomethingAwful. They all share about 60% of the same userbase and violently hate each other - though there are times where they'll stop hating each other to hate on something else. It's a "fun" situation.
120** Website/SomethingAwful has inter-forum rivalry where everything coming from the all-purpose forum GBS is hated by the subforums, and everything else is hated by PYF, but the one thing SA loves to hate ''especially'' is FYAD ([=SomethingAwful=]'s /b/, except even more random, elitist, and vitriolic), where it's not uncommon to have the disparate arguers of a thread team up to wail on the FYAD-er... and, oftentimes, vice versa. 4chan has the same issue. Something Awful has its own negativity brigade in the form of the Something Awful Sycophant Squad, dedicated to mocking the mods and goons. It's a negativity loop!
121* ''Encyclopedia Dramatica''. Every subculture, TV show, film, and genre of music is somehow deemed "retarded", "shitty", or their favorite insult of all, "gay". Other than schadenfreude, these gentlemen don't enjoy ''anything''. However, if you're looking for details on an [[MemeticMutation internet meme]], you'll find it there. Essentially a wiki maintained by the residents of 4chan, particularly /b/. It's generally seen as satirical rather than completely genuine hate though.
122** Almost all of the articles targeting a race, a subculture, or a group are [[NWordPrivileges written by people who are members of said group]] (for example, the articles on Jews, blacks, or autists).
123* ED's rival, Website/{{Uncyclopedia}}, is more like a parody version of Website/{{Wikipedia}}, and the humor is more often flat-out nonsense than insulting. (There is a guidance page titled "How To Be Funny And Not Just Stupid", but the advice isn't always followed.) Unfortunately, this isn't the case with the [[http://desciclo.pedia.ws/ Portuguese version]], which, besides some actual parodic articles and articles on [[MemeticMutation fads]], follows the ED formula of bashing anything in sight and ''lots'' of {{NSFW}} images. It's worth noting that ED holds a special contempt for Uncyclopedia, considering Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales's expression of approval to be the worst possible indictment against Uncyclopedia. For its own part, Uncyclopedia offers this scathingly precise descriptor of its rival: "Unfunny cynicism masquerading as humor."
124* ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'', as expected with a name like that. Posts daily to rip on the newspaper funnies. Notable in that as rough as it is on comics as a whole, it has managed to establish good relationships with the creators of many of these comics, especially Bob Weber Jr. of ''ComicStrip/SlylockFox'' and the late Al Scaduto of ''They'll Do It Every Time''. Also notable in that it occasionally does praise elements of the comics that it normally mocks. Occasionally.
125** He has even been referenced within said comics. Such as one of his running gags being on a T-shirt in ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComics Archie]]'', and outright insulted by the (late) creator of ''Crock'', and was (In a more affectionate way) featured as a criminal standing trial in ''Jumble''.
126* The Website/LiveJournal community Stupid Free Drama. While many members are individually in fact a very polite and supportive bunch, the group as a whole hates everything but recipes.
127* Whilst the website ''Cook'd and Bomb'd'' is ostensibly a fansite devoted to British comedy (and the works of Chris Morris especially), a quick search of its forums would seem to indicate that its members spend more time fixating on the comedies that they hate as opposed to the ones they enjoy. They even held a mock awards show, the Tumbleweeds, to "honour" the worst achievements in British comedy over the years in question.
128* [[http://www.mrcranky.com/ Mr. Cranky.]]
129* WebVideo/{{Oancitizen}} discusses this trope during his review of ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'', talking about how you're apparently not allowed to enjoy anything on the internet and must always be cynical and snark about everything.
130* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:
131** He hates everything he reviews. However, he is simply a character, and the movies and shows he reviews are genuinely bad. On the flip side of the coin, he's made tributes to ''Series/DoubleDare1986'' and Drew Struzan, and his Top 11 lists are generally positive. His overly grouchy attitude is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] during many of the reviews, but the most prominent example would be when he broke down in tears over failing to find it in his bitter angry heart to rip on ''[[Series/SesameStreet Follow That Bird]]''. Even though he really trashes and bashes movies, some of them he actually ''does'' legitimately like despite their flaws and cliches (''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'' and ''Film/CoolRunnings''), and in some of his videos, mentions there are some things they did ''right'' at the end of the review.[[note]] He's stated that some movies have a lot of good intentions, loves to point out nice animation or well-done shots, finds the "stuff" in ''Film/WaterWorld'' to work because it makes the world seem more plausible, and has been known to outright praise good use of music. [[/note]] Unfortunately, his satirical reviews have fallen foul of ReviewsAreTheGospel i.e. some fans take his reviews as definitive law. And for these reasons and more, Doug slammed the hell out of the site's M.O in WebVideo/DemoReel, as Donnie rants about how people obsess over something miserable in the past and turn it into their lives, and that he refuses to fixate on his own DarkAndTroubledPast anymore because he doesn't want to be like those people.
132** [[http://moviemezzanine.com/putting-the-geek-to-the-plow/ An article]] complaining about how the site's VideoReviewShow constitutes "criticism" was itself accused of being overly negative to something that tries to entertain as much as inform (as the comments by the Channel Awesome reviewers debate profusely).
133* Noah Antwiler, aka "Spoony One", is the star of ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment,'' which is basically Angry Video Game Nerd if he were more {{Fan Hater}}y and less tongue-in-cheek. He does at least take everything in fun and has an overlap in fandom with the Nerd. This has eventually backfired, as he tends to get viewed as a {{Troll}} even when he's offering an honest (if negative) opinion. When he went on Website/{{Twitter}} to say he didn't like ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods,'' Creator/JossWhedon fans jumped on him, assuming he was specifically trying to screw with them. Noah himself has remarked that his reputation as a FanHater comes from people doing this to ''him'', taking statements like "I didn't care for this" and interpreting it as "This sucks and so does anyone who likes it". He's outright admitted that he can't enjoy things like ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' and ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' as much as he'd like because of his own personal hang-ups, and said that he tried to give Creator/KristenStewart a fair chance but she just annoys the hell out of him and he doesn't think she's that good an actress.
134* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick actually has this as a character flaw. Both Nella and Elisa provide the {{squee}}, while she can give good points but ''can't'' admit to actually liking something without much difficulty. She's getting a bit better though. Out of character, Lindsay Ellis says in her "{{Guilty Pleasure}}s" video that "I get comments saying 'Lindsay, do you like anything? At all?'" and replies that of course she does, but negative reviews are demonstrably more popular on Website/ChannelAwesome, so it's good business for her to be negative.
135* WebVideo/JesuOtaku often takes controversial opinions (believing the eponymous character of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is a DesignatedHero and a "cunt" comparable to Anakin Skywalker in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels, declaring ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' on the level of Nick Jr., celebrating ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010's'' cancellation, and general vitriol directed at fanbases he dislikes) and runs with them. He has a genuine dislike of what he makes fun of.
136* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Linkara trashes comic books, but Lewis Lovhaug has pointed out that this is the entire point of his show, and has asked fans not to send or recommend good comics. Though he will praise good elements, and on occasion subverts "This comic sucks!" (usually with something like "This comic is...just okay" or "not THAT bad").
137* This is EGM game reviewer Creator/{{Seanbaby}}'s preferred method of reviewing, since he specifically seeks out bad games, mixed with TestosteronePoisoning and exaggerated metaphors. When one review of his was devoted solely to [[http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/karnaajrally.htm mocking the box art of a popular game,]] people sent in letters demanding that he actually review the game itself. Seanbaby's response was: "My review is done: The box isn't very good. If I knew how to review a game based on gameplay mechanics or whatever, me and my Gamecube wouldn't be forced to watch puppets shit every month."
138* Website/SFDebris began by taking potshots at [[Series/StarTrekVoyager the wackiest iteration]] of ''Star Trek'', then gradually expanded to the point where the entire Federation of Planets is portrayed as a third world commie dictatorship. The only competent characters are macho man James T. Kirk and Ben "Don't Fuck With The" Sisko's [[BiggerIsBetterInBed penis.]]
139* [[http://www.videogamerecaps.com Videogame Recaps]] appears fully aware of this trope, to the point that they have a disclaimer reassuring readers that they ''do'' like the games they review, it's just that they also enjoy applying copious amounts of sarcasm to them as well.
140* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'':
141** The biggest reason to watch Yahtzee's reviews is to listen to a caustic Brit [[MotorMouth talk very fast]] about games he hates. There ''are'' some games he enjoys unreservedly, like ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''. With ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', he showed mild shock and disgust with ''himself'' for loving it so completely, and his ''Psychonauts'' review consisted of 40% [[ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow insulting the people who didn't buy it]], 20% bashing ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' and [[FanHater anyone that plays it]], 20% complaining that there aren't more original intellectual properties like this, and 20% actual praise. Not so surprisingly, he is a frequenter of the Website/SomethingAwful boards. Heck, he'll even do it to games he likes, like ''VideoGame/BioShock1,'' ''Call Of Duty 4,'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI!'' At one point he actually said "There are a few nitpicks I could make but I wouldn't be the critic I like to think I am if I didn't pick nits like an amphetamine-fueled chimp" so he bound to the formula. As he put it, "[[RuleOfFunny It's not very funny to like a game.]]"
142** Yahtzee has pointed out many times that just because he blasts every game he reviews with both barrels, he doesn't exactly hate it (unless he hates a game so much that he tears it a new one). Yahtzee has also gone out of his way to say that just because he doesn't like something doesn't mean that it is a bad game and that people should be able to form their own opinions, and that he only points out things he didn't like or found bad in his review -- anything he didn't mention shouldn't count against the game.
143** Yahtzee further intentionally does not play games in genres that he's not a fan of (most commonly: RTS's and JRPG's). The reason being that he dislikes the conventions of those genres in general, so he isn't in the target audience of those games, and what do you ''think'' his opinion on such a game is going to be if he's forced to play through it? He's made exceptions here and there but for the most part states his biases up front and avoids reviewing games that he knows he won't be fair to.
144* ''[[http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/elders-of-zion-archives Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad.]]'' While it did contain constructive criticism, the site absolutely ''hated'' the comics it reviewed and also bragged about hating the entire ''concept'' of a webcomic; it was not [[AffectionateParody affectionate]] or fannish in the least. Was it horrible or hilarious? ''You'' decide!
145* ''[[http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ Linux Hater's Blog]]'' is ludicrously negative about users of free software, or, as the author calls them, "freetards". A similar project, ''[[http://itconservative.blogspot.com The IT Conservative]]'', turned out to be [[http://itconservative.blogspot.com/2007/12/everything-has-to-end.html a massive put-on]], but the Linux Hater seems to be as earnest as one could possibly be.
146* ''Website/{{Cracked}}.com's'' articles consist mainly (but, of course, not completely) of movie bashings, doomsday scenarios, and explanations of "Why Good Thing X is actually a very Bad Thing". Ironically the other half is exactly the opposite of this, gushing stories about [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome how awesome the world is]].
147* The operators of www.anti-shurtugal.com, an anti-fansite for ''Literature/InheritanceCycle,'' founded the site because they discovered that they couldn't say anything critical about the books on the fansites without getting flamed, banned, and/or threatened. So they founded their own site explicitly to point out every single flaw with the books. They eventually added ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' to the list of literature they hate. The website is now curiously defunct.
148* Over the years, Scans Daily has become somewhat infamous for this kind of behavior. So much so that the guy who wrote [[http://www.funnybookbabylon.com/2008/03/31/fandom-readership-and-snark/ this]] article attributes Scans Daily as a major cause of the 2008 spike in comics {{Hatedom}}. This varies by post--many comics are praised beyond all reason, and others have a balanced reception. But if your favorite happens to fall into the "negative" reception zone, it's going to hurt.
149* [[http://sturgeonawards.blogspot.com/ The Sturgeon Awards]] (careful, there's a different Sturgeon Award out there) is a blog dedicated to showing the worst of the [[SturgeonsLaw 90% of everything]].
150* The [[http://stuffgeekslove.wordpress.com/ Stuff Geeks Love]] is dedicated to exposing the geek subculture for the WretchedHive of racism, sexism, homophobia, cliche-continuing, trend-ruining, [[DiscreditedMeme meme-spewing,]] [[PsychopathicManchild dangerous mental degeneracy]] it apparently is. Amusing for both its dead-on accuracy of the worst sort of nerd and for its slamming of them.
151* Most websites related to the "New Games Journalism" movement, especially heart of darkness [[http://www.insert-credit.com Insert Credit]] and ESPECIALLY its {{Spiritual Successor}}s [[http://www.actionbutton.net Action Button Dot Net]] and [[http://www.insomnia.ac Insomnia]]. Even positive reviews frequently go off into tangents [[TakeThat brutally bashing]] other games, the people who play them, or anyone who doesn't agree with the writer's opinion.
152* [[http://factualopinion.com/ The Factual Opinion]] where Tucker Ston rains the venom down on mainstream comics. Averted by his wife Nina, who seems to enjoy everything she reviews.
153* The [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ animation news site]] Blog/CartoonBrew tends to do this a lot, especially with anything from Creator/{{Disney}} or Creator/DreamworksAnimation. This borders on FanDumb territory with the article bashing ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' for using a parody of the double rainbow, conveniently forgetting the time ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' parodied the same exact video in an ad.
154* [[http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/ The Bad Webcomic Wiki]] is entirely about this trope. Unfortunately, [[SturgeonsLaw 90% of reviews aren't much else]], with its review of ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' being particularly egregious. When [[http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/forum/t-214853/random-person-is-john-solomon John Solomon]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards of all people,]] thinks you're being too negative, maybe you're accentuating the negative a little ''too'' much.
155* Podcast/ReadItAndWeep is a podcast that exists solely to make fun of terrible things. ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' especially.
156* [[http://screamsheet.wordpress.com The Screamsheet]] has a lot of this trope, especially if the site owner gets talking about Creator/DavidLynch, ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'', or bad comics in general. He has apparently made more of an attempt to give credit where it is due and focus on the positive aspects of the things he discusses, but still does plenty of ranting and raving.
157* The abridged movie scripts on Website/TheEditingRoom condense movie scripts into a few minutes' worth of sarcasm, nitpicking, and ripping apart cliches and bad artistic designs. As in many of the above examples, this is done purely for [[RuleOfFunny humor's sake]] and the site's author provides a separate star rating indicating what he ''actually'' thought of a movie - which tends to be pretty harsh.
158* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL86F4D497FD3CACCE Screen Junkies']] WebVideo/HonestTrailers. At least in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' it ends with "Who am I kidding? That movie is still awesome!" to admit they're doing this. Similarly, in their trailer for ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', they mention how awesome the movie is, but note that they had to do this as a comedy series.
159* Jim Adam wrote a [[SeriousBusiness 160-page]] essay on how the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books fail to live up to their promise. Though there are a few good points, most of it is complaining about Harry not being a [[GodModeSue God Mode Stu.]]
160* WebVideo/TheCartoonHero's older reviews are this, but his reviewing style has drastically changed since -- he even regrets claiming ''WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}}'' was a bad show, when in truth he never did hate it even when he reviewed it; he now calls it SoBadItsGood.
161* This is the main draw of Blog/DasSporking. The sporkers pick apart fanfiction, published literature, and even ''ComicBook/ChickTracts,'' going into detail about what's done wrong with them. Although if something is done right, that will be pointed out as well.
162* WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow is where one reviewer watches one music video once a week and points out various flaws in them. Since the fourth episode, she decides whether or not she would watch it again.
163* ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'' does this sometimes seriously, sometimes sarcastically, as the character is basically Creator/BradJones spoofing snooty film buffs. The spinoff ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'' does this far more often if they don't like a film, and if they can be funny about it.
164* This is the basic premise of ''WebVideo/MusicalHell'', which identifies and punishes the "sins" of bad film musicals. And then inverts it with the "Saving Grace", which highlights positive elements that shine out in spite of the rest of the film.
165* Parodied in ''WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer,'' where he'll very often nitpick minor details that have little to do with the game.
166* ''WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera'' sometimes does this, such as with ''Film/TheCountryBears'' and ''Film/EscapeFromTomorrow'', but just as often, Jerk is positive about the things he's reviewing.
167-->'''Jerk''': Do you know why I review Disneyland? ...It's because I *love* Disneyland! I didn't want to be a hater! I wanted to show the Reviewaverse that you can be entertaining without resorting to constant negative whiny cynicism!
168* WebVideo/MovieRehab: Played straight in earlier episodes, which [[CreatorBacklash Jack himself regrets retrospectively]].
169* We proud Tropers of TV Tropes are not immune to getting into the act; just go to the "Fridge" page of almost any work chronicled on this very Wiki and scroll down until you hit the FridgeHorror section, whereupon you can feast upon entry after entry assuring you of all the horrible things you didn't realise were really happening (or which the Troper in question ''thinks'' were happening) in your favourite works of fiction.
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173* Almost ''every single article'' in the [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers British newspaper]] ''The Daily Mail'', popularly known, among other nicknames, as "The Daily Hate". This may or may not be a ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' reference.
174* Most of Creator/CharlieBrooker's "Screen Burn" columns - and everything he does, such as programs like ''Series/{{Screenwipe}}'' -- is all about tearing into the crass stupidity and manipulation of much of television. The rest is bemoaning other things or praising something that deserves it.
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178* The Roman historian Tacitus utterly refused to write anything good about the Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} and made a point of assuring us that any good thing Nero did was for the wrong reasons.
179* Creator/RobertCrumb. Not just his comics; he's reportedly like that in real life. Read the ''R. Crumb Handbook'', more specifically, the section titled "The Litany of Hate". The documentary film ''Crumb'' cements his reputation as a lifelong misanthrope.
180* An entire school of philosophy, Pessimism, insists that we live in the worst of all possible worlds. Arthur Schopenhauer is a good exemple: he argued that the world is a kind of penal colony, in which misery and suffering greatly outweigh happiness. Some (like him) therefore argue it's better to have never been born (anti-natalism).
181* Any perfectionist will not see the finished work afterward because it will make them notice the flaws that still went through, as noted by [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/22/ex-metroid-prime-dev-thinks-his-games-suck this interview]] with ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' designer Mark Mancini.
182* Competitive gymnastics has elements of this almost by design. All routines start from a predetermined maximum score, and points are then deducted from that number for any mistakes; this means that the judges are specifically watching the routines with the purpose of spotting deduction-worthy errors.
183-->'''Tim Daggett:''' ''(during the 2004 Olympics)'' They're not adding on to scores; those judges are there to take them away.
184** Over time, gymnasts and fans at the elite level have complained that judges have taken this to a new level and become increasingly nitpicky, noting that perfect 10 execution scores, which were once a potentially achievable goal, have become only theoretical[[note]]the last major international competition where a perfect 10 score was given was the 1992 Olympics[[/note]], that execution scores are overall much lower on average than they used to be[[note]]for instance, in the 2000 Olympics, Svetlana Khorkina had two bar routines where she fell on a release and still scored above a 9.0, while in the 2016 Olympics, the ''best'' execution score on bars in the entire competition was a 9.266[[/note]], and that judges take relatively harsh deductions even on superb routines. For example, in the 2012 Olympic Team finals, American gymnast [=McKayla=] Maroney received only a 9.733 execution score for a vault that was generally agreed to be just about perfect.[[note]]And by many people's standards, this is far from the worst case of this; for one thing, except on vault (which is known to be a higher-scoring event), it's become increasingly rare to see execution scores that even break a 9.[[/note]]
185--->'''NBC Commentator:''' ''(on Maroney's score)'' The judges were so wrong. Where is the error there?
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189* ''Website/WrestleCrap'''s slogan is, "The worst in [[ProfessionalWrestling wrestling]] is here!" and boy, do they live up to it. The tone varies by subject, from light-hearted jabbing to completely hateful ranting, but, with the exception of the ''Rewriting The Book'' section, it's always negative. Despite their negativity (or perhaps because of the good humor they show about it most of the time), they've managed to gain quite the following in the wrestling industry and even managed to get an audio interview with one of their most common targets, Wrestling/VinceRusso.
190* The so-called Platform/YouTube [[InNameOnly "shooters"]] (intentionally put in quotes, because they're not in the wrestling business), like Bill & Doug (aka [=RVDTito4Life=]) and Kent Jones, who love to praise [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] and bash anything that's not TNA, like Wrestling/{{WWE}} or [[Wrestling/RingOfHonor ROH.]]
191* And then there is the reaction from older British people who utterly loathe the American version of wrestling, which they see as over-produced, over-contrived, over-glitzy, over-glamorous, and unfortunately over here to the point of having displaced the native version from British TV screens. Like the American Army in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, American Wrestling is overmonied, oversexed, and over here, the grey squirrel imported from the USA and in the eyes of many, just as verminous. Older Brits look at the latest overmuscled American wunderkind shooting off at the lip and speculate that arrogant bloody Yank wouldn't last five minutes in the ring with a ''real'' wrestler like Kendo Nagasaki or Mick [=Mc=]Manus. Their grandchildren, WWF devotees, then say "who, Grandad?", and the oldie will sigh and say "I know it's before your time, lad, but we used to have ''real'' wrestling on TV on a Saturday afternoon on ''World of Sport.'' And I'm telling you, they were 'real'' wrestlers..." and so on. Even though World of Sport belongs to the 1970s and the sort of cheap 'n' cheerful British wrestling circuit it showcased is virtually dead now, older fans still look back and sigh for the good old days.
192* World Famous Flea Market, hosted by "Hot" Johnny August and Ross "I'm Drunk" Vegas, is a [=YouTube=] series that does this to backyard and extra-cheap indy "wrestling" matches. They rarely have anything good to say about the matches they show, and often come to regret it when they do. They also mock Wrestling/ScottHall in the form of a drinking game called "Drinking with the Bad Guy", in which you take shots after certain moments, such as working the wrong (in this case right) side of the opponent, which is accompanied by a voice clip of Scott Hall going "Hey Yo".
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196* ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'': Marvin the Paranoid Android is taken for granted so often with little or no gratitude it's a wonder he doesn't violate the prime directive.
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200* Pedophilia-and-coverup scandals have given the Catholic church a very bad rep, with Catholic priests these days seemingly constantly portrayed as having a fondness for the altar boys. One of the most tragic aspects of the whole scandal (apart from the actual child molesting, of course) is that so many good people—people who would have been sickened to know what was happening in the institution—poured a lifetime of good and honorable work into an institution which, through the [[VocalMinority grotesque acts of a few and those who covered up for them]], has been reduced to a sick joke.
201* The Protestant churches in the USA and in elsewhere (be it Baptist, Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist,...) also get a lot of negative attention in the media, especially since many of their most fundamentalist and controversial preachers cause enormous damage to the reputation of American televangelists both in the US and abroad. To the public, it may often appear that virtually all of them are OnlyInItForTheMoney, homophobes who are gay themselves, corrupt, money laundering and will use the most far-fetched tactics to brainwash gullible followers into handing over all their cash and being hateful towards atheists, gays, single mothers, people of other faith (or none)...
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205* OlderThanFeudalism: The Greek playwright Creator/{{Aristophanes}} was pretty fond of this, too, ruthlessly satirizing the philosophers and politicians of his day.
206** ''Theatre/TheClouds'' contains his ideas about Creator/{{Socrates}}. The accusations in there were so offensive to ancient Athenians, and so widely believed both before and after the play was shown, that the state executed the guy for being anti-democratic and corrupting the youth.
207** ''[[http://classics.mit.edu/Aristophanes/knights.html The Knights]]'' is possibly one of the most vicious pieces of political satire ever written, and despite being almost two and a half millennia old, surprisingly relevant.
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211* Website/TVTropes itself tends to have this problem at times. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools More negative tropes are seen around here more than positive ones.]] Some tropers here tend to be really itching to add negative tropes on [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike shows they don't like here.]], or the belief that JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife. There has since been a movement to lower such negativity in this wiki. You'll notice that people have to be ''reminded'' to not bash things. From the main page:
212--> "We are also not a wiki for bashing things. Once again, we're about celebrating fiction, not showing off how snide and sarcastic we can be."
213* The amount of CynicismTropes is not only bigger than the amount of IdealismTropes; Cynical tropes have more wiki-wicks and visits than their Idealistic counterparts.
214* HateDumb. Unlike FanDumb where "Unjust Praises" are shot down [[note]] Although some would argue that fans of TrueArt works are given a free pass to this, [[SacredCow but that's another story entirely]] [[/note]], some "Unjust Hatred" may be given a free pass, especially if the work in question is [[ItsPopularNowItSucks popular.]] HateDumb was given a free pass more than FanDumb. Not only was FanDumb around much ''much'' longer, but HateDumb was made a "Subjective" trope with warnings not to put it on the main page way before FanDumb was. This was pointed out on the DoubleStandard page.
215* JustForFun/TVTropesReviews. This has caused there to be more negative reviews than positive on some examples. Even perfectly good things will have, sometimes 2-4 times more negative reviews than positive. Some of it ''is'' HateDumb. It seems almost like those with negative opinions will be more likely to post a review. It was even pointed out that negative reviews get more attention than positive ones; and this wiki was no exception. In fact, the response to that observation is where the term, "Unjust praises" came around.
216* [[{{Recap}} TV Tropes Recap pages]] seems to suffer strongly from this -- which is odd, because unless you really like the show, why are you bothering to write the Recap? And unless you really like the show, why are you bothering to read it?
217* [[Headscratchers/HomePage Headscratchers]]. It was even changed from "It Just Bugs Me" to "Headscratchers" because people were using it to [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike complain,]] and even complaining when questions they asked got decisively answered/explained.
218* This is perhaps why SturgeonsLaw tends to be mentioned and potholed often at times.
219* This also affects the UsefulNotes and more factual entries. Which is especially true for those concerning more contemporary events and trends, which tend to skewer towards negative biases.
220* [[DarthWiki/ThisExists Darth Wiki]].
221* Inverted in the case of the [[SugarWiki/SweetExists Sugar Wiki]].
222* YMMV pages often attract a lot of examples of fans not being happy about things.
223* ExecutiveMeddling - Normally, when this trope is mentioned on the wiki (As it is in real life), it is almost ''always'' used in a negative context, especially ''[[{{Bowdlerization}} censorships]]''. However, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools there have been just as many instances where executive meddling didn't actually harm the work or even made it better]] - they rarely if ever get mentioned, since nobody complains if the system works.
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227* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'': Francis will proclaim "I hate (blank)!" several times throughout the game. The list of things he actually likes includes vests, steam, Jimmy Gibbs Jr.'s stock car, Music/DepecheMode, and Rochelle from the second game. The list of things he hates includes...everything else.
228* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'': If he's chosen as the main hero of the final chapter, [[spoiler:Akira [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chews out Oersted]] for using this trope as the outcome of being betrayed by mankind. Akira himself has experienced his share of betrayals, namely his mentor Matsu turning out to be the killer of his father, and said father being revealed to be working for the enemy. But even then, he ultimately chose to focus on his mentor's good and friendly side[[note]]it does help that said mentor chose to raise Akira as atonement for killing his father[[/note]], and his father being an inspiring, law-abiding, model officer/citizen rather than just being a pawn of the bad guys. Those were what allowed him to stay positive and succeed in defeating the conspiracy and Odeo. Meanwhile, Oersted, in his rage, chose to forget the few humans who were kind and truly believed him (Uranus, Hasshe and that one kid), and instead focused on the negative side of mankind, especially his most vital betrayers (Streibough and Alethea). In Akira's words, all Oersted was looking for was [[FreudianExcuse a justified excuse to lash out in rage]], [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse but even that falls flat.]]]]
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232* ''Webcomic/FriendlyHostility'': A plot point. Collin's best friend, Fox, is also his boyfriend... Which means that when Fox screws up, or the relationship hits a rocky patch, misanthropic Collin doesn't really have anyone he can talk to about it. When he befriends Arath, he takes full advantage of the opportunity to unload some of his grudges and doubts about the relationship. Unfortunately, Collin takes much of his usually good love affair for granted and therefore doesn't really mention the nice things about his boyfriend. Result? Arath begins to believe that Collin's boyfriend is a useless jerk who mistreats his partner.
233* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
234** The problem with kids these days.
235--->'''Zeuxippe:''' So much that they are trying to kill you over it!!\
236'''Old Man Death:''' Always you gotta find [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100602 problems!]]
237** And [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081008 this younger Wulfenbach guard]]:
238--->'''Guard 1:''' Of course... the castle is over there. We're over here, and those flaming things are coming back...\
239'''Guard 2:''' Live in the moment, kid. Live in the moment.
240* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' aspires to be negative but funny [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/7/23/it-really-is-that-good/ when heaping]] [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/4/2/a-mech-moment-for-us/ unmitigated praise]] [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/1/ on something.]]
241* In ''Webcomic/MenageA3,'':
242** Jung plans to review the play Dillon's starring in:
243--->'''Jung:''' Gonna blog about how horrible it was, the instant it's over!\
244'''Gary:''' But what if it's good?\
245'''Jung:''' If it's goo... Gary, that makes no sense.
246** Jung lists 77 reasons why ''Series/{{Friends}}'' sucked.
247* ''Webcomic/ElectricWonderland'': "The Nameless Decade", in which Lululu (an outside agent of Trawn's paper) takes a field trip to the Nettropolis Museum and learns about how society had decayed from 2000-2009, features this trope when discussing [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/electricwonderland/index.php?issue=8&page=5 television,]] [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/electricwonderland/index.php?issue=8&page=6 movies,]] and [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/electricwonderland/index.php?issue=8&page=7 music.]]
248* ''WebComic/TheShadowShard'': The nature of King Sombra's umbran magic. Once it works its way into a victim's mind, it twists and distorts their memories, sapping the good ones and painting a picture of loneliness and hurt.
249* In ''Webcomic/TheGreenhouse'', the demon 'Red' poses as her host Mica's InnerMonologue, and uses this trope to influence Mica towards misery and anger, making it easier to feed on her. Once Mica learns that she's possessed, she can recognize the difference between her inner voice and 'Red', who admits that the technique has become essentially useless and stops trying.
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253* ''WebVideo/AitorMolinaVs'' the first episode of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Even more so when he talks about [[WebAnimation/VeteALaVersh Darkar]] or Elrubius.
254* WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}: Deliberately seeking out the worst [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] and Let's Players on Platform/YouTube, and giving them the {{MST}} treatment.
255* In ''LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut'' ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', Gabriel stated that he did not trust [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]'s ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' reviews due to its cynical nature, which Yahtzee admitted that it was a bit of an exaggeration and stated that he likes ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' to prove said statement.
256* ''Podcast/TopDownPerspective'': If someone hates a game, you can bet they're always going to either have a snide comment ready about it right away or go off on an eviscerating rant about it. Jon's favorite target is ''[[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi's New Island,]]'' while Sean takes any opportunity to put down ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising''.
257* ''WebVideo/StopSkeletonsFromFighting'': Normally averted, but his reviews of ''VideoGame/StarTropics 2'' and ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' had this in spades. Also in the second half of his ''Videogame/EternalDarkness'' review and even more so in the second review.
258* Blog/GuardianAcorn Averts it, as she will usually be fair in her criticism, exception being the "Nukige Septic Tank" and "Steam Greenlight Landfill" titled reviews, whose subjects do not have that much positive to say about them in first place.
259* ''64 Things Wrong With...'': Played for laughs, in which the reviewer nitpicks some of the greatest video games out there, trying a little too hard to find exactly 64 things wrong with the games in question in each video.
260* The ''WebVideo/{{Rerez}}'' series "Positives & Negatives" zigzags all over this trope. In a "Positives" video, Shane will point out multiple times that the game (or game-related product) he's covering is bad, but he puts in the effort to find four things that would get the viewer to consider checking it out, beyond the usual BileFascination, though he'll usually still suggest avoiding it and often even the positives are thinly-veiled {{Stealth Insult}}s rather than genuine praise. "Negatives", on the other hand, attempts to put the emphasis on the bad points of some of the greatest games out there, only to strongly recommend playing them anyway.
261* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'':
262** Though he does give praise where praise is due, he goes out of his way to pick games he expects to be bad or focuses on only the worst parts of the games since [[RuleOfFunny that's when he's at his most entertaining]]. The major exception to this is [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness his first two videos]] which were a ''parody'' of Accentuate The Negative, made before he knew he would be famous for this stuff. Even when he reviews games he actually likes, like ''[[VideoGame/BatmanSunsoft Batman: Return of the Joker]]'' for the NES, he still posts a video of all the worst parts of the game and how much he hates those parts, then afterwards casually mentions how it's actually a pretty fun game just with a flaw or two, and even ''apologized'' for not having many bad things to say about ''VideoGame/ChexQuest'', a free game from a cereal box that was a mod of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' which ended up being well-made and fun to play:
263---> '''Nerd:''' Yes, I'm sorry I didn't have more negative to say, I was really tryin' here, um... I know I haven't filled my curse quota for this episode, so... [[ClusterFBomb fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck]].
264** He's even played this for laughs as a means to poke some fun at Seamus Blackley during his review of ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTrespasser''. Only the Nerd could [[DamnedByFaintPraise find a way]] to turn "father of the Platform/{{Xbox}}" into an insult:
265---> '''Seamus:''' I'm Seamus, Seamus Blackley. Physicist and game designer, also father of the Xbox.\
266'''Nerd:''' Oh right, the thing that plays ''VideoGame/DrakeOfThe99Dragons''.\
267'''Seamus:''' ''(sighs)'' Yeah the thing that plays ''Drake of the 99 Dragons'' and ''VideoGame/AzurikRiseOfPerathia'', yeah but also ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.
268** And during his review of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' he makes it pretty clear he ''deliberately'' points out the flaws of games, feeling that while everyone else wears the rose-colored glasses it's his job to come along [[JadeColoredGlasses wearing the jade ones]]:
269---> '''Nerd:''' So ''there''. I said some good things about the game. But that's all that anyone ever talks about is the good things. The bad things? Well, that's my job.
270** When playing ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'', he actually ''tries'' to do this. Quite literally the only bad thing he can think of is that the characters wear red and black instead of "appropriate army colors". Then he apologizes for the game being just ''that'' perfect.
271* ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'': This is the basic premise, pointing out the various flaws in movies, even those many consider to be classics. The creators have even admitted that they subject some of their favorite movies to this treatment. They've even done two videos on themselves. Their final tally? [[SelfDeprecation Infinity]].
272* ''Dead Homer Society'' used to have [[https://deadhomersociety.wordpress.com/category/synergy/ recurring posts]] where episode reviews from Website/{{IGN}} (which was owned by News Corp. from 2005 to 2013) were taken and edited to say things like certain jokes were just excuses to make pop culture references, or that the episode turned out to be a boring waste of time.
273* This is the standard review style for ''The Critical Drinker'', especially if he deems a particular film or TV show to be terrible.
274* ''WebVideo/UpFromTheDepths'': ZigZagged. While he will point out flaws a movie has, and the film's final score will reflect those flaws, he'll also note what a film does right and why a {{Kaiju}} fan, even a casual one, might be interested in seeing it. On the other hand, he'll note some films as likely only being of interest to die-hard giant monster fans, and even ''they'' might have a hard time sitting through something like ''Film/{{Reptilicus}}''.
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278* Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} has made many great cartoons over the years and shows no signs of slowing down. However, it seems that among adults, even those who grew up with the channel, hate it with a burning passion, despite well-received shows like ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', people will always complain about ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'', ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Breadwinners}}'', and modern ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''. Even more specific, haters of the shows always seem to focus on the ToiletHumor in shows, despite the fact that there is much more to them than that, and it was in [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow many]] [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife previous]] [[WesternAnimation/CatDog cartoons]] shown on Nickelodeon before. This has started to die down in 2015, with ''[=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=]'' having Stephen Hillenburg back on board (as well as the news that he's returning to the show itself), featuring humor on par with that of the first 3 seasons and de-flanderizing the characters, ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'' being more down-to-earth, having more wholesome humor, and not rehashing the same "bromance" theme of other Nicktoons and announcements involving reboots of some of their old series (which includes recruiting Craig Bartlett to finally produce something classic Nick fans have been wanting for over a decade: ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheJungleMovie''). 2016 only improved things further, with them picking up the dub to ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', the near-unanimous praise of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', improving the humor and storytelling of ''Sanjay and Craig'' and shelving ''Breadwinners'' to Nicktoons without renewing it for a third season. And in 2017, Nickelodeon announced that ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' is getting a TV movie, and released well-received shows like ''Series/HunterStreet'', ''Ride'', and ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast''.
279* It seems that as for 2017, Creator/CartoonNetwork is going to this direction, mainly because of poorly-received [[ContinuityReboot reboots]] (''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'' and ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016'' being the most infamous examples) and its tendency to [[AdoredByTheNetwork adore]] certain shows and [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screw]] others, such as giving ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' the boot and announcing the date of the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' finale as 2018.
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