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4	->''"''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' sucks and you suck for liking it!"''
5	-->-- '''Noah "[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One]]" Antwiler'''
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10	To some people, there is only one thing worse than anything they consider horrible -- people ''liking it''.
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12	In a nutshell, a Fan Hater is someone who hates the [[{{Fandom}} fans of a particular work]]. Often in a {{Hatedom}}, but not always.
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14	The thing is that to these people, art is SeriousBusiness and they treat their enjoyment of art the way [[StopHavingFunGuys some people]] take to [[TournamentPlay competitive gaming]]. If you like anything not up to their standards, they will either mock you, mock that thing in front of your face, or just go on a diatribe about why you shouldn't like that thing. To make matters worse, they will also stereotype fans (e.g., anybody who likes comic books is an obese loser; anyone who likes anime is some annoying, anti-American, over-obsessive wannabe Japan-fetishizing freak; people who like cartoons are [[PedoHunt pedophilic]] [[ManChild Manchildren]]; [[DoubleStandard boys who watch]] [[GirlShowGhetto girls' cartoons]] [[UnfortunateImplications are gay]]; girls who watch boys' cartoons are [[GamerChick fake geeks]] or {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s; anyone who likes metal/punk is a wannabe tough guy or a pretentious hipster jackass; people who like rap are wangsters; anyone who watches ProfessionalWrestling is a redneck-homo and thinks it's 100% real; etc.) and not fitting any of these stereotypes will induce either a NoTrueScotsman or they'll still find at least one thing they find negative and stereotype the fans of the work with said negative thing. Fan Haters tend to refer to the targets of their hatred as the "LowestCommonDenominator" or "unwashed masses".
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16	Note that hating the work in question is not required: there's plenty of Fan Haters who have nothing against the work in question, and are "merely" repulsed by the associated fandom--a common case of the Fan Hater is somebody from a more general fandom finding a subfandom creepy and horrible.
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18	Be warned some may pretend to be fan haters, but are in fact {{Troll}}s, which some find to be worse, depending on who you are.
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20	A SubTrope of HateDumb and OpinionMyopia. The inverse is ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow.
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22	Due to past messes, please avoid TakeThat statements, {{flame bait}}, "This Troper" blurbs, redundancy, and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundancy]].
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24	!!Common forms of this trope:
25	* AccentuateTheNegative, in which the person sees or expresses nothing but negative values in a work and trashes anyone who dares to actually like the work.
26	* AdaptationDecay, in that they hate anyone who likes an adaptation that isn't the original version.
27	* AnimationAgeGhetto, in that they hate anyone older than 12 who watches anything animated.
28	* BrokenBase, in that the dissenters will hate the loyalists for not giving up on a particular series.
29	* ComedyGhetto, in which they hate anyone who likes a work just because it isn't serious.
30	* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: In which they attack a work they know little or nothing about.
31	* CondemnedByHistory: The work they hate has fallen out of fashion years ago, so why should they have to tolerate the few who still like it?
32	* DeadHorseGenre, in which they hate on people for liking what they deem inferior brands of music.
33	* FandomRivalry: In which one fandom hates another fandom, and vice-versa.
34	* FanDumb, in which they assume all fans of a work to have the same negative stereotypes and viewpoints.
35	* GirlShowGhetto, in that they hate anyone who watches a cartoon not "intended for" their gender.
36	* HateDumb, in which they dislike a work because of trivial reasons.
37	* HypeAversion, in which they dislike a work simply because people keep recommending it.
38	* HypeBacklash: In which they hate a work simply because of the attention it has received or is receiving. A subset hates things that are critically-acclaimed.
39	* {{Hypocrite}}: Many of them may actually like the work they claim to hate.
40	* ItsPopularNowItSucks: In which a work is hated for having mass appeal, selling out and abandoning the "true fans".
41	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: in which they hate you merely because you like something that they see as the same as something else.
42	* {{Jerkass}}: They just want an excuse to be a jerk.
43	* MisaimedFandom: In which they hate you for liking something the "wrong way".
44	* NoTrueScotsman: In which they claim you're not a "true" fan for liking a work.
45	* NostalgiaFilter: They hate a work just because it's new and not something they watched when they were younger.
46	* PublicMediumIgnorance: They are known to complain about works of fiction just because they are in forms of media that they don't normally read, watch or play.
47	* PsychologicalProjection: In which they project their own negative & toxic behavior onto the fans of the work, accuse them of having those traits, all while also [[{{ImplausibleDeniability}} denying that they themselves are doing that very thing.]] Essentially, they say: "I'm not the jerk. Those 'fans' of the work are the real jerks, and as such deserve my contempt."
48	* SciFiGhetto: They assume that science fiction works have no artistic merit whatsoever.
49	* {{Scrub}}: Players of a competitive video game who insist that all players should play their way.
50	* SeriousBusiness: The MST3KMantra most certainly does ''not'' apply.
51	* StopBeingStereotypical: In which a work has a [[FanDumb notoriously unpleasant or obnoxious fanbase]] that results in more level-headed fans turning against the rest of the fandom; when someone says something akin to "I love the work but the fans are too toxic", this is the sentiment at play.
52	* StopHavingFunGuys: In which you get hate for playing a game the "wrong way."
53	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: They dislike an adaptation or reboot just for making a few changes to the source material, even if the change is relatively minor or if the original work would have been difficult to make a completely faithful adaptation to.
54	* All the TrueArt pages
55	* And especially GuiltyPleasures, because they'll try to make you feel guilty for it.
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57	See [[Analysis/FanHater our Analysis page]] for more details.
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60	!!Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly:
61	[[foldercontrol]]
62	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
63	* ''Manga/LoveLucky'' has an in-universe example with Erika, the female lead singer of the rock band "M.I.T.", who is a self-professed hater of "normal people". This apparently arose from the way she was treated by the band's fans after she replaced the previous lead.
64	* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' has an in-universe case of this. In one of the episodes during the Buu arc before the World Martial Arts Tournament begins, Krillin comments on how he's unsure of who is more annoying: Mr. Satan or his fans.
65	** During the Cell saga, Krillin also admitted to cheering for [[BigBad Cell]] during Cell's [[PunchedAcrosstheRoom "fight"]] with Satan.
66	[[/folder]]
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68	[[folder:Comic Books]]
69	* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} once [[BoomHeadshot killed]] an A.I.M. soldier for daring to prefer the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel trilogy over the originals, and for that matter attempting to praise Hayden Christensen's performance in them. [[HeroicComedicSociopath This is Deadpool we're talking about, after all.]]
70	[[/folder]]
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72	[[folder:Fanfics]]
73	* ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' is basically set in a world with this as its [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. There are but three sorts of people in ''My Immortal''-land; "goffs", "posers" and "preps". Being a "goff", which entails wearing black clothes from Hot Topic and listening to the emo bands the author likes, is the One True Path and everyone else sucks for existing. "Preps" are the unwashed masses who shop at Abercrombie & Fitch and worship Music/BritneySpears. "Posers" are "preps" who try to be "goffic" but listen to the "wrong" music and are [[FelonyMisdemeanor thus evil]].
74	** The ParodyFic ''Fanfic/XtremlyScray'' - which has its goffic characters beat people up for even remotely liking their preppy bands and movies, films like ''Film/TopHat'' and ''Film/DieHard'' (They declare the only true goffic films to be either Creator/TimBurton (including his less German-Expressionism inspired films, like ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'') or low budget horror B-Movies like ''Film/SharkAttack3Megalodon'').
75	* In ''Fanfic/RedactionOfTheGoldenWitch'', a considerable fanbase has grown around the mystery of the [[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry Rokkenjima Incident]]. In recent years, somebody has been pulling mean-spirited pranks at the [=WitchCon=] gatherings, seemingly trying to drive people away from the fandom. A subset of fans has actually latched onto this, blaming a new 'Golden Witch' for the incidents and declaring themselves their followers. To that end, they attend the Cons just to {{Troll}} and harass other Witch Hunters.
76	* ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'': The plot for the episode "Nobody Cares About the Bears" is kickstarted by RM's refusal to respect that Ash enjoys ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest''; [[WhatTheHellHero MM calls him]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech out on it]], saying that he hates the show but doesn't harass people for liking it.
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79	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
80	* Rock fans vs. disco fans in ''Film/DetroitRockCity''.
81	** This one is based in reality. During the late 1970s there was a very real rivalry between rock fans and disco fans. The rivalry came to a head on July 12, 1979 (sometimes referred to as "the night disco died") during a baseball promotion called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night Disco Demolition Night,]] which resulted in thousands of rock fans storming the field at UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}'s Comiskey Park to express their hatred of disco. The event made news worldwide and less than a year later disco was effectively dead in the United States and Canada (although it would remain popular in Europe for another few years).
82	* ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans (the protagonists) vs. [[Franchise/StarTrek Trekkies]], I mean, [[InsistentTerminology Trekkers]] in ''Film/{{Fanboys}}''. This goes both ways, too.
83	** Hutch and Windows don't sell any ''Franchise/StarTrek'' stuff at their comic shop. They despise it and its fans along with it. But they do have a tricorder on display just to lure Trekkies inside and then tell them that they don't sell any ''Franchise/StarTrek'' stuff.
84	** On the way to Frisco, Hutch decides to take a detour via Riverside, Iowa, future birthplace of one James T. Kirk, to go and troll some Trekkies. They do discover a bunch of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fans unveiling a statue that's supposed to (but actually doesn't) display the fight between Kirk and Khan. Things quickly heat up almost to the point of a brawl.
85	** The meeting-point in Las Vegas turns out to be [[spoiler:the location of the annual Star Trek Las Vegas convention. And guess who just happens to be among the attendees, ready and willing to beat our protagonists up.]]
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88	[[folder:Literature]]
89	* There's a line in ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' where Patrick mentions that no one should feel sympathy for the woman he's forcing into getting an abortion due to the fact that her favorite movie is ''Film/PrettyInPink'' and "she thinks [[Music/ThePolice Sting]] is cool."
90	* Rob Fleming from ''Literature/HighFidelity'' (Rob Gordon in TheMovie) questions how one can be friends with people whose favorite band is Music/SimpleMinds. One of the reasons why he dislikes Ian is because of that weird ethno music he listens to. And Barry chases a potential customer out of Rob's record store because he wanted to acquire "I Just Called To Say I Love You," a song from Music/StevieWonder's [[TheEighties 80s]] pop period.
91	* This is [[Creator/DrSeuss the Grinch's]] signature characteristic. He dislikes the people of Whoville in ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' because they love celebrating Christmas and cannot stand seeing them enjoy it. It's revealed in ''The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat!'' that he does these things not wholly out of malice, though--he believes he's supposed to behave this way.
92	* Web serial ''Literature/{{Barkwire}}'' occasionally breaks format to show us the personal blog of [=BiGDOG=], in which he explains why the other characters are idiots for being fans of certain stray dogs. He then provides a list of stray dogs that a ''sensible'' reviewer would admire.
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95	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
96	* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', it's mentioned that Chandler once broke up with a girl because she didn't hate Yanni.
97	* ''Series/BigBrother'':
98	** In the 11th American Season, four previous players were invited as "guests" to give their insight on the current game being played. Danielle stated that she wanted [[TheScrappy Natalie]] to win, and held up her hand to silence the audience, who begun to boo.
99	** Players have taken potshots at the fans of other players (or even previous seasons) but these have never made the feeds. There was also controversy in Season 13 where Jeff had gone off on a rant, not only insulting the premise of ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' but also taking a few potshots at the fans.
100	* In one episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'', Abed calls Shirley a terrible person for liking Creator/BrettRatner's movies -- and even worse, comparing him favourably to Creator/StevenSpielberg.
101	* On ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'', Vince Noir is the self-styled "King of the Mods". When he meets his friend's mentor, the mentor bursts out screaming "A mod?! I am a Rocker! He is a Mod! We are mortal enemies!" This doubles as a HistoricalInJoke which references the two sub-cultures clashing in 1960's England.
102	* In one episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'', Shawn and Gus take on a client who's dying from polonium poisoning. Shawn repeatedly berates the poor guy for proudly stating that his favorite band is Music/DuranDuran.
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105	[[folder:Music]]
106	* The lyrics to Sloan's "Coax Me" include the line, "it's not the band I hate: it's their fans".
107	* The guy in Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Close But No Cigar", who [[MinorFlawMajorBreakup breaks up with women over minor flaws]], once broke up with a woman because she owns a copy of ''Film/JoeDirt''.
108	* Sloppy Seconds' song "You've Got A Great Body, But Your Record Collection Sucks" is all about this trope.
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110
111	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
112	* This was Wrestling/MichaelCole's gimmick when he became a heel on ''Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}}'' and commentary. If the fans and the IWC loved it he would hate it (such as [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]],) and if they hated wrestling characters like Wrestling/VickieGuerrero, he would absolutely love them, [[{{Troll}} to piss off the fans.]]
113	* This is the gimmick of Wrestling/TheShield. If the fans want something and they have the opportunity to ruin it, they will every time, and call it "justice".
114	* Wrestling/JimCornette often refers to fans of wrestling he finds unacceptable as scum or idiots. When discussing fans of deathmatch wrestling he used the term "scum" repeatedly to show his disdain for them.
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117	[[folder:Video Games]]
118	* The Krunch radio station from the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series is a hard rock and metal station that will frequently air this between songs:
119	-->''[pop music playing]'' Do you like pop music? ''[music cuts out]'' Go fuck yourself! ''[heavy metal guitar riff playing]'' The Krunch: 10[[NumberOfTheBeast 6.66]]!
120	** That parodies the fan-pandering promos many radio stations use:
121	---> We only have the [music genre] ''you'' [Target Demographic] like, and everyone else can go to hell!
122	* The premise of ''VideoGame/NoStraightRoads'' is a rock band attempting to destroy electronic dance music (it's more complicated than that, but numerous characters in-universe boil it down to this). [[spoiler:The crux of said rock band's CharacterDevelopment is coming to realize that there's a place for music they don't personally like.]]
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125	[[folder:Web Animation]]
126	* [[Platform/GoAnimate GoAnimators]] hate "baby shows" ''in spades''. Most [[YouAreGrounded grounded videos]] made by [=GoAnimators=] involve baby show characters, especially ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}''.
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129	[[folder:Webcomics]]
130	* The bug of ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' has a [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Grinch]] persona [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/for-the-haters/ that is a fan hater]].
131	* As part of its increasing meta-ness, Act 6 of ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' introduces [[spoiler:Caliborn]], who is basically a [[AudienceSurrogate personification]] of the comic's fan haters. This includes the people who complain about their friends talking about ''Homestuck'' and trying to get them interested in it.
132	** This character is revealed to be [[spoiler: a younger version of [[GreaterScopeVillain Lord English]]]], who in the second intermission of Act 6 [[spoiler: [[RageAgainstTheAuthor murdered]] Homestuck [[AuthorAvatar author]] Creator/AndrewHussie]].
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135	[[folder:Web Original]]
136	* WebVideo/{{Animat}} is this when it comes to the ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' movies saying that they are films that not only he hates that everyone else like but films he hates but can't understand why anybody would like it, saying people only like it for the food animation and the fact that it has Phil Lord & Chris Miller involved with it. He would outright say in his video essay on Rotten Tomatoes that he knows "for a fact is bad".
137	** Just watching it for a second in the animation montage at the Oscars made him go on a short rant, comparing the Academy acknowledging its existence to an American Heroes slideshow featuring Charles Manson, and wanting the guy who showed Cloudy in the montage to get a slap in the face.
138	* See this article from ''Website/TheOnion'': [[http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/man_who_enjoys_thing Man Who Enjoys Thing Informed He Is Wrong]]
139	* [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One]] made a series of videos talking about his hatred for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2''. This has caused Noah Antwiler (who plays Spoony) to take some real backlash, with him having to point out that Spoony is a character and not everything "he" says is Noah's real opinion.
140	** Then things got a little worse when Noah (not Spoony) disparaged Nintendo[[note]]Saying they needs to shut the doors on all of their primary franchises, especially ''Zelda'', which he calls [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks an unchanging series]][[/note]] and ''Film/TronLegacy''[[note]]Calling the movie crap and one of the worst films of 2010 and insulting anyone who liked it by saying they have low standards and are easily entertained[[/note]].
141	** He also said that if you like ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', you are lying to yourself.
142	*** Same with ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}''.
143	* [[Creator/WingerDingerProductions Random DCE]] was known for this, especially in his early years. While he softened up in recent years, he still thinks [[AnimationAgeGhetto liking anime is]] [[EvenNerdsHaveStandards beneath him.]]
144	** Though he has admitted to liking some anime, such as ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', ''Anime/MegamanNTWarrior'', ''Anime/BloodTheLastVampire'', and ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie''. [[ItsPopularNowItSucks Maybe he just doesn't like the more well-known ones like Naruto]]?
145	* [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] is prone to doing this when in character, and he doesn't just hate one kind of gamer -- he's hated on people who like {{Eastern RPG}}s, Western {{RPG}}s, Silent Hill fans, people who like ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', people who played ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', people who didn't play ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', console gamers, PC gamers, fans of point and click adventure games, people who own a Wii, fans of {{MMORPG}}s, Korean gamers, fans of sprite comics, fans of ''WebComic/CtrlAltDel'', fans of ''VideoGame/TheSims'', Retro gamers, Indie gamers, people who hate retro, people who hate indies, Creator/JossWhedon, anyone who likes Joss Whedon, etc. Most it is hyperbolic though, and plays into the MisanthropeSupreme HatesEveryoneEqually persona he adopts for the reviews, and he frequently drops {{Hypocrisy Nod}}s as he is a self-admitted fan of quite a few things from the preceding list. Somewhat less defensibly, he's also made numerous ''extremely'' vicious statements about [[{{Eagleland}} Americans and their preferences]] out-of-character.
146	* [[Creator/BobChipman MovieBob]] heaps criticism on some movies and games, but has also cast disdain on anyone who enjoys them, sometimes suggesting these works are so bad that the only explanation for their popularity must be that ViewersAreMorons. He has articulated this rage in economic terms: the worst part isn't that people ''enjoy'' the bad film, it's that they're giving ''money'' to the bad filmmaker thus ensuring that more crap will be produced and that better work may be crowded out. MovieBob has amassed his own HateDom, perhaps in part because of this antagonistic attitude and those who feel slighted by it. And in recent years he has changed his mind and considers fan-hate an OldShame, recognizing that it doesn't improve a work but only inflates the HateDumb surrounding it.
147	* WebVideo/MarioTehPlumber absolutely despises modern Sonic games as well as anybody who likes them. He has a similar attitude to modern Nintendo games and their fans.
148	* [[WebVideo/TheAmazingAtheist The Distressed Watcher]] made nine videos complaining about the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels; he often called the fans stupid.
149	** He also proclaimed that anyone who enjoyed ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', even as a GuiltyPleasure, [[InsaneTrollLogic should be hauled into a concentration camp and killed]]. Keep in mind that Website/ChannelAwesome, the website he posted this review on, has a respectable number of Jewish contributors, and Doug Walker, the face of the site, called the movie "enjoyably adequate." Probably not the best choice of words.
150	* [[Radio/TrueCapitalist Ghost]] does ''NOT'' like bronies.
151	** Neither much do the [[Blog/{{Bronyism}} Hijacker Trolls]]; although they hate [[Music/JustinBieber beliebers]] a lot more.
152	* Creator/BlackPawnMovement is made up of a group of fans and anti-fans of the series ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'', dealing with the most obnoxious fans on Youtube. Since the Twilight hype has died down, they have been switching to music, such as Lady Gaga, Insane Clown Posse, and Justin Bieber.
153	* ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou'': Nash has quite the beef with [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Bronies.]]
154	* In the ''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Plinkett Reviews]]'' of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Prequels he says that if you thought the prequels were "betterer" or were less "boringer" than the original then you're wrong.
155	* ''Website/GameShowGarbage'', a ''Website/{{WrestleCrap}}''-type site that focuses on {{Game Show}}s, once featured the ''[[Series/ThePriceIsRight Price is Right]]'' fan site Golden-Road.net as one of their inductions. In the article, Robert Seidelman collectively dismisses the members of the community as FanDumb, accusing them of having overactive {{Nostalgia Filter}}s and being too quick to cry TheyChangedItNowItSucks. He also takes a milder swipe at the Creator/{{GSN}} message boards. The article eventually was toned down to be a little less harsh and remove attacks on specific members.
156	** Encyclopedia Dramatica also has an article bashing Golden-Road.net.
157	* It's pretty clear in his ''Turn Up The Music'' review that WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows hates Chris Brown's "Team Breezy" fans as much as (or possibly even worse than) Chris Brown himself, citing all the instances in which they wrote off the Rihanna scandal (or even worse, accused her of instigating it) and even admit that they'd let Chris Brown beat them (though he admits that at least some of the latter posts/tweets/etc are more than likely {{Troll}}s.)
158	** He does clearly distinguish between people who like his music and people who like him as a ''person''. Todd finds Brown as a person to be absolutely repulsive and can't understand why anyone would like him, but doesn't care if you like his music, [[GuiltyPleasure admitting to liking a few of Brown's songs himself]] as well as pointing out that he himself is a fan of the music of morally suspect people like Music/PhilSpector.
159	* Subverted by Creator/DougWalker, who says that he actually wants to meet someone who liked ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' (cited by him as the worst movie he's ever seen) just so he can hear ''why'' they'd like it. He also has valiantly tried to get it into fandom's heads that this trope is awful.
160	** Despite that though, he has mocked fans of ''TMZ'' and ''Happy Madison'' for being unintelligent, and ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' being much worse with this in reboot despite coming round to Doug's POV in his SeriesFauxnale was called out by ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Sage]]''.
161	** Rob Walker, Doug's brother and co-writer, however, is not by any means above this trope, especially towards fans of ''Film/ManOfSteel''. He even insulted Angry Joe because he defended it, and attacking fans on Facebook who commented on the fact they enjoyed it, in one case even insulting one for "[[{{Hypocrite}} not being able to accept other people's opinions]]" when the fan called him out on insulting fans for liking it, without any sense of irony. It didn't help that he kept ranting about the film more than a year after it was released, even frustrating people who also hated it.
162	* WebVideo/ConfusedMatthew also seems to fit this trope. He seems to be unable to understand how anyone can like the certain movies that he absolutely despises (''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King\|1994}}'' and ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' in particular). And sometimes can (probably unintentionally) insult the fans of the movie that he's reviewing.
163	* In ''20 Haunting Halloween Facts'' by [[WebVideo/MatthewSantoro Matt Santoro]], Matt says that people who play ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' have unibrows, have hairy palms, and leave the dead only in search of food.
164	* {{WebVideo/Rocked}} averts this trope. Often when he's harshly criticizing a song or band, he will admit that he doesn't have a problem with his viewers actually liking what he doesn't. Though according to himself, he's still gotten death threats from Music/LimpBizkit fans.
165	* ''Podcast/{{Radiodrome}}'' host Josh Hadley is notorious for this, especially towards fans of Creator/QuentinTarantino, Creator/JossWhedon, and lately, Creator/ZackSnyder.
166	* WebVideo/JesuOtaku, formerly of Website/ChannelAwesome, was known for his exceptionally harsh reviewing style, attacking not only shows but also whole fandoms. By far his harshest moment was describing [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic MLP:FiM]] fans as a bunch of whiny, misogynistic, borderline-paedophilic {{Psychopathic Manchild}}ren ([[http://nobszone.tumblr.com/post/83243396417/really-quite-frankly-an-open-letter-to-jesuotaku this]] goes into more detail). He also once upset ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fans by saying the show was "an anime brought to you [[TakeThat by TVTropes]]" and anyone who liked it was stupid and had absolutely no standards, and has also voiced similar sentiments towards fans of ''Series/DoctorWho'', the new ''Franchise/StarTrek'' movies by JJ Abrams, and ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer every]] [[Series/{{Angel}} single]] [[Series/{{Firefly}} series]]'' created by Creator/JossWhedon, among others.
167	* Strongly defied in the last couple of years by Website/GeekJuiceMedia, who have kicked out former contributors such as Josh Hadley and Tom Badguy for this kind of behavior.
168	* Don East of ''Anime Abomination'' usually avoids this, but he had a particularly sour spot towards ''Manga/BlueExorcist.'' When the show was airing on Toonami, he would get annoyed that the series got better ratings than ''Manga/OnePiece.'' At one point, he said that if ''Blue Exorcist'' got better ratings than ''One Piece,'' he said he hoped for the fan's sake he would never meet them at a convention he was going to, which sound like a threat.
169	* WebVideo/TheRageaholic falls into this A LOT. Especially towards fans of the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' Franchise and Hideo Kojima in general. But this extends to pretty much anyone who enjoys things he doesn't like, the list of which is extensive.
170	* Quite a few people thought that ''WebVideo/TheBlockbusterBuster'' fell into this with his review of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' wherein he had a sycophantic fanboy blind to the flaws of the film appear on screen during his review of the film, and earlier in the review insisted that "True Fans" of the DCU shouldn't like the movie or the ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse.''
171	* WebVideo/IHateEverything, despite the title being an exageration, is also pretty notorious for this with a short list of fandoms he hates (to the point of making a Top 5 Worst Fandoms list) including: [[OccidentalOtaku Anime fans]], Bronies, VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys, and (most recently) WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty, though generally he directs his vitriol at the more extreme subsects who take things too far.
172	* In episode 2 of ''WebAnimation/EveryFaggotEver'', the titular faggot flies into a rage and starts insulting a little girl who admits to liking Music/JustinBieber, since that episode was about bashing his HateDumb.
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176	* In ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'', they were watching a Music/BonJovi video. Beavis didn't think it was that bad, and Butthead kept smacking him for not thinking it sucked. Finally Beavis got fed up and [[GroinAttack kicked Butthead in the nuts]]. In the 2021 relaunch, Butthead throws Beavis out of his own house for dancing to Music/{{BTS}}.
177	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the boys play ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and stumble across another group of boys playing ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. Cartman scoffs, "[[HypocriticalHumor Fags!]]"
178	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
179	** in "The King is Dead", Lois is outraged that the people of Quahog liked Peter's rewriting of ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'' and lambasts them for approving the "mind-numbing schlock".
180	** In another episode, Peter is watching a public access show devoted entirely to talking about how awesome Music/{{KISS}} is. They get a caller who says "KISS sucks!", prompting Peter to angrily declare "Trace the call!". The host recognizes the voice as Music/{{Styx}}'s lead singer Dennis [=DeYoung=], and proceeds to insult him and his band.
181	** In "Brian's Play", Stewie criticizes Brian's hackneyed-but-successful play ''A Passing Fancy'' and denounces the audience as "braying hyenas".
182	* Dethklok of ''Westernanimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' hates their own fans, downright having written [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_tGdfT_Vsc a song]] to express their disgust. Helps the fans are often mentally unstable, disturbed or just stupid, often to violent/lethal levels.
183	* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode ''[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbNerdsOfAFeather Nerds of a Feather]]'', the boys attend a convention where a literal civil war is breaking out between nerds over which genre is better; fantasy or science fiction. Phineas and Ferb themselves seem to be the only ones who acknowledge you can like different genres.
184	* The titular Rick of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' utterly ''hates'' heist movies and the people who like them. When he's being savagely booed by a crowd of heist fans, he has this to say:
185	--> '''Rick:''' Your boos mean nothing! I've seen what makes you cheer!
186	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Multiple episodes like "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge", "Bart After Dark" and "The Great Wife Hope" make it perfectly clear that Marge will go after any kind of entertainment she considers unwholesome with zeal in a relentless hunt to shut it down, even if (and at least once directly said ''especially if'') it's something she cannot herself see enjoying because she is [[TheBore an incredibly boring woman]] and [[IncrediblyLameFun her beliefs of what's "fun" are equally annoying.]]
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