History Quotes / ItsPopularNowItSucks

-->-- '''Aldous Huxley''', ''Silence is Golden''

->''"Which leads us to another common criticism, that the film is too 'base', the swill of the common folk, like that's a bug, not a feature. There is a sort of classism inherent to criticisms like this, in effect, it's 'too many people like this'. [...] And even if you're too young to remember the backlash, you can still probably feel it in the atmosphere. Like saying one of the most successful movies in history is 'good, actually' is a ding against your credibility."''

->''"Which leads us to another common criticism, that the film is too "base", the swill of the common folk, like that's a bug, not a feature. There is a sort of classism inherent to criticisms like this, in effect, it's 'too many people like this'. [...] And even if you're too young to remember the backlash, you can still probably feel it in the atmosphere. Like saying one of the most successful movies in history is "good, actually" is a ding against your credibility."''

->''"Which leads us to another common criticism, that the film is too "base", the swill of the common folk, like that's a bug, not a feature. There is a sort of classism inherent to criticisms like this, in effect, it's 'too many people like this'...And even if you're too young to remember the backlash, you can still probably feel it in the atmosphere. Like saying one of the most successful movies in history is "good, actually" is a ding against your credibility."''

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->''"She used to be good. Now she's becoming ''popular!''"''
-->-- '''Will Shakespeare''', ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic''

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->""Which leads us to another common criticism, that the film is too "base", the swill of the common folk, like that's a bug, not a feature. There is a sort of classism inherent to criticisms like this, in effect, it's 'too many people like this'...And even if you're too young to remember the backlash, you can still probably feel it in the atmosphere. Like saying one of the most successful movies in history is "good, actually" is a ding against your credibility."

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->SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

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Fan-mail for MC Front (noo!)\\

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

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

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

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

-->-- '''Zero Punctuation''' on ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2''

->"Were it in any other position it would accumulate enough of my saliva to run all its household plumbing for several days. Unfortunately, ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' is in the uncomfortable position of necessarily having to be compared to ''[[VideoGame/{{Portal 1}} Portal 1.]]'' And taking both games as wholes, it can't possibly have the same impact. Certainly there's ''more'' of it, but that just makes it flabbier. And it's still funny, but more in a broader, '[[DenserAndWackier custard pie-to-the face]]' sense than in a finer, 'snooker cue-to-the-bollocks' sense."
-->-- '''Zero Punctuation'''
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->I’d like it more if everyone else would agree to like it less.

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

->Alex Jones is the guy who has yet to meet a conspiracy theory he doesn’t endorse, no matter how batshit insane it is (and, interestingly, no matter how much it [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny conflicts with other conspiracy theories he already believes]]). For at least ten years he has predicted, in his rather popular radio program, the imminent roundup of Americans by the New World Order...Now, some may think Alex Jones is batshit crazy, and he is. But surely he is beaten by Lorie Kramer, who believes that Alex Jones is a pawn created by the New World Order to divert attention...I guess this is what you risk when you start to gain notoriety in the hyper-paranoid and chaotic field of conspiracy theory.

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

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->Which leads us to another common criticism, that the film is too "base", the swill of the commonfolk, like that's a bug, not a feature. There is a sort of classism inherent to criticisms like this, in effect, it's "too many people like this". [...] So I feel like the eagerness some film-people have to distance themselves from ''Titanic'' isn't really out of a desire to assess the quality or impact of the film, but to tip-toe around the backlash that followed it. And even if you're too young to remember the backlash, you can still probably feel it in the atmosphere. Like saying one of the most successful movies in history is "good, actually" is a ding against your credibility. Are the masses really ''that'' stupid? That if they like the thing it must be because the thing is "bad, actually"?

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'''Lois:''': Oh, yeah? Let me ask, what did you think of the movie ''{{Film/Titanic|1997}}''?\\
'''Brian:''' Horrible, one of the worst movies ever made.\\

'''Brian:''' Actually not a bad film. You know, [[MistakenForProfound as classically structured cinema]], ''Cocktail'' was one of the best films of its era.\\
'''Lois:''' You make me sick, Brian.

->If you work in entertainment and you make money, then you're a sellout.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
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->Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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

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

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

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

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

->How early you saw ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' is such a funny new piece of social currency. "I saw it in previews at The Public" "I saw a reading of it downtown in '12'" "I heard [Creator/LinManuelMiranda] talking about it on the subway once!"

->"In the art world, if everyone likes your art, it's terrible."
-->-- '''Creator/JohnWaters''', invoking this trope.
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->Which leads us to another common criticism, that the film is too "base", the swill of the commonfolk, like that's a bug, not a feature. There is a sort of classism inherent to criticisms like this, in effect, it's "too many people like this". [...] So I feel like the eagerness some film-people have to distance themselves from ''Titanic'' isn't really out of a desire to assess the quality or impact of the film, but to tip-toe around the backlash that followed it. And even if you're too young to remember the backlash, you can still probably feel it in the atmosphere. Like saying one of the most successful movies in history is "good, actually" is a ding against your credibility. Are the masses really ''that' stupid? That if they like the thing it must be because the thing is "bad, actually"?

-->--'''''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary'''''

-->--"Indier Than Thou", '''Music/MCFrontalot'''

-->'''Ingrid Michaelson''' on her Twitter (also crosses with CreatorBacklash)

-->--'''Will Shakespeare''', ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic''

-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent''

-->-- '''''Zero Punctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2''

-->--'''''Zero Punctuation'''''

-->--'''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/this-continues-to-not-be-a-review-blog/ Dr. El Sandifer]]'''

-->--'''''[[http://www.americanloons.blogspot.no/2011/05/197-alex-jones.html Encyclopedia of American Loons]]'''''

-->--''{{Website/Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-common-music-arguments-what-they-really-mean_p2/#ixzz2drjOFC2N 4 Common Music Arguments and What They Really Mean]]

-->-- '''''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''''

-->--'''Creator/OscarWilde'''

-->--'''Aldous Huxley''', ''Silence is Golden''

-->--'''Creator/MindyKaling''' on [[https://twitter.com/mindykaling/status/919966845523783686 Twitter]].

-->--'''Creator/JohnWaters''', invoking this trope.

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

->Gears of War is second only to Halo in terms of big-selling Xbox franchises, and at such you can't get much more mainstream without having Simon Cowell sitting on the end complaining about your chainsaw technique. And if something mainstream wants to stay mainstream - that is to say, making more money than a triple-cunted hooker on the day the troops come home - then it has to stay as safe and homogeneous as possible so as not to scare off those emotionally fragile retards who make up 75% of the world's consumer base.
-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2''

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

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

->Radio/AlexJones is the guy who has yet to meet a conspiracy theory he doesn’t endorse, no matter how batshit insane it is (and, interestingly, no matter how much it [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny conflicts with other conspiracy theories he already believes]]). For at least ten years he has predicted, in his rather popular radio program, the imminent roundup of Americans by the New World Order...Now, some may think Alex Jones is batshit crazy, and he is. But surely he is beaten by Lorie Kramer, who believes that Alex Jones is a pawn created by the New World Order to divert attention...I guess this is what you risk when you start to gain notoriety in the hyper-paranoid and chaotic field of conspiracy theory.

-->--'''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/this-continues-to-not-be-a-review-blog/ Dr. Phil Sandifer]]'''

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

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