History TheyChangedItNowItSucks / Literature

* ''Magazine/RangerRick'' (a nature magazine published by the National Wildlife Federation) has had several redesigns due to different artists, and presumably a desire to update with the times. It started out rustic, then became more modern, then simplified for a look more appropriate of a comic book, then made the jump to 3D. The switch from the beautiful modern look of the '80s and '90s to the comic-book look in the early 2000s is a popular choice for when it all went wrong.

* A workplace management book about this phenomenon exists called ''Literature/WhoMovedMyCheese'' about some mice and some "[[{{Lilliputians}} littlepeople]]" who live in a maze and seek out and find cheese to eat. One group looks for new cheese every time their stash is "moved",[[note]]It is implied that the cheese wasn't moved, but that the littlepeople simply ate it all.[[/note]] while the other group just complains. Guess which does better? The implications of the book, as some have noted, is change for change's sake is good. If you leave the cheese in one place, it's easier to find, and the mice don't have to spend time looking for it before they can eat. Other authors wrote unofficial sequels with various aspects of the implications in mind: two titled ''Literature/WhoCutTheCheese'', one Who Stole My Cheese? about the [[WhiteCollarCrime financial scandals]] of the TurnOfTheMillennium, and finally I Moved Your Cheese 2011 about how the mice end up controlling those outside the maze.

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

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

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

* ''Magazine/RangerRick'' (a nature magazine published by the National Wildlife Federation) has had several redesigns due to different artists, and presumably a desire to update with the times. It started out rustic, then became more modern, then simplified for a look more appropriate of a comic book, then made the jump to 3D. The switch from the beautiful modern look of the 80s and 90s to the comic-book look in the early 2000s is a popular choice for when it all went wrong.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': The books from ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' onward were much darker than the movies, eliciting this reaction from some. The dislike some had of the Yuzhaan Vong didn’t help things any, with some thinking they were overpowered and too different from the previous Sith and Empire enemies in the earlier material.

* ''Ranger Rick'' (one nature magazine published by the National Wildlife Federation) has had several redesigns due to different artists, and presumably a desire to update with the times. It started out rustic, then became more modern, then simplified for a look more appropriate of a comic book, then made the jump to 3D. The switch from the beautiful modern look of the 80s and 90s to the comic-book look in the early 2000s is a popular choice for when it all went wrong.

* There is an uproar over the retranslation of Literature/TheBible into more modern English, with many stating that the "only true translation" is the one done in 1611. Brother Andrew (author/subject of ''God's Smuggler'' and founder of the Open Doors organization supporting persecuted Christians) ran smack into the language difference when he said [[AntiquatedLinguistics "Thus sayeth the neighbor of Andrew, that thou wouldst be pleased to pass the butter"]] (his native language is Dutch; he learned English with a dictionary in one hand and a bible in the other).

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

* Every time a new ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' main character was introduced (such as Moist or Tiffany) fans complained that they'd taken the spotlight away from the "established" characters such as Commander Vimes and Granny Weatherwax. Sir Creator/TerryPratchett pointed out that if he'd listened to these people right at the start, he'd have written thirty novels about Rincewind, and there wouldn't ''be'' a Vimes or Granny.
* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' started out as a light space opera mostly focused on naval combat, but over the course of its dozen or so books has morphed into a galaxy-spanning political thriller epic (with plenty of naval combat). Cue the whining from an unhappy portion of the fanbase. Meanwhile, the readers who ''like'' the political epic quietly think to themselves, "But... but I like it this way better..." Poor MWW. He just can't win.

* Many Creator/VCAndrews fans were disappointed when the publisher stopped doing the 'stepback'/'keyhole' covers. Same when the ghostwriter strayed from the five book family saga formula with the ''Orphans'' miniseries.

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

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

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

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

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