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Evilest_Tim
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I think that could be filed under Appeal to Fear (of obscurity), having thought about it. The rest is just trying to get the other person to set up an Appeal to Ignorance for you. Still, I think Appeal to Obscurity would be the logic underlying both ItsPopularNowItSucks (a rather popular variant being that X was great until it \
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I think that could be filed under Appeal to Fear (of obscurity), having thought about it. The rest is just trying to get the other person to set up an Appeal to Ignorance for you to generalise from (\\\'\\\'you\\\'\\\' haven\\\'t heard of X, therefore \\\'\\\'nobody\\\'\\\' has heard of X, therefore X is bad, hence the Appeal to Popularity part). Still, I think Appeal to Obscurity would be the logic underlying both ItsPopularNowItSucks (a rather popular variant being that X was great until it \\\"sold out\\\" to become popular) and claims that because something \\\'\\\'isn\\\'t\\\'\\\' well known it is either too revolutionary or too challenging for the masses and so must be good / correct.
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I think that could be filed under Appeal to Fear, having thought about it. The rest is just trying to get the other person to set up an Appeal to Ignorance for you. Still, I think Appeal to Obscurity would be the logic underlying both ItsPopularNowItSucks (a rather popular variant being that X was great until it \
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I think that could be filed under Appeal to Fear (of obscurity), having thought about it. The rest is just trying to get the other person to set up an Appeal to Ignorance for you. Still, I think Appeal to Obscurity would be the logic underlying both ItsPopularNowItSucks (a rather popular variant being that X was great until it \\\"sold out\\\" to become popular) and claims that because something \\\'\\\'isn\\\'t\\\'\\\' well known it is either too revolutionary or too challenging for the masses and so must be good / correct.
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I think that could be filed under Appeal to Fear, having thought about it. The rest is just trying to get the other person to set up an Appeal to Ignorance for you. Still, I think Appeal to Obscurity would be either the logic underlying ItsPopularNowItSucks (a rather popular variant being that X was great until it \
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I think that could be filed under Appeal to Fear, having thought about it. The rest is just trying to get the other person to set up an Appeal to Ignorance for you. Still, I think Appeal to Obscurity would be the logic underlying both ItsPopularNowItSucks (a rather popular variant being that X was great until it \\\"sold out\\\" to become popular) and claims that because something \\\'\\\'isn\\\'t\\\'\\\' well known it is either too revolutionary or too challenging for the masses and so must be good / correct.
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This tropper once read an essay which said that Mal and Simon had a remarkable number of intriguing similarities despite the differences and were almost the chief co-heros of the show.
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\\\"This tropper once read an essay which said that Mal and Simon had a remarkable number of intriguing similarities despite the differences and were almost the chief co-heros of the show.\\\"
\\\"This tropper once read an essay which said that Mal and Simon had a remarkable number of intriguing similarities despite the differences and were almost the chief co-heros of the show.\\\"
