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1	-> ''"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."''
2	--> --'''Creator/BillCosby'''
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4	Sometimes, fanbases are, or appear to be, perennially complaining not just about minute details of the {{Canon}}, but about ''everything''. This sometimes relates to fake fannishness: some people just don't like a piece of fiction, yet insist on consuming it. It's not just SnarkBait, it's just some people who call themselves fans but think, "Well, those new additions aren't very good. But, then again, it wasn't very good in the beginning either."
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6	A possible sign of an Unpleasable Fanbase is a MortonsFork: if they complain about one thing, and the [[ExecutiveMeddling people behind the franchise listen]] and fix it, only to have other parts of the fanbase complain about the change. This is because, in extremely large fandoms, [[BrokenBase different portions of the fandom]] complain about distinctly different things, so that [[ReTool any change]] (and in particularly bad cases, [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks any lack of change]]) will inevitably anger someone.
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8	Basically, this is about a fanbase which is so varied and divided in opinion that it's impossible to give everyone in it what they want.
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10	While Unpleasable Fanbase has been a problem for any media with a sufficiently large fanbase (you simply cannot please all of the people all of the time), in the Internet Age it takes on a new dimension when even a small minority can [[{{Troll}} make their opinions heard]]. It's enough to make an author [[OrphanedSeries want to give up.]]
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12	See also AccentuateTheNegative, ContestedSequel, TheLawOfFanJackassery, DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER, FanDumb, TheyChangedItNowItSucks, ItIsTheSameNowItSucks, ComplainingAboutComplaining and WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings. When the creators announce something that actually ''does'' get the fandom in line with them, it's SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced.
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14	No examples needed. The specifics of fan complaints really don't matter, here. It's always something.
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