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1->'''Todd:''' They were legit and they captured the hearts of millions. Clearly, EMF's brand of dance-inflected indie rock represented the future of alternative music in 1991.\
2''[Clip of "[[Music/NevermindAlbum Smells Like Teen Spirit]]" plays]''\
3'''Todd:''' Music/{{Nirvana}} killed a lot of careers, people.
4-->-- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', ''One-Hit Wonderland'', "Unbelievable" by EMF
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6->''"Yes, everyone, it's time to return to my favorite running theme through my videos: "Music/{{Nirvana}} Killed My Career". It's the hardest and most abrupt cultural shift in rock history, when the entire '80s [[CondemnedByHistory got thrown out on its ass and everyone who seemed important instantly became yesterday's news]]."''
7-->-- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', ''Trainwreckords'': Music/MotleyCrue's "Generation Swine"
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9->''"Again, I go back to the end of the year before, when Music/TaylorSwift tried to address her own public drama, and it was such a bloated disaster that it felt like [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom she cratered the entire genre overnight]], leading to this black hole of a year."''
10-->-- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', ''The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2018'', comparing "[[Music/ArianaGrande Thank U, Next]]" to "Look What You Made Me Do"
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12->''"This song is so bad that I think it killed the pop crossover single in hip-hop on its own."''
13-->-- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', ''The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2018'', on "River" by Music/{{Eminem}} featuring Music/EdSheeran
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15->''"It says a lot that one of the most comprehensive pieces I can find on the game's development is a [[https://www.roadredemption.com/single-post/2013/08/06/Were-Not-Ride-To-Hell blog post]] from a developer who wasn't involved yet felt forced to comment because [[VideoGame/RoadRedemption his team's game]] [[HitlerAteSugar bore some surface-level similarities]] to ''[[VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution Ride to Hell]]''. Think about how wild that is; ''Ride to Hell'' was so cataclysmically bad that it potentially threatened the sales of other unrelated games."''
16-->-- '''Hamish Black''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLbreWxaZzg Attempting to Make Sense of Ride to Hell, Five Years Later]]''
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18->''"Film/HelloDolly pretty much not only destroyed the big Hollywood movie-musical, it fundamentally changed the types of films being made. It was such a huge bomb that it basically killed this sort of movie, which in large part is why you saw so few movie musicals up until that little boom in the early 2000s."''
19-->-- '''Creator/LindsayEllis''', "Joel Schumacher's Phantom Of The Opera: A Video Essay"
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21-> ''"[[TwoWordsICantCount Two words]]: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 Sput nik.]] [[UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace Once the astronauts went up,]] everybody wanted to play with space toys."''
22-->-- '''Stinky Pete''', explaining why ''[[ShowWithinAShow Woody's Roundup]]'' was CutShort, ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''
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24->'''Green Lantern:''' And now some people are saying [[Film/GreenLantern2011 this movie]] is a sign that people are getting tired of ''all'' comic book movies.\
25'''Deadpool:''' Mm hmm. So, how do you feel about the idea that your movie may have not only killed ''your'' franchise, but the franchises of every superhero ever? And please phrase your answer in the form of uncontrollable sobbing from a man who has lost all faith in humanity.

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