"I hate television. There are too many commercials, reruns and game shows. The eight hours I watched yesterday was terrible."
— Garfield
"The Internet sometimes facilitates dickishness; I don't know why that is, but it is."
"Comments give everyone and everyone a voice, and that's not always a good thing. We have a saying around here when it comes to comments: D.O.N.T. — don't! It stands for 'Doooooooon't comment. Ever.'"
"Let's face it, the extreme amount of crap [Joel Schumacher] caught for making this movie is more than a little over the top, and in some cases, borderline psychotic. At the end of the day, all he did was make a bad movie. Genuine venom should be reserved for actual crimes like mass murder, putting lettuce on a breakfast sandwich, or eating New York-style pizza with a fork. You fold it a little and then eat it! What the hell is hard about that?"
— The Agony Booth, Batman & Robin recap supplement
"Can the internet make us better human beings? Judging from YouTube comments, no. And you're gay!"
"The Internet has given everybody in America a voice. For some reason, everybody decides to use that voice to bitch about movies."
— Holden, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
"The people on the Internet who complain about the show were going to hate it no matter what I did, so I don't really care about their opinions."
— Seiji Mizushima, director of Mobile Suit Gundam 00
"Protip: If you're going to send Jake Lloyd death threats, hate mail, or TP his house, make sure that's ACTUALLY his house before you do it."
— a Fort Collins resident on The Phantom Menace's reception.
"The Secret Rival exists in the shadows. I never actually see him, but he is my worst enemy and my most faithful reader, popping up every now and then to reassure everyone I still ruin his life. With every article he continues to read, he hates me more and further hates the world that allows me to exist. More than anything, though, he hates the taste of his giant Me poster... but he must be ready for our first kiss.
It's hard to really get invested in a verbal war with people like this. I mean this kid has been working his rage up for God knows how long, and I've only had a couple sentences to catch up. Plus, I can't really tell a guy to suck my balls when he's already lurking under my toilet in a wetsuit screaming at them while I shit on him."
"Star Wars is ruined, Rian Johnson is evil, he's a horrible human being, he should be shooot!" But ruining Jake Lloyd's life, making Hayden Christensen quit acting, George Lucas selling away his baby for less than what it was worth, driving Kelly Marie Tran off social media and planning to smear bullshit about Rian Johnson in an effort to get him fired is apparently "saving" Star Wars? Oh, okay then. I guess if I murder an airplane pilot, I'm apparently "saving" the passengers.
Jay Hunter: Can you imagine telling fans in 2006 that it's 2014, Cena's the same and fans are still just as angry?
V1: God... (chuckles)
Jay: Would they quit watching wrestling?
OOC: They would, most probably would.
V1: Yeah.
Jay: I'd say, they'd complain about it and continue to watch.
V1: Yeah, probably, it's, it's your giving out and your chanting that has kept him in that top spot. If you just turned your back, he wouldn't be on top, 'cause then the fucking kids wouldn't meet your chants with the "Let's Go Cena!". Everything would be silence, and in wrestling silence is death.
OOC: Absolutely, couldn't agree more.
V1: It's their fault!
OOC: Exactly, just don't go to the show, speak with your wallets.
Jay: (American accent) I saw this WWE t-shirt that says "Cena Sucks". Oh I bought it! I gave him my twenty dollars! That'll show him!
V1: (laughing) You fucking suckers!
OOC: Genius though.
V1: It's a brilliant marketing ploy, 'cause it worked.
Jay: The level of ignorance, to buy a Cena t-shirt, to hate on Cena, to give Cena money. I... I can't fathom the ignorance, y'know?
V1: Marks, absolute marks.
V1: God... (chuckles)
Jay: Would they quit watching wrestling?
OOC: They would, most probably would.
V1: Yeah.
Jay: I'd say, they'd complain about it and continue to watch.
V1: Yeah, probably, it's, it's your giving out and your chanting that has kept him in that top spot. If you just turned your back, he wouldn't be on top, 'cause then the fucking kids wouldn't meet your chants with the "Let's Go Cena!". Everything would be silence, and in wrestling silence is death.
OOC: Absolutely, couldn't agree more.
V1: It's their fault!
OOC: Exactly, just don't go to the show, speak with your wallets.
Jay: (American accent) I saw this WWE t-shirt that says "Cena Sucks". Oh I bought it! I gave him my twenty dollars! That'll show him!
V1: (laughing) You fucking suckers!
OOC: Genius though.
V1: It's a brilliant marketing ploy, 'cause it worked.
Jay: The level of ignorance, to buy a Cena t-shirt, to hate on Cena, to give Cena money. I... I can't fathom the ignorance, y'know?
V1: Marks, absolute marks.
"He's a nerd who loves something so much, that when it didn't live up to his expectations, he declared war on it!"
"The biggest problem with the internet is that deranged fuckers out there can hide behind their screens, write a comment to an actor telling an actor to kill themselves, and then just close down their computers, return to their lives and face no fucking consequences. It's not even these few psychopaths who do this, it's the culture of the internet. So many of the people you see on the street have likely written a nasty comment to somebody before. It means absolutely nothing to them and doesn't impact them or their loved ones at all. But it can truly break the person reading it. It doesn't matter if you think Hayden Christensen did a poor job portraying Anakin Skywalker, it doesn't matter if you think George Lucas made some bad movies, it doesn't matter even if you're correct in these opinions, which, knock-knock, is fucking subjective. But, let's say even if you were right these were bad movies objectively, it gives you absolutely no right to attack them for it, to bully them online or to write hurtful shit you'd never say to them in person. I honestly don't understand how people can get so angry over some fucking movies that they do shit like this. If I don't like a movie, then I won't watch it again. It's that simple. And if I'm very invested in that franchise the movie's a part of, then I'll still love the franchise. And if you can't do that, respectfully step away, then that's on you. Don't be a bitch just because you can't handle a little bit of adversity in your life. I swear to God, people like this wouldn't last a day in the shoes of the people who are targets of this hate. No fucking chance."
— TurfNation, "Toxic Prequel Haters (Toxic Star Wars Fans)
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""But we live in an age where, for some people, being unhappy with a video game is actually more fun than enjoying a video game. Just look again at The Last of Us Part II and how many supposed "fans" of the series were shitting all over it months before it actually came out, just preparing themselves mentally to dislike it from the start no matter what, and finding any reason at all to tear into it and the so-called SJWs at Naughty Dog. For some, playing video games stopped being part of their hobby a long, long time ago, replaced instead by hating them as part of an obsessive and utterly exhausting culture war."
— Jim Sterling, describing Obsessed Haters, Preemptive Haters, Installment Haters, and right-wing Aesthetic Stalinists, GTA: Garbage Takes Aplenty
"Garth Ennis hates superheroes, so he wrote a power fantasy about people not dressed in costumes ripping apart nerds with their bare hands. To justify this every superhero is an absolute lunatic. A narrative that explores the idea of superheroes like that flash game where you blow up your buddy. The message is just that superheroes are cringe, which might not be untrue in these times of MCU fatigue. But at the end of the day, The Boys teaches us a valuable lesson: To remember that too much hate towards something can be just as annoying and intolerable as the thing it is making fun of."
"Toxicity is growing. It used to be fun talking about our favorite books and films, and having spirited debates with fans who saw things different… but… it is no longer enough to say 'I did not like [this] book … or [this] film, and here's why.' … [People] would rather talk about the stuff they hate than the stuff they love, and delight in dancing on the graves of anyone whose film has flopped."
