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Line 1: {{trope}}{{page should be category}} [[File:~~complaining_francis~~complaining francis.jpg\|link=Super Paper Mario ~~(Video Game)~~\|right]] {{quote\|"''Because guess what? You might not know everything about a genre you refuse to listen to.''"\|'''sisabet''', [http://sisabet.livejournal.com/286226.html Hate the Song, Like the Vid?]}} An all too common phenomenon among people who bash things: they [[Did Not Do the Research\|don't actually look]] at what they're bashing. These are the people who insult movies before they even come out, or claim a video game [[Rated "M" for Money]] has more deplorable content than is actually there (see the page quote). Note, this doesn't mean you have to sit through an entire movie/play an entire game/watch every episode/listen to every song on the album/read every single page to criticize any pieces of work. It just means you [[Shown Their Work\|make sure your criticism is valid]]. [[Popcultural Osmosis]] is far from authoritative, and it usually leads to [[Beam Me Up, Scotty\|blatantly false information]]. If you want to comment on the quality of something, try to actually watch/read/play/listen to at least a substantial part of that work. Or what if there is a genuine [[~~Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)\|~~Wall Banger]]? You may not even need to look at a work to know a [[~~Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)\|~~Wall Banger]] is bad. Most of us know the shower scene in ''[[Dallas]]'' was a damn stupid thing. Some of us know that M. Night Shyamalan casting himself as the indirect savior of mankind in ''[[Lady in ~~The~~the Water]]'' is a blatant case of [[Mary Sue]]. Yet even then, make sure the [[~~Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)\|~~Wall Banger]] ''actually happened''. There is no rape option in any of the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games. The closest thing is one of the [[Villain~~\|Villains~~]]s doing that in one of the games. ''Not'' the player character. Also, sometimes this can be [[Invoked Trope\|invoked]] if some leave out the full context of complaints [[Demonization\|to make a show they don't like look bad]]. Line 23: * [[Animation Age Ghetto]] * [[Cowboy Bebop At His Computer]] * [[Fan Hater]] * [[Hatedom]] * [[Hate Dumb]] * [[Hype Aversion]] * [[Media Research Failure]] * [[Periphery Hatedom]] * [[Ruined FOREVER (Darth Wiki)\|Ruined FOREVER]] * [[Shallow Parody]] * [[Tainted Byby the Preview]] See also [[Moral Guardians]], who do this a lot. Additionally, lack of research may lead someone, even unintentionally, to commit an act of [[Hypocritical Fandom]]. Frequently springs from [[Did Not Do the Research]]. When people actually ''do'' watch the show, you get [[Don't Like, Don't Read]]. The opposite is [[Praising Shows You Don't Watch]]. Line 42: [[Category:Audience Reactions]] [[Category:Criticism Tropes]] [[Category:~~Complaining About Shows You Dont Watch~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:YMMV Trope]]