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{{quote|''"I am sorry you seem so unhappy. If you are truly that unhappy with the direction the series has taken, then stop reading it. Stop reading what I write. There, simply, fixed. If you don't like it, don't buy it, don't read it."''|'''[[Anita Blake|Laurell K.]] [[Dear Negative Reader|Hamilton]]'''}}
|'''[[Anita Blake|Laurell K.]] [[Dear Negative Reader|Hamilton]]'''}}
 
A storied phrase that's become popular with Internet fandoms. It appears most popularly as a generic way to bash those who start [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like|complaining about shows they don't like]]. Sometimes the author will say this in response to criticism in order to avoid even the most polite form of criticism, even when it's perfectly correct.
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== Fan FictionWorks ==
* Fanfic authors and artists/writers will use this as their defense on occasion, even when they're responding to mockery from websites specifically dedicated to seeking out and mocking the "worst examples" of both.
* [[Hans Von Hozel]] used this in his ''[[Numb3rs]]'' fic when he rehosted it (it had been reported and deleted).
* On [[Fanfiction.net]] and other sites, pairing are often labeled. So if you're, say, a ''[[Kim Possible]]'' fan who is enraged by the thought of the teen heroine in [[Les Yay|a lesbian relationship]] with her [[Foe Yay|nemesis]], then why are you leaving a review on a fic clearly labelled that way?
** [[Archive of Our Own]] included ana Tagging System (which not only allows standard pairing and character labeling, also has several standard sets of tags to cover most common content complaints) and basically encourages overtagging specifically to deal with this kind of situations. Basically, their instance is "if you got in a fic with a [[Wall of Text]] on the tags that practically spoils the story and you still complains about stuff that was clearly tagged by the author, ''you'' are the one with the problem".
* After the advent of the seventh ''[[Harry Potter]]'' book, any author thatwho did not follow canon couples ( {{spoiler|notably Harry/Hermione shippers}}) were almost forced to put this at the head of every fanfic to ward off the "But it ended {{spoiler|Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny}}" comments.
* ''[[My Inner Life]]''- oh, dear God, ''[[My Inner Life]]''. The [[Authors Note]] was basically a long-winded [[Author Tract]] all about this point that went on for ''pages upon pages.''
* [[Cori Falls]] had these disclaimers in the form of long-winded rants on both her ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' and ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' pages.
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