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== Video Games ==

* ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' was notorious for a huge PR disaster that was ignited when a user on the [[BioWare]] Social Forums was banned by EA for harshly criticizing the game. Irate users went on Metacritic and downvoted the game en masse (to the same rating that Gamespot gave to ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]'') and mocked the moderator who banned the user in question.

** And [[It Got Worse]], especially when Jennifer Hepler's Twitter was discovered (Often called Hamburger Helper due to her physique). Combined with a previous comment which only served to alienate even more people...[http://www.gamespot.com/features/the-dangers-of-gamer-entitlement-6350732/?cpage=2 well the internet just ripped her a new one.]

* With ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' released, the internet is riled up against Bioware since fans were dissatisfied with the [[Broken Base|controversial ending]] they offered. [http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/outrage-over-mass-effect-3-ending-reaches-ftc-173411384.html The fan outrage is so bad that, according to Yahoo, people are filing complaints with the Federal Trade Commission over this.]

* ''[[Call of Duty]]: [[Modern Warfare]] 2'' was a juggernaut on both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, but many fans were wary of the PC version's multiplayer component, especially in light of announcements made by Infinity Ward and Activision that many features (that were standard to ''all other PC games'') would be changed or removed. The removal of dedicated servers, the ability to lean and the reduction of players who could participate in each match ticked people off to no end ''before'' the game was released. When MW2 came out, and IW gloated that their anti-cheat software would make the game impossible to screw around with, hackers across the world took their statement as a personal challenge. Less than a week after the game debuted, various hackers broke through the source code, unlocked dedicated servers, gave players to chance to instantly reach the level cap (Prestige) after one kill, brought back the lean ability, and opened up the command console and unlocked gameplay modes that hadn't even been released yet. The cracked version of the game has more functionality than the console version, and the servers ended up being filled with cheaters and griefers trying to ruin the experience for everyone else.

* Christoph Hartmann, the President of 2k Games, [http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/interview-christophhartmann-2kgames/082216 gave a interview] where he defended ''[[X-COM]]'' 's reboot [[Genre Shift]] from Strategy to FPS, stating that Strategy games are not contemporary (outdated) and gave an analogue that [[Ray Charles]] would have updated his music style to that of [[Kanye West]] rap to keep up with the times. Within the hour, everybody on the internet pointed out that 2k Games was a publisher for ''[[Civilization]]'', a series that gave a nice profit, and that Turn-Based Strategy games were thriving on consoles and handhelds courtesy of ''[[Disgaea]], [[Advance Wars]], [[Fire Emblem]], [[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' and others. The Ray Charles and Kanye West analogue pretty much pissed off everybody, even making those who didn't see why the fans were angry over the [[Genre Shift]] finally understand why. 2k Games [http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/01/05/february-cover-revealed-xcom-enemy-unknown.aspx since] gave the developers of ''Civilization'' the greenlight to make an ''X-COM'' game that actually was a strategy game.

* During the months following the release of ''[[Mass Effect]]'', author Cooper Lawrence went on Fox News and falsely accused the game of having "fully interactive sex scenes", a "rape simulation", full-on nudity and selectable poses. Fans went on the attack, and bombarded the Amazon.com listing for one of her self-help books with one-star reviews. Many of the reviews naturally pointed out that even though they had never read the book, they still felt qualified to talk about its content and give it one out of five stars. Even Jack Thompson [[Even Evil Has Standards|called bullshit on her claims.]]

* [[Capcom]] has been the victims of a ''lot'' of this lately for several poor, some would say suicidal business decisions.

** The most upfront being how they cancelled ''[[Mega Man Legends]] 3'' after allowing fans to get involved in the development progress via a forum and blog run entirely by the dev team. At the same time, they announced on their European Twitter account that not enough fans got involved, and people didn't care about the game. The fan rage was immediate, unprecedented in scale and resulted in sales of ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'' dropping 80% as a result.

** After hearing about the game's cancellation, Inafune even [http://www.next-gen.biz/news/inafune-offered-finish-mega-man-legends-3 offered to finish the game] by staying on as a contractor so that he finish the game as well as other projects he started, as did [http://www.siliconera.com/2011/07/22/cyberconnect2s-ceo-would-be-happy-to-work-on-mega-man-legends-3/ CyberConnect2.] They were both shot down.

** Capcom continues to dig themselves into a hole. In what can only be described as spite the [[Joke Character]] in ''[[Street Fighter X Tekken]]'' is "Bad Box Art Mega Man," [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the infamous]] [[Off-Model]], [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|pistol toting picture of Mega Man from the]] [http://i.somethingawful.com/u/ctstalker/2008_01/2008_01_12_megawhat.jpg original game's horrible box.] Any flames that died down have been re-ignited. [[It Got Worse]] when he was confirmed and his backstory was almost exactly the same as Mega Man Volnutt, the protagonist of the cancelled ''Legends'' games whose cancellation got this mess started.

*** Apparently, this character was planned perhaps a year in advance, with Inafune's help. [[Too Soon|They just announced him]] [[Dude, Not Funny|during a time where Capcom hasn't been treating the character right]] in the eyes of fans.

*** Some people hacked ''Street Fighter X Tekken'' for [[Xbox 360]] and found that the 12 characters that were going to be DLC for $20/1600 MSP as well as the supposedly [[PlayStation 3]]-exclusive Bad Box Art Mega Man and Pac-Man were already on the (Xbox 360) disc. Capcom then made a statement that they would be trying to ban the people who did this and left some kind of communication so that more people can report this happening. Nothing much has happened yet, but according to most of the reactions siding with the hackers, well, [[It Got Worse|this could get really ugly]]; fast.

*** [[It Got Worse]]: Capcom came out and said they see no distinction between downloadable content and disc-locked content. Fueling the already massive fires.

** Capcom's announcement that fans wouldn't be able to play the demo for ''[[Resident Evil 6]]'' unless they bought the full version of the completely unrelated game ''[[~~Dragons~~ Dogma]]'' has many fans decrying it as a poor business move because it seems like a money grab.

** Capcom's announcement that fans wouldn't be able to play the demo for ''[[Resident Evil 6]]'' unless they bought the full version of the completely unrelated game ''[[Dragon's Dogma]]'' has many fans decrying it as a poor business move because it seems like a money grab.

* Nintendo of America once commented that [[No Export for You|they had no plans to release]] ''[[Xenoblade]]'', ''[[The Last Story]]'' or ''[[Pandoras Tower]]'' in North America due to localization costs and non-interest from the gaming community. This led to [http://oprainfall.blogspot.com/ Operation Rainfall], a fan petition to get them to reverse their stance. Among other things, the group drove Xenoblade to number one on the Amazon game pre-orders list (under its working title "Monado: Beginning of the World"), spammed the company's Twitter and Facebook pages into oblivion and sent off hundred of angry letters to the Nintendo of America offices. ''Xenoblade'' and ''The Last Story'' have since been confirmed for release on the Wii, though whether ''Pandora's Tower'' will make it to North America remains to be seen.

* "All I want for Xmas is a PSP" was a website that had a pair of kids rapping about how much they wanted a PSP for Christmas. Naturally, some people who saw the video smelled something fishy. As it turns out, [[Viral Marketing|it was posted by Sony]], and the Internet responded with anger. Sony eventually [http://kotaku.com/221598/sony-fesses-up-on-viral-site fessed up], saying "[[Totally Radical|Busted. Nailed. Snagged.]] As many of you have figured out (maybe our speech was a little too [[Totally Radical|funky fresh]]???), Peter isn't a real hip-hop maven and this site was actually developed by Sony."

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** A dourly unsuccessful example would be when Anonymous tried to taken on the Zetas drug cartel by revealing the names of Zetas members. The cartel then threatened to kill 10 people for every name revealed, as well as one Mexican member they had kidnapped. Anonymous backed down, and the kidnapped man was freed.

** In January 2012, the Feds shut down the file-hosting website Megaupload.com after several of the site's employees were arrested on charges similar to those that would be leveled against those arrested under SOPA and PIPA (see below) if they passed into law. Hours later, Anonymous attacked the websites of government and recording industries in retaliation of the shutdown, which came right on the heels of the SOPA/PIPA protests the day before.

** Earlier than that, there was Operation Darknet, carried out against a child pornography website operating under an anonymous network. Anonymous themselves were disgusted that such a thing could exist, and tried to get the server to take down the site. [[Moral Event Horizon|The people running the servers vehemently refused]], and Anonymous took matters into their own hands. Warning shots were made by posting ''[[Dateline NBC|To Catch a Predator]]'' clips, several DDOS attacks, and then Anonymous found over a thousand names on the site and exposed them to the FBI and Interpol. It's their more agreed upon [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], [[Pedo Hunt|understandably.]]

*** Though an even cursory scanning of the /b folder will indicate that 4chan is far from unified in disgust/dislike for lolicon/pedophilia (including whether the two terms are the same thing)... not that 4chan ever unites on anything (besides maybe SOPA/PIPA)

** There was one event where Anonymous managed to hack into a "secure" teleconference between the FBI and Scotland Yard and listen in on the entire conversation. The reason for the conference? To figure out how to gauge the threat of and counter hacker groups like Anonymous.

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== Western Animation ==

* A source of HUGE backlash spawned in regards to the fandom character "Derpy Hooves" from the show ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. The controversy in general revolves around said character's edit from her original appearance in the episode "The Last Roundup" to something less "offensive." ''<ref> More background about the edit from the head writer of the episode [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/amy-keating-rogers-response-to-derpy.html can be found here</ref>]'' One of the supporters of the edit, an artist who goes by Yamino on [[Deviant ART]], was subjected to heavy amount of attack by the more rabid side of the fanbase. Turns out, she was singled out as a target by 4Chan ''and'' Tumblr, and it was organized that every Derpy fan would pull an all-out assault on her profile. It had gotten to the point where one of the animators from the show wrote [http://kreoss.deviantart.com/journal/Derpy-287023334 a message to tell the irate few to back off].

{{quote|'''Kreoss:''' Oh I also want to address on a artist name Yamino. I've heard that she has been garnered a lot of hate by the Brony Community due to her not liking Derpy's portrayal. Let it be known, that she had NOTHING to do with the sudden change. She expressed an opinion on Derpy. That is all. She did not ask me to do this or anyone on the staff. I had to say this because the hate she's been receiving is unnecessary. So leave her be.

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