Complaining About People Not Liking the Show: Difference between revisions

Now you're faced with a host of angry replies from fans, demanding that you [[Don't Like, Don't Read|stop talking about the show if you didn't like it]], after they insult your sexuality, mental capabilities, and other such things. This massive bitching is justified in ''some'' communities: if you don't think show X has any redeeming qualities, why would you post on the Official Fan Forum, [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like]]? But even that can go too far, and this could happen to you on your own private forum.

 

 

Even people who simply have a passive uninterest (as opposed to an active dislike) for the show are not immune to the wrath of these fans. This can even happen to people who love the show as much as they do, [[Misaimed Fandom|but for the wrong reasons]]. A variant on the above are the fans who will heatedly tell you that [[Let's See You Do Better|unless you have written a commercially successful comic/movie/book/etc. of your own]], you are "not qualified" to issue a criticism of any author who has. The gaping logical fallacy here is hopefully self-evident. Of course, many of these selfsame fans will then go on to criticize stories they didn't like, sometimes even in the same breath as the above, when they haven't written anything commercially successful either.

Of course, some of this is ever-so-slightly justified: the more people share your tastes, the better the chances the sort of stuff you like will become widely available, stop getting cancelled, or even get made in the first place. Conversely, a large naysaying consensus could affect the market for your favourite series/genre/whatever. But it's almost impossible to argue an ''individual'' person into liking something, much less a market-affecting number of folks. So even where this attitude isn't outright illogical, it's fairly quixotic in practice.

 

 

The only thing worse than people not watching your favorite show is [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|people actually watching it]].

 

 

* One cover of ''[[She Hulk]]'' comic books included She-Hulk herself crumpling up the comicbook and threatening to beat the crap out of everyone for not reading her series.

 

 

* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony]]'' fanfiction ''[[Turnabout Storm]]'', Rainbow Dash gets quite upset at [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright]] for not knowing who The Wonderbolts (a group of pegasi acrobats which Dash is a huge fan of) are. Nevermind Phoenix has barely spent one hour [[Trapped in Another World|trapped in Equestria]].