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** Heck, the IWC once LOVED [[John Cena]] at one point!
** ...and [[Triple H]], probably before all the political stories came to light. That is, if the dirtsheets are to be believed...
** And something happened to [[Kurt Angle]] between [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] and [[TNA]], as he came there minus the IWC fans who called him one of the best workers in the world, instead ridiculing [[Small Name, Big Ego|his delusional radio interviews and etc.]] and his past refusals to address supposed drug problems.
* [[CM Punk]] was a [[Smart Mark]] darling on the independent scene, with the fans hailing him as quite possibly the best wrestler in America (or at the very least, the best wrestler in [[Ring of Honor]], which is kind of synonymous these days). Then he signed with [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], and became the centerpiece of its ECW revival, and now all of a sudden you can't go into a wrestling forum without hearing about how Punk is overrated and a sloppy wrestler. Some of this might be spillover anger from the ECW revival being mishandled; but Punk was one of the few bright spots of the show, and yet he seems to get the most criticism. Now that he's moved away from ECW onto Raw and then Smackdown and become world champ, the criticisms have only gotten worse.
** Partially due to [[Hype Backlash]]—a lot of [[Smart Mark|SmartMarks]] kept hearing how great Punk was from ROHbots when he was working long main event matches, against top level opponents, with free reign over his character and promos. Five minute extended squashes over Justin Credible didn't quite match up...
** Now that CM Punk has turned into a crazy cult-leader [[Heel]], he's won over a ''lot'' of his former detractors.
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** This happened with John Cena. Hell back in 2003 when he faced [[Brock Lesnar]] for the belt at Backlash, the majority of fans '''wanted''' him to win the title. Nowadays any IWC fan wanting Cena to win a title is almost unheard of. The main reason he's hated is because he's got a large kid fanbase.
** Even the [[Zack Ryder]] haters are already beginning to emerge. When he's not being pushed and he's got [[Z True Long Island Story]] pretty much telling WWE to push him the smarks are crying for him to be on TV. Now he's face and being pushed and there's haters calling his gimmick stale and saying it'll never get over.
* A bit of a borderline example. When former [[Ring of Honor]] champion Tyler Black decided to sign a [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] developmental contract in late 2010, the ROH fans immediately turned on him and called him a "sellout". Black admitted in a later interview that this bothered him, and he used those feelings as part of the [[Face Heel Turn|heel character he became due to the news]]. (In perhaps a bit of irony, Black supposedly also had the chance to re-negotiate his ROH contract, or also sign with [[TNA]]. Who convinced him to sign with [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]? The aforementioned Evan Bourne).
** Black isn't the first ROH wrestler to turn an impending move to WWE into a heel run; the aforementioned CM Punk did the same thing.
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* Quite a bit of forums were usually better before those "noobs" and "newbies" came in and ruined it all. This also includes any * Chans.
* You'll probably ''never'' hear anyone glad that their Roleplay chatroom hosts dozens of consistent members. This may be a [[Justified Trope]]—but rarely; just because people might be upset by not being given an opportunity to join in a storyline without being told or players playing a private story out and not giving others who can contribute a chance to join in, as well as trying to get a story ''everyone'' is involved in going only for one person to suddenly go offline or afk and being forced to either wait for them or continuing without them.
* In the [[Vocaloid]] fandom, wowaka and his songs have been experiencing this for a while, especially after one of his songs, World's End Dancehall, debuted at the top of the Vocaloid weekly rankings with an astronomical
** More commonly, Miku Hatsune suffers a lot of backlash purely for being too popular and "stealing the spotlight" from other Vocaloids. The tendency of the media to zero in on Miku rather than other Vocaloids hasn't helped matters.
* The general consensus on 4chan is that you can tell a [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] has run its course when it's mentioned by a news source. Most memes which the general public knows about ([[Chuck Norris]] facts, [[LOLcats]], [[Over Nine Thousand|OVER 9000]], [[Rickroll]]ing, [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]) inspire little but groan from the average poster. However, this is somewhat justified, since 1. Memes are basically jokes, and these people have seen the joke everywhere by this point, and 2. Memes are usually fads, and other media usually only find out about them long after the fad has run its course.
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