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== In General ==
* Let's just start off by saying this: If a movie [[Epic Movie|rakes in a lot of dough]] ([
* It's not just amongst fans either. People have noticed that in most recent years, the majority of [[Academy Award|Oscar]] winners and nominees for best picture have been both low budget and low box-office. It was the exclusion of well-received successes such as ''[[WALL-E]]'' and ''[[The Dark Knight Saga (Film)|The Dark Knight Saga]]'' that caused the Academy to expand the pool of nominees from 5 to 10.
** And it has started with Academy Award films as well. Just look at the reception ''[[Juno]]'', ''[[American Beauty]]'', and ''[[Little Miss Sunshine (Film)|Little Miss Sunshine]]'' received after all their nominations
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In general, once a TV series gets higher than average ratings, there is a portion of the fandom that is programmed to hate it, and if it gets nominated for or wins any major awards like an Emmy or a Golden Globe...
* ''[[All That]]'' got a lot more viewers and faced a lot more criticism after it was [[
* The success ''Chaser's War On Everything'' practically relies on the cast remaining anonymous. Of course, as the show increased in popularity they have needed to do more of their farcical stunts overseas, where they are not so well known. As a result of this, many of their older fans are getting bored of them and jumping ship, so to speak. Of course This hasn't stopped a good chunk of them [[Unpleasable Fanbase|complaining]] that the show is ending after its [[British Brevity|3rd Season]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Glee (TV)|Glee]]'' times a million. To be fair, the back nine episodes are quite uneven, but plenty of people were hating on it before the season even officially started because the pilot was shown at the beginning of the summer of 2009, kicking off an extremely aggressive and relentless ad campaign by Fox (the most amusing facet of which was when they came up with the term "Gleeks" and them tried to pretend that hardcore fans had christened themselves that).
** This can also cross over with music elitism, too, since there are many people who despise [[Glee]] for the simple fact that it causes a [[Newbie Boom|surge in popularity]] for whatever classic rock songs are features in a given episode.
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== In General ==
* Music is by far the [[Trope Codifier]]. Sadly, this happens WAY too much among music fans. [[Trope Maker|Hell, this trope was primarily made by these guys]]. If a song or a performer is "mainstream", they automatically suck regardless if they actually suck or not. ''I liked that band before they were popular'' and ''I hate the band because they are popular'' are quite common mottos among "[[Fan Dumb|true music fans]]".
** [http://store.dieselsweeties.com/products/elitism This T-shirt] pretty much sums up this trope. As does
** [http://notalwaysright.com/righteous-indie-nation/10596 If I've already heard of it, I wouldn't buy it.]
* This also happens when a good song is well-liked by several people and is then subsequently given high prominence on a radio station's playlist--listener-selected or otherwise. In fairness, even the best song can become yawn-some when it's played on the radio all the live-long day, but this does not make it any more ridiculous to hear music elitists bashing it just because it's on the radio.
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* [[Evanescence (Music)|Evanescence]]. When they began to take off, fans were in denial that the band had hit the Lycos 50 (yes, you read right, ''[[Serious Business|search engine results]]''!), even though their only album before ''Fallen'' was ''Origin'', a glorified demo tape.
* [[Foo Fighters (Music)|Foo Fighters]]. Dave Grohl has gone on to achieve huge success since the end of Nirvana, now that he's the face of the band and not just the drummer. This has led to a lot of accusations of selling out.
* [[Genesis (Music)|Genesis]]. Thanks to a [[Broken Base]], they are a textbook example of this trope. If you want to see someone have an aneurysm, just ask a fan of the [[Peter Gabriel (Music)|Peter Gabriel]] era what he/she thinks of the ''Invisible Touch'' album. Even [[American Psycho
* [[The Goo Goo Dolls (Music)|The Goo Goo Dolls]]. After their album ''A Boy Named Goo'', they drastically changed their sound from high-tempo rock/punk to the mellower soft rock they're famous for today after the success of their single ''Name''. It's a good thing they didn't go with the original planned name for the band, [[Intentionally Awkward Title|The Sex Maggots]]. [[Word of God]] says they were going to do this anyway, because they were tired of being labeled as ripoffs of The Replacements.
* [[Green Day (Music)|Green Day]] got this treatment with ''American Idiot'' which thrust them back into the limelight after nearly a decade in obscurity and brought them a new generation of fans, as well a new generation of older fans complaining about how they had sold out.
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* In the [[Vocaloid (Music)|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]] ''1.5 million'' points and stayed on top for two weeks straight (a rarity on the rankings).
** 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]], [[
* Common among certain fans of [[That Guy With the Glasses (Website)|That Guy With the Glasses]]. While their concern is mainly with [[Fanfic|fanwriters]] focusing too much on the [[Hype Backlash|more popular reviewers]], they seem to forget that fandom is a hobby and people will [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|write whatever they feel like writing]].
** Especially noteworthy should be Brad Jones, better known as [[The Cinema Snob (Web Video)|The Cinema Snob]]. When you read the comments on his own website, every once in a while there as someone who claims he was so much better and funnier before he joined the TGWTG-Crew, and that he should stop making crossovers with the other contributors, because they all suck. Various other members of the site can get this treatment as well.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' got this treatment after it skyrocketed in popularity during its second and third seasons. [[The Last Airbender|The live action movie]] certainly doesn't help matters.
* ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' got this treatment when it was [[
* ''[[Metalocalypse (Animation)|Metalocalypse]]'' In-universe, this comes up in the very first episode, "The Curse of Dethklok", when the band plays the "Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle" a reporter asks, "Is Dethklok selling out?" to which Nathan denies and insists that they're just trying to make coffee metal because they want to make everything metal.
** Parodied in S2 Ep03, "Tributeklok". Dethklok is decried by fans when they refuse to play at a gig they won't make any money off of, and after they do an endorsement for chewing gum, a little boy spits in Nathan's face and calls them sellouts. The band members decide they need to get back in touch with their rock n roll roots which consists of joining their own tribute band and doing nothing that the successful Dethklok would do (not eating fancy food, only using amateur made fliers to advertise their shows, living in poor conditions). However, when they decide to play the gig that they refused to play before, (since it's the opposite of what they would do) the same little boy from earlier calls them sellouts again, saying the real Dethklok would never play it. Deciding it's a [[Unpleasable Fanbase|no win situation]] they decide to just go back to being wealthy and successful
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** [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/16/kony-2012-campaigner-detained Jason Russell's recent bizarre arrest doesn't help things for Invisible children either.]
* Every widely known social networking site ([[Face Book]], [[My Space]], [[Twitter]], etc.) '''''ever'''''. Specifically, for Facebook, the introduction of high school and regional networks was what [[Ruined FOREVER|ruined it FOREVER!]]
* One of the recurring mottoes of The Dreaded 4chan, for a surprisingly (or not so surprisingly) long time. You can imagine their reaction when the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade incorporated a [[
** Also, mentioning anything related to Project Chanology (the Scientology protests) on most chan boards will now get you flamed, banned, and, possibly, your IP address posted.
** The coins for Styx's ferryman are already on the Rickroll's eyes, and it now lies on the pyre. All that waits now is the torch. Good night, sweet prince...at least, according to 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica.
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