Do you hate something because its popular?

[Jegsimmons]

so another one on my ever growing list of [b/]bullshit people say[/b] is "people only hate it because its popular!"

now think about this one for a second...do you hate things just because they are popular? I mean really?

I think the answer is kind of "yes and no"...I think the thing in question has to be bad in the first place, its populaity is what makes it worse and bring in hate..for example

50 Shades of grey- is a terrible terible book in anyway you can imagine, this becomes even moreannyoing when it sells so much and everyone and your mum is reading it...so

the transformer movies- yes alot of peole hate them...and I'd still hate them regardless of how popular they are,

COD- I can't exactly say COD is a bad game...but its reputation and everything surrounding it...its kind of hard not to hate it

"you hate it because its popular" is just a bullshit tacit for people to defend games and movies they know are widely scoffed at as bad and cant come up with a defense for it without just lying.

No one hate cod because its popular, no one hates transformers because it popular.
they hate them because its garbage.

the only people who hate popular things are probably hipsters who can kiss my ass anyway, and make up like a fraction of a percentage of a wide spread opinion to not even make a blip on a radar so high tech, it could pick up minnow farts.

 

[Jegsimmons]

Honestly this is mostly why I stay away from the newer mainstream hard rock.

examples? just out of curiosity

that song by Greenday (that fucking song) I absolutly hate I think mostly because its just avergae to me and also because EVERYONE loves it..and that pisses me off to no end

Breaking Benjamin, Godsmack, New Alice in Chains, Mushroomhead, Mudvayne, System of a Down, Green Day; Its all decent rock but to me it all just sounds too similar and "faux"-heavy.

mushroom head is industrial metal in its purest form, dude.

 

[Imthatguy]

Honestly this is mostly why I stay away from the newer mainstream hard rock.

examples? just out of curiosity

that song by Greenday (that fucking song) I absolutly hate I think mostly because its just avergae to me and also because EVERYONE loves it..and that pisses me off to no end

Breaking Benjamin, Godsmack, New Alice in Chains, Mushroomhead, Mudvayne, System of a Down, Green Day; Its all decent rock but to me it all just sounds too similar and "faux"-heavy.

mushroom head is industrial metal in its purest form, dude.

Maybe I have them confused with something else I'll give em a try soon.

 

[Olas]

Sometimes a games popularity will greatly annoy me if I don't think it's good. This was the main reason I disliked the Halo Franchise. However I now see that it's more on the people who praise the game than the game itself that I should look down on.

 

[Jegsimmons]

Honestly this is mostly why I stay away from the newer mainstream hard rock.

examples? just out of curiosity

that song by Greenday (that fucking song) I absolutly hate I think mostly because its just avergae to me and also because EVERYONE loves it..and that pisses me off to no end

Breaking Benjamin, Godsmack, New Alice in Chains, Mushroomhead, Mudvayne, System of a Down, Green Day; Its all decent rock but to me it all just sounds too similar and "faux"-heavy.

mushroom head is industrial metal in its purest form, dude.

Maybe I have them confused with something else I'll give em a try soon.

oh yeah, those guys rock. best songs is Solitaire Unraveling and Sun doesnt Rise.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Hate is such a strong word. I've thought that stuff is stupid, but I don't hate stuff

Oh, so you don't hate Hitler? You support Hitler? HEY, EVERYBODY, THIS GUY'S A NAZI! YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT--A NAZI! A BIG, FAT NAZI! What about cancer? You don't hate cancer? You like cancer? HEY, EVERYBODY, THIS HITLER LOVER LIKES CANCER AND HOPES YOU ALL DIE FROM IT!

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But seriously, I agree. Hate's too strong a word for these things (except for cancer & Hitler). I wouldn't say I dislike anything because it's popular. I think that's bad practice for human beings. If I ever find that I dislike something based on nothing else other than that it's popular, I force myself to check it out. Sometimes I go in and away thinking it's stupid, but sometimes I become a fan. Popular things are popular for a reason, after all.

I'm reminded of that Chris Rock comedy Head of State where a common guy gets chosen to run for president. Being a comedy, the candidates run ads like this:

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Then let us end this massive War of Simons and refrain from further thread-derailment.


Also, I'm surprised people don't do this in real life. It's ridiculous....but sadly it would probably work

Hah. That's not far from political ads nowadays. But that's another topic, I suppose.

You want a Simon-off? Well, you got it, pal-o.

Spoiler: 3, 2, 1, SIMON!

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Spoiler: COME AT ME

Spoiler: SURRENDER!

Well then I shall go for the finishing blow:

Spoiler: BY THE POWER OF SIMONS, I HAAVE THE POOOWEEEEER

Spoiler: Arghh! Ouuuurgh...

EDIT: Why would my text not show up?
OK, once again:
Then let us end this War of Simons and give this thread time to recover from the massive derailment.

 

[Frankster]

Popularity amplifies the love/hate for a object as having radically different sides tends to crystalize both sides into having more hardcore versions of their opinion, is how i usually see it happening.

 

[BreakfastMan]

No, of course I don't hate things because they are popular; that is inane. I take the time to look at something based on it's own merits, then decided whether or not I like it based on those merits. To do otherwise is incredibly silly and foolish, and I really don't understand the mentality that would drive someone to do so. :\

 

[squidface]

Usually. I hate to say that but it's the truth.
The logic is this: if it's popular, it stands to reason that it's liked by a majority. Read: mainstream. I don't hate things like say, MGS, which is popular amongst the gaming community, because that's a majority of a group. I'm talking about like... the majority of society.
And the majority of society are usually ignorant to certain things, e.g. in books what makes good writing, characters and plot. So they like Twilight, 50 Shades, other crap like that. This is why I hate it. Because it's popular, but not extremely awesome, because it's so bad. So I can safely assume I'll hate it.

I did actually read New Moon without having read any of the other books in the series and it was readable, but samey all the way through... it was a generally BORING read.

 

[Legion]

No, because I am a logical being.

I also don't hate many things, and those that I do, are truly worthy of it.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I have perfectly valid reasons for hating things, but when I see everyone around me pretty much worshipping the stuff I hate and backing me into a small corner, it makes me hate it even more.
It's like, "How the actual fuck can you like this shite? Has everyone been replaced with mindless zombies who can't think for themselves any more?"

Different strokes for different folks, but when something is so clearly terrible, I can't understand why anyone would like it.

Let me use Chris Brown for an example, and his fans who defend him from the people who dare to not like his music and call him out on beating the shit out of a woman. Saying they wouldn't care if he beat them. Why he's still in the spotlight, I don't know and why those women who say they wouldn't mind being beaten by him haven't been slapped in the face several times, I still don't know

 

[Nazulu]

You're right, it is a 'yes and no' answer. Even for me.

Like Avatar for instance. I know it's a good movie, but it became really annoying when my whole school (well not everyone) decided it's the greatest movie ever made and based many quizes and projects around the fucking movie! The worst part was they expected me to attend an end year class WHERE WE HAD TO WATCH THE MOVIE!!! They told me it was compulsory, I told them to pull the other one.

It also happens a lot with music for me because a lot of the interesting songs are hardly/never played live because of the commercial songs the simpletons only listen to. No offence, but it's really bloody annoying.