I Realized That I Don't Hate Justin Bieber

[Crystalite]

I can choose what music I listen to. Seems to be a privilege not everyone has... ;-)

But I do not get confronted with Bieber. Nor with his fans.
I´m serious, I never ever saw more than a picture of the boy, and I never heard one of his songs. But what I read constantly on the net is all that hate for him.
This hate is so ubiquitous, it is really getting on my nerves.

If you really need something to hate, start with something worthwhile and stop bothering the internet! It does not care!

Let the kid sing, he is not harming anybody.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

And then it hit me. I don't hate Bieber. I just hated his fans.

I hate his fans, I also hate his haters. Wrap your head around that.

This, oh so much this. Probably because the haters actually like him but pretend to be cool by attacking him. If you dont like something you usually will ignore it, not spend time and effort attacking it when you could be using your time enjoying something you actually like. Same goes for Twilight haters.

 

[PoweD]

Justin Bieber is soooo... 2010.

As everybody said before
He isn't bad, his fans are(and the people who hate him).

 

[TheOneandOnly]

I'm not sure if I hate him per se, but pretty much every time he opens his mouth I end up wanted to take a dump in an envelope and post it to him.

Then I remember how much airmailing that would cost and I forget the whole thing.

 

[bitCrusher]

I have a new respect for Bieber because he was willing to make fun of himself in that little sketch he did with Jimmy Fallon.



Justin Beiber is like Kingdom Hearts. In the end, Kingdom Hearts is just a fun game that combines the world of Disney and Square Enix to make an innocent story about friendship and good vs. evil. It's the rabid yaoi fangirls that fill you with hate and ultimately causes you to direct said hate into the game.

I'm not saying Bieber is a game, but KH is a game whereas Bieber is a singer, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[thiosk]

I don't hate justin beaver because I know what happens to most child celebrities.

It generally isn't great.

 

[Cabisco]

I don't the music, I don't care about him and I don't have to deal with the fans so i'm more than happy to let him exist in his own seperate space away from me.

I would however hate his fans with a passion if I had to deal with them on a regular basis, but I don't so it doesn't worry me.

Now what I do have to deal with is mental Bronies

 

[Blow_Pop]

Jealousy might be a factor here; people always hate successful people.

Personally, I hate him because his is the sum of all that is wrong with music; mass-produced, teenage-girl-aimed thoughtless garbage, with little to no artistic value, and money-grabbing cynicism in every marketing feature he's in.

He's probably a nice kid, and thats fine; its the people who market him I can't stand. His singing is bad, but instead of letting him die quietly, he is thrust into peoples faces at every opportunity, like that fucking Irish pair of twins Jedward.

This^

And his fans aren't any better......*shudders* we have a few who go to swing dancing with me and insist on making everyone else listen to that crap they call music.......I don't understand the fascination everyone out here has with him. And why they can't leave it at I don't like his music don't make me listen to it. *sighs* and such the reason why I am the ONLY one allowed to touch my radio/tape player in my car.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I was on the bandwagon where everyone was like "Oh Justin Bieber is gay as hell" just because my friends were.

Then my girlfriend made me watch Never Say Never 3D >_>.

Now I don't really care for him. If somebody's music is liked then good for them, I sure as hell can't change it.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Actually, from what I've seen he does come across as a bit of a prick. but really, his fans are the problem, not him. That's certainly the attitude I take with Twishite (ok, I think it's a shit franchise, but that doesn't concern me hugely).

 

[LightspeedJack]

I heard he's a bit of an asshole offstage but that's just rumours. I hate his music and that he is a product of music corporations but as a person, I don't know him and have no reason to hate him. Shit, I would do much worse things than being a tween idol to get the kind of money he makes.

 

[Anaklusmos]

I don't hate Justin Bieber like a lot of people, and I probably would tolerate his music if I wasn't assaulted with it. I walk down the street, his songs are either blasting out of someones car or someones bedroom. Teenagers play his songs on their phones or iPods without headphones so I can hear it on public transport. I could easily turn up my own music but, I don't want to annoy other people with my own music so I have to stand and listen to it for half an hour nearly every day. So... yeah... if people would show some respect and plug some headphones in or close their windows when they want to have their music that loud in public I would be a lot more neutral.

 

[Mister Man]

Nice to see a person getting the problem with insanely popular celebrities.

You almost never hate the person, just the near-sighted fans (who is, unfortunately, the vocal majority).

 

[mjc0961]

If Justin Beiber regularly hangs out with Rihanna, the emotion I feel towards him is pity, not envy.

Justin Beiber is like Kingdom Hearts. In the end, Kingdom Hearts is just a fun game that combines the world of Disney and Square Enix to make an innocent story about friendship and good vs. evil. It's the rabid yaoi fangirls that fill you with hate and ultimately causes you to direct said hate into the game.

...No, what causes me to direct hate at Kingdom Hearts is Kingdom Hearts itself. The combat is utterly boring, just a mess of mashing the X button on enemies that have way more health than they need, and occasionally dodging an attack before resuming the mash-a-thon. And the story seems to forget what it was working towards and just kind of trails off on some random bullshit for a while. The only enjoyable part for me was the little "build your own ship and go fight in space battles" bits, but they weren't nearly frequent enough to make the game worth any more than a single playthrough.

The only thing rabid yaoi fangirls are making me direct hate at is Google Image Search's "safe search" filters that don't really do all that great of a job filtering out things I didn't want to see. Not that I'm some huge prude, but for example, when I go searching for images of Sam & Max with safe search on, what I do not expect to see is some fan art of Sam and Sybil doing kinky sex things. >_< They've also made it impossible to search for pictures of so many Pokémon.

 

[Lawyer105]

I do.

It's a crime that he's making as much money (and is as popular) as he is, when other far more deserving musicians who make much better music (by any objective definition) are struggling to make ends meet.

 

[Sylocat]

Since I don't visit his YouTube page or the subReddits devoted to him, I've never actually encountered the type of superfan you describe. The only mention of him I can recall ever actually seeing are from people complaining about him and fantasizing about slaughtering him and his fans. For all I know, there are more haters than fans.

Of course, his music may really be awful, but I can't be bothered to listen to any of it to find out, so I'll withhold judgment.

This also applies to Rebecca Black, by the way.

 

[snow]

And then it hit me. I don't hate Bieber. I just hated his fans.

I hate his fans, I also hate his haters. Wrap your head around that.

I hate hate.... ....


but yeh, his fans are annoying, his haters are twice as annoying. Especially if they're posting on youtube. Sorry those jokes stopped being funny before they started. TotalBiscuit said it best when he said "I love my haters... I adore them! Why? Because haters never seem to shut up about you! Free publicity! Sure you may get lucky and have a fan bring you up, but haters will go out of their way to make others aware of who you are and why they hate you."

I honestly would have never known justin bieber existed if it wasn't for this. Thanks haters! 8D

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I dont hate bieber. I hate what he represents as a whole of the music industry. His songs are SO generic and he isnt marketed as music but as a person. What i hate is seeing people who deserve the spotlight getting it taken away from them because they are not marketable.

Hit the nail right on the head.

It was the same with Rebecca Black - people have just had enough of having mediocre artists shoved down their throats.

Hence my burning, vicious hatred of autotune, as it is what allowed this to happen.

 

[blankedboy]

And then it hit me. I don't hate Bieber. I just hated his fans.

I hate his fans, I also hate his haters. Wrap your head around that.

I take it you only hate the fans and haters that whine 24/7, though.

Called it and headwrapped. I believe I share the same stance.

 

[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

I don't think any rational person hates Bieber, he actually seems like a really nice guy (see his interview on the Graham Norton show for an example).

The only reason people blame him for everything that's wrong with modernn music is better it takes less effort to type "Bieber" than "Pop recording companies and the music industry as a whole".